Kane Elegy (2019) – 12 Games
Despite what I’ve said about Manly, it is never nice to watch a player lose passion for the game.
Unfortunately for Kane Elegy, repeated ill-timed injuries led to his premature retirement.
Elegy was a star on the rise prior to his 2015 debut at the Gold Coast Titans (he was marginally close to missing out on a spot in their SET OF SIX), even winning the 2014 NYC Player of the Year. This is despite the halfback’s side finishing 15th that year. Clearly, he was primed for big things.
But as so often happens to young players, injury after serious injury befell him and he fell out of favour. Not much changed once he reached Manly, and he gave the game away at the end of last season.
On his retirement, Elegy wrote on Instagram: “I just know deep down I don’t love it as I used to and when you lose that it’s very hard to keep doing it at a high level”.
This one hurt to write.