West Coast champion Jeremy McGovern has been medically retired by the AFL’s concussion panel.

Read his statement, provided by the Eagles, in full below.

It’s been an absolute honour to pull on the West Coast jumper for the past 15 years and it’s something that I will forever be grateful for.

As much as this isn’t the way I would have liked to go out, I respect the decision.

I’m gutted I don’t get to pull the jumper on and run out one more time, but sometimes this is the way the game goes, and I am forever grateful to the West Coast supporters who have also shown me love and respect.

I would like to thank everyone who has been involved with my career over the journey.

My family – Mum and Dad, my brother Mitch, my wife Madi and my three kids Hudson, Marlee and Lewie – have been my biggest supporters, as well as my friends who have been amazing through my whole time in the AFL.

To the club, I can’t explain how much you have given me over my time here and I can’t thank you enough for drafting a fat kid from Albany and giving him a crack.

I’ve always loved the game and winning a premiership is every kid’s dream, but the lifelong friendships and relationships you build through footy mean more to me than anything.

I will forever be indebted to West Coast and I will always bleed blue and gold.