page_title: Jack Riewoldt
section_title: 2017 season
hierarchical_section_title: Jack Riewoldt / AFL career / 2017 season
caption_attribution_description: English: Jack Riewoldt kicking during the AFL round thirteen match between Richmond and Sydney on 17 June 2017 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria.
context_page_description: Jack Riewoldt is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is a two-time premiership player, a three-time Coleman Medallist, a three-time All-Australian, a nine-time Richmond club leading goalkicker and a two-time Jack Dyer Medallist. He also serves as the club's vice captain and has done so since 2017.
context_section_description: Riewoldt's 2017 pre-season was hampered by lingering injury concerns. He underwent what was expected to be minor ankle surgery in September 2016, before the procedure was changed to a full ankle reconstruction midway through as a result of the surgeon uncovering more severe damage. In November he went under the knife again, this time to repair damage to a previously broken finger. He was appointed Richmond's co-vice-captain in March 2017. He was to share the role with defender Alex Rance, while both served under continuing captain Trent Cotchin
  With the free-agency departure of full forward Ty Vickery in the off-season, Riewoldt would necessarily see more game-time in deep forward positions in 2017.
  In round 1, 2017 he recorded a career best seven tackles in Richmond's victory over Carlton. round 5's Anzac Day eve clash with Melbourne saw Riewoldt kick six goals in wet weather play. He kicked his 500th career goal in round 7, 2017 in a match against the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium. He was the fifth fastest to the milestone in the history of the club. After 11 games and at the mid-season bye, Riewoldt had kicked 29 goals. In round 13 he notched his 214th AFL match, passing Dick Clay for the most games played by a Richmond player in the number eight guernsey. His two and three goal games in rounds 13 and 14 brought his streak of consecutive games with multiple goals to 10. He was the only player in the competition to hold that streak at the time and held fifth place in the year's goalkicking tally. Riewoldt was one of a number of poor performer's in Richmond's round 16 loss to St Kilda, kicking just one goal and gathering seven possessions in the 67 point loss. What's more, Riewoldt's first possession did not come until the eighth minute of the game's second quarter. An accidental poke in the eye from teammate Mabior Chol during training caused Riewoldt to suffer a cut cornea and bleeding behind the eye. The injury resulted in him missing Richmond's round 19 match against the Gold Coast and brought to an end Riewoldt's steak of 86 consecutive games played. He missed a further match in round 20 before returning in round 21 against Geelong. In round 23, Riewoldt played against his cousin Nick in the St Kilda forward's retirement match. He, along with St Kilda forward Josh Bruce, chaired Nick from the ground in a move that was controversial given a second St Kilda player was passed over for the honour. Following finals victories against Geelong and GWS, Riewoldt and Richmond would qualify for the Grand Final, the club's first since 1982. They would ultimately win the match against minor-premiers Adelaide by 48 points, with Riewoldt contributing two goals, six marks and seven tackles. During the post-match celebrations a free concert was performed on the MCG by American rock band The Killers, who Riewoldt is an avid fan of. After raising the proposition with club and AFL media managers in the week prior, Riewoldt was famously invited to join the band on-stage to sing their 2005 hit, Mr. Brightside. It was a rapturous end to a memorable season for Riewoldt in which he secured an eighth-straight club leading goal-kicker award, placed seventh in the club's best and fairest count, first in the league for marks inside 50 and became a premiership player.
caption: Riewoldt kicks for goal in round 13, 2017
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