Yep was one eagles I admired.
Every day needs to be an RUOK day. Look after yourselves everyone.
Equally WTF
Far out
Another ex footy player whose life seemed to spiral after his career finished. I donât think he was a nice man but still too young
Goodness me, what the hell is going on?
It seems we need to start asking if we are doing enough the help playerâs transition from footy life to regular life
He was another of that group of WCE players who went off the rails.
Foxsports article has the Lifeline Number at the bottom of their article.
Someone posted yesterday that things come in 3s. So very sad. RIP
yeah, that was me. Sorry about that.
Hopefully thatâs the end of these horrible type of stories.
Sheâs right
bloody terrible
It seems to happen disproportionately with West Coast players.
Wouldnât make news over there but Josh Mail died of cancer on Monday aged 50. For those that donât know him he played a few games for the Crows in the early 90âs. I played some junior footy against him and he was playing SANFL league at 16 but just couldnât make the step up to AFL.
Fark. Played with him down in Tassie when he went there for a year.
Cousins was obviously the most publicised, but Hunter, Fletcher and Kerr were others that if I saw their name in a headline I worried about the worst.
Sadly, on this occasion it is the case.
Add Chick and Gardiner to that list.
They were all having a pretty good time.
And Mainwaring.
Gardiner seems to have cleaned himself up but Chick got done for meth possession as recently as a week ago.
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