Former Australia international Scott Staniforth has been forced to retire after suffering a second neck injury.
Neck injury ends former Wallaby's career
Former Australia international Scott Staniforth has been forced to retire after suffering a second neck injury.
Staniforth, who was capped 12 times, initially damaged his neck playing for Western Force against the Lions in May.
And although he returned to action for West Australian Premier Grade side the Associates two months later, he sustained a further injury - with doctors advising him to hang up his boots.
"I guess it's not the way you want to finish but I feel as though I've had a pretty good run at it and been lucky enough to have had a really enjoyable last 13 years," Staniforth said.
"I would have loved to have got my 50 games for the Force and still felt I had a few little goals left to achieve.
"The 1999 World Cup was definitely a highlight and it was great to have been right there during the transformation of the game. I started out playing alongside the likes of Phil Kearns and Tim Horan and finished off with emerging stars in David Pocock and James O'Connor to name a few.
"I don't know how I would have felt if there was some grey area in terms of if I could go on or not and I guess when the decision was taken out of my hands by the specialists it brought that closure pretty quickly."
