Re-signing Rance a priority for confident TigersBen Collins
afl.com.au
February 26, 2015 1:13 PMRICHMOND coach Damien Hardwick remains confident the Tigers will retain star defender Alex Rance.
The club has started negotiations with the management of Rance, who will become an unrestricted free agent at season's end.
"He's obviously a very important player to us, All Australian last year, so we'll work our way through that. We're very confident we'll get what we're after," Hardwick said on Thursday.
Asked whether the Tigers would need to make extra room in their TPP (Total Player Payments) structure for Rance, Hardwick said he was comfortable leaving the fine details to football manager Dan Richardson.
Following Dustin Martin's recent resigning, Richardson said he expected to be announcing similarly positive news at some stage regarding Rance.
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