Anyone got a link to Jobe talking about JD?
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I wonder what sport his kids will play. NFL probably.
He said that he prefers gin, called JD a poor excuse for whiskey and would prefer to drink rubbing alcohol over that swill.
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It doesn’t merely smell, it stinks. And do does Ziggy’s full report. How come he didn’t discover that TB4 wasn’t listed as banned on ASADA’s list when it was allegedly injected into the players. How come he didn’t discover that it only appeared on the banned list two days before the club self reported. And why was it released in full today of all days when we discover what a set-up the entire affair was. It’s farking unbelievable that ASADA and WADA went ahead with their so-called appeal when they both knew that the substance wasn’t listed by ASADA at the time players were receiving injections. So what if it was listed by WADA. ASADA is the Australian authority. It was their their responsibility to list it and it was WADA’s to ensure that they did. Instead they hid their incompetence and negligence, destroyed reputations, almost cost an innocent man his life and could have destroyed an entire football club.
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What’s the context?
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Herald sun article about the ASADA “stitch up”
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Maybe, just maybe, the REAL truth about the Saga is beginning to emerge. No doubt, if and when it does, the AwFuL will ‘invent’ some story to continue to justify the disgraceful way those players (and the Club) were treated.
Brilliant, love him.
l won’t hold my breathwaiting for it to happen, but Jobe should have his Brownlow medal returned to him. Cotchin and Mitchell should lose theirs.
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just return jobes.
cotchin and Mitchells can be runners up mementos.
i fking adore this man. one of the best people to ever walk into this club
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His boys are all playing Soccer now…very well it is reported. 
I could find the Ted Richards thread, so this will have to do.
Why former AFL players Jobe Watson and Ted Richards have helped each other kick goals since school
By Konrad Marshall
February 28, 2020 — 8.59pm
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Jobe Watson, 35, and Ted Richards, 37, have known one another for three decades – a period encompassing their lives before, during and after the shared pleasures, and pressures, of playing professional AFL.
Jobe Watson (left) and Ted Richards.CREDIT:SIMON SCHLUTER
TED : I first crossed paths with Jobe when I was seven and he was five, at Sacred Heart Parish School in Sandringham, a Melbourne beachside suburb. We played at the same junior footy club, and lived close by, and later we both went to Xavier College. I was drafted in October 2000, to Essendon, which was an absolute dream. Then Jobe got picked up by Essendon in 2002 and our friendship went to another level.
It was exciting but there’s a flip side. You get injuries. You get dropped. Your mates have success and you don’t, so we were just going through this roller coaster of emotions. We used to drive together to and from training and it was just non-stop ■■■■■■■■: “How did you not get picked? How did I not get picked? What’s going on here?”
Jobe had challenges that I didn’t, because of his surname [as son of Essendon club legend Tim Watson], but he handled it so well. He’s such a balanced person, and curious. We both studied commerce and took a subject together at university – macroeconomics – and had so much fun. That said, all we did was sit and talk footy. I’m pretty sure we both failed.
I made my mind up halfway through 2005 that I was going to leave Essendon for the Sydney Swans. It was weird playing against Jobe, because it’s so much easier to play against someone you hate. But I made sure he never kicked a goal on me, because I knew if he did he’d remind me about it for the rest of my life!
It was weird playing against Jobe; it’s so much easier to play against someone you hate.
I could see how Jobe was affected by the supplements saga [in which the Essendon club was found to have used banned peptides, leading to player suspensions and Watson returning his 2012 Brownlow Medal]. He was captain of the team, the face of the club, but he never once spoke of that burden. The only thing I could do was to be a mate for him; help him laugh, have a chat, and switch off from what was happening. That’s how I viewed my role.
Jobe retired in 2017, and I think it was a relief. He’d already put things in place: become an entrepreneur with a cafe chain in the US, and a gym there, too. We both have equity in my investment company [which invests in funds, infrastructure and property]. Jobe also has a property business here in Melbourne.
He loves travel. For pretty much 10 years straight, Jobe and I would head overseas together in the off season. It meant he could switch off, act like a larrikin. One night after being out at the bars in Denmark, we were riding back to where we were staying. Jobe came off his bicycle and fell into this big, muddy puddle. It was 3am, raining, and he was rolling around in the mud, laughing. Such an idiot.
But I saw another side of him when we travelled. After he’d had a monster night and the alarm had gone off at 6am, he’d bolt out of bed and say, “Time to get up. Let’s go running.” He’d have scoped out a good park, and have a GPS, and I’d think, “■■■■, he means it.”
He’s got this ability to have a great time but you also see what he wants to achieve in life. Jobe sort of says, “Come along if you want, but here’s where I’m going.”
JOBE: Ted grew up around the corner from me, and as a kid he was quite similar to what he’s like now: funny, energetic, always wanting to play sport. Everything for us revolved around adventure, or notorious bust-ups with his big brother, Jake. I remember Ted slashed Jake’s bike tyres once, and Jake made Ted eat dog poo.
We went to the same primary school but Ted didn’t give me as much time at high school, where it was not as cool to talk to the younger kids. But I looked up to him. I remember watching the AFL draft at school, and seeing Ted being taken for Essendon, and two years later I went to the footy club and he was the only person I knew. I was like a little puppy, following him around.
After a few years I knew Ted was unhappy at Essendon. He liked the challenge of going to Sydney, the reigning premiers, with a clean slate and new opportunities to impress. He would look back on leaving as one of the best decisions he’s ever made. In 2012, he called me the night after I won the Brownlow Medal to congratulate me on a wonderful achievement. It was so surreal being able to say the same thing to him, because he was playing in a grand final that week.
Retirement is difficult for anyone in any occupation, but for a young man who’ll have to do something completely different, there’s a huge amount of fear and uncertainty. But I also knew that’s where growth comes from. Ted had retired before me, and to have someone like him, who had that perspective to share, was so helpful.
Ted sees the world through his own lens. Most of the time I’m around him I just laugh, sometimes at him, sometimes with him. He’s an extrovert, dragging me through his experiences. He’s incredibly tight, too. On our trips overseas he would always try to save money on accommodation, or take public transport instead of taxis. So ■■■■■■ cheap. The frustration would creep in between us over that.
But he’s generous, too. One night we went out in Vienna. A weeknight. We went to this old train station that had been converted into a nightclub, and Ted goes, “You know what? Let’s make someone’s night tonight. Let’s find a young kid, a student or something, take him under our wing, shout him the whole night, give him the time of his life.” And we did! This Austrian kid was just standing by himself at the bar, and we went right up to him and said, “Whatever you need, whatever you wanna do, you’re with us, mate.”
To think that’s a great way to spend an evening, you have to look at the world in a different way. And that’s Ted.
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Wonderful article about 2 great blokes - thanks for posting.
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I played footy with Ted, he would try and sit on blokes heads for a screamer at least once a quarter
So sad when he left efc, both the Richards and Watson families are great people
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Does anyone know why he was unhappy at Essendon?
I’ve always been curious as to what happened.
You can probably read between the lines from this in 2004. He just wasn’t getting games. Tim Watson said when Richards retired that Essendon didn’t know where to put him.
He wasn’t being fed.
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Don’t think Sheedy rated Richards, and he made Jobe work very hard to get his go, which he needed, to be fair.