Player Watch #4 Dustin Martin

[Moonatic77]

Doesn’t look even remotely fit.

You don't exactly seem to fit either

 

[Daka]

Dusty might also be carrying an injury too throughout the season so far? Or he is genuinely cooked too.

I think it's a bit of both, motivation is low due to how we are playing & I don't think he is 100% and also think he is clearly in heavy decline atm.

 

[Tiger_4_Life]

The cliff comes quickly

 

[Tiger Pete]

Not questioning our greatest ever. To me he looks restricted.
Was getting some sort of massage mid match.

 

[beema limapep]

Cooked.

4 games til his 300th.

If you love somebody, set them free

 

[A Tiger 4 lyf]

Do not send him to the Gabba, Meehan regime has absolutely sent everyone backwards fitness wise

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[RichmondEshays]

You heard it here first. Retires right after his 300th.

 

[TheDyerLegacy]

Do not send him to the Gabba


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Agree

 

[Lunchtime]

You heard it here first. Retires right after his 300th.

Source?

 

[UncleBob]

Surely he wouldn’t pull the pin mid season.
Imagine the morale drop if he did.

 

[prodigy]

It would take a lot for me to ridicule this man. He almost got me there tonight.

 

[Sir_Rancelot]

You heard it here first. Retires right after his 300th.

I hope so because he doesn't owe us anything, is a champion of the club and hasn't got anything left in the tank.

 

[WheelAndDeal]

farkken love this man.. there is no way we win 3 flags without him. rfc legend

unfortunately he looks cooked and the young stars of the comp are just faster and stronger. sad but simply inevitable

300 then hang em up duz

 

[TigerImposter]

Surely he wouldn’t pull the pin mid season.
Imagine the morale drop if he did.

Morale surely couldn’t get any lower than it already is.

 

[tiger_tough]

If he's not fit, rest him. If he is fit, tell him to enjoy retirement after the season.

 

[Daka]

Dustin Martin’s manager Ralph Carr has begun gauging interest in his player with rival clubs despite the likelihood the Richmond legend will retire or play out his career at Punt Rd.

Martin has expressed to teammates that while he is still enjoying his time at Richmond his motivation to train and play no longer reaches the heights of the club’s premiership years.

Martin can no longer train with the same intensity as he battles soft-tissue complaints including the calf issues that have seen him miss two games this year.

Carr told the Herald Sun in March he and Martin would sit down at year’s end to consider the unrestricted free agent’s future.

Clubs are aware they would likely have to offer him a two-year deal on good money well above $500,000 a year and at this stage have reservations about that kind of contract.

They are aware Martin is mentally fatigued and wonder if he can find that fire in the belly as he turns 33 next month.

Ralph Carr ain't fooling anyone anymore, he will be lucky to play on at Richmond with an extension let alone another club be interested in him.

 

[DickieKnee]

If he's not fit, rest him. If he is fit, tell him to enjoy retirement after the season.

I think its the hunger to an extent. 2017 when he was after the mega contract he was immense. Now? From my news he is loaded, invested in property in Richmond with Carr. Its hard when you get old anyways but to match youth with financiial gain? If we get a good offer we should snap it up.

 

[wegetpumped]

You heard it here first. Retires right after his 300th.

The feeling is mutual if not surely he will play forward for the rest of his footy life. He goes hard for a quarter and a half then is exhausted eg early days when starting.

 

[Grockadoc]

Ralph Carr ain't fooling anyone anymore, he will be lucky to play on at Richmond with an extension let alone another club be interested in him.

Yep. No-one is gonna want to bring a half-hearted Dusty into a new club system at 33 years old, when his defensive transitions have never been good, his confidence is shot and his impact on games is waning game by game.

Best to retire a one club player.

 

[db26]

Regardless 300 or not his a champion, but thankyou very much 2024 his last year just like a few others.

 

[Charlie Pannam]

Ralph Carr ain't fooling anyone anymore, he will be lucky to play on at Richmond with an extension let alone another club be interested in him.

Agreed

 

[TigerTime88]

Would be good for club and player to see him get to 300 and then retire a one club player and as our greatest ever.

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

The cliff comes quickly

 

[beema limapep]

Rest him for Brisbane and then if he wants to pull the pin its

R11 - Game 297 vs Essendon (home)
R12 - Game 298 vs Geelong (away)
R13 - Game 299 vs Adelaide (away)
R14 - Game 300 vs Hawthorn (mcg home) retirement game.

Then we hit our mid season bye R15, refresh as a club, take stock and mentally approach the last block of 9 games for the year.

 

[GastevsBeard]

I think his current indifferent form is more mental than physical. But he is probably only going to rediscover form at a new club