Tigers settle with sacked Daniel Connors Glenn McFarlane
From: Herald Sun
July 25, 2012 DUMPED Tiger Daniel Connors will decide within a fortnight whether he will play football again after reaching a financial settlement with Richmond.
Sacked for sleeping in and missing a training session this month after being on his last chance at Punt Rd, Connors has been weighing his future.
His manager, Anthony McConville, from Mac's Sports, said yesterday the talented but erratic player was edging closer to a decision on whether he would pursue football at state league or local levels.
"Daniel is very remorseful for the situation that has occurred, but he needs to work out whether he wants to fight on and play again," McConville said.
"No decision has been made yet as to his future.
"At this stage he is collecting himself from the fallout.
"I suppose in the next few weeks we will be better advised about whether he has the commitment to take his football to the highest level he can."
McConville said there had been "lots of interest" from various state leagues and local clubs - including several teams in the VFL.
He said Connors' contractual arrangements with Richmond had been satisfactorily settled.
"Everything that has been required from the AFL and Richmond has been completed," he said.
"The umbilical cord has been cut 100 per cent."
Connors would need special permission to sign on for a club at almost any level if he was to choose to play elsewhere this season.
The cut-off point for transfers was June 30, a week before he and teammate Dustin Martin slept through an alarm after taking sleeping tablets the previous evening.
"We would need special consideration, so that would be up to the AFL to decide, but you would like to think that (they would allow it)," McConville said.
"Hopefully if that was the way Dan wanted to go about things, it will be a quick and clean arrangement."
Connors, 23, played 29 games and kicked 11 goals in a controversial six seasons at Punt Rd, fractured by a number of off-field incidents.
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