Alex Rance [merged]

[lamington]

I look at what happened to dale Morris and I am thinking oh poo. But I believe Alex is a team player and you can see that he has been really trying to help out out back 6 so then if Alex Rance demands to play finals I would let him cross the white line

[Gracie]

The side as it currently stands - without Rance - is now being installed as premiership favourites.

How about we win this year without Rance and then get him back for 2020 and he leads us to back to back?

Waiting will get Rance cherryripe and he will be like a new recruit

[Hard Roar Tiger]

The side as it currently stands - without Rance - is now being installed as premiership favourites.

How about we win this year without Rance and then get him back for 2020 and he leads us to back to back?

Waiting will get Rance cherryripe and he will be like a new recruit

I don’t think we will the flag this year

[Tiger Khosh]

The side as it currently stands - without Rance - is now being installed as premiership favourites.

How about we win this year without Rance and then get him back for 2020 and he leads us to back to back?

Waiting will get Rance cherryripe and he will be like a new recruit

I don’t think we will the flag this year

Did you think we would win it at the same time in 2017?

[Chuck17]

The side as it currently stands - without Rance - is now being installed as premiership favourites.

How about we win this year without Rance and then get him back for 2020 and he leads us to back to back?

Waiting will get Rance cherryripe and he will be like a new recruit

I don’t think we will the flag this year

Did you think we would win it at the same time in 2017?

I didn’t think I would see another flag in my life time

[Slipper]

The side as it currently stands - without Rance - is now being installed as premiership favourites.

How about we win this year without Rance and then get him back for 2020 and he leads us to back to back?

Waiting will get Rance cherryripe and he will be like a new recruit

I don’t think we will the flag this year

Did you think we would win it at the same time in 2017?

I didn’t think I would see another flag in my life time

Same here

[WilliamPowell]

I didn’t think I would see another flag in my life time

Same Chuck, same

[Hard Roar Tiger]

The side as it currently stands - without Rance - is now being installed as premiership favourites.

How about we win this year without Rance and then get him back for 2020 and he leads us to back to back?

Waiting will get Rance cherryripe and he will be like a new recruit

I don’t think we will the flag this year

Did you think we would win it at the same time in 2017?

Nope 
But this time I’m right 

[one-eyed]

BARRETT: The lesson Rance must learn from Dog's disaster

AFL.com.au
Damian Barrett
Jul 30, 2019

DALE Morris's return to football on Sunday was a story of many layers.

It had chapters on mindpower, medical defiance and one of potential sporting fairytale as the 36-year-old, one of the top shelf AFL good guys, found himself back at the highest level after damaging an ACL in the pre-season.

But the storyline with which it ended on Sunday at Marvel Stadium against Fremantle was a career-ending one for Morris as well as a cautionary one – for Richmond's Alex Rance who, like Morris, has spent the past four months immersed in the most unlikely of comebacks from a torn ACL.

Rance broke down in round one this year, but immediately set himself the Morris-type impossible 2019 season return.

The stakes are actually higher for Rance, the All Australian full-back for the past five seasons. Rance is seven years younger than Morris. Breaking down with an ACL twice in the same season would be even more catastrophic for him.

The fairytale musings of Richmond's champion defender bursting back into the team for a preliminary final and then Grand Final have never married up with the reality. Morris is proof.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-07-28/barrett-the-lesson-rance-must-learn-from-dogs-disaster

[one-eyed]

Rance awaits D-Day on finals dream

Tim Michell,
Herald Sun
August 1, 2019

Next Friday is D-Day for Alex Rance’s hopes of playing a part in premiership favourite Richmond’s flag tilt.

The five-time all-Australian will meet with surgeon Julian Feller next week to decide whether he is ready to return from the ACL injury he sustained in Round 1 against Carlton.

“That will be pretty much the line where we all meet up and say, ‘what’s the plan of attacking going to be? Are we really going to have a lash at this finals series?’,” Rance said on Triple M.

The key defender said he was optimistic, although the Tigers are likely to take the decision out of his hands due to his desperation to return.

“I am ever the optimist and potentially a little bit reckless,” he said.

“It probably goes with the way I play and all that kind of stuff.

“I’ll be heavily pushing to play. But I have got to think about the club holistically.

“If it happens again, what will that do not only to myself but the club and my mates? That is one thing I will have to wrap my head around but I will make that call next week.”

The 29-year-old said the knee injury suffered by Western Bulldogs veteran Dale Morris on Sunday could prompt a more cautious approach with his return.

“I think a lot of medicos probably would have thought, well that is the consistent overall theory, that you are probably going to rupture it if you come back early,” he said.

“It wasn’t good to hear and it certainly hasn’t done my chances in the medical side of things in coming back any favours.”

Rance has made significant process in his recovery, although Richmond will be loathe to risk him when Dylan Grimes, David Astbury and Nick Vlastuin have formed a steely defensive trio in his absence.

The Tigers have conceded an average of 79 points per game without Rance, ranked 11th.

“I am pretty much at top speed now in straight lines,” Rance said.

“But obviously that isn’t what’s going to trouble your ACL. I feel really fit and strong.

“But you never know what’s going to happen when you go out on the field.”

The Tigers have stormed into the top four and were backed into flag favouritism after their convincing Round 19 victory over Collingwood.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/star-richmond-defender-alex-rance-to-learn-whether-season-over-due-to-knee-injury-next-week/news-story/e6e43678b2ba71e529821b8c40290d40

[one-eyed]

"One hundred per cent yes": Riewoldt adamant Rance should play if right

By Trent Masenhelder
SEN
1 Aug 2019

Leading football analyst Nick Riewoldt believes Richmond's star full-back Alex Rance should roll the dice.

The five-time All Australian's season appeared to be over when he ruptured his ACL during the Tigers' Round 1 win over Carlton, but having worked feverishly on his rehabilitation, Rance has made incredible progress in the four months since undergoing surgery.

Riewoldt is adamant Richmond and Rance should make hay while the sun shines if he is (fit to play).

"One hundred per cent yes (he should play)," former St Kilda captain Riewoldt told Fox Footy.

"Yeah, he should, you might never get back there again.

"If they green light him next week, which is, we're led to believe, the D-Day with the doctors, well, then absolutely he should try and get back.

"Maybe this is because I didn’t get to win one (a premiership), but I just think a little bit differently … he might not ever get a chance to be a two-time premiership player.

"If he can, he definitely should, one hundred per cent."

Western Bulldogs legend Bob Murphy, who tore his ACL twice during his glittering career, disagreed with Riewoldt, saying Rance and Richmond should play the long game.

"I've got have a bit of a different view. Richmond will be around the mark next year again," Murphy said.

Rance earlier this week admitted that seeing Bulldogs veteran Dale Morris re-do his knee in his first senior match since rupturing his ACL anterior cruciate in the pre-season "pricked the back of my mind".

"Not only because I know a lot of the boys at the kennel and know that he's such a great fella and know that he would've done everything possible to do it," Rance told Triple M.

"You compare that with Tyson Goldsack, who did get back, and that's what really you’ve got to weigh up.

"I think a lot of medicos thought that is the consistent overall theory, that you are going to rupture it if you come back early."

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2019/07/31/one-hundred-per-cent-yes-riewoldt-adamant-rance-should-play-if-right/

[wayne]

Tony Sheahan

Fresh fears for @Richmond_FC star Alex Rance as he considers walking away from the game at Season’s end.

Rance confided to teammates he wants to travel the world with wife in 2020.

Tigers panicking. In better news, he’s pencilled in the club’s last H&A match for 4comeback game

[Francois Jackson]

Tony Sheahan

Fresh fears for @Richmond_FC star Alex Rance as he considers walking away from the game at Season’s end.

Rance confided to teammates he wants to travel the world with wife in 2020.

Tigers panicking. In better news, he’s pencilled in the club’s last H&A match for 4comeback game

Is that for real??

[one-eyed]

The club will hear from the medical team next Friday if All-Australian captain Alex Rance can somehow make a stunning return to the seniors this season.

Although the Tigers would “love to have” him back and playing, Hardwick said, Rance’s career and long-term health were paramount.

The Age

[Dougeytherichmondfan]

Tony Sheahan

Fresh fears for @Richmond_FC star Alex Rance as he considers walking away from the game at Season’s end.

Rance confided to teammates he wants to travel the world with wife in 2020.

Tigers panicking. In better news, he’s pencilled in the club’s last H&A match for 4comeback game

Is that for real??

Tony Sheehan reminds me a lot of that guy Homer follows for advice on NFL games on the Simpsons.

“Well folks....when you’re right 52% of the time - you’re wrong 48% of the time”