Jayden Broome

I don't want to do that.

No.

And I just want to be recognised as a person that hasn't stopped playing rugby, but, like, has, like, I don't know, just, like, you know, like, I want people to respect that I love the game.

hang those boots up with confidence and the respect of everyone around the country with your decision mate yeah yeah yeah yeah i've got to start um like being like proud of like like that i'm ready to stop playing because i just like before this injury i just thought like like like

I just, like, thought that I was going to have a rugby career and then done.

Yeah.

And then move on to my next thing.

But I never, ever thought that my rugby career was going to be stopped.

I never thought.

I thought I was, like, going to push through everything and keep playing.

But...

I don't know, for some reason I've just decided that, nah, I want to choose to live my life, not play rugby.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, hopefully it's impressive.

I think that also I was always a healthy kid.

I never had injuries growing up.

I had, like, wee niggles here and there, but I never had, like, any injuries, never had concussions, never had shoulder injuries or anything like that.

And then I had this one big injury that just, you know, knocked me out of the water and I'm still recovering from.

So...