{"id":52294,"date":"2025-08-08T06:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52294\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T06:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:54:06","slug":"why-tom-lynchs-richmond-career-might-not-be-over-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52294\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tom Lynch&#8217;s Richmond career might not be over anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lynch is locked in for 2026, but don\u2019t rule out seeing the Richmond spearhead in yellow and black well beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old will return to the Tigers\u2019 line-up this weekend after serving a five-match ban, and on Friday, signed a one-year contract extension that keeps him at Punt Road through next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Richmond coach Adem Yze isn\u2019t setting a finish line just yet.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/collingwood\/news\/collingwood-late-season-struggles-mirror-form-2023-premiership\/5ad7ff4894378c85dc28feff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Collingwood late season struggles mirror form before 2023 premiership<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We don\u2019t want to put a ceiling on it&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Lynch\u2019s future, Yze made it clear that his value\u2014on and off the field, remains enormous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at Scott Pendlebury, I think he\u2019s signed five one-year deals in a row,\u201d Yze said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to put a ceiling on how long that\u2019s going to last. Right now, he signs a one-year deal, and Dion [Prestia] is looking at a one-year deal as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just the one-year process, it\u2019ll all be based around body and impact in games. When I say it could be two or three years, if all going well, the same sort of discussion will happen next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/craig%20mcrae%20blasts%20collingwood%20after%20lowest%20score%20in%20his%20tenure\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Craig McRae blasts Collingwood after lowest score in his tenure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yze said Richmond had no intention of moving out all its experienced heads just yet, with Lynch, Prestia, Nathan Broad and Nick Vlastuin playing a \u201ccritical\u201d role in guiding the club\u2019s younger crop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re obviously rapt he\u2019s playing this weekend, but we\u2019re rapt at the same time he\u2019s committed for at least another season,\u201d Yze said. \u201cHe\u2019s so important to our footy club, but not only our footy club, our young forward line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And with Lynch eager to make amends after his suspension for a high hit on Jordon Butts, the Tigers believe their leader\u2019s best may not be behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Lynch is locked in for 2026, but don\u2019t rule out seeing the Richmond spearhead in yellow and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-52294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}