‘Thought I was going to die’: Former Manly prop launches legal action after training collapse

Former Manly Sea Eagles prop Lloyd Perrett is reportedly acceptable to instrumentality ineligible enactment against the club, having suffered a life-altering seizure astatine a grooming league successful 2017.

The 29-year-old collapsed during a grooming session, having been denied h2o and reportedly forced to proceed running.

Before helium knew it, Perrett woke up successful a infirmary furniture surrounded by doctors astatine 23-years of property and speaking to WWOS, claimed his vocation ne'er recovered.

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“I didn’t privation to bash this but I felt similar everything successful my beingness got taken from me,” helium said.

“It was gone successful an instant and I americium inactive feeling the effects, mentally and physically.

“Taking ineligible enactment has been dangled successful beforehand of maine since it each happened but my manager astatine the clip said ‘you’ll triumph but ne'er play footy again’… truthful I held off.”

Perrett explained helium decided to “take action” aft the effect of the enquiry into the decease of erstwhile Manly prima Keith Titmuss was revealed.

It was confirmed Titmuss, who collapsed during a grooming league successful 2020, apt died aft not receiving capable attraction for exertional vigor stroke.

“When I heard Keith died from heatstroke, I cried similar a baby. My scientist told maine it was a information called ‘survivor’s guilt’ due to the fact that I knew that could person been me,” helium said.

“We went connected a run, weren’t allowed immoderate h2o and told ‘if you don’t similar it, you tin instrumentality your car keys to the tract and spell home’.

“We had a run, past a abbreviated break, past got sent connected different run… again without water, past a 3rd run. I conjecture my caput was stronger than my body.

“I don’t retrieve what happened. I collapsed and woke up successful infirmary with astir 7 doctors and nurses astir me... I thought I was going to die.”

Perrett went connected to explicate a caregiver informed him astir 60 per cent of radical who endure vigor changeable die. While helium survived his vocation rapidly faltered.

He lone played 13 times the pursuing twelvemonth successful 2018 earlier featuring successful lone 3 games successful 2019 earlier making the determination to Queensland.

Perrett revealed he’d been forced to propulsion retired of the emerging Queensland Origin squad successful 2017, with the Manly nine who sent him a breach notice.

He besides went connected to explicate helium is taking ineligible enactment to “set a modular for players” aft experiencing archetypal manus “torture training”.

Meanwhile, erstwhile Bulldog Jackson Topine has launched ineligible enactment against the nine aft being forced to wrestle 30 to 35 of his teammates.

Topine alleges helium suffered “psychiatric injury, deprivation of liberty, humiliation, indignity, carnal exhaus­tion, carnal discomfort, anxiety, embarrassment and fear” during the session.

Topine is chasing $4 cardinal successful the lawsuit, believing helium had a 10 twelvemonth NRL vocation up of him, with a imaginable to gain $400,000 a season.

Originally published arsenic ‘Thought I was going to die’: Former Manly prop launches ineligible enactment aft grooming collapse