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Phar Ace said:
Your PR skills are coming along nicely Guru - we'll have you as Ambassador to China soon enough;)
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Trust me, I had to take 5 deep breaths before I posted
If I could have said what I really wanted to say, I'd be never allowed back here lol
 

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The 2017 Richmond Grand Final Team

B: Rance, Astbury, Grimes
HB: Houli, McIntosh, B. Ellis
C: Prestia, Edwards, Vlastuin
HF: Cotchin, Rioli, Townsend
F: Riewoldt, Lambert, Butler
R: Nankervis, Grigg, Martin
IC: Broad, Castagna, Caddy, Graham
Em: Short, Hampson, C. Ellis

Thanks Georgie Boy, I hope there's heaps of soup for you to come in retirement.
 
Wrenny said:
The 2017 Richmond Grand Final Team

B: Rance, Astbury, Grimes
HB: Houli, McIntosh, B. Ellis
C: Prestia, Edwards, Vlastuin
HF: Cotchin, Rioli, Townsend
F: Riewoldt, Lambert, Butler
R: Nankervis, Grigg, Martin
IC: Broad, Castagna, Caddy, Graham
Em: Short, Hampson, C. Ellis

Thanks Georgie Boy, I hope there's heaps of soup for you to come in retirement.
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To think at the end of this season we could possibly have just 9/10 players left of that team is sad
specially Cotchin and jack finishing up just leave Dusty from the fab 4
 
Wrenny said:
The 2017 Richmond Grand Final Team

B: Rance, Astbury, Grimes
HB: Houli, McIntosh, B. Ellis
C: Prestia, Edwards, Vlastuin
HF: Cotchin, Rioli, Townsend
F: Riewoldt, Lambert, Butler
R: Nankervis, Grigg, Martin
IC: Broad, Castagna, Caddy, Graham
Em: Short, Hampson, C. Ellis

Thanks Georgie Boy, I hope there's heaps of soup for you to come in retirement.
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Wow that's ab amazing stat, nearly half the side has retired or moved on!:oops:
 
Growapair said:
Maybe.... maybe not, Narkle declining our offer of a club job and a VFL contract and walking to Essendon VFL doesn't have him feel like the right fit, does it?
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I'd say he was bitter more than anything because he tried his guts out to get that avaiable SSP spot but we rejected him ahead of a tall project forward.
 
Wrenny said:
The 2017 Richmond Grand Final Team

B: Rance, Astbury, Grimes
HB: Houli, McIntosh, B. Ellis
C: Prestia, Edwards, Vlastuin
HF: Cotchin, Rioli, Townsend
F: Riewoldt, Lambert, Butler
R: Nankervis, Grigg, Martin
IC: Broad, Castagna, Caddy, Graham
Em: Short, Hampson, C. Ellis

Thanks Georgie Boy, I hope there's heaps of soup for you to come in retirement.
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Sadly the age demographic of those left does not fill me with a great deal of confidence. We’ve started the rebuild well but will sadly need to keep turning over our older players at a good rate to build the next dynasty side.
 
sregit said:
Sadly the age demographic of those left does not fill me with a great deal of confidence. We’ve started the rebuild well but will sadly need to keep turning over our older players at a good rate to build the next dynasty side.
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Having said that i'm very excited and optimistic about the crop a new kids we have coming through.
 
It’s going to be an unpopular opinion, but true to form, he couldn’t even convert his retirement decision accurately. Shanked it like a 30m set shot directly in front, or handball into the man on the mark with a team mate free in the goal square. Two weeks too late and we go into the season 1 down. But thanks for your service, played a role very well in a career that secured him 3 premierships. Surely lived the Richmond values given how much the coaches loved him. Well done maximising his time in the sun
 
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Bolded for those who refused to see his worth to the side.

By George, he’s gone: Why Jason Castagna was the heartbeat of the Tigers​

Michael Gleeson

Michael Gleeson​

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February 27, 2023 — 7.24pm
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Jason Castagna was as emblematic of the Richmond triple premiership team as Dustin Martin.
Ordinarily there is not a lot of scope for comparing Martin and Castagna as footballers, but here goes.
Dustin Martin congratulates [PLAYERCARD]Jason Castagna[/PLAYERCARD] on kicking a goal in 2021.

Dustin Martin congratulates Jason Castagna on kicking a goal in 2021.CREDIT:GETTY
Martin plays as if he has never entertained the idea that there was anything he couldn’t do on the football field. Castagna played as though he understood perfectly what he couldn’t and shouldn’t do, but also knew what he was there to do.
And yet they were equally important, in their own ways, to what Richmond achieved.

Yes, with three Norm Smith medals and a Brownlow, Martin contributed more than any player to Richmond’s success, but Castagna epitomised the other half of Richmond’s game and structure.
He was the archetypal role player. He was as much a foundation of how Richmond played as dynamic players like Martin, Jack Riewoldt, Tom Lynch, Nick Vlastuin, Alex Rance and Trent Cotchin.
Castagna takes a mark against the Cats in 2021.

Castagna takes a mark against the Cats in 2021.CREDIT:GETTY
He was loved by coaches and teammates for what he could do, not what he couldn’t. He was never going to be Eddie Betts, but he came to represent a type of modern small forward whose game was founded on pressure, not opportunism.
He made the opposition dispose of the ball a half second sooner than they wanted to, and this helped create turnovers near Richmond’s goal. The Tigers’ game, like Castagna’s, was predicated on turnovers. When they won flags, they were the No.1 turnover team in the AFL.

Castagna made a career out of being quick and working hard. He tackled hard, he put pressure on, and created goals for himself and others just by worrying the ball back into Richmond hands. He was cheap in draft and salary cap terms, but he was important in structural terms.

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He emerged as part of that happenstance structure Richmond fell into in 2017 when injuries forced a new method and system. Richmond crafted a new attack built around Riewoldt and a bunch of small and medium forwards with speed and enormous pressure.
Because he was a player of limitations he was a regular whipping boy for fans (as small forwards often are). Kicking five straight behinds in the 2019 grand final, of course, didn’t help, but the same fans adored him for those flaws and what he meant to Richmond. His snap goal in the 2017 grand final was a moment that made the drought-breaking flag seem assured.
If fans were quick to blame Castagna at times, his teammates certainly were not. They loved the player with one of the best nicknames in football – George. Amusingly, Castagna had never watched an episode of Seinfeld when he got to the club and his teammates started to call him George after the Seinfeld character George Costanza. He laughed along, bewildered at how his new teammates were so thick as to confuse Jason with George.

When he announced his retirement at Punt Road on Monday morning, his former teammates and close friends Dan Butler, now at the Saints, and Dave Astbury were in the room. Castagna famously carries a tattoo on his buttock of Butler’s initials and a table tennis paddle after he lost a marathon match to his housemate.
In terms of recruiting decisions, Castagna must be one of the most fruitful selections. From a second round rookie draft pick (29) he played in three premierships, barely missed a game through injury, kicked nearly a goal a game (127 goals in 134 games), never gave the coaches grief and never did anything to embarrass the club. And two Brownlow votes!

He played more games than any player on Richmond’s list from 2017 to the end of 2021.
That all made Castagna’s decision to retire at the age of 26, just 18 days out from the new season, so surprising.

He has walked away from a solid contract, but the money never motivated him. He walked away because he thought it would be selfish to just go through the motions.

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As he said to people at the club, this was the first pre-season in which he didn’t complete the summer program that the conditioning staff had mapped out for players on their break. He didn’t do it for any reason other than he just didn’t want to. He realised then that he was done.
Castagna has no immediate plans other than to do something more with tattoos and play basketball with his mates.
He leaves list manager Blair Hartley wondering about options to replace him. The Tigers really liked former Cat Quinton Narkle over the summer, and he is a logical choice for the mid-season draft.

Whoever it is, Richmond won’t be quite the same without George.
 
chriso11 said:
It’s going to be an unpopular opinion, but true to form, he couldn’t even convert his retirement decision accurately. Shanked it like a 30m set shot directly in front, or handball into the man on the mark with a team mate free in the goal square. Two weeks too late and we go into the season 1 down. But thanks for your service, played a role very well in a career that secured him 3 premierships. Surely lived the Richmond values given how much the coaches loved him. Well done maximising his time in the sun
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Or did he , we have loads of options and many would argue they’d prefer a mid season pick to narkles , some may say timed to perfection perhaps
 
Tiger_Of_Old said:
Bolded for those who refused to see his worth to the side.

By George, he’s gone: Why Jason Castagna was the heartbeat of the Tigers​

Michael Gleeson

Michael Gleeson​

Sports columnist
February 27, 2023 — 7.24pm
Save
Share
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size

Jason Castagna was as emblematic of the Richmond triple premiership team as Dustin Martin.
Ordinarily there is not a lot of scope for comparing Martin and Castagna as footballers, but here goes.
Dustin Martin congratulates Jason Castagna on kicking a goal in 2021.

Dustin Martin congratulates Jason Castagna on kicking a goal in 2021.CREDIT:GETTY
Martin plays as if he has never entertained the idea that there was anything he couldn’t do on the football field. Castagna played as though he understood perfectly what he couldn’t and shouldn’t do, but also knew what he was there to do.
And yet they were equally important, in their own ways, to what Richmond achieved.

Yes, with three Norm Smith medals and a Brownlow, Martin contributed more than any player to Richmond’s success, but Castagna epitomised the other half of Richmond’s game and structure.
He was the archetypal role player. He was as much a foundation of how Richmond played as dynamic players like Martin, Jack Riewoldt, Tom Lynch, Nick Vlastuin, Alex Rance and Trent Cotchin.
Castagna takes a mark against the Cats in 2021.

Castagna takes a mark against the Cats in 2021.CREDIT:GETTY
He was loved by coaches and teammates for what he could do, not what he couldn’t. He was never going to be Eddie Betts, but he came to represent a type of modern small forward whose game was founded on pressure, not opportunism.
He made the opposition dispose of the ball a half second sooner than they wanted to, and this helped create turnovers near Richmond’s goal. The Tigers’ game, like Castagna’s, was predicated on turnovers. When they won flags, they were the No.1 turnover team in the AFL.

Castagna made a career out of being quick and working hard. He tackled hard, he put pressure on, and created goals for himself and others just by worrying the ball back into Richmond hands. He was cheap in draft and salary cap terms, but he was important in structural terms.

RELATED ARTICLE​

Noah Balta celebrates for the Tigers.

Updated​

​

He emerged as part of that happenstance structure Richmond fell into in 2017 when injuries forced a new method and system. Richmond crafted a new attack built around Riewoldt and a bunch of small and medium forwards with speed and enormous pressure.
Because he was a player of limitations he was a regular whipping boy for fans (as small forwards often are). Kicking five straight behinds in the 2019 grand final, of course, didn’t help, but the same fans adored him for those flaws and what he meant to Richmond. His snap goal in the 2017 grand final was a moment that made the drought-breaking flag seem assured.
If fans were quick to blame Castagna at times, his teammates certainly were not. They loved the player with one of the best nicknames in football – George. Amusingly, Castagna had never watched an episode of Seinfeld when he got to the club and his teammates started to call him George after the Seinfeld character George Costanza. He laughed along, bewildered at how his new teammates were so thick as to confuse Jason with George.

When he announced his retirement at Punt Road on Monday morning, his former teammates and close friends Dan Butler, now at the Saints, and Dave Astbury were in the room. Castagna famously carries a tattoo on his buttock of Butler’s initials and a table tennis paddle after he lost a marathon match to his housemate.
In terms of recruiting decisions, Castagna must be one of the most fruitful selections. From a second round rookie draft pick (29) he played in three premierships, barely missed a game through injury, kicked nearly a goal a game (127 goals in 134 games), never gave the coaches grief and never did anything to embarrass the club. And two Brownlow votes!

He played more games than any player on Richmond’s list from 2017 to the end of 2021.
That all made Castagna’s decision to retire at the age of 26, just 18 days out from the new season, so surprising.

He has walked away from a solid contract, but the money never motivated him. He walked away because he thought it would be selfish to just go through the motions.

​

As he said to people at the club, this was the first pre-season in which he didn’t complete the summer program that the conditioning staff had mapped out for players on their break. He didn’t do it for any reason other than he just didn’t want to. He realised then that he was done.
Castagna has no immediate plans other than to do something more with tattoos and play basketball with his mates.
He leaves list manager Blair Hartley wondering about options to replace him. The Tigers really liked former Cat Quinton Narkle over the summer, and he is a logical choice for the mid-season draft.

Whoever it is, Richmond won’t be quite the same without George.
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How can you not love this man. Go enjoyed married life Georgie.
 
captain blood 17 said:
Guys, spoke to a source inside the club. Jason retired due to “winning fatigue”. Poor guy won so much that mentally he couldn’t take it anymore. It’s a real thing. I hope he can recover soon.
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We drank so many frothies,we all got premiership fatigue in a way.
Blessed to be Tigers in this time.

The hunger is back with a vengeance after that third umpire bungle to gift Geelol a flag though.
 
Bojangles17 said:
Or did he , we have loads of options and many would argue they’d prefer a mid season pick to narkles , some may say timed to perfection perhaps
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Could be better options than Narkle and now we have 3 months to have a decent look at state leagues.
Reckon the mid year draft will continue to grow in popularity amongst the clubs.
 
sregit said:
Sadly the age demographic of those left does not fill me with a great deal of confidence. We’ve started the rebuild well but will sadly need to keep turning over our older players at a good rate to build the next dynasty side.
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Cotch, JR. Retire. Both played ok last year. Grimes a year or two left. Playing ok..needs an injury free year. Graham is best 22 quality but no place for him.. same with Short. Might lose his spot this year.
Last year Edwards and Lambert retire. (+Caddy) this year George, Cotch, Jack and Graham.
List management is excellent. Gibcus and Sonsie are players. Clarke and others are looking like making it.
 
Charlie Pannam said:
Could be better options than Narkle and now we have 3 months to have a decent look at state leagues.
Reckon the mid year draft will continue to grow in popularity amongst the clubs.
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And we’re not short for the small fwd spot. Got enough options. Another Pickett would be handy
 
chriso11 said:
It’s going to be an unpopular opinion, but true to form, he couldn’t even convert his retirement decision accurately. Shanked it like a 30m set shot directly in front, or handball into the man on the mark with a team mate free in the goal square. Two weeks too late and we go into the season 1 down. But thanks for your service, played a role very well in a career that secured him 3 premierships. Surely lived the Richmond values given how much the coaches loved him. Well done maximising his time in the sun
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Yep 1 down like about 5 or 6 other clubs who have deliberately left a list spot open to likely utilise the mid season draft. Gives a club better flexibility to pick up a need mid-season if injuries strike where we have no depth. Just cause we have a spare, filling it straight isnt always the best answer. Personal opinion, Im glad we didnt take on Narkle, saw no genuine benifit to us
 
beema limapep said:
Timing could have been better. Nobody can argue with that.
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I can.

The list managers didn't think Narkle was a good pickup for us in the SSP. They demonstrated this by not picking Narkle. Narkle didn't think Richmond was the right club for him. The club offered him a spot on the VFL list and an office job. He went to Essendon instead.

Richmond now has the benefit of seeing Narkle and every other player in the VFL for the first half of the season.

George kicked the ball out of bounds, but not on the full. Our options to score are still open. Good on you Georgie.
 
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