The star onballer, who is having a break from the game, expressed his wish in a video recording with sports presenter Hamish McLachlan last month.
“I’d love to go back and play at Mul, where dad won seven best and fairests and where the medal’s named after him,” Beams told McLachlan.
“Football’s not on my mind at the moment but it will be something I do though.”
Like his father Phil, who was popularly known as T-Pot, Dayne played in the centre, in a total to date of 167 games for Collingwood, Brisbane and back to Collingwood.
From 2009 to 2014, he played 100 games with the Magpies booting 118 goals, then, to be closer to dad, played with Brisbane Lions 58 times for 49 goals before his last batch comprising nine games and five goals back at Magpieland.
Sadly, at age 56-years, T-Pot lost his battle against bowel cancer in 2018. A large funeral service was conducted at Mulwala Lawn Cemetery, attended by hundreds of people including footballers from Brisbane and Collingwood, and where Dayne delivered a tribute about his dad.
Unfortunately Dayne never got to see his dad play football. “I grew up idolizing dad,” Dayne said. “He was my hero, he was everything to me. I had him on a pedestal. I just felt so safe when I was around dad.
“I don’t like being in the spotlight. Some people think I’m angry or arrogant but I’m shy. Dad understood me. He was amazing.”
In an emotional interview with McLachlan, Beams tells of his dad’s rapidly declining health and how year 2017 was “horrible” and “just hell for me” watching his dad dying.
A Collingwood premiership player in 2010, an All-Australian in 2012, made Brisbane captain in 2017 and currently aged 30-years, Beams would be welcome with open arms at Mulwala’s Lonsdale Reserve.
“We’d welcome him back alright,” Mulwala Football Netball Club President Chris McNamara told the Yarrawonga Chronicle.
“He’d be pretty handy! It’d be fantastic.”
Dayne admitted he struggled for a lot of years not being able to have an outlet outside of football. That outlet is art therapy, which he “stumbled across” while in a mental health facility last year.
“I just wasn’t doing really well in my life and I went in with an attitude of just being open and being open-minded to give everything a go,” he said.
“I received a program for the weeks I was there, and I looked at it and the two things that stood out to me on the page that I thought I wouldn’t enjoy were actually yoga and art therapy.
“I scoffed at those things, I felt ‘those are two things I’m not gonna enjoy’ and they actually turned out to be the two things I enjoyed the most.
“While the yoga’s fallen off a bit, my art, it’s my purpose in life — I love it.” That’s good news and how good would it be to see the biggest name ever to play with Mulwala?
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