User talk:Michelle McCracken

Jarrod McCracken Retirement
Retirement

Jarrod McCracken's neck injury was in game 5 of the NRL season, it was May......not game 15. He had to 'complete' 5 first grade games to secure his years contract money. This was the 5th game. He sued the insurance company for injury damages, the case heard six years after his retirement. Media portrayed he sued the two players involved for general damages. This was not the case. The players were just linked to the case because of there involvement in the career ending tackle. Jarrod had injury insurance through the club. (his football was his profession and there was certain insurances in place) When the case was finally heard, the judge awarded in favour of Jarrod, although Jarrod's financial's for the six years prior to the trial and after the alleged tackle, were heard in court. The judge's ruling was, 'although he found the tackle untoward, ending Jarrod's career,' in the six years leading up to the trial, Jarrod had gone on to, as the judge said, "do well for himself" The judge's decision was influenced by Jarrod's successions and he only awarded $90,000 in costs, which would cover Jarrod's legal fee's. I myself, Michelle, remember's the initial diagnosis was not knowing weather Jarrod would even walk again. They were sticking needles a centimetre into the bottom of his feet, with no emotional response from Jarrod. C4 was cracked and specialists said there was server nerve damage, because of compression. The initial swelling reduced and Jarrod was able to walk, although for months after the tackle I would help my 100kg husband out of bed every morning and drive him around to specialists seeking help to reduce the pain and surgery options. We also had a young family and I was also four months pregnant at the time of the tackle. Decisions were made on how we were going to support our family once income had ceased. We had Mortgaged property we had to juggle and sell at the time to support ourselves. This was the start of studying the real-estate market, buying and selling to compensate for the money we would have earned in Jarrod's career. Jarrod barely able to walk without server pain would sit and concentrate on the property market, together with my help, we became good at it. However this was what influenced the jugged decision in Jarrod's trial. The judge's decision lacking remorse for any hardship within those six years and seeing only we had been capable financially.Michelle McCracken (talk) 00:15, 16 April 2014 (UTC)Michelle McCracken


 * Hi Michelle. You haven't actually asked a question here, so I'm unsure what administrative action you want to take place. If you want changes to be made to the Jarrod McCracken article, the correct place to request them is on that article's talkpage. Write your proposed new text there, and preface it with the code, and another editor will assess the proposal and make the changes if they deem it appropriate. Note that you will need to proved reliable, published sources for any factual changes - I'm afraid that we cannot simply take your experiences as evidence. Yunshui 雲 水 12:48, 16 April 2014 (UTC)