Nathan Murphy gives reminder that courage in AFL comes in many forms | Jonathan Horn

The concussion-prone Collingwood defender accepted the medical advice to retire at 25 with grace and he emerges with great creditJust before Covid hit, and just when Australian sport was beginning to properly come to terms with the effects of concussion, the former Hawthorn footballer Tim Boyle wrote a piece for The Sunday Age titled “The new form of courage may be not to play at all”. I thought of that piece when Daniel Venables retired, when Angus Brayshaw retired and when Collingwood’s Nathan...

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