Kids, family at 前線 of Taylor's NRL call
Ash Taylor 収容する／認めるs he knew it was time to の近くに the curtains on his NRL career when he couldn't stand up to play with his children.
Taylor 発表するd his 退職 on Tuesday having managed just one game for the 軍人s in 2022, against his former club Gold Coast, and after experiencing 苦痛 like no other when just trying to play with his kids at a park.
The 27-year-old thanked his parents, family, three clubs and 抱擁する support group for their unwavering dedication, but his chronic hip-問題／発行するs were just too much to keep going.
"I knew my time in the game was coming to a 行き詰まり after playing my 最近の match and going to the park the next day and couldn't stand up to play with my children," he told reporters.
"This all happened so quickly. But I can't thank the 軍人s enough as a club for the way they have 扱うd my 状況／情勢."
A former Brisbane, Gold Coast and 軍人s five-eighth or halfback, Taylor played 116 games in rugby league's 最高の，を越す club 競争, entering the NRL and winning the Dally M 新人 of the year in 2016.
He began with Brisbane's under 20's 味方する in 2013, 調印 a three-year を取り引きする the club before 署名／調印するing a を取り引きする the 巨人s in 2016 in 追跡 of first-grade 適切な時期s.
Over a six-year period, Taylor made 114 外見s for Gold Coast 得点する／非難する／２０ing 18 tries and 327 points. He then 調印するd a three-year, three-million-dollar 取引，協定 in 2017 making him one of the highest paid players in the 競争.
But at the end of 2020 he had hip 外科, and with his 契約 not 新たにするd a year later the 軍人s threw him a lifeline after a successful train and 裁判，公判 取引，協定 in October 2021.
But even before his debut he had to take anti-inflammatory and 苦痛 医薬 just to take the field.
"I was on a 修正するd program over the pre-season but then once I sort of started getting closer に向かって the season, it sort of started 影響する／感情ing me more," he said.
"I was taking more ant i inflammatories to keep up with the with the エリート level training and playing."
What the 即座の 未来 持つ／拘留するs for Taylor remains 不明瞭な, with 利益／興味s in teaching and guiding Indigenous children in his home town of Toowoomba.
But for now, some 安定 and time away with his family comes first.
"It's time for me and my family to get settled 支援する home in Toowoomba and me and my partner will both get 用意が出来ている to be 支援する in the 全労働人口," he said.
"But any (Indigenous) programs that they have coming up I want to be a part of, I want to be a part of the community and I want to be a 信用d source for the community to come to if they need to 捜し出す help with that anything."
