Every year at every AFL club, a player will start the season not knowing they are about to leave the game. Very few get to leave the sport in control of their exit.Crawford’s iconic microphone grab with the perfect catch cry, “That’s what I’m talking about” on the premiership stage after winning the 2008 grand final is part of Australian sporting folklore. He left the game at its peak, having climbed and conquered football’s Mount Everest in his final match.
Today, Richmond great Dustin Martin stands at the crossroads, grappling with the stark truth that the golden years at Punt Road have passed.Unlike Selwood, who sealed his legacy with a fourth flag, Martin finds himself on a different road to the final chapter of his grand career. There will not be a fourth premiership. Not at Richmond where the Tigers are facing the sombre prospect of rebuilding and reckoning with their flawed calls in list management.
Martin should reflect on the untidy exit of Hawthorn and Sydney champion Lance “Buddy” Franklin, who played a season too many at Sydney last year.“I think it’s almost sacrilegious to declare that the Swans are better without Buddy Franklin,” he said on Channel Nine’sCollingwood championwith his age and lack of athleticism starting to catch-up. In hindsight, going out like Selwood and Crawford after last year’s premiership triumph would have protected him from the criticism he now faces.
Adelaide’s Rory Sloane, Essendon’s Dyson Heppell and Collingwood’s Scott Pendlebury are all nearing the end of their careers.Martin is an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season, allowing him to walk to the club of his choice at season’s end. But how often is that successful? Hawthorn champions Sam Mitchell, Luke Hodge and Jordan Lewis all finished at another club after making the move in the twilight of their careers. Did those moves enhance any of their reputations? It is a shame they didn’t finish at Hawthorn.
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