Colin O’Riordan's AFL season over due to broken bone in his back and punctured lung

“But then I couldn’t talk when I went to the line and that’s what triggered alarm bells with the doctor.”

Colin O’Riordan will have to wait until 2017 to resume his AFL career with the Sydney Swans after confirming that he sustained a broken bone in his back and a punctured lung in a recent outing in Darwin, writes Jackie Cahill.

Tipperary native O’Riordan was hit with a knee in the back playing for the Swans team in the North East AFL against NT Thunder, a combination side from the Northern Territory.