Saints great Nick Riewoldt has lifted the lid on a story involving he and Alex Rance pitching to Richmond's head of recruitment to make him a Tiger.
The duo rang left a voice message to the Tigers recruiting team at 3am, calling from Tasmania at Jack Riewoldt's wedding in late 2017.
โI thought fleetingly about potentially a year somewhere else,โ Riewoldt told SENโs Whateley.
โAt 3am, Alex Rance and I called up Richmondโs head of recruiting and left a voicemail, I think it was a six-minute voicemail which he might still have, talking about how I should come across to Tigerland for just one year and play in the forward line with Jack (Riewoldt).
โIโd played on Rancey about a month before the end of the season and played pretty well on him. I was pleading my case and Rancey was endorsing it saying: โHe did this when he played, and he did that. The proof and the body of workโs there โ letโs get it doneโ.
โThen we just forgot about it the next day. I think within the first 15 seconds of the voicemail he would have realised what was happening.
โThey went and got Tom Lynch, so they did a bit better there.โ
