DONEGAL’S YVONNE BONNER has announced her retirement from the AFLW after an impressive season with Adelaide Crows who fell short in their Premiership bid this year.
Bonner, who previously played with GWS Giants, kicked six goals in 10 games after returning to the sport when she penned a deal with the Crows in April. They lost out to Grand Final runners-up North Melbourne in the Preliminary Final by just one point.
Bonner departs the game after after 21 career games, including 11 for GWS in 2019 and 2020, before she returned to Ireland due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to return to Australia and play another season of AFLW,” Bonner told the Crows website after announcing her decision to depart.
Yvonne and Lisa have decided to hang up their boots. Wishing the pair all the best with their futures 🫶
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“It was such a great experience for me and my family and we are going to miss all the management, staff and girls who made us feel so welcome.”
Adelaide Head of Women’s Football Phil Harper paid tribute to Bonner on her impressive career, along with Lisa Whiteley who has also announced her AFLW retirement.
“Yvonne and Lisa have both made a significant impact on the squad and their guidance and support for their fellow teammates has been invaluable,” Harper said.
“Impressively, Yvonne returned to the competition after over a year off and she did not miss a beat.”
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You made a show of yourself. From the bus incident to this very day. Used to be a massive Mcgregor fan but lost all respect for him at this stage. Wish he’d actually step away from the sport. They should just call him money Mcgregor
@Willy Motley: all mouth. I never listened to the stuff that went on outside the cage, but watched keenly what happened inside, and there used to be a difference, now he is just a joke inside and outside. He won’t resurrect his career now with all that has happened unless he drops down the weight again.
@Bungee Aky: A fighter that has never successfully defended either title that he won in UFC.. Absolutely joke that he has the name he has..
@Tom Kenny: he did well while he was on the way up, but he cut his own time at the top short and the fall was quicker than the rise. No humility, no class, no longevity. He will be remembered as the best, greatest, brightest flash in the pan that ever happened.
He was more interested in promoting his whiskey..how couldnt you give someone like Khabib no respect, the man never lost a round in 20 odd fights
Who cares ??
@Desmond Cassidy: you do apparently.
If Mcgregor gets another crack at Khabib and beats him then he’ll be a big hero again. But he seems to have lost the hunger. He has shown with Nate Diaz that you can never write him off but he seems to have been on a downward spiral since the Mayweather money rolled in.
@Stanley Baggins:
Motivation or not, he’ll never beat Khabib even if he fights him 100 times.
@Stanley Baggins: lol not happening.
I will give the guy credit for mouthing his way to the top, but not a nice guy in or outside the octagon/ring, he could of really been an Irish legend but his behavior has made him nothing more then a laughing stock, money won’t buy him class something he is seriously lacking,
The money mayweathers ruined him.
Aldo done it for 10 years and was caught naively in 13 seconds as he was beyond wound up.
McGregor lauded his own talking game and aldo never got his rematch shot.
McGregor says he was caught in a fight where he wasn’t up to much and ended in his second loss and should get a rematch just because.
With his stardust waning and a bit of perspective its easier for people to see hes the Kardashian of UFC , took on a persona popular with the majority and played it expertly through modern media.
A distasteful genius with talent in all the wrong places.May he and the rest of the kardashian culture be plagued with no privacy and a life in the public eye for selling there souls for a few million quid.
@baw baw: @baw baw: To write McGregor off as nothing more than Khardasian culture is a bit revisionist, while in recent times he has become a mere parody of himself, it would be foolish to discard how good he was at his peak.
His persona only became what it was through his huge performances on the biggest stage. Against both Mendes and Aldo he heaped pressure on himself by talking a big and confident game and backed it up in the octogon. Without those performances his quick wit would have been nothing more than a cheap novelty. He has proven himself against a lot of top fighters and his lose to Khabib doesn’t take anything away from that.
I do however agree that he is not entitled to an immediate rematch and nor should he want one, he needs to tune up, get a few wins under his belt and his head back in the game before he could pose any threat to Khabib.
The idea that he could come back after two years on the session and beat him in the first place was ludicrous and thinking he could jump straight back in with him now is even more so.