One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: Rampstar on April 05, 2014, 09:12:01 PM
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Well it looks like after Collingwood belt us next week that our season will just about be done and dusted. I was gonna put this thread up next week but why wait.
What should Richmond do for the next National Draft, Trade Period and Free Agency as well as the Pre Season and Rookie Drafts.
Who should retire and who should get the arse?
And should Richmond FC and Blair Hartley finally realise that Moneyball in AFL doesnt work and its a load of poo that only allows club to get to mid table and no further.
And should the club chase a really "Big Name Player" or should we stick to recruiting rejects from other clubs.
What should the club do to save the Hardwick Rebuild of the Richmond FC before its too late? ;D
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:lol....
Well we should stick to our recruiting guns. Don't go for any stars during free agency, forget trading for talent and pick the smallest, skinniest, shortest, least talented and least skilled young players in the land.....yep, that should just about do it.
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Dear Ramps,
I thought you would go on a "rebuild is a failure" angle, but this thread is not quite to that level.
Could you please advise if the rebuild is a failure or not
Thanks Chucky
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Outs:- Newman, king, foley, Batchelor, Dea, McIntosh, Ohanlon, Astbury, Pettard
Ins:- spend the cap and get Fyfe and Dangerfield,
Trade for/draft YOUNG SILKY speedy finishers
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Dear Ramps,
I thought you would go on a "rebuild is a failure" angle, but this thread is not quite to that level.
Could you please advise if the rebuild is a failure or not
Thanks Chucky
Chucky I will make the final pronouncement some weeks down the track but right now I'd suggest that the rebuild is in Hospital Emergency Department and the Doctors are running around desperately looking to see what they're going to do! :cheers
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Outs:- Newman, king, foley, Batchelor, Dea, McIntosh, Ohanlon, Astbury, Pettard
Ins:- spend the cap and get Fyfe and Dangerfield,
Trade for/draft YOUNG SILKY speedy finishers
x 2
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Trade for Jay Schulz
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Need a power forward. No more of these lean ones. Somebody with big powerful hips who will push defenders around like Hawkins/Walker/Cloke.
Been saying it for years... gotta find one somewhere!
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Need a power forward. No more of these lean ones. Somebody with big powerful hips who will push defenders around like Hawkins/Walker/Cloke.
Been saying it for years... gotta find one somewhere!
we'd slim cloke into a skinny flanker.
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Need a power forward. No more of these lean ones. Somebody with big powerful hips who will push defenders around like Hawkins/Walker/Cloke.
Been saying it for years... gotta find one somewhere!
we'd slim cloke into an arm waiving, bruise free skinny flanker.
Efa
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Need a power forward. No more of these lean ones. Somebody with big powerful hips who will push defenders around like Hawkins/Walker/Cloke.
Been saying it for years... gotta find one somewhere!
we'd slim cloke into a skinny flanker.
Hardwick would play him down back for the first year or so to develop his defensive game.
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Need a power forward. No more of these lean ones. Somebody with big powerful hips who will push defenders around like Hawkins/Walker/Cloke.
Been saying it for years... gotta find one somewhere!
I agree. Knowing for 12 months they'd most likely end up with Boyd I've been saying we need to have a massive crack at Patton. We can't rely on drafting our own at 18 because he would take too long to mature and there are none others realistically gettable. I'm not sure of his contract status to be honest but I know they have something like 12 early draft picks out of contract and it looks like it is entirely their intention to trade them. They'd be after quality mature bodies and I don't know what we realistically have to offer since we've locked away some of our younger better talent on long term contracts and some others we can't afford to lose. Would have to be someone like Griff I guess.
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Mundy & Ibbotson. Young ruck, big fullback. Pace, poise, footskills & hunger. Don't target specialist smalls unless they're ones right out the box like Cyril. Mids, mids , mids & more mids. Forget the recycled mature fringe player moneyball crap. Rookie kids - and some x-factor blackfellas. Forget Dudley Do-Right psych profiles. Trade into the draft. Griffith & Riewoldt should more than do for now if played & coached properly. Throw everything at Cameron 2015.I'd be starting that process now. Any Victorian club that doesn't move heaven & earth to try and land the next Wayne Carey will be derelict in their duty to their supporters.
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Jarrod Pickett. We will probably get a pick high enough if we can't beat the Dogs. He can rot in the VFL because he's too fast to play AFL and then we will delist him, Freo draft him and he plays in 2 flags. :shh
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I think our list is pretty good, need to get rid of a few and make the tough calls like geelong did with chappy.
Get rid of Newman, Pettard, Foley, Thomas. None of these players will get us or even help us to the promise land.
We need another quality assistant coach or two to help Dimma because he clearly needs it.
We need a better fitness coach. Clearly we are one of the most unfit teams in the AFL. Every week Port run out games really well, wish we got their bloke.
Trade or draft for a small forward which can kick goals and is silky. Defensive pressure can be taught easily.
Trade or draft for a speedster midfielder/flanker ( mat white ) that can kick x2
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What really frustrates me ,is that other clubs spend minimal time at the bottom.Even the western bulldogs seem to be getting their stuff together,and other clubs that people here dismiss eg north Melbourne ,get their act together quite quickly,whereas we take an eternity.Where are we at now ,4-5 years into dimmas reign and we still appear to have significant flaws.I mean for crying out loud WW2 was fought and won in that time.
Something is amiss with our club,i don't know what but definitely something not quite right.
Its only round 3 and we can still turn things round ,but the signs are worrying and growing.
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The problem with the RFC is we are unlike our song says, 'we're strong and we're bold'
When a good player comes up for the taking, like in the past when a player wants to come back to Melbourne from an interstate club, or more recently as a FA, we simply don't put our hat in the ring.
Some will say we don't want to pay overs for these blokes but the reality is if you want them you have to otherwise every other club would be in the running. Others will say they didn't want to come to Tigerland but as a club we have convince them to come, it's good old fashion sales! Give them an offer to good to refuse!!
Goddard is the biggest one for me. He is a champ and a leader, something we don't have in spades.
Eddie Betts last year, we are screaming for a small forward and have been forever, but as far as im aware we didn't look twice.
Another is Taylor Adams from last year, he wanted to come home but we just couldn't make it happen. Here is a 10 plus year player, he is tough and hard and loves the contest, something we need desperately. We didn't have the balls to move players on to make it happen.
I know there will be excuses of why we didn't get these blokes and it will be from old blokes that have never taken a rick in their own lives, but I'm just think a decent organization would move heaven and earth to make it happen.
We have another chance this year with a few others but in true Richmond style I bet we just sit on our hands and hope Lady Luck looks after us.
Take a look at Sydney and Hawthorn what they have been able to do at trade time. They run their club like a business not a boys club.
BE BOLD TIGERS!
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Need pace. Need quality small forward.
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Should be building around McBean Lennon vlastuin Martin Griffiths Conca deledio cotchin mcdonuts rance gordon helbig types
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Should be building around McBean Lennon vlastuin Martin Griffiths Conca deledio cotchin mcdonuts rance gordon helbig types
One of the most sensible posts from his honour ;D