Gun Pie Dayne Beams steps away from AFL to deal with mental health
Star Collingwood midfielder Dayne Beams has stepped away from the AFL indefinitely to concentrate on his mental health.Beams returned to Collingwood last season but played only nine gamesBeams played nine games with the Magpies this year after returning from a stint with Brisbane but did not feature after round 11 as he took a break to deal with mental health issues.
"Trying to improve my quality of life and meet the demands of playing and training for football at the elite level continues to be a struggle," Beams said in a club statement released on Friday. "My health and football have come to feel like competing priorities, which is not a position that is helping or enabling me to meet my responsibilities.
"I have been trying to meet this challenge for a number of years but, with a series of debilitating recent injuries and my mental health a work in progress, I have reached a point where I know that stepping away from football is necessary.
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