Hickey’s ‘priceless’ ring plea

GEELONG AFLW star Melissa Hickey says she believes “in the good” of the world as she yesterday put out a plea to help find a “priceless” football ring stolen in a daytime burglary.

Hickey’s housemate returned to their Thornbury pad on Thursday afternoon to find the front door wide open and their possessions inside “a bit amiss”.

Hickey had been in Geelong for the night and thought little of the burglary until returning home yesterday to find the ring she had been given by her former club Melbourne was missing.

The ring is marked with the Demons’ logo and had the year 2017 on it as well as the number ‘2’, representing Hickey being the second player drafted to the club behind Daisy Pearce.

“It was a really special thing that the club did for us and I know it’s a tradition that they carry on now, that everyone drafted to the club gets a ring with the number of the player order they are drafted to the club,” Hickey said of the oneof-a-kind ring.

“I wasn’t really thinking about it when my housemate called. I just thought, ‘It’s possessions, I’ll be able to buy possessions back’. But this one’s pretty unique and priceless and a memento from that time of my life in footy.”

Hickey said while some other jewellery and clothing were also stolen, as well as her housemate’s passport and computer, she was just desperate to have the ring returned. “It’s irreplaceable,” she said. “You can replace other jewellery and clothing. Maybe they think they need those things more than I do, I’m not sure what’s going on in their lives that they do this.

“I believe in the good. If the universe wants it to come back to me it will come. If not, someone else needs it more than me.”

Hickey made the move from the Demons to Geelong at the end of 2018, joining the Cats last season.