ABC News | A country Australian rules football match ground to a halt at the weekend after clubs waited nearly two hours for an ambulance to take a player to hospital with a suspected spinal injury.
The senior East Gippsland Football League match between the Lakes Entrance and Orbost-Snowy Rovers football netball clubs took place at Lakes Entrance Recreation Reserve early on Saturday afternoon.
Twenty-two minutes into the first quarter, Orbost-Snowy Rovers full-back Jessie Pescod went up in a marking contest, fell awkwardly, and landed on top of another player, Orbost Snowy Rovers Football Netball Club president Royston Nettleton said.
"Everyone around it could hear the cracks and the force of the impact and he just didn't move from there," he said.