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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on October 12, 2012, 03:35:26 AM
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Cashed-up Tigers learn tricks of the trade
Jon Ralph
From: Herald Sun
October 12, 2012
EVERYONE has their favourite on the list of Trades that Sank Richmond.
When you haven't played finals since 2001, failure doesn't come exclusively from draft blunders like overlooking Matthew Pavlich and Lance Franklin.
How about recruiting Greg Stafford with the pick 17 that became James Kelly, trading Brad Ottens for picks 12 and 16 (Danny Meyer and Adam Pattison), or giving up pick 19 (Callan Ward) for Jordan McMahon?
Yet underfunded Richmond never stood a chance, admitting that if it had kept pick 19 Ward was never on its radar in the 2007 national draft.
The job is only half-done, but a cashed-up recruiting department boosted by key additions has turned miracle worker compared to the previous decade's efforts.
Consider what Richmond has been able to recruit by giving away just pick 37 and bit-parts forward Andrew Collins (to Carlton), and dropping from pick 14 to 15 in last year's trade order.
Ivan Magic (Adelaide), Shaun Dirge (Carlton), Bachar Houli (Essendon), Steven Morris (SANFL), Troy Chaplin (Port Adelaide) and Chris Knights (Adelaide).
It's not Bourke-Barrott-Clay, but given pick 37 became St Kilda's Jack Newnes and Collins rarely played at Carlton, it is an unqualified success.
Grigg, traded for Collins, finished 10th in the Jack Dyer medal in his first year then fifth this season with 18.10 and 561 touches.
Houli, taken for nothing in the pre-season draft, was fourth in the B&F last year and 10th this year.
Maric, who the Tigers extracted for just pick 37, became the recruit of the year given his ruck dominance and third-placed finish behind Trent Cotchin.
Morris (seventh in the Jack Dyer this year) ain't Glenn Archer, but he is rough and desperate and fills a key defensive hole. The former SANFL defender was pre-listed at GWS, but again the Tigers got him for next to nothing after moving down the draft order just one spot.
Chaplin has his critics but he finished third in the club's best-and-fairest in 2009, won it in 2010, and was leading again this year before missing three of the last four games.
Through its added investment in football, a stable recruiting platform that includes former Port Adelaide pro-scout Blair Hartley and recruiter Francis Jackson, Richmond just gets the job done.
It gets its blue-chip picks right, too.
Since Jarrod Oakley-Nicholls was taken at pick 8 in the 2008 national draft, its first selections have been Jack Riewoldt, Trent Cotchin, Tyrone Vickery, Dustin Martin, Reece Conca and Brandon Ellis.
The challenge is obvious - translate it into a drought-breaking finals appearance - but at least that tilt will come off a platform of recruiting successes.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/cashed-up-tigers-learn-tricks-of-the-trade/story-fn7shx05-1226493978104
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Who the hell is Shaun Dirge?
:lol
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Who the hell is Shaun Dirge?
:lol
Lol, Shaun Grigg has been mentioned in a dirge or two on this site.
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Ooh dear no wonder why herald sun is the new idea of newspapers
No idea down there any blonde could write for them or publish for them
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Who the hell is Shaun Dirge?
:lol
According to the paper he has been a fine pick up for us.
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Who the hell is Shaun Dirge?
:lol
Or Ivan Magic for that matter?
Is Ralphy publishing his articles straight from his iPhone these days?
Seems that the Hun has lost all their editors.
Thanks for posting it O-E because it's a bit rich to expect people to pay for that crap.
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Who the hell is Shaun Dirge?
:lol
Or Ivan Magic for that matter?
Is he an uncle of yours?
:lol
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Who the hell is Shaun Dirge?
:lol
Or Ivan Magic for that matter?
Is he an uncle of yours?
:lol
:lol
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If Ralphy is on SEN with KB, I'd love someone to ring in and ask him how Dirge and Magic are going down at Tigerland. :wallywink
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Love how people say our recruiting is great however:
WE STILL HAVENT MADE THE %$## FINALS!!!
When this happens they can say they may have done enough...
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The printed copy delivered to the outer east has Shaun Grigg but still has Ivan Magic.
:thumbsup
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Who the hell is Shaun Dirge?
:lol
Or Ivan Magic for that matter?
Is he an uncle of yours?
:lol
:lol
:lol
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If Ralphy is on SEN with KB, I'd love someone to ring in and ask him how Dirge and Magic are going down at Tigerland. :wallywink
To be fair R and G are pretty close on the keyboard
But Dirge is a bit of a keyboard mauler
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If Ralphy is on SEN with KB, I'd love someone to ring in and ask him how Dirge and Magic are going down at Tigerland. :wallywink
To be fair R and G are pretty close on the keyboard
But Dirge is a bit of a keyboard mauler
You are far too generous a typo would have had R replaced with E, F, T, 4 or 5
65
:thumbsup
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Who the hell is Shaun Dirge?
:lol
Don't be too hard on the guy, guy. Most of the details are probably a direct copy and paste from Bigfooty. ;D
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if you havn't figured it out the Hun have a thousand chimps face rolling their keyboards all day seeing if words come out.
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Go Shaun Dirge and Ivan Magic :)
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Ivan Magic and Shaun Dirge may be the result of writing his article on an iPad
But Chaplin winning Port's b&f in 2010 (actually Kane Cornes) is the result of a crayon eating glue licking walnut
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if you havn't figured it out the Hun have a thousand chimps face rolling their keyboards all day seeing if words come out.
:lol
:lol :lol
:lol >:( :lol ™
:lol :lol
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and as if the Stafford trade was a bad one
stuffing muppet
kim hagdorn should take this guy
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Trade mark it Tiga or I will lol
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Ivan Magic and Shaun Dirge may be the result of writing his article on an iPad
But Chaplin winning Port's b&f in 2010 (actually Kane Cornes) is the result of a crayon eating glue licking walnut
mmmmmmm crayons
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Ivan Magic and Shaun Dirge may be the result of writing his article on an iPad
But Chaplin winning Port's b&f in 2010 (actually Kane Cornes) is the result of a crayon eating glue licking walnut
:lol
What makes it worse is Ralph-Mouth is supposedly a Tigers man. :-[
He makes Caro look like the best journo since sliced bread. At least she doesn't make Primary school mistakes.
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Ivan Magic and Shaun Dirge may be the result of writing his article on an iPad
But Chaplin winning Port's b&f in 2010 (actually Kane Cornes) is the result of a crayon eating glue licking walnut
:lol
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Trade mark it Tiga or I will lol
Thanks for the heads up Owl. Just did it! :thumbsup
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Collins was done for grigg.
What's this p37 bollocks
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That's the pick we traded to the Crows for Maric. They then on-traded it to the Aints for Tom Lynch.
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Dirge is a gun, so is Magic yessss :clapping
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Greg Dirge will win a Brownlow one day :shh
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Greg Dirge will win a Brownlow one day :shh
Greg, Shaun and Terry Dirge.
Our version of the Daniher brothers.
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Greg Dirge is a bulger
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Greg Dirge is a bulger
A dirty turd Burgler :o
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The burgler turgler
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The Dirgular.....
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a turgid bugler?