Relton's Regret (NTnews)

[PHX]

RELTON Roberts regrets not giving his brief AFL career at Richmond a red-hot go.
The 24-year-old from Ngukurr in the Territory's Roper River region returned home in July when Richmond told him to head north and sort out his personal life.
"I wanted to play AFL footy but I found it really hard with my family up here and me down there in Melbourne," the quicksilver forward said.
"Thinking back I probably should have stayed and played AFL.
"Particularly when my family situation changed a fair bit after I got back home."
"My advice is don't just dream - grab it with both your hands and give it your best shot without any distractions."

Full story: http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/09/15/179571_ntsport.html

 

[Barnzy]

lol

 

[tugga]

Oh I'm sure they'll get in contact with you Relton. Don't worry, there will be one more phone call.

 

[Greggy]

"My advice is don't just dream - grab it with both your hands and give it your best shot without any distractions."

 

[Jisha]

Haha, I thought of the exact same picture when I read that Greggy.

I loved the guy but Mario is right, lazy effort for someone who really wanted to play AFL. He had his chance and let it slip, tough t***ies.

 

[Tzatziki_Man]

I love how he said its sad for his fans he wont be playing again.

Just a question, does EVERYONE have fans nowadays? Or is it just an overused term?

 

[Madtiger2006]

I say the club give him another chance and put him on the rookie list. Give him a go you fat bigfooty pricks

 

[Jisha]

I say the club give him another chance and put him on the rookie list

You cannot be serious.... He screwed the club over and you want him back?

 

[Madtiger2006]

You cannot be serious.... He screwed the club over and you want him back?

Did he?
Club told him to go home and sort his problems. He went home

 

[the ranger]

Would be fine with him getting one more crack at it if the club believes he's going to give it his best shot.

 

[True Thylacine]

Would be fine with him getting one more crack at it if the club believes he's going to give it his best shot.

Me too Ranger but I get the feeling that theres more to this that we don't know. Seems odd that the Club sent him home and then no speakies, especially so early in the season....they usually display much better duty of care than that unless theres something preventing that.

 

[Katimm3]

How can you be so negative towards him?
the poor bloke went home to his family, it would be tough for him moving straight into the city, i feel sorry for him

 

[courtjester]

How convenient for him to "regret" it now the Gold Coast and GWS are about to start throwing cash everywhere. Put money on him lining up for the Suns next year and getting paid well for it.

 

[TO HOT TO HANDLE]

Great guys obviously you've met Relts, he found it hard going from the middle of nowhere to a big city. I would keep him on our main list all of the guys reckon he is a gun, thats the players and they were telling me that he is special. We let go of Peterson and look how he is going. Persistence creates brilliance.

 

[TFLUA-Tiger]

His manager hinted that Relts was really handicapped by family issues - and illness to his Aunty - but at that stage expressed some hope that he'd turn it around.

Unfortunately it didn't occur.

Thanks for giving it a go Relts, and I'm sorry it didn't work out.

Rookie picks are speculative at best and if we're to be a super team we'll have to keep finding these kind of guys and giving them the best shot to succeed.

 

[Spluff]

Didn't his father die during the year, as well?

 

[Jisha]

How can you be so negative towards him?
the poor bloke went home to his family, it would be tough for him moving straight into the city, i feel sorry for him

Look, in the end of course family comes first over football BUT there is a lot of players that leave their familes, leave their small towns and venture into the city to play football. Relton couldn't handle it which is fine. Fact is, he had a chance to make a lot more money to set his family up but he didn't want to take it.

You have to sacrifice a few years if you want to make your life better, he did not have the mental ability to do so and we certainly are not a charity organisation.

Good luck to him and his family but he blew his chance.

 

[TFLUA-Tiger]

I don't think Relton every asked for a second chance - he knows he blew it - and he's simply recognising that fact, and that he could have made more of a fist of it.

If he worked his arse off - there's every chance he could have been a valuable contributor to the RFC

 

[Jisha]

If he worked his arse off - there's every chance he could have been a valuable contributor to the RFC

Absolutely, I think that is the main reason I am upset that it has taken him til now to figure out that he didn't really give it a shot. When we got him I was a huge fan of him, he looked pretty sharp in the couple of games he played and I was looking forward to a few years of seeing the man do some special things. It hurt to see him go because when it happened you knew he wasn't going to come back. It is just very disappointing.

 

[TheProwler]

If he didn't realise on day one the importance to give his all and have a real go then perhaps he is better suited in the outback leagues.

I can't imagine the level of commitment required to be on an AFL club list in 2010, it's just so professional now from fitness to diet to adapting to the big city etc. I would be very surprised if RFC didn't immediately or fairly early on recognize he was suffering home sickness.

Hopefully this is a lesson to the next crop of kids to grasp the opportunity and give it their beest shot becuase in a blink of an eye it can be all over, just ask Relton.

 

[bigstyletiger]

Dissapointing the club hasn't called him. Would hope that the club would make more effort with draftees especially indigenous players who have come from a completely different culture & lifestyle. Just amazing how insular so many posters are when it comes to indigenous issues. If he really wants another go the club should give him the opportunity. It's not like he was a top 10 pick and had years on the clubs list wasting our time and money. He was a very speculative rookie and only was in town for a few months.

 

[tugga]

Dissapointing the club hasn't called him. Would hope that the club would make more effort with draftees especially indigenous players who have come from a completely different culture & lifestyle. Just amazing how insular so many posters are when it comes to indigenous issues. If he really wants another go the club should give him the opportunity. It's not like he was a top 10 pick and had years on the clubs list wasting our time and money. He was a very speculative rookie and only was in town for a few months.

You don't really know the club hasn't called him. That's just what he said. If they haven't, then it is disappointing.

 

[peejay]

I have just deleted a bunch of posts on this thread, some were quoting deleted posts.

This matter could be discussed without the need for the abuse thrown in those posts.

 

[The Dice Man]

Lots of deleting going on in the Tiger board lately.

 

[El Tigre]

I know some Aboriginal guys who get homesick once they get further than 50km from home town. And the family structure is quite different to that of Anglo-Aussies, which is different to that of Greeks, etc etc.

He wanted his go, and it didn't work out. How many people go for a job, then find its different to what they expected, then move on.

Good luck to him. At least he had a go.