Richmond and Ty Zantuck have come to a confidential agreement after the former star sued the club for what he alleged was mistreatment during a training camp.

Zantuck claimed that he had stress fractures in his lower back when the club made him carry a 30kg backpack during a camp in the Grampians in 2001.

He also claimed the club then attempted to keep him on the field by giving him more than two dozen epidurals, as well as multiple pain-killing injections.

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Ty is the son of Shane Zantuck (North Melbourne, South Melbourne and Melbourne) and nephew of North Melbourne legend Arnold Briedis.

He played AFL between 2000 and 2005, finishing his last year with Essendon.

At the Tigers, he played 68 games when the late Danny Frawley coached the club.

He sued the club and two doctors who he alleged breached their duty of care.

The legal battle has been going on for several years and in 2022 Supreme Court judge Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou granted an extension on the statute of limitation of his claims against his former club.

Ierodiaconou said at the time the club had “crippled” Zantuck’s life and called Richmond’s alleged behaviour “egregious”.

After the settlement on Wednesday (today), Zantuck’s lawyer Greg Griffin said the legal battle had been a “difficult process”.

“All parties are happy to see it finished,” Griffin said.

Zantuck had previously told a hearing that he was “still traumatised by the whole thing”.

He alleged the doctors got his rehab “horribly wrong” and the muscles in his body had been “ruined” by injections.

“I still love the Richmond Football Club, my two sons barrack for them,” Zantuck said.

“I just think they got the treatment horribly wrong.”

Before Zantuck took legal action, he was told by solicitors there was nothing they “could do to assist him because no one had ever successfully sued the AFL and its clubs”.

Zantuck has also lodged a concussion claim from his time in the AFL which is thought to be still before the courts.