As he prepares to launch his memoir, Richmond great Jack Riewoldt reflects on his time at Punt Road, a magical journey featuring premierships, drama, Dustin Martin and Ben Cousins.
Retired Richmond superstar Jack Riewoldt has opened up on the role he and his teammates played in convincing Dustin Martin to ignore a $10 million overture from North Melbourne and commit his future to Punt Road.
“Myself and Shaun Grigg sat down, and we were like ‘I could only imagine the amount of money Dusty had put in front of him, and how life changing that would have been’,” Riewoldt recalled. Days gone by: Ben Cousins and jack Riewoldt remain in contact, having spent two seasons together at Punt Rd.“From a personal point of view, from the guys that played with him, to have had a little bit of an impact to help get his life back on track, has been fulfilling. So much so that when we go to Perth, we see him all the time with his family,” Riewoldt said.
It’s been some ride, Riewoldt calling it quits as the second-most capped Tiger, with 347 games to his name along with three flags, his place in Punt Rd forever etched in history. Riewoldt is about to release his memoir,Glory days: Jack Riewoldt celebrates the Tigers’ 2017 premiership, and joins The Killers in their performance of Mr Brightside on stage at the MCG.Riewoldt arrived at Punt Road during the Terry Wallace era .
Tough guy: Jack Riewoldt said his thought was fear when Damien Hardwick was unveiled as Richmond coach in 2009.“I think the first time I found out that ‘Dimma’ was going to coach me, I sort of felt there was an element of fear, in the structure of the group, that we were going to have this hardened thug that was going to come and coach us,” Riewoldt recalled.
“It can be unrelenting, but it can also be quite nitpicky for some things,” Riewoldt said. “People look to fill silence with things. It’s not my position to tell other people how to live their lives because I have an ideal in my head, but there are things that happen in people’s lives that we have no understanding of, or have no knowledge of, and we don’t how that could trigger, or why people do things a certain way.
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