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Vickery wants to remain a Tiger: managerCHRIS VERNUCCIO, GILBERT GARDINER
Herald Sun
5 July 2016TY Vickery wants to stay at Richmond with his manager insisting the key forward still has plenty to offer.
With finals out of reach after last Friday night’s 38-point loss to Port Adelaide, the calls for the Tigers to dramatically overhaul their list have grown louder.
Vickery, who is a restricted free agent, is one player Richmond has been urged to shop around during the trade period, but his manager Scott Lucas said he’s had talks with the club about a new contract for the 26-year-old.
“Without going into it too much we’ve had some good discussions with the Tigers and just working through it really, Lucas said.
“I think Ty would like to stay and Richmond are very keen for him to remain there but it’s like anything, the goal posts can change.
“Vickers has been a 30 to 40 goal-a-season player at Richmond and across the competition there is not a lot of those ... you’ve got to be very wary of what you give up and what may be in play as a result of that.
“You’ve got to be able to replace them with players that you think are going to be better in the sense or get there or change the dynamic of the club.”
Richmond coach Damien Hardwick conceded after the Power loss the club needed to start getting games into its young players to see what they’re capable of.
Former Hawthorn football director Jason Dunstall was scathing of Richmond’s list management and said every player had to be on the trade table.
“Go heavy at the trade table, go heavy at the draft,” Dunstall told Fox Footy’s On The Couch on Monday night.
“I would be trading to get early draft picks.
“If they don’t admit they’ve made mistakes and reassess where they’re at, they will set the club back a number of years.”
“They’ve grossly overestimated the quality of that playing list. I’m not trying to shout down these players, but they’ve had long enough and it isn’t working.”
Vickery has kicked 22 goals from 14 games this season after booting 31 from 15 last year.
Last year he was courted by the Brisbane Lions but decided to remain at Tigerland.
But his form has dropped the past couple of weeks with five goals from four matches, while averaging just eight disposals for the season.
However, Lucas said he can’t explain why Vickery often bore the brunt of the criticism whenever the Tigers have a poor game.
“I think he manages it (criticism) extremely well ... it’s almost inevitable that a day after a disappointing or within the week after a disappointing result for the Tigers there is an article about Vickers, and in saying that look he’s had a couple games he’d be disappointed with but there’s still games he’s been a multiple goalkicker in and he has contributed to the team,’ he said.
“I don’t know. Is it the expectation that there is a thought that he could do more? Sometimes the big blokes seem to cop criticism but he seems to be one out in that sense.
“If you want to look at it in that light that he had a disappointing game on the weekend well, gee, there was certainly some mates he had with him.”
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