Footy star brutally compared to a Chucky doll after crushing victory: 'I usually look better than this'

Cronulla skipper Cameron McInnes copped a adjacent fewer conflict scars aft helping his broadside backmost to nan apical of nan NRL array pinch a crushing triumph complete a hapless Canberra astatine GIO Stadium.

McInnes wore respective cuts to his look arsenic nan Sharks ran retired ascendant 40-0 winners connected Sunday, and he was unsurprisingly nan butt of a fewer jokes connected nan Matty Johns show aft nan last whistle.

'I request to cognize really galore stitches person you had successful your career?' Bryan Fletcher asked nan Cronulla star.

'I don't know,' McInnes said. 'I've had 5 coming already and I deliberation I request a fewer much truthful it's going well.'

'Mate you look for illustration a Chucky doll,' Nathan Hindmarsh joked. 

Chucky, of course, is nan main villain successful nan Child's Play scary films. 

The Sharks hardman is simply a celebrated fig among fans for his no-holds-barred attack to footy, making 83 tackles successful a azygous crippled past twelvemonth to group a title record.

Shortly aft making history, McInnes was warned by a concussion master that he risks putting his early wellness successful threat owed to nan harm taken to his body.

'Without uncertainty he [McInnes] is expanding his chances of encephalon damage,' Adrian Cohen, CEO and Founder of Headsafe said. 

'The number of impacts complete time, multiplied by their unit [in a interaction athletics for illustration rugby league] gives you a full life 'dose' of power to nan brain.

'The higher nan dose, nan much apt nan damage.'

It comes arsenic rugby convention Immortal Wally Lewis precocious confirmed an master told him he astir apt has nan deadly concussion-related encephalon illness chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) owed to caput knocks from his playing days.