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Miss_Lisey_Molloy 
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There are no words to describe how everyone must be feeling, particularly his family and friends.
You never want this to happen to anyone. And you never think it is going to be one of your own. One of our boys. Truly devastating.
I hope every supporter in the world unites for this and doesn't just see only their teams colours. The football community will never be the same 
RIP John McCarthy. A beautiful soul gone way too early. Hope you kick the winning goal in the grand final in the sky xxxx
Love always, Alyssa xoxo
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princem007
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Condolences to the McCarthy family.
I met his grandfather at a local footy final in the GVFL and J-Mac was playing in a qualifying final against St Kilda in 2009 i think.
I was watching the game on TV and he said that is his grandson playing and I asked which one and he said John McCarthy.
I could tell he was so proud of him and I can only imagine the hurt and devastation he must be feeling at losing a grandson so young along with all his family and friends and teammates over the years.
I always kept a close watch on Johns career from that day forward after that chance meeting with his Grandfather, hoping he would make it in the Black and White.
Little did i know then he would end up at Port Adelaide, but I understood his reasons for making the decision he did, so he could become a regular senior player at an AFL club.
It breaks my heart to see his life end in these tragic circumstances.
RIP John McCarthy #3
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I was really upset when Collingwood delisted him.
I just couldn't understand why.
I'm even more upset to hear the tragic news today.
RIP John.
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Jezza
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I don't know about anyone else, but I feel so deflated about this whole tragedy, that I'm not even worried about what happens anymore for the rest of the season.
I still can't believe that such a young man with so much life ahead of him could die in such tragic circumstances like that. This is going to really dampen the mood of the footy community for a long time.
RIP John McCarthy 
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Dave The Man 
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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Does anyone have the Link about Luke Ball said about it
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jack_spain 
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| Jezza wrote: | I don't know about anyone else, but I feel so deflated about this whole tragedy, that I'm not even worried about what happens anymore for the rest of the season.
I still can't believe that such a young man with so much life ahead of him could die in such tragic circumstances like that. This is going to really dampen the mood of the footy community for a long time.
RIP John McCarthy |
Good on you Jezza. It is not something anyone of us wants to go through, but yesterday brought back stark memories of the morning after Darren Millane was killed in that awful car smash. It was so shocking because Millane was such a superstar, but for all of us (but especially you young-uns) this seems just as tragic a waste of life. So sad.
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Clemo 
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RIP, J-MAC.
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What'sinaname 
Joined: 29 May 2010
Location: Living rent free
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Sliding doors. if he was still on our list, this wouldn't have happened.
Such a horrible thing. RIP.
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| Dave The Man wrote: | | Does anyone have the Link about Luke Ball said about it |
Luke Ball says Collingwood players shattered by John McCarthy death
LUKE Ball was one of the first to hear the news that cut Collingwood to the core.
Ball heard of John McCarthy's death mid-morning yesterday through a strong family connection.
McCarthy's brother Matt, a former Geelong forward, played with Ball's older brother Matt for the Old Xaverians.
As the news spread at the Westpac Centre, there were tears and disbelief five days out from the club's semi-final clash against West Coast.
McCarthy was much loved at the Magpies and particularly close to star midfielder Dayne Beams.
McCarthy played 18 games at Collingwood between 2008 and 2011.
The 22-year-old also had a strong bond with Jarryd Blair, Ben Reid, Nathan Brown and Brent Macaffer, among others.
"Today's news is just met with utter devastation for everyone involved," Collingwood president Eddie McGuire said.
"The players are shattered. These are guys who have grown up and played with each other for years ... have gone through grand final and premiership campaigns together ... have lived with each other ... holidayed together."
Collingwood chief executive Gary Pert spoke to McCarthy's closest friends individually. The team and football department was then addressed as a collective.
Collingwood will wear black armbands against the Eagles at the MCG on Saturday night, with more tributes likely.
The Magpies were talking about far bigger issues than winning finals yesterday.
"You have to have a wider view," McGuire said, despite the impending final.
"There is no way of sugar-coating this ... it cuts people to the quick.
"We hope the boys can regroup themselves, go out and play on the weekend and honour their fallen teammate ... but that's the least of our issues at the moment."
The players will have counselling, and the Eagles and the premiership tilt were on the backburner at Collingwood.
The players spent yesterday dealing with what McGuire said could be a life-affecting tragedy.
It might inspire, it might deflate. West Coast can wait.
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| Jezza wrote: | I don't know about anyone else, but I feel so deflated about this whole tragedy, that I'm not even worried about what happens anymore for the rest of the season.
I still can't believe that such a young man with so much life ahead of him could die in such tragic circumstances like that. This is going to really dampen the mood of the footy community for a long time.
RIP John McCarthy |
Yeah feel the same mate puts everything in perspective |
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Big T
Joined: 18 Oct 2003
Location: Torino, Italy
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RIP John.
My thoughts and prayers are with his parents. Burying your son or daughter is the worst thing life can bring.
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Rest in peace john.
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David
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http://m.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/tragic-accident-casts-a-pall-over-the-game-20120910-25oha.html
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Caroline Wilson
TOO many young men die in tragic accidents while holidaying overseas. Too many AFL footballers find themselves in dangerous situations during end-of-season trips. But never before have these two circumstances collided in such a devastating manner as they did at dawn in Las Vegas yesterday when the body of a young man was eventually identified as the 22-year-old Port Adelaide player John McCarthy.
The details of just what happened in the hours and even minutes that led to McCarthy's death were still unfolding this morning. A police investigation had already begun but it is not clearly known yet how or why he died.
Whatever the dreadful details, it is known that something had gone horribly wrong for McCarthy on the last night of his young life. McCarthy's girlfriend Dani Smarrelli has confirmed to the club that McCarthy called her less than two hours before his death in a confused and distressed state. He had become separated from his teammates and told her he wanted to return home and was heading for the airport. She had tried to alert his teammates in Vegas, who included Brett Ebert, Travis Boak and Hamish Hartlett.
The Flamingo Hotel where McCarthy died is situated four kilometres from the hotel where his teammates had been staying and police were attempting to work out how and why McCarthy had travelled so far from the rest of his group.
Port Adelaide Football Club chief executive Keith Thomas said McCarthy was on the roof of the three-storey Flamingo Casino, which is separate to the 30-storey hotel, and his fall had been captured on CCTV camera.
‘‘Now we don’t know why he was there, how he fell, or the circumstances around it,’’ Thomas told radio station 3AW today.
‘‘We know that there is CCTV vision of it and that there may be a couple of witnesses on the ground but the police haven’t told us anything about that.’’
He said the other Port Adelaide players were with McCarthy during the night, and McCarthy appeared to be having a good time.
But the group had separated and none of the other players were with McCarthy at the Flamingo, which is about four kilometres from the Hard Rock Hotel where the group was staying in Las Vegas.
Why he had gone to the casino alone may never be known, Thomas said.
‘‘It’s a bit weird and I must say, I don’t know whether we will ever be able to answer it, but certainly that will be the question that the guys will be asking themselves I would imagine. I’m actually a bit concerned for them,’’ he said.
Thomas said he received a phone call from Victoria Police about 9.30am yesterday saying a male body had been found at the casino complex with John McCarthy’s identification.
Port Adelaide staff then immediately phoned the Port Adelaide players in Las Vegas, where it was mid-afternoon, and tried to gather them together.
‘‘By the time we got them together in the room, the Victoria Police had rung back and said that they were 99 per cent sure that it was our John and that they had informed John’s parents,’’ Thomas said.
‘‘It was then a situation where we were informing our players that John had died.
‘‘They weren’t aware of it and it was a distressing call.’’
The players then drove back to Los Angeles and are awaiting a flight back to Australia, were they would receive grief counselling, Thomas said.
CCTV vision handed over from the Flamingo to police shows McCarthy entering the building and shortly afterwards standing on a mezzanine only two or three floors from the ground, which is where he is understood to have fallen.
An-off duty policeman hired by the Western Bulldogs player for their end of season trip to Las Vegas has begun working with US authorities and Port Adelaide at the start of an investigation which police estimate could take up to eight weeks.
Grief counsellors were being dispatched by Port Adelaide to Sydney and Adelaide airports, where the 10 remaining players were expected to arrive later today. By the time football boss Peter Rhode, who has flown to the US to provide another identification of McCarthy’s body, touched down in Las Vegas, Port Adelaide teammates had already arrived in Los Angeles and at dawn today were preparing to board a flight back to Australia.
Some of those players were keeping in touch with club officials and several were completely distraught, having not learned of McCarthy's death until the club notified them early yesterday.
Essendon players, among others, who were headed to Vegas were appropriately cancelling their trips as McCarthy's parents Shane and Cath were awaiting details of how and when their son's body would return home.
Shane McCarthy, a popular and respected figure across the football community, is a lawyer who lives at Portsea on the Mornington Peninsula. His brother-in-law, Rob Pitt, owns and runs the Sorrento Hotel and both were at the football on Saturday celebrating the Sorrento Sharks victory, which will see the team at Frankston this weekend aiming to win a third successive Mornington Peninsula League flag.
Only a week earlier John McCarthy was a key contributor for Port Adelaide at the MCG's last home-and-away game for 2012, which resulted in a draw but a moral victory for the Power against Richmond, the team that had fought for his signature 12 months earlier.
The game at every level in South Australia and Victoria had some connection with the family and Australian football was in mourning last night. The Dandenong Stingrays were hosting their own sad and private ceremony last night.
At the Westpac Centre one Collingwood footballer was so shocked and devastated by the news he looked near collapse. Six of McCarthy's closest friends, including Dayne Beams, were called together by chief executive Gary Pert to hear the news before the wider group was addressed also by Pert and coach Nathan Buckley.
McCarthy had played at that club for four seasons while his elder brother Matthew had played at Geelong. Matthew was in Ireland yesterday when his family located him to break the news.
Melbourne footballer Troy Broadbridge was killed on his honeymoon in the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 but no AFL player until now has died during an end-of-season trip, although West Coast Eagle Chad Fletcher came close after an accident believed to have been related to a drug overdose.
Given the blurred details of what happened to this well-regarded young player it is impossible yet to draw any conclusions except that it seems what took place could have been prevented.
Football appears diminished in comparison, even in September. Port Adelaide is searching for a new coach and may have already settled upon a new man, but that will be on hold now.
Mick Malthouse was due today to - finally - announce his takeover of the Carlton football team. But he coached and knew McCarthy and any announcement will take a back seat to what has taken place on the other side of the world.
To quote Leigh Matthews from the morning of September 12, 2001: "Suddenly football doesn't seem as important today as it did yesterday." |
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Location: Seaford Rise , Adelaide SA Australia
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