You've just created a fantasy that has never occurred to me before, but will now never leave me. I'm shopping for home brew kits as we speak.
I'm not sure how many kids clinics or Auskicks sessions you get to Ezy, but the percentage of kids who barrack for another club and name Dustin as their favourite player is extraordinary. I'd say it's close to 2/3 when I've seen it.
Bonds aren't riding him to be a $500 million business because they want to sell jocks and socks to the Richmond kids, they want the whole lot and they know Dustin is the vehicle that delivers them.
He's the current version of 90s kids kick to kick when everyone was 'Carey'.
It's also telling that when the Dustin/Bonds partnership was first negotiated, it was in 2017 when he was out of contract and at least some chance of moving on. They didn't give a stuff about that, they just wanted the best season of all time associated with their brand.
By the way, did you just compare Ben Cunnington to Dustin?