Warning: this post contains mentions of infant loss and may be triggering for some readers.
Today AFL star and former Sydney Swans captain Jarrad McVeigh will play his last match against the St Kilda Saints.
But as he takes the field for the final time on August 24, the date has another significant meaning.
Exactly eight years ago, Jarrad and his wife Clementine McVeigh lost their first daughter, Luella, at just four weeks old due to a heart condition.
Sharing an emotional tribute to her husband and late daughter on Instagram, Clementine, 35, posted a photo of Jarrad kissing a black rubber band on his arm.
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McVeigh was not "forced to return to the field" - the that makes it sound like the Swans demanded that he play, which is aboslutely not the case: it was McVeigh's decision.
BTW - Adam Goodes went with Jude Bolton and John Longmire to the hospital to see Luella about 12 hours before she died to say their goodbyes: I hope people who were booing him come to understand that.