Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones returned to Richmond training today and begin a 2021 campaign to win back the trust of the football world.
The Tiger duo were suspended for 10 games and booted out of Queensland late in the 2020 season after breaching quarantine rules and getting in a fight outside of a Surfers Paradise strip club.
Richmond was also fined $100,000 for the indiscretion.
Club CEO Brendon Gale has full confidence both players will earn back the respect of their teammates and the community.
“They returned today to training which commenced for first to fourth year players,” Gale told SEN’s Bob and Andy.
“We had a bunch of young fellas down there, but look there’s a lot of interest in those two lads for obvious reasons, we don’t need to go back over that, but they’ve been held accountable, they’ve paid a heavy price for their mistakes.
“At the end of the day, they’re fine young men, they’re our men, they’re Tigers and we’ll put our arm around them and we’ll support them and love them and help them reload.
“They’re both extremely talented players, each in their own way and arguably they might have missed a chance to play in a premiership, who knows.
“They’ve paid a heavy price, they’re important players and they’ll put their head down and we’ll help them win back the respect of the group and the community and they will because they’re fine men.”