Richmond ahead Jack Riewoldt will retire from the AFL after 17 seasons and three premierships with the Tigers.
The membership has confirmed the 34-year-old advised teammates this morning of his choice.
Riewoldt will converse at a press convention scheduled for 12:30pm AEST, and can play a closing recreation towards North Melbourne on the MCG on Saturday afternoon.
Riewoldt is thirteenth on the all-time checklist of AFL/VFL purpose kickers, with 786 targets from 346 video games.
A talented and wholehearted performer, Riewoldt made his debut in 2007 after being drafted at choose 13 within the 2006 AFL Draft.
He has been concerned in controversy, famously leaping a fence at Punt Highway Oval earlier than working to Richmond practice station to flee journalists and TV crews after he spoke out, in 2014, criticising the staff’s recreation plan.
However as he nears the tip of his seventeenth season, the star ahead has made his place in Richmond historical past as a vital a part of the staff’s three premierships in 4 years between 2017 and 2020.
After their first flag win in 2017, he hit the highlight when he appeared on stage with American band The Killers on the post-grand closing live performance, singing Mr Brightside.
He sits second behind Matthew Richardson (800 targets) on the checklist of prime goalscorers within the membership’s historical past.
This season he has performed 20 of the Tigers’ 21 video games thus far and is the membership’s main purpose kicker with 30 targets.
In his profession, Riewoldt gained the Coleman Medal — for the highest AFL purpose kicker of the yr — thrice, and was named All-Australian thrice as effectively.
He has been an everyday presence within the media within the latter phases of his profession — as lately as final week, he advised Fox Footy that he was having “fluid discussions” with the Tigers about his future.
His choice to complete continues the altering of the guard at Richmond.
Triple premiership coach Damien Hardwick left the membership earlier within the yr, and former skipper Trent Cotchin introduced late final week that he would end his profession at season’s finish.
Riewoldt additionally joins the likes of Geelong’s Isaac Smith, West Coast’s Nic Naitanui and Sydney’s Paddy McCartin, who’ve all introduced their retirements within the final week or so.
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