Former Manly prop Lloyd Perrett has launched legal proceedings against the club for an alleged “outlandish training regime” that ended his promising NRL career.<\/p>\n
At the crux of the legal claim is a 2017 summer training session that left Perrett unconscious and in hospital after he was allegedly deprived of water and fluids.<\/p>\n
Carter Capner Law director Peter Carter said Perrett’s career had been cut short by the actions of Manly.<\/p>\n
AAP has seen the statement of claims lodged in the NSW Supreme Court on Monday.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n ABC Sport is live blogging every round of the AFL<\/a> and NRL<\/a> seasons in 2025.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n It focuses on a compulsory pre-season training session at Narrabeen Sports Complex on November 6, 2017 in what Carter said were “very warm conditions”.<\/p>\n The session involved a warm-up of 20 minutes followed by two 2km time trials which Perrett completed in eight minutes and 23 seconds and 10 minutes and 23 seconds, respectively.<\/p>\n Perrett completed one lap of a third 2km time trial before he “collapsed unconscious to the ground”.<\/p>\n The claim alleges Perrett was “not supplied with any water or other fluids during the training session”.<\/p>\n “During the third time trial Lloyd collapsed and his next memory was waking up in Mona Vale Hospital with a diagnosis of severe heat stroke,” Carter said.<\/p>\n “Despite the injury, Lloyd attempted a comeback, playing (13) games in the 2018 season and (three) in 2019. That was the last time he played NRL level.<\/p>\n “Given he was a very successful player at such an early stage of his career with arguably many good years ahead of him, the potential damages are well into the millions of dollars.”<\/p>\n In the statement of claims, Perrett’s lawyers said that Manly owed their client, who had fulfilled all of his contractual duties, a “non-delegable duty of care” but failed in that duty.<\/p>\n Sixteen alleged breaches are then listed, which include exposing Perrett to “the risk of exertional heat stress” and placing him in “a position of peril” by depriving him of water and other fluids during the session.<\/p>\n In a release issued by Carter Capner Law it states that the claim filed “seeks injury compensation mainly for the loss of income Lloyd could reasonably expected to have received during his promising career”.<\/p>\n Perrett was 24 when he played his last game.<\/p>\n