FORMER Geelong Cat Paul Brown has regained consciousness after being struck in the head when he intervened in fight between a man and a woman at Shepparton.

Brown suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain and ended up in The Alfred hospital at the weekend.

media_camera Paul Brown suffered serious head injuries.

His former Cats teammate Billy Brownless revealed this morning that Brown still has no recollection of what happened to him, with his friends and family thankful the situation wasn’t worse.

“The main thing here is that he is going to be OK,” Brownless said on Triple M.

“I spoke to his wife yesterday via text and obviously she’s very upset.

“He’s conscious, he woke up, he’s got no idea what happened. He’s got a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain, but the good news is — because we know there’s shocking cases of this with the one-punch and the coward’s punch — that he’s woken up.”

It is alleged the attacker screamed, “What are you looking at?” before punching Brown, a dual Grand Final player with the Cats, on the head.

He fell backwards, striking his head against the concrete pavement outside a shop on Vaughan St, Shepparton, about 9.15pm on Friday.

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A 19-year-old Shepparton man was arrested shortly after the attack.

He was bailed to appear­ before­ Shepparton Magistrates’ Court on January 11.

Brown was treated by paramedics for head and facial injuries, placed in a full neck brace and taken to Goulburn Valley Base Hospital.

However his condition worsened and he was rushed to The Alfred.

Today his condition was described as stable.

Brown played 84 AFL games, including Geelong’s 1994 and 1995 Grand Finals.

He finished up with the Cats in 1996 after he ruptured a patella tendon, kicking 66 goals in his professional career.