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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: wayne on July 21, 2010, 09:56:23 AM
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Richmond rookies elevated
Richmond rookies Jamie O’Reilly and Robbie Hicks have been elevated to the senior playing list for the remainder of the 2010 season.
The pair was given their opportunity after season-ending injuries to Nathan Foley (ankle) and Adam Thomson (groin).
O’Reilly, 22, is Richmond’s first-ever Irish recruit. He was spotted by the Club’s Recruiting Manager Francis Jackson early last year, while playing Gaelic Football for County Down, and subsequently invited to train with the Tigers later in the season. That led to him being selected by Richmond as an international rookie (pick 70) in the 2009 Rookie Draft.
He has been groomed as a rebounding half-back/midfielder, and has steadily improved at VFL level this season, playing 11 games for the Coburg seniors.
Hicks, 18, and a graduate of the TAC Cup competition with the Calder Cannons, was selected with Richmond’s first pick (number seven overall) in the 2009 Rookie Draft.
He is a speedy, small forward/midfielder, who is clever around goals, reads the play well, and has clean skills on both sides of his body.
Hicks was a Vic Metro under-18 representative in 2009, and performed impressively at the Draft Camp later that year.
He broke into the Coburg senior line-up in Round 9 this season and has kicked 12 goals from six appearances, including a haul of four against the VFL’s 2009 runner-up, Port Melbourne, on July 3.
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/tabid/6301/default.aspx?newsid=98632
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Fantastic news :cheers Hope they both play this week. Hicks can take Tamblings spot or more likely White's so he can push into the midfield more in Cotchins absence. Bringing O'Rielly could also free up someone such as Lids to make a similar move to the centre.
Have a pletheria of choices with Gourdis, Hicks, O'Rielly and Browne all playing well for Coburg. Hope they all get their chance starting from this week.
Stripes
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Well done Irish man
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Well done Irish man
I am happy to see O'Rielly promoted but he is not, i repeat, not allowed to wear sunblock if he plays seniors! And i am a sauce head so i am quite qualified to make that statement!
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good decision. agree with stripes
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good decision to put thme up against teh pies ? bit much on there plate for this first timers and y not Browne ?
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I'm glad we're giving our wole list a go but I wonder if either will play. Polly and Goo were promoted and neither played straight away. Goo hasn't play at all. Both O'Reilly and Hicks are very slight body-wise. Hicks is tiny.