{"id":12952,"date":"2025-07-22T08:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12952\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:39:08","slug":"sam-docherty-reveals-when-he-knew-the-time-was-right-to-announce-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12952\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Docherty reveals when he knew the time was right to announce retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Docherty says he was determined to bow out of the AFL on his own terms after suffering plenty of on and off-field heartbreak in recent seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Docherty will play his 184th and final game of his storied career when Carlton takes on Hawthorn this Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has become one of the most revered figures in the game after twice recovering from cancer and battling back from multiple ACL injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear Sam Docherty\u2019s FULL interview on 3AW after he announced his retirement\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always wanted to go out on my own terms,\u201d he told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a pretty tough month for the footy club; we\u2019ve had some heavy losses. That\u2019s kind of worn me down a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image: Morgan Hancock\/AFL Photos\/via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Docherty says he was determined to bow out of the AFL on his own terms after suffering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-12952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}