{"id":79884,"date":"2021-12-23T04:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=79884"},"modified":"2021-12-21T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T04:40:32","slug":"ex-crow-opens-up-on-injury-ravaged-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/sport\/ex-crow-opens-up-on-injury-ravaged-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Crow opens up on injury-ravaged career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRAD Moran announced his AFL retirement before the end of the 2011 season after an injury-ravaged twenty-one-game career.<\/p>\n<p>The former North Melbourne and Adelaide ruckman called time on his AFL journey at the age of 24 to focus on a business venture that would prove a huge success down the track.<\/p>\n<p>Moran sold his four-year-old software company CitrusAd to French advertising and PR firm Publicis Groupe for $205 million in October this year.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Crow opened up on his decision to quit football after being hampered by knee and hip injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI basically said my heart\u2019s not in it anymore,\u201d Moran told <em>SEN\u2019s This Is Your Journey \u2013 thanks to Tobin Brothers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to play. I just didn\u2019t enjoy it. I can\u2019t give you a more honest answer than that and the fact that I ran out every game and just didn\u2019t want to do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was enjoying that year [2009], it was a good year and then I obviously had the knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you spend 36 weeks on the sidelines watching you start to get very bitter and twisted about life in general and watching the team, you just feel like you\u2019re not even part of the team anymore because you\u2019ve been so in rehab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou haven\u2019t been training with the group and it becomes depressing, and I just didn\u2019t want to do that anymore \u2013 I lost the passion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; BY ALEX ZAIA\/ SEN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAD Moran announced his AFL retirement before the end of the 2011 season after an injury-ravaged twenty-one-game career. 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