Play Nice Rance Retirement

[Chief]

Please respect the "Play Nice" status of this thread.

Whether or not you have "a valid point", nastiness and rumour-mongering will result in post deletions, thread bans, and warning points depending on the post and my mood at the time.

Love love love

 

[JerryRapidRiser]

Media gig will pay better than footy anyway. Let's be honest, this is all it is about. One of the most attention seeking players in the history of the game.

A good player, a good leader of men, a good diver. Any appraisal beyond this defies reality. He wasn't generational and he wasn't special. Just good, playing the easiest role in the backline which allows good to seem great.

If not for the lesser praised heroes of the Tigers backline he wouldn't have experienced the success he has. They won it without him validating this assessment.

He, like Danger, have been prepping themselves for a media gig for a while now this is no surprise. I'll be shocked if he doesn't announce some sort of return someday - it is in his nature to try to make the back page.

He is a good lesson to any player - if you want to be remembered as great - get in good with the commentators- just ask Jake 'bog average' Lever who is described as a near-deity by commentators.

 

[Tasmanian saint]

Would have only given us one more player right at the end of the draft, or a rookie anyway.
We can still take someone via the SSP now or wait until the mid-season draft

What was his salary ?i imagine you would wait to next off season and go after a big name free agent with the cap space

 

[Fat Nyfe]

How much spare time do you need to 'focus on faith'?

 

[Falcon27]

Weird

He’ll be back

Yep. Attention seeking stunt.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Awesome career for an awesome player. Really weird to do all that rehab and pushing for the gf only to retire this late in the year but footy isn’t everything.

Lucky Richmond have the greatest recruiters in all of history and will be able to find a full back Marlion Pickett.

I don't think the rehab part is weird. If you get injured at work as he did, it's the responsibility of the company/club to get you as close to 100% again as possible. For me it would have been weird for him to walk away from having first class rehab and medical facilities on tap.

 

[RUNVS]

He's a Jehovah, so it probably means you'll see him on your doorstep soon asking to talk about Jebus

I remember being 13 when I was home alone and a mother and daughter team of Jehovah's witnesses knocked on my front door and cornered me for 40 minutes talking about Jesus. I remember being much more interested in how attractive the daughter was than Jesus.

 

[faible]

Interesting though how few champion defenders of this era there are.

Guys like Hurley, McGovern, Talia, Grimes are seen as the next best and although they’re good players, they aren’t absolutely top tier defenders. Just the best in a weak field.

Contextualises the number of AA guernseys Rance has won.

Defenders don't really play one on one the way they used to, the role has changed to be more zonal and team defence oriented. I've little doubt that most of the above would have been top tier defenders in a different era still.

 

[theyellowsash]

****ing religion. I love Rance but his attachment to his religion has always been a worry. Who in their right mind throws away what Rance has for ****ing fairy tales. Can't say I'm surprised though.

 

[docko911]

How much spare time do you need to 'focus on faith'?

Depends, Mormons take 2 years out of their lives to doorknock in another country. When they are not door knocking they spend their time being adored by the fanatics.

JW’s have a similar level of attention to faith, possibly more.

 

[Grrr]

Yep. Attention seeking stunt.

Nailed it. He has gone into retirement as a stunt. Brilliant analysis.

 

[Ambrosia]

I'd have him in front of Moore and Southby, maybe a smidge in front of Lake (only for sustained excellence, Lake's best was a good as any), equal with Dench and only a touch behind Silvagni and Scarlett.

Only having 5 top seasons probably hurts him especially in an era where players are regularly clocking up big games totals.

 

[StillAtLarge]

I'll always remember Rance single handedly defending Richmond's goal line as if his life depended on it. He was routinely delivering superhuman performances as the team crumbled around him before the club's 2017 resurgence. Was a colossus on gf day as well.

There are numerous key defenders who've had better, more consistent careers but if I could choose one player to have on my side for four quarters of footy at their absolute best I'd pick Rance over all of them

 

[greatwhiteshark]

Genuine star of recent times and a huge loss for Richmond and the game.
Congrats to him on a great career.

 

[Giant Pete]

What about the Richmond apple cart??

 

[The Nostradamus]

Curious what the payout is for the remainder years

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Faith is such a weird thing to say you are focusing on. What does that mean exactly? Going to church more often, praying more often, hitting himself with a whip for impure thoughts more often?

“I’m quitting football to grow the relationship with my imaginary friend”.

Same same, but different.

 

[docko911]

Curious what the payout is for the remainder years

$0 unless it was injury forced retirement.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Had a feeling god boy might do something like this. To be fair though, he's said he would choose religion over footy before so it shouldn't be that surprising.

 

[The Nostradamus]

$0 unless it was injury forced retirement.

Technically was injury forced, I’m sure there is some sort of severance package not to the full amount but not $0 either

 

[Crankyhawk]

And you are most likely a leftie hypocritical communist. Let’s go back centuries and start discriminating again against those that follow a religion/are different!!!!!! No one can pick and choose when to be tolerant ...... or you are a Harry Hypocrite.

Best of luck to Rance for his next journey in life whatever that maybe.

If you follow religion and aren’t telling others who aren’t what they should be doing, or limiting job/ education/ life opportunities then you should be ok.

The current climate and the religious discrimination bill makes the agnostic very sceptical/ fearful of what shit the religious will bring

 

[theyellowsash]

You're an idiot.

An idiot is someone who makes life choices based on fairy tales. If you're gonna belive stories you might as well at least make it an interesting one like Lord of the rings.

 

[Barrybran]

Good on him. I personally don't understand the religion angle but it's important to him and there's more to life than footy. Bloody good defender. Good luck Alex for your next chapter.

 

[Benjarman11]

I bet he changes his mind, he's done this before= Loves the attention

 

[Hawk Time]

Back to 1981 on the premiership clock???

 

[Milanista28]

An idiot is someone who makes life choices based on fairy tales. If you're gonna belive stories you might as well at least make it an interesting one like Lord of the rings.