Quote: Graham Richards "My one disappointment in all this is that he was not allowed to retire. Instead he was told and we were told he was surplus to requirements. He should have been allowed to hang up his boots without it being common knowledge that we didn't want him.'"
Can't disagree, but the club didn't announce that he hadn't been offered a new contract, it was a HDM article, which quoted RH.
He may well have played for another year given the opportunity, so retirement became a clearer alternative.