***Official*** Australian Domestic Thread 2014/15

[cnerd123]

Yea banning or restricting the short ball is stupid. There is no need for a knee jerk reaction based on an isolated incident.

Cricket is a dangerous sport at times and this incident is on the extreme far end of the spectrum of injuries you could get. It is exceedingly rare.

Helmet designs should be looked into, but something like this is not commonplace and I doubt we will see another incident like this in our lifetimes. There isn't much to learn from an incident like this and nothing needs to be changed because of it. It's just tragic, thats all.

 

[Spark]

meanwhile.

Jen Browning @jen_browning
A spokesperson for St Vincent's hospital says Phillip Hughes' condition is unchanged. Aust Captain Michael Clarke was back here at 6am

this is so, so ****ed.

 

[BackFootPunch]

meanwhile.

Jen Browning @jen_browning
A spokesperson for St Vincent's hospital says Phillip Hughes' condition is unchanged. Aust Captain Michael Clarke was back here at 6am

this is so, so ****ed.

Should we have been expecting something by now? I don't know a lot about head injuries but I would have hoped there'd be some sign of change given we're coming up on 48 hours now.

 

[Burgey]

They're all different, these types of injuries and there are people who lay in coma for ages then end up making a substantial, if not full, recovery. My (albeit lay but reasonably well informed given the type of work I do) understanding is if there isn't some sign of his condition improving within 48-72 hours, the prognosis is usually pretty grim. Obviously that's a generalisation, but as a doctor friend of mine said last evening, if they try to bring him out of the coma after a certain amount of time and he remains unresponsive then


I really don't want to type the rest of it.

 

[GotSpin]

Onya Blocky. Keep on going mate.

 

[NUFAN]

Should we have been expecting something by now? I don't know a lot about head injuries but I would have hoped there'd be some sign of change given we're coming up on 48 hours now.

Are there many similarites to Schumachers injury? I dont even know the latest on Schu, but yeah, no news is not very good news.

 

[Blocky]

Are there many similarites to Schumachers injury? I dont even know the latest on Schu, but yeah, no news is not very good news.

I'd say Schumacher had the worser end of it - he hit an immovable object at speed so there was absolutely no give, he was also in the mountains and did not have access to instant medical care like Hughes had.

I'm hoping this is more like the case with Jesse Ryder where he was in an induced coma for three days after being beaten up by two attackers. But they won't know until they bring him out of the coma and see how he responds the level of injury he's sustained.

 

[Tangles]

On the bouncer front I think its fair to push a batsman back. Guys like Watto will play front foot pulls and cuts ad nauseum if you don't push them back.

From what I understand Hughes was not hit in the helmet. So just a bad freak piece of luck. I so hope he comes through.

 

[brockley]

I wouldn't be surprised if there brain damage,thats why i am not hopeful.
This season gone for Hughes i think,long rehab if he survives.

Schumacker has not recovered well from his accident,thats what i heard,Phil Simmons is an optimistic case.

 

[outbreak]

Alan Jones is saying it's much more serious than was being reported, apparently he isn't breathing on his own and has a machine breathing for him. Sounds pretty bad.

 

[Ruckus]

This is so, so tragic. I'm a bit baffled by why it took almost an hour for Hughes to reach St Vincent's when the SCG is only about 1.5ks away. Was he needing to be stabilised or something before they were willing to transport him? Surely with injuries like these timing is everything. Really hope Jones is overstating the severity of it.

 

[Eloquentia]

Just went to our clubs sponsor pub for lunch after a round and all the red backs/torrens boys were there. Straight away hit me right in the feels, all clearly devastated but banding together for Phil.

 

[outbreak]

Just announced that he passed away. So sad.

 

[Grasshopper]

Very sad.

RIP

 

[Blocky]

Wow... that's a real trajedy and kind of puts life into perspective.

 

[cnerd123]

Really can't believe this. He was so young.

RIP.

 

[brockley]

Rip.

 

[the big bambino]

My word. Sickened and saddened.

 

[Blain]

Gutting news. RIP

 

[Cevno]

Incredibly Sad.

RIP.