Maybe Rance could become our September specialist.
Return to training in July. Play the last 4 rounds of the season and join the finals campaign.
Drape a premiership medal around his neck, spend a few hours celebrating before being paraded down Swan street in a Pope Mobile type vehicle waving to an adoring crowd before heading to China to stop the corona virus in it's tracks, churning goat milk with Tibetan monks, going to the Amazon to convert a cannibal tribe to veganism, before returning again 9 months later to join our 2021 flag quest......... wash, repeat!
3 months of footy, 9 months to do what he wants.
We could renegotiate a contract of 2 to 3k year, giving us another half a mil to use elsewhere.
With less wear and tear on the body, he could go to 35, terrorising opposition forwards in September. Hell, he could probably go to 40
All the while opponents would be leading out thinking "he can't stay that good on 3 months a year" before an Alex Rance fist appears between their hands just as the ball arrives. FMD they'd say as he recovers first, gathers the ball and charges from defense!
If Clarke Keating can pretty much just play footy in September, Rance surely could!