{"id":870385,"date":"2026-08-27T15:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:26:18","slug":"afl-news-2026-brendon-fevola-knee-injury-nick-cody-victoria-vs-all-stars-legends-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870385\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2026: Brendon Fevola knee injury, Nick Cody; Victoria vs All Stars Legends match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/brendan-fevola-25c1\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Fevola<\/a> could have a tense time at work following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/afl\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> Legends match where he was injured by his colleague Nick Cody. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the first quarter between Victoria and the All Stars, Fevola ran on to a kick inside 50 from Gary Ablett and took a mark on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1ebe01d82680f06cfc903167d23d3b18d1169c58.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Brenon Fevola reacts after injurying his knee. \u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>His Fox FM radio partner Cody fell over on top of him, leaving Fevola in agony with a knee injury. <\/p>\n<p>Fevola had only just had an operation on his right knee five weeks ago and had to shuffle himself off the playing surface at Marvel Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/carlton-blues-5sc\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlton<\/a> legend then went down to the changing rooms with the assistance of medical staff. <\/p>\n<p>Fevola\u2019s daughter Lulu later posted an update on Instagram, showing the former AFL forward on a massage table with strapping on his knee, saying \u201cI have a fat leg\u201d, as Lulu explained it was caused by swelling. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor everyone asking, his knee is not OK,\u201d Lulu said as her youngster sister Tobi cried. <\/p>\n<p>At three-quarter time, Cody offered some sort of condolences. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love you so much, you\u2019re my best mate, you\u2019re a champ, I didn\u2019t mean to land on you,\u201d he said on Seven. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Crusher\u2019s gonna crush. You know what I mean? They said you\u2019ve got to stop him. They weren\u2019t specific.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very sorry, I misread it. I didn\u2019t realise they meant just fall over him but maybe the rest will do itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victoria went on to win the match 6.17.6 (162) &#8211; 5.14.8 (137) with Dustin Martin best on ground after kicking six goals. <\/p>\n<p>The Richmond Tigers great also had 31 disposals, 14 score involvements and seven marks. <\/p>\n<p>For the All Stars, Lance \u2018Buddy\u2019 Franklin kicked a whopping eight goals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Fevola could have a tense time at work following the AFL Legends match where he was injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-870385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}