Page 13: Footy rumour mill in overdrive on why star turned back on media

He was enjoying a stellar off-field career until he turned his back on the media landscape. Now the footy rumour mill is in overdrive on why he walked away.

The footy rumour mill is turning on the former player who walked away from the media landscape.

Give Melbourne a couple of good summer months and the rumour mill is flying faster than the Sherrins at pre-season training.

But where to start?

The one about the high profile and costly split of a footy industry powerbroker?

Hmmm. How about the one about the former footballer who was enjoying a growing, stellar career off the field.

Headhunted and poached by TV networks, the post footy world was at his feet. Well, until it wasn’t.

While it’s always been known he was prickly at the best of times when the cameras weren’t filming, it’s no secret the so-called family man was not seen as a “great bloke” by the AFL boys club.

Which would be the reason why there was some glee, scrap that, jubilation, in the constant chatter about his shock decision to turn his back on the media landscape.

Turns out it was his extra-curricular activities off camera, with some rather choice words delivered to him behind closed doors, which was the real reason to pivot away from the shining showbiz lights.

Because sometimes, just sometimes, showbiz is not all smoke and mirrors, with a very real reason behind all that on-screen chemistry.

Like sands in the hourglass, these are the days of our footy lives.