Dokic. Please
The old man made a point of not letting any of his sons come to punt rd now we should return the favour and tell him to shove his 800k a year up his date
One good year and he demands 800k plus
Okay that's your POV.
But..............
Don't think Richmond even bothered to nominate the first two Clokes as Father-Sons.
Well accepted they went to Collingwood as the cost of getting Travis.
Thus Travis was never coming to Richmond however we did try at the time he was drafted.
As for David, during Northey's reign as Senior Coach I went to quite a few games. David was always in the rooms during this period.
When we started the FTF one of the main reasons was to provide money to buy a big target free agent.
There is no doubt our biggest gap at the moment is a big forward target at CHF.
Travis is one of the best, simply judged on his record.
He is the right age. Same age as Buddy, Roughy, Tippett and Clark.
It's being debated that four or five years is a long time to contract a player on such high wages.
I don't think anyone would dispute offering a similar length to any of the four mentioned above.
(As an aside to look ahead at what you would hope to get; Brown and Pods are six years older, Riewoldt and Petrie five, Waite and Lynch four while Merritt is three years older.)
While the price is very high for one player, it is about par for the course if you look at other high profile moves (Judd, Warnock, Clark, Ablett, Scully etc). The funny thing is that if Travis performs up to expectations and the contract is for five years then the money in the final couple of years may even be on the cheap side.
