From teaching special education in Wangaratta, to starring for the AFL’s reigning premiers – Joe Richards has taken the long road to the AFL.
Two years ago, Joe Richards was working as a teacher at a special education school in Wangaratta and figuring his AFL dream was gone. Then Collingwood drafted him.
“I went into quarter-time thinking I’ve wasted a couple of opportunities here. And I was just waiting for the next one, which lucky enough came in the second quarter,” he said.More impressive was that he was very clean with his hands, showed great vision to hit up Fin Macrae with one weighted kick going inside 50, and had poise., all players had a lot of game time. Richards was cramping in both legs at the boundary on the siren.
“He’s just a real footballer, he makes the right decisions. Nothing fazes him. When he was with us, we played him on the ball and I said ‘just go and get the footy’. There were a few structures but he was so good you’d say ‘got out and play’.”, Daniels at GWS – there are these little, little guys but they all have this footy IQ that’s through the roof and that’s what Joe’s got,” Reid added.
When he arrived at the Magpies his new coach Craig McRae saw what Reid saw in him, but also thought he was a way off AFL level.
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