Beau Ryan walked out of Remondis Stadium knowing he had possibly played his last game

[TITAN PETE]

Phil Rothfield The Daily Telegraph May 19, 2014 12:00AM

THE career of one of rugby league’s great cult heroes could be over.

Beau Ryan walked out of Remondis Stadium on Saturday night knowing he had possibly played his last game

The Sharks winger suffered a recurrence of a neck injury that required off-season surgery against his old club Wests Tigers.


X-rays over the next few days will determine his future but the Sharks are fearing the worst.

The 29-year-old winger has struggled and looked timid in his handful of appearances for the club this season.

Obviously the injury has been playing on his mind.

No one wants to see the popular Footy Show star finish his career in NSW Cup.

No one wants him to hang around and keep a younger more promising player out of the team.

I have a feeling Ryan was close to announcing his retirement earlier this year.

He only kept going because of the possibility of more ASADA drama and the fact he could help out, at least in a marketing capacity.

With a huge television career in front of him, Beau knows the risk of serious injury is not worth it.

He will be remembered as a fine winger. Not a champion, but an honest, flashy player who could always hold his own against more fancied opponents.

[DIEHARD]

He probably thinks he can do media full time...

[Toads]

On a media level, all he can look forward to is playing the Joker on the Footy Show. Apart from that, he'd be struggling to get a commentary gig as there's too many higher profile players that are retiring that will get a gig before him.

[Titanic]

I don't know about that Toads, the media is like the Australian cricket team: it's harder to get out of it than to get in. On topic, whatever, he doesn't do it for me.

[Toads]

I guess you could be right. If Hadley still gets the call up each year, they'd let any dropkick in the door.

[C-Whiz]

If Beau Ryan didn't have the media profile he has, he would have been dropped a while ago IMO.

But good luck to him with his Footy Show gig. TBH, I'm over all his "TV" segments, was funny for a while but just repetitive now, but he is quite witty and keeps the show light and entertaining. Clearly Gyngel must love him. He gets away with a lot of stuff that I am sure would not be tolerated by others on the panel.

Last weeks comment, "I gotta go, Gyngel is at Packers house" was a classic that only Beau could get away with.

[DIEHARD]

Yea he really loves to name drop on TV. And his segments aren't funny. He makes fun of Soward for being gay (Not saying he is). And his KRudd impersonation is ****ing hopeless.