Was Richmond Ever Really Going to Move Jacob Hopper?
Updated: Aug 30
The full RTSSG member feature, He was brought to Richmond less than four years ago as part of one of the biggest trade coups in club history., starts with a question worth separating from the easy headline.
Jacob Hopper joined Richmond as part of the major trade strategy that also brought Tim Taranto to Punt Road.
By 2026, external discussion had begun treating Hopper as a player who might be gettable, which reopened the logic of the original investment.
Was that simply market noise or a genuine list-management question?
What would Richmond have needed to receive to justify reversing course — and what would moving Hopper have said about the midfield plan built around him?
The member investigation follows that evidence through to the conclusion. Read the full feature here.
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