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Richmond certain Dustin Martin will stay if he plays on, Neil Balme, Liam Cook, most recent news

.Professional Richmond manager Neil Balme claims the Tigers remain "pretty positive" Dustin Martin and Liam Baker will remain at Punting Road next season.Balme mentioned Martin was extremely unlikely to go after an option at one more club if he selected to use in 2025 and also it would be the "wrong" stage of his career for a competitor to produce the three-time Standard Johnson medallist.Martin, 33, has missed out on five games with accident this season and his supply for Saturday night's away clash versus Port Adelaide is actually clouded.Watch every video game of every around this Toyota AFL Premiership Time LIVE with no ad-breaks during use Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free test today &gt Round 19WHAT'S GAMING REALLY PRICING YOU? Prepare a deposit limit.He did certainly not train recently as he battles a back issue that the group said initial developed when he was subbed out of the around 16 reduction to Carlton with back spasms.Neil Balme is positive Richmond superstar Dustin Martin are going to continue to be at the Tigers if he decides on to play on. Picture: Michael KleinSource: Information Corp Australia" Every 2nd week there is actually a Dusty account that he is actually going somewhere, yet I'm incredibly confident that if he participates in, he'll maintain playing for our company," Balme said to SEN on Tuesday." It would additionally be actually perhaps inappropriate for an additional club to enlist him due to the fact that he is actually certainly not at show business where he's mosting likely to be his greatest and he is actually not ever mosting likely to be actually the bloke that stands and also performs all the media for you either." That's the difficulty of being a powerful club-- there is an opportunity you can drop your players at some phase, but our team're rather certain that will not happen." Balme conceded there was a "big draw" for Baker to go back to his home condition after earlier expressing the desire to calm down in Western Australia following his playing career.West Australian Liam Cook, who runs out contract by the end of the time, has actually been actually linked definitely to West Coast. Image: Robert Cianflone/ Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesBut the senior Richmond agent claimed he still assumed the 26-year-old was actually improbable to ask for a field to West Coastline or Fremantle at the season's end." We are actually far more aware of the demands of the gamers than we made use of to be," Balme said." We utilized to just point out, 'take a seat as well as stop talking, you are actually ours, perform what our company tell you'. But I believe our team take them in to profile even more, thus there's regularly a lot more odds of that happening (gamers leaving)." I think we have actually got a good setting. It would be actually quite unique for our blokes to leave behind." Certainly, there is actually a large draw for (Baker) to go back. Our company are actually rather confident that he will not go, yet he can effectively do ... if he carries out, at that point our company'll simply have to manage it.".