Alex Rance [merged]

[Hard Roar Tiger]

I just don’t understand why supporters think that our clubs owns the rights of all their players futures.
For some reason, it seems to outrage Richmond fans more than others.
It also doesn’t really matter.
Hawks lost Buddy, Cats lost Gaz Jnr - still won flags
On the flip, Danger, JC moved to Cats and where has that messiah complex landed them?

[Diocletian]

Meh....almost worth it just to see the hilarious back flips from all the Bumbler flogs who slagged him of for years...especially if he starts outplaying Hurley...

[Diocletian]

*when 

[Andyy]

I just don’t understand why supporters think that our clubs owns the rights of all their players futures.
For some reason, it seems to outrage Richmond fans more than others.
It also doesn’t really matter.
Hawks lost Buddy, Cats lost Gaz Jnr - still won flags
On the flip, Danger, JC moved to Cats and where has that messiah complex landed them?

I don't think we own him etc.

I love the bloke, will just make me I'll seeing him pull on a drug cheating jumper. The romanticist in me would prefer a legend like that just stayed a one club player.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Fair enough. Agree with that. Just may not happen.

[one-eyed]

Damian Barrett's view of why Rance retired in 2019:

Once Rance got his knee right he was privately pushing to make a comeback in the last 3-4 weeks of 2019. The club made the right decision for the club and Rance himself to leave him out. That didn't go down well. He's a proud person and felt he was a central to what they were doing to that point during that successful era.

It then went beyond that into the preseason readying for 2020. The decision on Rance was made by himself in conjunction with the Club that he would not be apart of Richmond's 2020 season back in late 2019. It got quite heady in terms of the conversations around that. It was complicated times. Based on what Barrett said he was told, Rance wasn't the easiest person to deal with. He's all team but there's an element of his way to being all team. He's high maintainence. It's not a criticism; it's just the way he's wired. He's all in on everything he does. It got to a point where Damien Hardwick said we've got to deal with this before it becomes an issue for us to deal with. It's the reason why the decision was made before the end of the 2019 calendar year and 2020 was "clean" from that perspective. 

Listen from 3 min mark: https://www.afl.com.au/news/687141/afl-daily-podcast-listen-sack-the-unvaxxed-i-would-fully-respect-the-clubs-decision

[Tiger Khosh]

Sounds like a massive bunch of made up garbage.

[lamington]

On the dyl and friends podcast Rance said he was offered the opportunity to play on grand final but said if his knee gave out and they lost he could never forgive himself so he opted not to despite feeling good

[one-eyed]

https://twitter.com/North1521/status/1465167901497823239

[Andyy]

Bloody hell.

Shredded like he's played half a season already, as usual.

[one-eyed]

Damain Barrett: 'I still have a belief that we're going to see Alex Rance in an AFL game again'

https://www.afl.com.au/news/700736/listen-why-damo-believes-this-retired-star-will-play-afl-again

[the claw]

Alex may well play again who knows i really don't care either way. For us its now all about establishing players like Gibcus, Balta, Nyuon, and Miller in preparation for the next sustained  finals assault. in 5 of even longer years time.

I find it funny that people are serious about us just rejigging and challenging again in two or three years time.

When we have for certain the next crop of ELITE players in place then we can talk about it yet even ELITE players need to be developed.

We have a last roll f the dice while Riewoldt, Lynch Cotchin Martin Prestia  Edwards are on their last legs we dont have that quality coming thru imo.

[georgies31]

Alex may well play again who knows i really don't care either way. For us its now all about establishing players like Gibcus, Balta, Nyuon, and Miller in preparation for the next sustained  finals assault. in 5 of even longer years time.

I find it funny that people are serious about us just rejigging and challenging again in two or three years time.

When we have for certain the next crop of ELITE players in place then we can talk about it yet even ELITE players need to be developed.

We have a last roll f the dice while Riewoldt, Lynch Cotchin Martin Prestia  Edwards are on their last legs we dont have that quality coming thru imo.

Claw if you know your football those players don't come around to often. We did our due with this team 3 flags in 4 years back to back you stating the obvious about rejuvenation.

[Rampsation]

We need to focus on midfielders at the next draft and target a key forward through free agency.

[Andyy]

We need to focus on midfielders at the next draft and target a key forward through free agency.

I thought this should have been our goal last craft Ramps haha.

Oh well we've had our moment. I suspect we will be middling this year.