"Curtis could feel his knee just wasn't right but the club were short staffed at the start of season and basically guilted him into playing," said dad Paul, a former Balmain, NSW and Kangaroos star.
"He broke down as a result early in the season and it ruined his whole year."
It's ruthless professional footy and as others have said, players are paid a lot of money to put their bodies on the line. I suspect Jetski was in a similar boat often playing injured, and plenty of other players over the years, but that's what happens, the club's medical staff are far from infallible and sometimes get it wrong.
Disappointed at not getting more time in his farewell game? Fair enough to be disappointed for your son, but Siro Snr knows as well as anyone that there's not much room for sentiment in NRL.
I rarely bag players because I have a fair idea of the hardships they endure to run up and down entertaining us. They earn their money and oftentimes the toll on their bodies lasts the rest of their lives.
I liked Siro as a Sea Eagle. The footy gods winked at him several times but in the end they didn't smile on him.