SYDNEY: Greg Inglis, the 2009 rugby league world player of the year who retired last month, has entered a care facility to assist with his mental health, the South Sydney Rabbitohs said on Friday.
The Rabbitohs retained Inglis, one of the best Aboriginal Australian players to have graced the game, to work on the club's community projects and he would have been expected to have a big off-field role in the NRL Indigenous round this weekend. The news will only intensify the ongoing debate about the responsibility of sports to help their players ease into retirement, a debate revived in Australia by the suicide of former rugby union international Dan Vickerman in 2017.
Inglis was handed an 18-month good behaviour bond by a New South Wales court in January for drink driving in October 2018, a charge that cost him the captaincy of the Australia team he had only just been awarded and a two-test ban.