Bobby Hill says he will \u201ctake a break from football\u201d as Collingwood confirmed the club and Norm Smith medallist have mutually agreed to part ways.<\/p>\n
Hill was contracted for another four seasons, on a reported $750,000 per year, but is set to walk away from the Magpies as a delisted free agent.<\/p>\n
The club released a statement on Friday morning, which featured a brief message from Hill.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll always be proud to have been part of this club and thankful for the opportunity to represent Collingwood \u2013 I leave with memories I\u2019ll cherish forever,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to take a break from football to keep working on myself and regain my passion for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hill played 61 games across almost four seasons at Collingwood, including the 2023 premiership, but did not feature in a single game this year.<\/p>\n
Collingwood said the 26-year-old had not met his commitments to the club, leading to his exit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe club has been working with Bobby over the past 12 months to put support structures in place to help him work through some personal matters,\u201d Executive General Manager of Football Charlie Gardiner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite this, Bobby has unfortunately struggled to meet his commitments to the club consistently this year and agreed that taking a break from football is the best decision for him and his family.<\/p>\n
\u201cBobby will always be recognised as a premiership player and a Norm Smith Medallist at Collingwood and we wish him all the very best.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood Hill will look to continue his career at a third club, having spent four seasons at Greater Western Sydney prior to joining Collingwood at the end of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bobby Hill says he will \u201ctake a break from football\u201d as Collingwood confirmed the club and Norm Smith…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[638,64,63,10133,596,588,85],"class_list":["post-834579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-football","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834579","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=834579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}