York Knights’ Paul Vaughan told BBC Radio York after calling time on his 13-year professional career:<\/p>\n
“It’s a very weird, indescribable feeling of just elation. I feel so content, so lucky, and so privileged.<\/p>\n
“When I was a kid, I just dreamt about playing rugby professionally. To play over 300 games and to do everything I’ve done – it’s quite surreal.<\/p>\n
“Logically, it was the right decision to go back [to Australia]. This year, I’ve played great footy. I’m 35, I feel great, but I just couldn’t do another year without my girls. <\/p>\n
“The years that the girls are at at the moment are really special and I don’t want to miss that.<\/p>\n
“I’m finishing on my terms which is really special. It’s just a feeling of happiness, it’s cool.”<\/p>\n
On his drop-goal: “We spoke about the drop-goal, Macca [Paul McShane] and I before the game. I wanted the right post because I’m a right-footer. It was just elation. I’ve never kicked one in my life.”<\/p>\n
Bradford Bulls coach Kurt Haggerty told BBC Radio Leeds:<\/p>\n
“It is very difficult to put into words how I feel. I found it very difficult addressing the team with a lot of players in the dressing room that won’t be here next year.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a roller-coaster. Tonight is going to leave a sour taste in my mouth which is going to drive me through pre-season next year.”<\/p>\n
On finishing bottom: “I didn’t want the tag for the club. I don’t want to make excuses, I’m not that type of coach.<\/p>\n
“I work for a fantastic club. It’s almost felt like Salford at times with injuries. Ultimately, we’ve just not had enough quality to win games.”<\/p>\n
York: Mata’afa; Jones-Bishop, Galeano, Wood, Nofoaluma; Hunter, Harris; Va’a, McShane, Vaughan, Dee, Field, Thompson.<\/p>\n
Interchanges: Balmforth, Hingano, Martin, Foster.<\/p>\n
Sin-bin: Galeano (13 mins).<\/p>\n
Bradford: Aekins; Okunbor, Russell, Blake, Wynne; Dean, Atkin; Sutton, Ackers, Scurr, Gardiner, Steinwede, Mellor.<\/p>\n
Interchanges: Gill, Peposhi, Ruan, Marsters.<\/p>\n
Referee: Chris Kendall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"York Knights’ Paul Vaughan told BBC Radio York after calling time on his 13-year professional career: “It’s a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-766768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}