Two weeks out from Melbourne’s season opener, 2021 premiership star Angus Brayshaw has retired.
The shock decision, which is solely based on his ongoing struggles with concussion, saw Brayshaw tell teammates on Thursday morning.
9News Melbourne understands the 28-year-old was given a precautionary scan on his brain recently and when the results came back, his footballing future was taken out of his hands.
Medical professionals instructed Brayshaw to retire, leaving him no choice but to call an end to his career with five seasons remaining on his contract.
The devastating news has rocked the Demons this week, who are understood to be keen to keep the popular former Pick 3 around in a non-playing capacity for 2024.
Melbourne teammates and coaches will also rally around the premiership player.
Unfortunately Brayshaw’s final involvement on the football field was the polarising incident with Brayden Maynard in September, an action which has since been outlawed by the AFL.
Melbourne insiders still maintain Maynard’s attempted smother was not a football act and the defender, who was taken in the same draft as Brayshaw, should have been suspended.
But even before then, Brayshaw had a difficult time dealing with impacts of several head knocks.
The versatile ball-winner resolved to continue his career as recently as four months ago and was training well across pre-season, but ultimately his sixth concussion in the AFL was one too many.
Early in 2016, he was concussed twice in three weeks and began wearing a helmet shortly after.
Brayshaw is the second player selected in the top three of the 2014 draft to retire due to the effects of concussion following Swan Paddy McCartin’s decision last August.
Paul Seedsman, Marcus Adams and Max Lynch also retired in 2023 for the concussion-related reasons.
Brayshaw has a very real connection to the impacts of severe head injury.
He is engaged to late St Kilda captain Danny Frawley’s daughter, Danielle.
Frawley died in 2019 and post-mortem examinations revealed the 56-year-old was suffering from CTE, which has been linked to repeated blows to the head.
Brayshaw played 156 games and kicked 47 goals for Melbourne.
He finished in the top five of the club’s best and fairest in each of the last two years.
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