Bulldogs prop says Phil Gould was barking up the wrong tree when he suggested he’d injured himself a rock concert. But he did fear a rare condition could end his career before it started.
Bulldogs prop Samuel Hughes tore his hamstring four times in a year and played through the pain of a degenerative back injury that had him fearing for his NRL career before a critical operation.
Gould offered the intriguing storyline – with its potential to join rugby league’s bizarre injuries hall of fame – on hisin February as he waxed lyrical about the 23-year-old, saying “Sammy was at a rock concert and fell over a railing and did something to his back”. “The surgeon told me I have odd-shaped discs, degenerative discs, and they’re not what you’d normally see,” Hughes said ahead of Saturday’s clash with North Queensland.“I had nerve issues running down my legs and it was a pretty nasty injury. It was running down my hamstring and I tore my hamstring four times in a year, two years ago.
“He’s one of the fittest front-rowers I’ve ever seen in a pre-season,” Mahoney said. “He’s growing every week, and it’s tough as a young front-rower to be playing that many games in a row, but he’s doing such a great job for us. There’s plenty more to see from Sammy too.”
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