Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt was that close to me, I\u2019m lucky I wasn\u2019t hit,\u201d Ugle-Hagan told the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t involved with anything, as the police know. There was 20 people around me and probably another 100 at the venue, but my name is being mentioned like I have some kind of part in it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m linked just by being there. It\u2019s trial by media. It is out of my control.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is traumatising and no one should be near or see any of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Western Bulldogs forward Jamarra Ugle-Hagan says he\u2019s \u201clucky to be alive\u201d after being a metre away from a \u201ctraumatising\u201d non-fatal shooting outside a nightclub he claims he had involvement in (Picture: NewsWire \/ Diego Fedele)Source: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
Ugle-Hagan, 23, who hasn\u2019t played at any level this season due to personal issues, said he was getting into a rideshare vehicle at the time of the gunshots. <\/p>\n
While the former No. 1 pick said it\u2019s \u201cdefinitely takes a massive toll on my anxiety and stress,\u201d he conceded being at the Malvern Road venue at that time in the morning wasn\u2019t ideal. <\/p>\n
Love Machine has been plagued by violence over the last few years including multiple recent attacks. In April a man was stabbed to death after reportedly being chased from the venue while two men were killed in a drive-by shooting there in 2019.<\/p>\n
It adds another chapter to Ugle-Hagan\u2019s series of off-field personal issues. He was cleared of any wrongdoing over his car\u2019s usage in an alleged drive-by shooting last month. <\/p>\n
Ugle-Hagan has been on leave from the Dogs for the majority of this season due to his personal battles\ufeff, having returned to training at times across the season. <\/p>\n
Hinkley ‘not prepared’ to discuss future | 01:34<\/p>\n
Ugle-Hagan, who has a lucrative contract at the Dogs for 2026, faces an increasing uncertain future at Whitten Oval and the AFL at large, with the 67-gamer linked to trade speculation throughout 2025. <\/p>\n
Herald Sun reporter Jon Ralph suggested Ugle-Hagan and the Dogs would reach a settlement if a trade isn\u2019t reached. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately he just keeps finding himself in really troubled positions and unfortunately with people who bring trouble upon him as well,\u201d Ralph said on Fox Footy\u2019s Midweek Tackle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Dogs are in such an impossible position. They\u2019ve got to pretend everything is going well with Jamarra, because they want to trade him at the end of the season. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as those (rival) clubs overlook him, if they do, (the Dogs) will try and find a way to get rid of that $900,00 contract, and that\u2019s the challenge. <\/p>\n
\u201cA club can terminate a player\u2019s contract if they\u2019ve engaged in serious or repeated misconduct. Being in the vicinity of a gunshot is not that. Having your car taken unwittingly involved in a crime is not that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey could recoup some of the money from all those missed training sessions, but they\u2019ve worked with the AFL and they\u2019ve allowed him at times to access the mental health care we all believe he needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll hope someone trades for him. If he is still on their list, at the end of this situation I think the only scenario for them is to say: \u2018Here\u2019s your payout … here\u2019s $500,000\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe could be Tarryn Thomas in a heartbeat. You don\u2019t have a birthright to play AFL football, as extraordinarily talented as you are. At some stage the penny has to drop. It hasn\u2019t done so dating back 10 or 11 months.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Bulldogs forward Jamarra Ugle-Hagan says he\u2019s \u201clucky to be alive\u201d after being a metre away from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,60767,4603,60763,1127,681,7484,647,60766,16299,60764,60762,677,60765,17728,6082,60761,1124,85,60768,16702,2535,660,698],"class_list":["post-79817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-crows-veteran","tag-final-game","tag-football-club-oval","tag-fox-footy","tag-jon-ralph","tag-ken-hinkley","tag-melbourne","tag-mental-health-care","tag-newswire-photos","tag-nightclub-shooting","tag-non-fatal-shooting","tag-oceania","tag-personal-issues","tag-police-investigation","tag-port-adelaide","tag-rideshare-vehicle","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-tarryn-thomas","tag-taylor-walker","tag-trade-rumours","tag-victoria","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79817","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=79817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}