What Gas said
During a meeting on Wednesday, Terry made it clear to him that the club wanted to employ a policy of promoting youth of the club ahead of Darren.
He believes his form over the first five games this year has been reasonable, with two very good games, two in which he did his job and one which he believes was below par.
It has been made clear to him that his form was not the issue; it was about developing the players for the future.
When he signed on last year he expected every opportunity to earn his spot in the team. When he learned that this wasn’t the case he was surprised and very disappointed.
He says he has no option but to respect the club’s decision, and believes that they will respect his decision to move on.
Says it’s been a great privilege to represent the RFC. It has been a wonderful journey that has enabled him to meet great players, people, supporters and officials.
Says he is a proud person and he’s proud of his achievements over a 14 year career in the AFL.
The club has asked him to work with to help develop the young defenders. He looks forward to seeing the development of the next RFC premiership team and will watch that premiership with the business of not playing in a premiership team himself.
Definitely been a stressful few days, especially the last 48 hours. However, nothing can take away the happiness that has entered his life last Thursday morning. Sarah gave birth to their first children Ella and Chloe, they’re identical twins.
He’d like to thank all the supporters, coaches, players, manager Ron Joseph, the staff of the RFC.
As a life member, he will be watching and supporting this proud club for ever more.