As unsettling as it would be for Tigers fans, Richmond has to consider a trade for Dustin Martin.
And Gold Coast is the logical destination.
Martin’s camp has indicated, without confirming, that Martin will see out the final year of his contract at the Tigers.
“I’d like to see him play his 300th at Richmond,’’ his manager Ralph Carr told this masthead a week ago.
The pair have scheduled a holiday in America at the end of the season, starting first in Las Vegas to attend a boxing event.
The plans ahead for the triple Norm Smith medallist will be on their agenda.
Richmond, too, has to make plans.
The golden era is over. Trent Cotchin, who is Martin’s close friend, has retired. Jack Riewoldt might follow suit. And Dylan Grimes, the 32-year-old captain, must be weighing up whether to retire or not.
The Tigers are five or six years away from…