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

[voorhees]

My heart says I want him to stay as a one club player.
but my head says it's hurting our club honestly if he stays on the list another year, I don't want another year of this.

good point..
not much will change next year (either with us or G.C) the same body breaking down and the same Dusty circus rolling on.
a decision would have to be imminent in a week or 2, one would think

 

[SunshineBoy]

I think he will be on the Gold Coast seems disconnected

 

[Charlie Pannam]

Couldn’t give a rats about the media frenzy. Refuse to give it oxygen. Let them blah blah. How many said he was definitely retiring after 300? NFI
Would love Dusty to get his body right and play for us next year. That’s all I care about.

As we’ve seen with a number of our aging Premiership heroes, it doesn’t work like that.
34 next year, he’s not turning the clock back.

 

[tiger_tough]

Bummer…. But rules are meant to be broken.

Wasn’t some Hawk player many years ago allowed to play in VFL Finals despite not being eligible?

But even if…. It’s not gonna happen

Cyril Rioli

 

[voorhees]

Be kinda cool if he decides to retire that he plays his last games in the VFL and wins one last Premiership with the Tigers.

Dusty never played VFL, not going to start now..
+ our VFL team are playing well enough without the Dusty circus

 

[Tiger Pete]

Like too many of our players - struggling to get their bodies right. I’m his case, for a number of years he has struggled with injury. At the moment a back injury. No doubt his age makes each injury harder to recover. Must have an impact on his motivation after so many set backs for someone who has done it all.
Could still be an important player for us if fit.
Hard to know if a better fitness and conditioning would make a difference.
But probably feels like it’s time for the great man to hang up his boots.
Murphy’s Law -he moves to GC , we get 3rd round compo and we have to watch as he regains fitness and kicks them into the finals for the first time.

 

[The_Kraken]

How the **** do you play golf with a back injury?

 

[SunshineBoy]

How the **** do you play golf with a back injury?

Poorly

 

[The_Kraken]

Poorly

Worst rehab ever.

 

[db26]

Don't agree much with Cornes , but his right. Poorly on him and especially poorly on our football department. Standards dropped bigtime.

Cornes slams Dusty-Richmond “circus” - is Adem Yze too soft on his players?

“Why isn’t he at the club? Why isn’t he trying to prove his fitness and play?”

www.sen.com.au

 

[Livonski]

As we’ve seen with a number of our aging Premiership heroes, it doesn’t work like that.
34 next year, he’s not turning the clock back.

Who said clock back?
If he gets fully fit he could do massive damage in a good side. Looks bad playing forward in a shit side… no surprise.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Don't agree much with Cornes , but his right. Poorly on him and especially poorly on our football department. Standards dropped bigtime.

Cornes slams Dusty-Richmond “circus” - is Adem Yze too soft on his players?

“Why isn’t he at the club? Why isn’t he trying to prove his fitness and play?”

www.sen.com.au

Lol Cornes thinking he knows better than an AFL coach and Dustin Martin.

Richmond are trying to get a very early draft pick here. That is their priority and everyone including Cornes knows it.

I seem to recall Cornes carrying on about standards when May had 1 beer in the middle of the day when out with a long term injury in 2019. 2 years later flag with May one of the leaders.

Dusty has always switched on fully when the stakes are high. Last person Richmond would need to worry about.

 

[terrybull]

Dusty never played VFL, not going to start now..
+ our VFL team are playing well enough without the Dusty circus

Actually that is cool as well. How many 300 gamers out there have never played in the Reserves? Or even 200 and 100 gamers?

 

[Azzleberry]

Only reason for him to go 1 more is for the experience the young crop of 'hopefully' 6 top 30 picks will get to train and play with him for 12mths. We also don't have many better options in the forward line as well

He ain't going anywhere else

 

[Daka]

Dusty probably could have re-signed with us at the start of the year for 2 years at 700k.

Ralphy & Dusty have really back themselves into a corner now that's the risk you take when you at 33+ and don't re-sign at the start of the year & you drop off. he won't get anywhere near that if he stays & I doubt another club like Gold Coast would pay that.

As the season has gone on even Blair Hartley & the powers to be would now be questioning whether we would re-sign him.
We look a better side without him now.

 

[lizard man]

If dusty tells another club I’ll play for you next year but only if you pay me 1 million a year then we would get a first round pick for him right?

 

[Charlie Pannam]

Who said clock back?
If he gets fully fit he could do massive damage in a good side. Looks bad playing forward in a shit side… no surprise.

Can’t agree, he’s cooked.

Very hard for a guy his age to get the fitness level you refer to, his body won’t allow it. You push yourself to those levels you break down with soft tissue injuries.
Particularly for a power athlete like Dusty.

You’ve also got to remember he had what was nearly a career ending injury in 21, that’s had a huge impact on him and he’s never really been the same player since.

 

[The_Kraken]

He’s got a bad back and he’s flying and playing golf. He ain’t coming back this year.

 

[GhostofJimJess]

If dusty tells another club I’ll play for you next year but only if you pay me 1 million a year then we would get a first round pick for him right?

Nope. Unfortunately.

His age and the AFL's "magic formula" would not grant us any more than an end of 2nd rounder.

 

[Willo_23]

We gonna see a farewell game against the pies this week? Not our home game which is the only thing

 

[THE THIN MAN]

Stick a fork in him, Dusty done!

 

[voorhees]

We gonna see a farewell game against the pies this week? Not our home game which is the only thing

you want to see his farewell game?
head to the local golf course..
he won't play this week

 

[panatha1908]

Next time we see him he can hand the premiership cup to our captain, Jagga!

 

[Ctl]

If dusty tells another club I’ll play for you next year but only if you pay me 1 million a year then we would get a first round pick for him right?

age and length of contract will prevent that

 

[Grechy]

Say what you will but when the young cubs needed him most he wasn’t there. Cornes is right about him and Yze. I could give a **** about his 3 Norm Smiths when you can pick and choose when you want to play. Might not be close to Adem but has treated him and the club like shit this season.