Summary
THE AVERAGE career of a player in the Australian Football League (AFL) runs for around 2.9 years and includes just 34 firstteam starts. Why so short? Well, in that brief interlude, the individual will be involved in at least 600 bone-shuddering collisions of a type that cause persistent injuries.
Combine this with the physical intensity of effort required for training and matches and it's easy to understand why even some of the most gifted natives find themselves on their sport's scrapheap less than three years after turning professional.See the full content of this document
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Failure [Eire Region]
All of this is relevant and timely because Setanta O hAilpin was delisted (Australian for released) last week by Carlton.
No sooner had the news broken than there were muttering...See the full content of this document
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