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July 12, 2006
Paul Williams Retires With Immediate Effect
In a Sad Day for the Club Paul Williams has been forced into an early retirement due injury with immediate effect. He requires season ending shoulder surgery and having already made the call that he would retire at seasons end this therefore is the end of a 300 plus game career that he'll remembered for at two clubs for giving his all.
“Paul broke his clavicle (collarbone) and it never healed completely,” Swans doctor Nathan Gibbs said.“It was pinned when Paul first broke it and the pin actually broke and as a consequence the clavicle has refractured.
“To his credit Paul has continued to play but it has now reached the stage where there is no improvement and surgery is required.”
This has certainly come as a shock because it was only just over three weeks ago that he made his decision to call it a day at seasons end, so to play on the last three game with the injury much of taken alot out of him.
Swans coach Paul Roos said; “As I said a few weeks back Paul has been an outstanding servant to AFL and I really feel for him in that he won’t have the chance to been seen off the way he should be as a player.
He certainly will be missed.
PAUL WILLIAMS - FACT FILE
Age: 33
Drafted: Collingwood 1989 (Pick #70) from North Hobart
Debut: 1991 Collingwood – 2001 Sydney Swans
Games: 306 (189 Collingwood, 117 Sydney Swans)
Goals: 306
Honours: Sydney Swans Club Champion 2001, 2002, AFL All Australian 2003, Sydney Swans Premiership side 2005.
Posted by robbieando at July 12, 2006 02:51 PM