AFL superstar Garry Ablett Jr. has revealed he could return to the game halfway through this season after retiring following his team s 2020 Grand Final defeat.
The 36-year-old decided to leave the game with an impressive 357 elite level matches under his belt after the Richmond Tigers convincingly beat the Geelong Cats in October last year.
His retirement came after a year where Ablett and wife Jordan were rocked by the devastating diagnosis of his son Levi, 2, with a rare degenerative disease, and the death of her mother Trudy after a cancer battle.
But in an interview with The Herald Sun on Saturday, the dual Brownlow medalist said he had spoken to Geelong officials about signing up in the mid-season draft under a short contract that would see him play in the finals.
Report: Ablett ponders shock comeback through mid-season draft
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2021-04-17T19:00+10:00
Gary Ablett Jnr is considering nominating for the mid-season draft and playing the back half of the year for Geelong, according to an interview with the Cats great in the
Herald Sun.
Despite retiring last year and still nursing a shoulder injury suffered in the Grand Final, the Cats legend has floated the possibility of re-joining his team mates in their premiership quest.
“After I had my shoulder surgery (third reconstruction) and found out we had recruited Isaac Smith, Shaun Higgins and Jeremy Cameron, I actually called Andrew Mackie (list management at Geelong) and said ‘mate, if you had let me know you were recruiting those guys I would have stayed around for another year’, he said in the
GARNA executive director Dominique Naccarato will host an hour-long Zoom lecture from 7-8 p.m., April 15 about birding, an exciting way you can interact with nature anytime and anywhere.
Because you can engage in birding from the car, while hiking or biking, or even alongside serious birders who keep a birding life list, it is the ideal hobby for nature-lovers of all ages and abilities.
Naccarato will discuss the basics of birding, including how to identify flight patterns, body and beak shape and function, and bird sounds.
She will also introduce a wide range of topics including how to use binoculars, where to find birds, how to attract them to your yard, how we can conserve and provide bird habitat, and how bird behavior can provide insight into whatâs going on in our neighborhood or ecosystem.
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