AN AUSTRALIAN rugby league player has spoken of his horror at having his penis torn in a tackle.

Cronulla-raised Haydn Peacock told French Footy he suffered the bizarre injury while playing for AS Carcassonne in France last month.

The 23-year-old Irish international player was pulled to the ground by his manhood and only realised the extent of the injury at halftime.

“When we played UTC the other week their centre pretty much ripped my d*** off,” Peacock told former Brisbane Broncos forward Guy Williams.

Ouch!

“He made a tackle by reaching out and grabbing my d***. Have you seen the photo? It’s a classic. They put it on the front page of the paper.

“I took the ball off the scrum and made a half break, and their centre has come across from the inside and reached out in a last-ditch effort and has got a hold of my d*** with one hand and pulled me down.

“There’s a photo of me screaming in pain, and I finished out the half. The pain was all right and then at halftime I was like ‘I’ve got to have a look’. I checked on it and the skin is half ripped off and I was like, ‘Shit, where’s the doctor? Where’s the doctor?’

media_camera Will Chambers reacts after a squirrel grab from Sam Burgess. Picture Fox Sports

“They had to go and get the UTC doctor and he came in and checked it out and he was like, ‘Oh man, you’re going to have to go and get stitches’. So I had to go to the clinic that night and they had to put 11 stitches around it to put the skin back together.

“I showed all the boys and they were pissing themselves laughing. In all of my career I’ve never heard of anyone having anything like that happen — 11 stitches in the d***.

“I remember I had to strap it all up for the next game. I just had to go around it. The coach wanted me to go out and buy a cup but I’m not going to play with a cup, I’m not going to be able to run. I just had to heavily strap it. It’s all good (now). I got the stitches out and it’s all sweet. No dramas.”

Peacock’s injury joins a long list of unfortunate rugby league moments which range from “squirrel grips” to John Hopoate’s infamous tactics.

Originally published as ‘Their centre pretty much ripped my d*** off’