told The Age\u2019s Jake Niall<\/a> that he holds no ill feeling towards the Bulldogs, who dealt Ugle-Hagan to the Suns for just Pick 74 last year. <\/p>\n\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say anything went wrong,\u201d he said of his time at his former club. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just think it was more myself, decisions I made, and me as a stubborn little kid. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just thought I wasn\u2019t doing anything wrong. I didn\u2019t think I was affecting anything … I don\u2019t know how to explain it, but just boys would reach out to me and say, \u2018Mate, you need to stop hanging out with this person. You need to, you know, look after yourself and come this way\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m like, \u2018No, it\u2019s fine. It\u2019s all good. Don\u2019t worry about it\u2019. Then, before you know it …\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, Ugle-Hagan has a strong support system in Carrara, where his presence in Hardwick\u2019s side is important as the Suns prepare for a tilt at a maiden premiership. <\/p>\n
But there\u2019s not a lot of expectation being placed on him internally, other than to enjoy his footy. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe great thing about footy is redemption. It provides an incredible opportunity for people to get back something that they\u2019ve missed for a long period of time,\u201d Hardwick said in a team address when revealing Ugle-Hagan would make his Suns debut in April. <\/p>\n
\u201cMate, you\u2019ve had an incredible journey, you\u2019ve been through a hell of a lot, but now it\u2019s your story to write.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve worked your backside off, we\u2019ve made you wait for it, but more importantly, we know you\u2019re going to be here for the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamarra Ugle-Hagan has courageously reflected on his journey back to football, pulling back the curtains on the dark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,2019,324095,260393,34709,324092,14385,11238,2057,1127,2105,2485,9130,18619,324094,2328,50078,15631,229532,673,324089,677,701,251371,324091,324090,6282,27762,3595,85,262640,324093,302899,698],"class_list":["post-671557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-byron-bay","tag-career-turnaround","tag-carrara","tag-club-debut","tag-courageous-star","tag-damien-hardwick","tag-draft-pick","tag-europe","tag-fox-footy","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gold-coast","tag-gold-coast-suns","tag-home-game","tag-impressive-three-goal","tag-italy","tag-jake-niall","tag-lauren-wood","tag-maiden-premiership","tag-new-south-wales","tag-notable-reveal","tag-oceania","tag-queensland","tag-regular-senior-footy","tag-rehab-facility","tag-rehab-reveal","tag-russell-freeman","tag-senior-appearance","tag-southern-europe","tag-sports","tag-support-system","tag-team-address","tag-tears-shed","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671557","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=671557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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