Retired Daniel Rich #2 (2008-2023)

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Injury Update: Daniel Rich

Daniel Rich will miss the Brisbane Lions' first home game for the 2018 season, after scans today revealed he has ruptured a ligament at the front of his left ankle.

Rich was injured in the first quarter of the Lions season opener against St Kilda on Saturday night and did not return to the field for the remainder of the match.

The 27-year-old will not require surgery, but he will miss Round 2 against the Melbourne Demons at the Gabba.

He will be assessed on a week by week basis.

 

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Brisbane Lions veteran Daniel Rich to have scans on ankle injury

BRISBANE are bracing themselves for the worst with superboot Daniel Rich facing an extended lay-off with an ankle injury.

The veteran half back will have scans today but the initial feeling from the Lions is that ligament damage could sideline him for six weeks.

 

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Injury List

Daniel Rich won’t play this week against Port Adelaide. He has progressed well in his recovery from an ankle injury and is out of the moonboot. He is likely to be another couple of weeks away from returning.

 

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Injury List

Daniel Rich faced a slight setback last week in his recovery from an ankle injury that occured in Round 1. Rich will not be right to play this week as he continues his rehab. He remains a week to week proposition.

 

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What a star is Daniel and Ace.

Very moving clip.

 

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Player Review: Daniel Rich

Daniel Rich had a promising pre-season for the Brisbane Lions and was in fine form at the inaugural AFLX tournament in Sydney and in the JLT pre-season matches. However, injury prevented this form from rolling into the AFL season.

During the first quarter of the Lions’ season opener against St Kilda, Rich hobbled off with an ankle injury. He did not return to the game and would miss the next five matches. The defender made his return for the Lions in Round 6 against GWS but took a few games to return to his top form.

In Round 12’s loss to Essendon he was one of the Lions’ best, with 29 disposals and two tackles for the afternoon. His best game for the season was Round 16’s win over Carlton where he had 28 disposals and four tackles. His efforts were rewarded by being named in AFL Media's Team of the Week.

Overall in 18 matches, Rich averaged just under 20 disposals a game.Rich played in all five of the Lions’ wins. His lethal left boot kicked one goal for the year.

 

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'It's felt different' coming to work: Longest-serving Lion (Michael Whiting)

TEN YEARS ago, Daniel Rich started a career that saw him win the NAB AFL Rising Star award and play two finals in his first season. The No.7 pick from the 2008 NAB AFL Draft had delivered in spades during his first year, and with a Brisbane team boasting Jonathan Brown, Simon Black, Luke Power and about to recruit Brendan Fevola, the sky looked the limit. But as history now shows, it's been a barren time for the Lions since 2009 finished.

The longest-serving player at the Lions by two years (from Ryan Lester), Rich has stayed throughout. He's seen Michael Voss sacked, suffered an ACL injury, come and gone from the leadership group, seen Justin Leppitsch come and go, 'won' a wooden spoon, and in more recent years begin to recapture the form that saw him drafted with such high hopes.

Now in his 11th pre-season, Rich told AFL.com.au he was enjoying the game more than ever and is desperate to be part of a successful Lions climb. "Those early days were really good and the last six, seven, eight years it's been pretty slim in terms of how we've gone," Rich said. "The last few years we haven't won many games, but it's been really enjoyable coming to work, it's felt different."

Rich has watched a number of top-10 draft picks come and go, but throughout it all, he's stayed. No question he signed lucrative contract extensions when Brisbane needed to retain its better players, but these were opportunities others had, but rejected, as well. Rich, 28, is tied to the Lions until the end of 2021 and said there was a number of reasons he remained at the club so long.

"I'm a pretty loyal person," he said. "You get offers and opportunities to do other things, but the club's been great to me and looked after me and it's the way it works. "The way you're treated by guys when you get here, 'Browny', 'Blacky' and Lukey Power, I feel it's necessary to give back and do the same thing. "Brisbane as a place I really enjoy, I can live a lifestyle away from footy, go down the coast (to surf), get on the golf course. There's a variety of reasons."

Rich has flourished under Chris Fagan, playing 40 of 44 games since he became coach, missing four at the start of last season with an ankle injury. Now used as a half-back that can distribute the ball cleverly and with penetration via his left foot, Rich said he wanted to return to the feeling when he first came to Brisbane.

"I've been around a while and haven't played a final since my first season," Rich said. "From a team perspective we're all pretty hungry to achieve that again. Hopefully it's this season."

Dan has long been one of my favourites and I'm glad he has stayed loyal and will see out his days as a one club player, which is rare today, but even more reason to respect guys that want to repay the faith instead of cashing them in as if they're a commodity.

Dan should rack up his 200th later in the season too.

 

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Saw Rich at Carindale yesterday, he was doing his best impression of the fittest looking human alive! Could be in for a massive year

 

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Best is yet to come for Rich (Michael Whiting)

Ten years after bursting on to the scene as a Rising Star winner, Daniel Rich is ready to turn heads again in 2019, says Brisbane captain Dayne Zorko. Rich is the only surviving member from the Lions' last finals appearance in 2009 and Zorko believes the sniff of September action has the blonde-haired West Australian primed to recapture his best form.

"’Richy’ has tasted finals … and I feel like he can taste finals, hopefully for our club, not too far into the future and he wants to be a part of it," Zorko said. "I'm really excited to see his growth and his game go to the next level. "He's probably stagnated over the last few years, but what he's been able to do in the back half of the pre-season has been really exciting."

Rich is 28, entering his 11th year and has 183 games to his name. This pre-season is among his best, injury free and completing the entire training load.

Brisbane's backline has a look of solidarity to it with Harris Andrews, Darcy Gardiner, Luke Hodge, Alex Witherden and Josh Walker, but a patchy 2018 left Rich slightly vulnerable. He played 18 games, including the final 17 after a round one ankle injury, but with speedster Zac Bailey joining the backline mix, needed a strong pre-season. Zorko said Rich's leadership has also improved in recent years, helping Witherden, Bailey and Cedric Cox develop as players.

 

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The history behind season openers

It only counts for four premiership points, just like every other home-and-away fixture, but ask any AFL player …. there’s something extra special about playing in Round 1. Every year the confidence built up through a long, hard summer brings a unique anticipation ahead of the season-opener.

Any doubts, ask Lions pair Daniel Rich or Mitch Robinson. They are Round 1 specialists. The pair will celebrate a special moment in football history on Saturday night as the Lions open the 2019 AFL campaign against West Coast at the Gabba.

Rich will do what no other Brisbane player has done in 38 years. If Rich is named in the Round 1 team, he will play his 11th consecutive Round 1 game for the Club since debut. The thumping 28-year-old left-footer, drafted at Pick No. 7 in the 2008 National Draft, was 294 days beyond his 18thbirthday when he had 21 possessions on debut in a Round 1 loss to West Coast at the Gabba on Saturday 28 March 2009.

It was the start of a season which ended with Rich winning the AFL Rising Star Award. The West Australian junior is the only player from the Lions’ 2009 playing list still with the Club as he prepares, ironically, to face West Coast at the Gabba in Round 1 2019. Rich’s 11th Round 1 appearance will see him jump to equal eighth on the Club's all-time list of season-openers, headed by Simon Black with 14.

 

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It was nice seeing this man back in some form too and kicking some banging goals like this:

 

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He's kind of turned into Kade Simpson only with a more penetrating kick.

 

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Will play his 200th against North at the Gabba in a couple of weeks time becoming the 13th Brisbane Lion to play 200 games with the club. Been one of my favourite players across his career and has been outstanding this season. Really hope he get's recognition in the AA squad this year and goes on to play 250+ games for us.