Jamarra Ugle-Hagan won't play AFL football again, claims AFL icon

Kieran Francis

Jamarra Ugle-Hagan won't play AFL football again, claims AFL icon image

Troubled Western Bulldogs star Jamarra Ugle-Hagan won't play AFL again, according to AFL great Matthew Lloyd.

The 23-year-old hasn't played an AFL game in 2025 due to a variety of personal issues, with the key forward also only sporadically attending training.

Ugle-Hagan has been linked with a move away from the Bulldogs - with Sydney suggested as a team to offer the former no.1 draft pick a fresh start.

However, Lloyd believes that Ugle-Hagan doesn't have the ability to rebuild the trust he has lost at the Bulldogs - or at any other AFL club.

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"He needed to come back, when he's first come back, and not miss a beat," Lloyd said on Footy Classified.

"He would be playing now if he didn't miss a beat - at least at VFL level or with a slim chance [of playing AFL in 2025].

"I would use the word trust - right across the board at that club there is no trust [in Ugle-Hagan].

"When you don't have trust, you have nothing.

"When you don't show up and you miss a session... miss one well then you start to go okay I'm not sure about this bloke.

"But you miss a second (session), the trust is gone.

"It's a long way back and that's unfortunately why I personally can't see him ever playing another game of AFL - with anyone.

"That's how big the trust word is for me even be letting him through the doors firstly and then getting a game is another story.

"He needs to change - forget about the environment."

Kieran Francis

Kieran Francis is a senior editor at The Sporting News based in Melbourne, Australia. He started at Sportal.com.au before being a part of the transition to Sporting News in 2015. Just prior to the 2018 World Cup, he was appointed chief editor of Goal.com in Australia. He has now returned to The Sporting News where his passions lay in football, AFL, poker and cricket - when he is not on holiday.