While it seems increasingly possible with the time UGLE-HAGAN will leave Whitten Oval before its contract is over, Beveridge hinted that the management of the club has begun to end patience.

The 23-year-old has not played for Western -Bulldog Since the 2024 final series, after leaving football in the pre-season to go on an indefinite personal break.

In an exclusive interview with Saturday Herald SunBulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has not yet gave up hope to be able to connect with UGLE-HAGAN to reintegrate it to the team 2024 AFL season.

But the coach gave his first suggestions that the club will not wait forever as long as UGLE-HAGAN shows a little intention to return to high flight football, also revealing that the commitment issues involving UGLE-HAGAN have been a long-term problem.

“Do not know (if he will play again for us), This is the serious answer. He will tell you that he does but actions do not support the words,“Said Beveridge.

“It will take a lot of time to build trust again with everyone.

“The thing about compatibility and punctuality and being in a program you have to be there. You can’t choose which days you don’t come.

“And that was probably his existence this year until recently, when he was away from the club.“

The club has shared significant financial and human resources in the welfare of UGLE-HAGAN at the time, but the staff at the club is reported to have been increasingly angry at his posting of social media training videos at the same time as he was missing from the club training for three weeks.

UGLE-HAGAN was contracted by the end of 2026, with an annual salary reported in the vicinity of $ 8-900,000, and has been linked between several circles with a possible action in Geelong in 2026.

Beveridge told Herald Sun that talks between the two parties have recently stalled.

“The plan was to make that meeting (with AFL) And then sit down and work on what the road was or is it, and being completely re-engaged and possibly playing again.

“But because this has either not happened or has not happened, and I was not able to have that conversation with him.

“We hope that he will connect with medical experts and occasionally our practitioners and that the penny will fall at one point, and we can return it.

“But if it doesn’t happen during the rest of the season, then I don’t know. It will surely come to the head.“