Richmond premiership star Jack Riewoldt will host his own radio show on SEN
His media career has gone from strength to strength in recent years and now a star Tiger is set to take another giant step, answering talkback calls as part of his own radio show.
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Jack Riewoldt’s media career continues to take off with the Richmond spearhead now a radio host.
The Tigers premiership hero is joining SEN with his own show ‘Jack Riewoldt’s Tiger Time’ starting on Monday from 6pm-7pm.
Riewoldt has signed on for 10 shows and will take listeners into the inner sanctum of Punt Rd with current players and former greats.
He will also take talkback callers to discuss the Tigers performance on the weekend which could be interesting listening.
“It’s been weird not having fans at our games this season, but I’m sure I’ll hear the Tiger Army loud and clear on Monday nights on SEN,” Riewoldt said.
“I’m looking forward to chewing the fat with some special guests and chatting with listeners who I expect will have plenty to say each week.
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“Hopefully we can turn on some good footy despite the difficult circumstances of this season and keep the conversation nice!”.
The show is sponsored by Swinburne University of Technology with Riewoldt to interview teammates Tom Lynch and David Astbury, who are currently studying at the university, about their education journey.
Riewoldt, 31, has certainly dipped his toe into the media landscape over the past couple of years as he positions himself for life post football.
He is a regular on Fox Footy’s AFL 360 and is co-host of the popular ‘Balls & Bumpers’ podcast with his good friend Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin.
Riewoldt is the second big name to join SEN in recent weeks with Hawthorn legend Luke Hodge also becoming a regular fixture.
Hodge has joined Gerard Whateley’s morning show and will also feature on ‘Crunch Time’ on Saturdays.
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‘I CRIED LIKE A BABY’: JACK’S HUB HEARTBREAK
– Lauren Wood
Richmond star Jack Riewoldt has opened up on the emotional toll of staying in the club’s Gold Coast hub, which he says has left him questioning why he is playing.
Riewoldt, 31, has left behind young daughter Poppy and wife Carly, who he revealed is expecting their second child.
The dual premiership forward said he had “cried like a baby” upon Richmond’s departure — less than 24 hours before Melbourne was plunged back into lockdown — and that he was struggling with adjusting to extended life on the road.
“I won’t lie – I probably have second guessed a little bit coming up here,” Riewoldt said on AFL360 from Queensland.
“Leaving (on Monday) was really tough.
“Obviously with Poppy only being very young and Carly as well … leaving her at home and knowing what she has to go through by herself, basically being a single parent, there’s certainly a weight on my shoulders about that.
“But it’s the decision that we came to together, but like everything in this current climate, it shifts hourly, and unfortunately we find ourselves in a position where for the next six weeks in Victoria, we’re going back to the lockdown and unfortunately there isn’t much I can do here at the moment bar trying to organise a few things from afar … and trying to enjoy it while supporting Carly and every other player who’s got a partner at home who needs the support right now.”
Richmond skipper Trent Cotchin’s family — wife Brooke and three children Harper, Mackenzie and Parker — are the only player family to join the team on the Gold Coast.
Riewoldt said that the news that metropolitan Melbourne would be returning to Stage 3 restrictions had left him and his fellow Tigers “a little bit flat”.
And after an emotional farewell, he conceded that he would continue to internally question his decision to enter the hub.
“I cried like a baby,” Riewoldt said of his goodbye to Poppy and Carly.
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“Which unashamedly … it’s the one thing that I’m going to struggle with more than anything else. I think over the whole period here, I’ll constantly ask myself ‘why am I here? What am I actually doing leaving my young family to come up here and play a game?’.
“But the club has given me so much over my career, that I’m truly indebted to them and that’s why I’m here – doing my bit for my football club, while trying to do my bit for my family, too.”
Riewoldt conceded that he was yet to turn his mind to this weekend’s clash with Sydney at the Gabba, but said that his teammates had been providing plenty of support.
He said he hoped that being away as a group would help the team to rediscover the “Richmond DNA” that had led it to two of the last three premierships.