Why Didn’t Jack Dyer Play in Richmond’s 1932 Premiership?

Jack Dyer was already a Victorian representative, a Brownlow vote-getter and one of Richmond’s emerging young stars in 1932. He was also at the MCG when Richmond finally broke its long Grand Final run against Carlton — but he was not in the twenty that won the premiership.

Why did an 18-year-old who had already forced his way into a powerful Richmond side miss September, and what did that absence mean for a club whose established generation was still trying to finish its own work?

The deeper member feature traces Dyer’s first two seasons and the chain of events that left the future Captain Blood watching Richmond’s 1932 premiership from outside the side.

Read the full RTSSG investigation here.

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