Rance has re-signed 4 years

[Diocletian]

Rance is irreplaceable. The best defender we've had for 30 years.
He's more valuable to us than Martin.
If push comes to shove re our coffers I know who I'd be showing the money to.

Martin every day of the week and twice on match days. Martin is a once in a generation player. Rance is.....not.

[Phil Mrakov]

Well you did say you're very confident it would happen 'very soon'. That was last year

Did I really?

For memory in this thread I said I was confident he'd re-sign and you called me a fool

So seeing I am a fool I will repeat the other thing I said in this thread and that is I wont post about it again.

End of this dicussion for me

of course because you're trying to cover your ass now  you shouldn't have opened your mouth at all

[Phil Mrakov]

After hearing that audio Eddie and Darce both agreed it sounded like Rance was going, have a listen below and see what you think.

AUDIO: https://soundcloud.com/triple-m-footy/alex-rances-future

http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney/sport/afl/news/2015/2/will-alex-rance-stay-at-richmond/

Eddie probably had him over for dinner already

[WilliamPowell]

of course because you're trying to cover your ass now  you shouldn't have opened your mouth at all

No you are wrong but keep twisting and baiting to suit your purpose

I will no longer post about this topic because I am through with being insulted by you.

BTW I don't need to cover anything

Simply facts are you don't believe what I post and then insult or to use an often used word bait me, so on this I am sticking to my own advice

[Diocletian]

Well you did say you're very confident it would happen 'very soon'. That was last year

Did I really?

For memory in this thread I said I was confident he'd re-sign and you called me a fool

So seeing I am a fool I will repeat the other thing I said in this thread and that is I wont post about it again.

End of this dicussion for me

of course because you're trying to cover your ass now  you shouldn't have opened your mouth at all

What's his donkey got to do with it?

[Phil Mrakov]

I always believe that if you know nothing you shouldn't open your mouth

[Diocletian]

After hearing that audio Eddie and Darce both agreed it sounded like Rance was going, have a listen below and see what you think.

AUDIO: https://soundcloud.com/triple-m-footy/alex-rances-future

http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney/sport/afl/news/2015/2/will-alex-rance-stay-at-richmond/

Eddie probably had him over for dinner already

Martin & Carr have definitely been over....

[Diocletian]

I always believe that if you know nothing you shouldn't open your mouth

Has never stopped you.

[Penelope]

lmao

[Penelope]

Rance is irreplaceable. The best defender we've had for 30 years.
He's more valuable to us than Martin.
If push comes to shove re our coffers I know who I'd be showing the money to.

Martin every day of the week and twice on match days. Martin is a once in a generation player. Rance is.....not.

It would be hard to succesfully argue against this in terms of playing performance.
The difference is, IMO, if Rance stays, he will probably see out his career at Richmond.

With Martin we will probably get the same circus every time his contract is up for renewal, specially if he keeps that F_wit as his manager.

There is also the compensation issue. we will get sweet fa for rance, but we should be able to get something half way decent for Martin.

[Diocletian]

All good and valid points al.....just think that when you have a player of Martin's ability already on your list you don't let them go easily. No free agent we might get will be as good a player as Martin IMO. (and will we be as attractive to them if he leaves?) In fact in the whole comp in regards to players of a similar age or younger, I can only think of Fyfe and a couple of young guns at GWS that spring to mind as being as good - albeit still only potentially in the latter's case - but the former is locked away the latter aren't FA's.

[Penelope]

the replacement for martin would come through a trade rather than FA.

I suppose it would come down to why martin would want to leave.
if it was just purely 4 money and he didnt really care about which club then his camp would hold the whip hand, but if he wanted to go to a specific club higher up the ladder you could push a hard bargain, as the theat of pre season draft dissipates.

while its unlikely to get a player of his quality you may get a quality player and a good draft pick.

in this case id prefer to keep rance and get the trade rather than keep martin and get fa for rance.

the other question is if we have this circus every time martin's contract is up for renewal, what will we face when he becomes a free agent?

in all seriousness though, its only hypotheticals at this stage. im not going to get trolled by the media as easily as some.

The other option is to let rance go and give the money saved to Kingy's ( or WAT's) mates to take out Ralph Carr

[🏅Dooks]

So has Ellis just quietly

[Penelope]

both of them 

[Willy]

I wonder whether we're into a 'big fish' from another club and what impact that is having on signing our key players.
It could be that Rance is waiting to see what we're gonna throw at Jezza or someone similar.