Player Watch #4 Dustin Martin GOAT and King of Punt Rd - OFFICIALLY RETIRED

[Antzzz]

Here's a deal for GC and Dimma ....go fook yourselves !

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Here's a deal for GC and Dimma ....go fook yourselves !

why dont they just fold the suns into us. don't change our name or colours, we just get their best players. it makes sense.

 

[DickieKnee]

AFL will try anything.
They changed rules after studying us which is unprecedented in any team sport in the World.

Imagine Fifa changing rules against Barcalona back in the day because they were too good with Messi?

Even Fifa did not stoop that low as the AFL.

Removing our GOAT is another process by the dirty AFL to weaken our club like having candlelit dinners with Dimma.

I hope the GOAT stays.

I think he will too,he is a Richmond man.

Even looking at it just money wise, I think Dusty will be financially better off staying a tiger. He'll get his 300 games and the money from all the merchandise that will bring in, then when he retires there will be more merchandise to sell to the Tiger army celebrating his career. Plus staying a Tiger will put him up there with Jack Dyer as far as club legends are concerned.

 

[Muddiemoose]

I’m in two minds, a head vs heart situation

Heart says **** that Dusty should stay but my head thinks it could be a great opportunity to help set up this next phase we are entering by getting back into the 1st round and/or getting a talented young player

Win/win for me

Prefer for him to stay but wouldn’t be a complete loss if we went and as others mentioned this year works better because he is still under contract Vs next year he could walk for nothing back in return

 

[Karp3_dm]

Even looking at it just money wise, I think Dusty will be financially better off staying a tiger. He'll get his 300 games and the money from all the merchandise that will bring in, then when he retires there will be more merchandise to sell to the Tiger army celebrating his career. Plus staying a Tiger will put him up there with Jack Dyer as far as club legends are concerned.

Never underestimate the AFL’s corruption level.
Dusty will own half of Cavill street next year

 

[Muddiemoose]

Never underestimate the AFL’s corruption level.
Dusty will own half of Cavil street next year

He would absolutely qualify for ambassador payments that would make a portion of his salary outside the cap and the afl would probably make it a very healthy amount

If he wants to go and the suns are keen it will happen

 

[Karp3_dm]

He would absolutely qualify for ambassador payments that would make a portion of his salary outside the cap and the afl would probably make it a very healthy amount

If he wants to go and the suns are keen it will happen

100% it will
But apparently I’m clueless

 

[Crumpet_avenger]

Never underestimate the AFL’s corruption level.
Dusty will own half of Cavil street next year

Is that a smaller version of Cavill ave?

 

[Karp3_dm]

Is that a smaller version of Cavill ave?

Always 1 wise guy
Hope you’re well legend

 

[Muddiemoose]

100% it will
But apparently I’m clueless

Well you are.

But not this time

None of us want Dusty to leave but a lot of people are letting emotions cloud the situation

Like I said and I agree with you if Dusty wants to head up north and the suns want him it will absolutely happen and no amount of wishful thinking with stop it

I don’t even really understand the anger at Dimma towards it
No one if holding a knife to Dusty’s throat at the end of the day it’s completely his decision to make
If people should get shitty at anyone it should be Dusty since he would be the one leaving us

But I don’t even see the point in that

At the end of the day I support the Richmond Tigers not the Richmond Dusty’s

 

[Northern Tiger]

This Gold Coast situation has a slight feeling of Deja Vu to it. If, and I mean IF dusty does go to the Gold Coast, it would be similar in some respects to the Geelong situation back in 2010, when both Bomber Thompson & Gary Ablett left.
We all know what followed the following season.

 

[LTT]

He would absolutely qualify for ambassador payments that would make a portion of his salary outside the cap and the afl would probably make it a very healthy amount

If he wants to go and the suns are keen it will happen

Does anyone really believe that after 10 years refusing to be part of the media circus Dusty is suddenly going to agree to be an ambassador at the Suns. No way. As for the meeting between Dusty and Dimma, does anyone thing that Dusty wouldn't catch up with Dimma when he was in the GoldCoast. Dimma coached him for ten years and supported him when he lost his father. The media are taking a small fact and them concocting a fantasy around it. Let's just wait and see.

 

[DickieKnee]

Well you are.

But not this time

None of us want Dusty to leave but a lot of people are letting emotions cloud the situation

Like I said and I agree with you if Dusty wants to head up north and the suns want him it will absolutely happen and no amount of wishful thinking with stop it

I don’t even really understand the anger at Dimma towards it
No one if holding a knife to Dusty’s throat at the end of the day it’s completely his decision to make
If people should get shitty at anyone it should be Dusty since he would be the one leaving us

But I don’t even see the point in that

At the end of the day I support the Richmond Tigers not the Richmond Dusty’s

And from the clubs perspective he is a contracted player for next season. So if he leaves now the club should be adequately compensated.

 

[Muddiemoose]

Does anyone really believe that after 10 years refusing to be part of the media circus Dusty is suddenly going to agree to be an ambassador at the Suns. No way. As for the meeting between Dusty and Dimma, does anyone thing that Dusty wouldn't catch up with Dimma when he was in the GoldCoast. Dimma coached him for ten years and supported him when he lost his father. The media are taking a small fact and them concocting a fantasy around it. Let's just wait and see.

Ambassador payments aren’t just to do media and whatnot it’s about bums on seats and more people watching the suns games, getting them on the front or back page of the newspapers giving club sponsors lots of publicity and advertising through photos of Dusty in a GCS jumper or club polo
He would meet the criteria

 

[bc27]

Dusty holidays on the Gold Coast now does he?

He’s about to jet off overseas like he always does. If he wanted to talk to Hardwick they would’ve made a phone call.

It was clearly a meeting to gauge dustys interest.

See what happens now I guess.

 

[Muddiemoose]

And from the clubs perspective he is a contracted player for next season. So if he leaves now the club should be adequately compensated.

That’s all I care about at this stage

Like I have said a few times
I don’t want him to leave but if he does intend on doing it in terms of getting a return on that move it must be this year otherwise he walks next year for nothing anyway

 

[DickieKnee]

That’s all I care about at this stage

Like I have said a few times
I don’t want him to leave but if he does intend on doing it in terms of getting a return on that move it must be this year otherwise he walks next year for nothing anyway

Just stand by for the AFL to ream us.

 

[Tiger Toffee]

God some of you in here are easily fooled, the biggest name in the AFL is going to meet with a potential suiter in a pub lol, that would be like going to do an interview for an CEO job in the food court at the shopping centre.

C'mon people please think things through before jumping at shadows.

Things are played out behind closed doors not out in the general public.

 

[DickieKnee]

Things are played out behind closed doors not out in the general public.

True, but I think you'd be a bit naive if you didn't think Dimma would want Dusty at GCS.

 

[Growapair]

Martin is going nowhere in 2024. Club will make $5m profit from his 300th and retaining him on the list - huge crowd at his 300th game, memberships (imagine how many members don’t renew if Dusty leaves on the back of Cotch and Jack?), 300th memorabilia etc….. Not in a million years are we giving up our best player (who is under contract) and $5m for a mediocre draft pick.

End of 2024 if he requests a trade the club will facilitate it. But they won’t in this off-season. There’s just no upside for RFC.

Regardless , GC need draft picks for academy kids, they are zero chance of giving away any picks worth our consideration for Martin. And a year after off loading Bowes and pick-7 in a salary dump they’re in the market for a $1.3m 32yo? Its just not gonna happen unless we pay half his salary ..:. which isn’t going to happen …(read point 1 above).


Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

Agree with all of what you are saying, except at the end of next year he will be a free agent.

I would be offering him an extension and captaincy but we probably need a coach in place to get that done.

 

[Tiger Toffee]

True, but I think you'd be a bit naive if you didn't think Dimma would want Dusty at GCS.

Dude there's 17 other clubs that would love Dusty at their club, just like there's 17clubs that would love Petracca, Cameron x2, Rozee, etc

Sidenote: i loved how Dusty looked in the direction of the person taking the pic at that exact moment, like he knew when too, wonder who the person taking it was, Swanny maybe lol

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

I’m in two minds, a head vs heart situation

Heart says * that Dusty should stay but my head thinks it could be a great opportunity to help set up this next phase we are entering by getting back into the 1st round and/or getting a talented young player

Win/win for me

Prefer for him to stay but wouldn’t be a complete loss if we went and as others mentioned this year works better because he is still under contract Vs next year he could walk for nothing back in return

Coulda worked if the back injury had not robbed the GOAT games to make 300!
Coulda retired this year with JR8 and Chimp...or gone onto GCS for a juicy pick!
Still Win/Win!!!

 

[CASEYS9420]

Remember when Dusty was "caught" having lunch with Buddy so he was going to be Traded to Sydney Swans (How'd that story go for the media?) Remember when the media told us for 6 months that Dusty was retiring after his father death (how'd that story go for all the Journo's who all just knew he was gone?) How about the story Dusty's lost the motivation to play? (this year he's a good chance to win the B&F lol). Dusty will be playing 2024 with the Tigers and reach his 300th game at the club he's played his entire career at, You can put that in the bank.

 

[LTT]

Ambassador payments aren’t just to do media and whatnot it’s about bums on seats and more people watching the suns games, getting them on the front or back page of the newspapers giving club sponsors lots of publicity and advertising through photos of Dusty in a GCS jumper or club polo
He would meet the criteria

If Dusty is OK with publicity photo shoots etc why hasn't Richmond exploited that. According to press reports a couple of years ago Dusty swims in the bay at night to avoid attention. The media continually complain that he wouldn't do they interview stops after games. I don't think he is going to consent to any more publicity than he has to.
I think if GoldCoast want bums on seats they should try getting into the finals. They already tried the ambassador thing with Garry Ablett and that didn't work. Dimma loves a microphone, and he is a good media performer so I think he would provide better ambassadorial promotion than Dusty. If the AFL allowed GoldCoast to hide some of Dusty's salary in ambassadorial payment it would just be a rort.

 

[Muddiemoose]

If Dusty is OK with publicity photo shoots etc why hasn't Richmond exploited that. According to press reports a couple of years ago Dusty swims in the bay at night to avoid attention. The media continually complain that he wouldn't do they interview stops after games. I don't think he is going to consent to any more publicity than he has to.
I think if GoldCoast want bums on seats they should try getting into the finals. They already tried the ambassador thing with Garry Ablett and that didn't work. Dimma loves a microphone, and he is a good media performer so I think he would provide better ambassadorial promotion than Dusty. If the AFL allowed GoldCoast to hide some of Dusty's salary in ambassadorial payment it would just be a rort.

I think you have misunderstood what qualifies a player for the ambassador payments
Franklin used to get them and he did very little media as well
I think some of Dusty’s current contract was also covered but just not as much via the bonds and puma promotions that had a portion of the money for them paying a % of his contracts

Tom Mitchell got them simply for being an ambassador for Nissan when at Hawthorn
The payments are set up in such a way that the afl can essentially use them for any player they want in whatever way it suits them