Kellie Finlayson has shared some sweet words about her Port Adelaide star husband Jeremy, after he was delisted from the AFL on Monday.
The footy WAG, 29, posted a gallery of throwback photos to social media, which captured her and Jeremy at AFL games, as she thanked her partner for always supporting her.
‘In what could have been the worst four years of our lives, this club gave our little family so much purpose,’ Kellie began.
‘The way you held yourself particularly in the beginning when your world was falling apart, the way you showed up, the way you played with so much purpose.
‘The way you reminded so many people that footy is so much bigger than just a game that can be won or lost.’
Kellie finished her post by thanking Jeremy for always being there for her and their four-year-old daughter, Sophia.
Kellie Finlayson has shared some sweet words about her Port Adelaide star husband Jeremy, after he was delisted from the AFL on Monday. Pictured together with daughter Sophia
‘You’re a good kick but an even better dad. We love you so much,’ she wrote.
On Monday, Port Adelaide FC announced the official delisting of Jeremy Finlayson, who joined the club from the GWS Giants ahead of the 2022 season.
Jeremy played just eight games in 2025 and is among five players to be released, alongside Ryan Burton, Dylan Williams, Lachie Charleson and Hugh Jackson.
Finlayson played a total of 62 games during his four seasons at Port, including a standout 2023 season when he finished as the club’s leading goalkicker.
It comes after Kellie recently revealed the emotional challenges of dealing with her stage four lung and bowel cancer diagnosis.
She was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2021 and revealed in 2022 that the illness had spread to her lungs, and she has undergone thoracic surgery in recent months.
Appearing on the Jess Rowe Big Talk Show podcast’s Safe Space series earlier this year, Kellie, who was promoting her new memoir There Must Be More, said she was ‘thriving’ in the wake of her diagnosis.
When Jess asked Kellie what she meant by ‘thriving’, she said it was all about changing her frame of mind.
The footy WAG posted a gallery of throwback photos to social media which captured her and Jeremy at AFL games, as she thanked her partner for always supporting her
‘It completely comes from mindset,’ she said.
‘I feel like I still live each day the same as I used to, if not with more life, if that makes sense,’ she said.
‘I turned a really s***ty situation into a pretty incredible one and a really powerful one with a lot of purpose.’
In March, Kellie revealed she had undergone a VATS procedure to remove a piece of tissue from her lungs. VATS stands for Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery, which is a form of keyhole surgery.
She revealed that doctors had removed metastatic tissue from her lungs — Metastatic tissue occurs when cancer cells spread from a primary tumour to other areas in the body to form new tumours.
Kellie and Jeremy tied the knot in March 2023, in an intimate ceremony at South Australia’s Tennyson Beach.
They share daughter Sophia, who was born in 2021, just months before Kellie was first diagnosed.
