Day One, Big Talk: A Tiger Cub Plots His 2027 Pivot

Day one of pre-season and we’ve already got a 2024 draftee mapping out his career to the year 2027. Bold stuff for a bloke who hasn’t kicked a competitive goal yet, but then again, hope is the one thing Richmond fans have never been short of — it’s premierships we’ve had trouble with lately.

I’ll admit I had a little chuckle reading it. Not at the kid, who seems like a perfectly earnest young man keen to make his mark, but at the whole ritual of it. Every single pre-season, like clockwork, someone from the footy department rolls out a line about a player