Media Street 2023: Tom Morris suffers broken nose, cheekbone after on-field footy clash
Footy journalist Tom Morris was rushed to hospital on Saturday after coming off second best from a sickening on-field footy clash. Check out the latest in Media Street.
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Tom Morris is set to stick to covering football rather than playing it after a sickening incident on the weekend saw him rushed to hospital with a broken nose and cheekbone.
THE SEN Sunday Crunch Time host has been known to play the occasional VAFA reserves game for Old Melburnians which he was doing on Saturday at Elsternwick Park.
Just before halftime against Old Haileybury, Morris found himself courageously running back with flight of the ball when trouble struck as he was collected by the hip of an opponent charging the other way.
One observer compared the incident to the infamous clash between Hawthorn’s Jordan Lewis and Bulldog Jarrod Harbrow at Marvel Stadium back in 2010.
Morris had to be helped off the ground by trainers with blood streaming from his face. He was later taken to hospital when he was diagnosed with a broken nose, broken cheekbone and concussion.
He is set to have further surgery next week and has told friends he will be hanging up his football boots.
One interested observer was St Kilda star Max King, a former Old Haileyburian, who was watching his former side play but like Morris ran into own injury problems later that night against the Demons, suffering a season-ending shoulder injury.
Has SEN found the White stuff for Friday nights?
HAS SEN finally found its replacement for Anthony Hudson?
Hudson was the station’s No. 1 caller before defecting back to 3AW this year with the sports network shuffling chairs to cover his absence.
Dwayne Russell has stepped up to the main gig alongside Gerard Whateley but there hasn’t been a permanent replacement found for Hudson on the roster.
Former ABC broadcaster Adam White, who left the RSN Breakfast show at the end of last year, has emerged as a genuine candidate.
He has called over a dozen AFL games on SEN this season and made a big impression calling the past two Tests of the Ashes series for the station.
White is well respected within cricket circles, broadcasting Victorian Sheffield Shield games over the summer.
He certainly did his chances no harm with SEN boss Craig Hutchison on hand to observe his work in the commentary box in England.
Meanwhile, White’s former on-air partner at RSN, Daniel Harford, has chalked up a rare milestone in the Melbourne media ranks.
The former Hawthorn and Carlton star has completed the four station quadrella for football commentary.
On Sunday Harford made his debut in the special comments chair for the ABC at the Essendon-Adelaide game.
Early in his career he worked at Triple M, he then hosted the afternoon program on SEN as well as being part of the station’s football broadcast. In recent years he’d appeared as an AFL expert on 3AW.
Originally published as Media Street 2023: Tom Morris suffers broken nose, cheekbone after on-field footy clash
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