Tayla Broad has offered a touching tribute to her husband Nathan Broad after the Richmond defender’s retirement announcement earlier this week, detailing the hidden struggles of life as an AFL player. The Perth-raised couple met well before Nathan’s AFL career took off, with Tayla hailing her husband’s resilience through setbacks and injury in a celebratory Instagram post that shed light on “what they don’t see”. Tayla said her husband never let his career get in the way of his primary job as a parent. Camera Icon Sam Lalor, Nathan Broad, and Dion Prestia. Broad was recruited to Richmond as a mature-age recruit, taken at pick 67 in the 2015 national draft from the WAFL’s Swan Districts.