1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Jason Lyon. 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 2: Right across Melbourne from a secret location. This is Jason 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: and Lauren Clincy from the news room as well. You're 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 2: listening to Nova one hundred. We are doing Melbourne's biggest 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: game of hide and seek. We've just dropped another clue. 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: You can catch up on our socials if you missed it. 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 3: It was we are near one of ninety six stops. 8 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 2: There you go. Another clue coming up at ten o'clock 9 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 2: this morning here on Nova. First though, let's catch up 10 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 2: with the man. I am talking, mister Christian per Trucker. 11 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:41,279 Speaker 2: Get a track. How are we? More importantly, how are 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 2: you brother? 13 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: I've better. 14 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 4: How's the recovery going. 15 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: It's been pretty tough, to be honest. Yeah, I'll last 16 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: when I do it this time last week, to be honest. 17 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: So seven days now it's been pretty traumatic. But four 18 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: five days in NICEU and then last couple of days 19 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,279 Speaker 1: it was just in the ward and now I've out 20 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: a hospital, which is nuts. I'm that home, thank god. 21 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: So it's been it's been pretty pretty full on. I 22 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 1: don't wish this on my worst enemy. 23 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 4: It's been hate track. At what point did you realize 24 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 4: you were in real trouble because obviously it was like 25 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 4: as a fan watching, it didn't look like a really 26 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 4: heavy hit. But obviously straight away you would have felt 27 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 4: that something was worse than a normal hit. But at 28 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 4: what point did you realize this is more serious than 29 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 4: just like a bruise. 30 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: Oh, I knew it was pretty I knew it was 31 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: like he did he hit me good. To be honest, 32 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: I didn't understand that. I didn't realize the severity of 33 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: it until two in the morning when I was gassed 34 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: up and they were doing surgery with my eyes open. 35 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: So I didn't realize it was I didn't realize it 36 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: was the severity of it until you know, early in 37 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: the morning on Tuesday morning. I just thought it was 38 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: a couple of cracked groups, which obviously is serious that 39 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: I thought I could go out and back and play. 40 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, so let's go back to Darcy Moore's knee or knees. 41 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 2: That got you? 42 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 3: But you went back out there? How much pain were 43 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 3: you were you in? Because I was watching and you 44 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 3: couldn't actually sort of lift your arms above your shoulders, 45 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 3: could you? 46 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: It was it was pretty full on I think obviously 47 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: as well the adrenaline as well and I don't think 48 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: people understand when you're out there playing, you just want 49 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: to go and compete as an athlete, like you're a competitor. 50 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: You just want to go out and do whatever you can. 51 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: I've been in a similar situation a couple of years 52 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: ago when I fructured my leg in the first quarter 53 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: and did the same thing. I just went out and 54 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: played the next three quarters because you just you're adrenaline. 55 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: You just you just you don't really know what's going on. 56 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: And had I known now the severity of it, I 57 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: probably obviously wouldn't have gone back out there. But at 58 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: the time, you know, I didn't know what was, what 59 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: the injury was like, and the severity of it. So, yeah, 60 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: Darcy hit me and then which is right on quart 61 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: of time, and then went down to the rooms and 62 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: just got assessed. And at the time I thought, and 63 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,079 Speaker 1: we thought it was just a cracked rib, a couple 64 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 1: of cracked ribs, and you know, I want to go 65 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: out there and play and compete, and yeah, and second 66 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: quarter I was under severe pain. I think when I 67 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: look back at it now, I think at the moment, 68 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: you know, you realized your you saw, But I think 69 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: when you look back at the TV and the footage, 70 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: you go, jeez, that. 71 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 2: Was Yeah, is a great bloke and in no way 72 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,679 Speaker 2: would he mean to have injured you. 73 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: Have you heard from him? No malice and whatsoever? 74 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 2: Exactly have you heard? 75 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: Dark and I've known each other since we're probably eleven 76 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: twel years old. We played them under Troll States together 77 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: and stuff. So yeah, he's messing me. Four or five times. 78 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: He meant me saying you didner, So I thought, I'll 79 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: take you nice. So then good. 80 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 3: So then you're you're in an ambulance, you headed to hospital, 81 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 3: your poor bugger, and you're just talking about what you 82 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 3: had to go through. Because we've heard about, you know, 83 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 3: blood transfusions alike. How sort of serious was the situation 84 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 3: when you presented a hospital and the surgery that followed. 85 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't think anyone like Bella's next 86 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: to me. I don't think we all really understood the 87 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: severity of it, to be honest. I think we got 88 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: an initial scan around eight o'clock on nine o'clock at night, 89 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: and the first scan showed to crack ribs and then 90 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: just a little bit of bleeding around the lung, and 91 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: then and then I think, I don't know what happened. 92 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: I think sixteen minutes later, one of the doctors was 93 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: just checking my blood levels and noticed myhemoglobin was dropping 94 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: severely and my blood levels was dropping, so they got, 95 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: let's just do another scan, and that's when they start 96 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: to notice that. I thought, that's when I noticed up 97 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: the next skin, I fought cracked ribs, the great fuss 98 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 1: glean and they and a punctured lung two. So it 99 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: went from it went from you know, being a for 100 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: four out of ten to basically a ten out of 101 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: ten equivalent of a car accident. So it's it seemed 102 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: pretty full on. I had to go straight into surgery 103 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: at two am and surg like I wasn't. I wasn't 104 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: under anesthetic because of my level so low. 105 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 2: So they numb the area, but you're awake for the surgery, 106 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 2: not the area. 107 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,679 Speaker 1: Put me under a gas mask, but those gus masks 108 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: only do so much. You can still feel it, and 109 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: I think similar heat. It's pretty traumatic, like I look back, Yeah, 110 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:29,119 Speaker 1: and then so they had to do a I'm getting 111 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: the wording rabit at mobiliz. I think it's immobilization or 112 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: I don't know what the word is where they put 113 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: a almost they don't want to they don't want to 114 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: fix the spleen. They basically just stopped the bleeding around it. 115 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: They put some stuff around it just to stop the 116 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: bleeding to it through the groin area and then they 117 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: through a sten so they have like an ultrasound where 118 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: they can see it on the TV and what it 119 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: looks like. And I spent I spent I c U 120 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: for what tuesdaya Saturday for Friday, and then was out 121 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 1: in hospital Sunday morning, Saturday morning. 122 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 4: Yea, and track how's Bella and your beautiful parents going, because, 123 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 4: like you know, we see you guys out there like 124 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 4: warriors on a footy field, but your human beings with 125 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 4: humans behind you, and that's traumatic for them watching you 126 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 4: go through that as well. And we saw your beautiful 127 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 4: mum giving you a hug down in the rooms before 128 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 4: you got taken off in the ambulance. How they how 129 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 4: are they going? Because Bella now has to be your nurse. 130 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, she's been inspirational to me, honest, it's been amazing 131 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 1: what she's able to do since I've had the injury 132 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: and the emotional to be honest, because it's been it's 133 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: been for long, like I think people understand the severity 134 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: of the injury, and you know, people around not just 135 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: me that that texts everyone. You know, Belle was in 136 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,479 Speaker 1: hospital three in the morning, you know, taking phone calls, 137 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: people are ringing her asking what's her going on? What's 138 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: going on and coming come to hospital, you know all 139 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: this stuff, and you know it's pretty amazing. And obviously 140 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: coming here now and being home, I'm literally not allowed 141 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: to do anything so effectively. The spleen is a bottle 142 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: part of the immune system, so id to get all 143 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: my vaccinations done again. So I'm basically in isolation for 144 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: five days because if I touch the outside world, it's 145 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: pretty much anyone who's sick and who it can really 146 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: affect me. So so balls had to do everything. Put 147 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: me to bed, put my socks on, give me all 148 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: my medication, cook me Didash made a nice roast land 149 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: the other night, which is good to point as though. 150 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 2: Did you watch your recipe online? 151 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: Mat We actually watched an old watched old for the 152 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: cooker of mine, which is good, has been amazing. 153 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 2: This might be a silly question, but listening to what 154 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 2: you've gone through, right and and how how scary it was, 155 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 2: is there any doubt in your mind about returning to 156 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 2: the footy field. 157 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: Oh, bloody Earth. At the moment, yeah, it's it's still 158 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: raw for me, it's still seven days. I watched a 159 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: little bit of food in the weekend. I had to 160 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: turn it off because it's just when you see it, 161 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: just an even simple packle, you just you put yourself 162 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: back in the situation that you were, So of course 163 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: you at the moment it's quite raw, But no doubt 164 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: with the recovery process and everything that I'll be able 165 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: to tick off and my mindset, I'll be able to 166 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: get back to, you know, the player I was just 167 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: at the moment. It's just a lot of self doubt 168 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: and which is fine. It's just a human feeling. 169 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 3: Of course, we saw you hit Instagram and actually say 170 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 3: that the season over. That was obviously a pretty easy decision. 171 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 3: Well it's a hard decision, obviously, but given your health 172 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 3: and your situation, you know, that was basically what the 173 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 3: doctors were telling you. No more footy this year. 174 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: Well, yes, pretty much, but there's there's so much stuff 175 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: that I can't do for the next so I'm I'm 176 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: not allowed to run for seven weeks I'm not allowed 177 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: to gym for seven weeks, I can't fly for six weeks, 178 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: twelve I can't I can't have contact sport for three months. 179 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: So that basically put the season at doubt. Really was 180 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: there twelve weeks left and of home and away season, 181 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: that's pretty much twelve weeks so to me. But I'm 182 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 1: not gonna have one week to prepare for a final 183 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: if we make it, you know what I mean. So 184 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: I kind of built myself out there, to be honest. 185 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, but you need to rest as well. You don't 186 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 4: want to actually know that, you guys. 187 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 2: It's a mental thing too. 188 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't think people realize the 189 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: mental side of the game too. Like, yeah, physically you 190 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: can always get yourself back to where you were on 191 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: ninety percent, But mentally that's that's the biggest thing with injury, 192 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: being able to overcome that self doubt and that confidence 193 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: to get back out there and play well. 194 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 4: We're so glad to hear your back home. 195 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 3: Track. 196 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 4: We've been worried, sick. 197 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 2: You know what I want to know, Track, You're amazing 198 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 2: on the footy field. Who won in the game of 199 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 2: between you and bella? 200 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: Bell will beat me three nil. 201 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 4: And you cheated. Well, you were playing in here the 202 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 4: other night at Hide and Seek and Clint told us 203 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:41,839 Speaker 4: afterwards he was cheating. 204 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 2: I would actually let anyone go to bed until I 205 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 2: want to go down a couple of cards at the time. 206 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 3: Sure, that just goes through the keeper just quickly. Now, 207 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 3: my dad, who's a trainer at the footy club, I've 208 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 3: just been I've been worried that he was the one 209 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 3: that said it was okay to go out there. Can 210 00:09:58,200 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 3: you tell me it wasn't him going, Oh, you'll be 211 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 3: right mate, Just. 212 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: You know, just go. 213 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 2: And watching the footage of your mom, watching the footage 214 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 2: of your mom near you when you're on the stretcher. 215 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 2: Did she have a few in it at that time 216 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 2: or it was. 217 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: Early in the No, I don't think so the first quarter, 218 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: so I don't reckoninely not. 219 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 4: She probably needed a few days afterward. We love your track.