One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on September 10, 2021, 01:01:46 PM
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Richmond has been doing its homework on how other recent AFL dynasty clubs went about replenishing their playing talent stocks, as the competition’s 2021 trade period and national/rookie drafts fast approach.
“You look at teams that have had that success and they’ve all gone about it in slightly different ways. We’ve had a really good look at that and what could suit us,” Clarke said.
“Do we go down that path, whether it’s trading or free agency or hitting the draft really quickly?
“You’ve got to balance it out with how long you can hang in that (premiership) window without wanting to just keep going with senior players all the time, and how much youth can actually help you do that.
“Obviously, Blair (Hartley) does a power of work in that space as well, and he presented a really good document and argument about where we’re at as a footy club.
“We looked at the clubs that have been great in the last 20 years – Brisbane, Geelong, Hawthorn – and each one of them has done things slightly differently.
“So, maybe if we take a little bit from each, that can help us.”
Meanwhile, although Richmond goes into this year’s national draft with its first top-10 pick since Nick Vlastuin in 2012 (No. 9 pick overall), the Club’s recruiting team will be fully focused on all the selections it has.
“While it’s exciting to have one for the Club, and a lot of focus will go on that pick, we’re also very aware that a lot of work’s got to go into the second pick and the third, the fourth and fifth,” Clarke said.
“We’ve had some good success with those mid-range selections and rookies, particularly. We had our Best and Fairest winner this year, Dylan Grimes, come out of a pre-season draft.
“So, we know there’s talent all the way through if we’ve done the work. And there’ll be a lot of work done on all our selections.”
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1014934/tigers-study-dynasty-clubs-recruiting-strategies
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Geelong is now a cautionary tale of those clubs who try to stay up for too long believing that their recruiting is better than everyone else's.
You can add Hawthorn to that list and Brisbane, all tried to pinch that extra flag by trading in players to make up for the lack of high draft picks.
All it achieved was to prolong the inevitable downward slide.
I am sure that if you asked Geelong supporters if they would trade away all those years of finals appearances for 1 finals series 1 flag they would do it in a heartbeat.
We are in a unique position of falling out of the finals due to injuries, loss of quality assistant coaches and some astute trading last year which has given us a once in a decade
chance to regenerate our list and stay in the premiership window without compromising our future.
Trading off some of the picks for a young midfielder is fine as long as long as we invest in the future with the remainder.
We shouldn't make the mistake of bringing in other teams list cloggers because we believe that our system can turn them genuine AFL players. (List spots are too precious these
days)
We can learn from the cautionary tales of other teams and cherry pick what did work for them and I hope that is the direction we head in.
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Geelong is now a cautionary tale of those clubs who try to stay up for too long believing that their recruiting is better than everyone else's.
You can add Hawthorn to that list and Brisbane, all tried to pinch that extra flag by trading in players to make up for the lack of high draft picks.
All it achieved was to prolong the inevitable downward slide.
I am sure that if you asked Geelong supporters if they would trade away all those years of finals appearances for 1 finals series 1 flag they would do it in a heartbeat.
We are in a unique position of falling out of the finals due to injuries, loss of quality assistant coaches and some astute trading last year which has given us a once in a decade
chance to regenerate our list and stay in the premiership window without compromising our future.
Trading off some of the picks for a young midfielder is fine as long as long as we invest in the future with the remainder.
We shouldn't make the mistake of bringing in other teams list cloggers because we believe that our system can turn them genuine AFL players. (List spots are too precious these
days)
We can learn from the cautionary tales of other teams and cherry pick what did work for them and I hope that is the direction we head in.
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Great post :clapping :clapping
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Yep.
Im in the lets take all our picks to the draft and pick the best players we can with the picks we have.
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A lesson for us.
Who the Cats have missed out on after topping up with oldies year after year:
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Players taken with Geelong traded draft picks 2014-2020
2014 - Jake Lever
2015 - Wayne Milera
2016 - Jarrod Berry, Jack Graham
2017 - Will Powell
2018 - Lachlan Scholl
2019 - Jeremy Sharp
2020 - Conor Stone*, Ryan Angwin, Brayden Cook, Errol Gulden*, Charlie Lazzaro
https://twitter.com/SnakeTeflon/status/1436466175324553222
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A lesson for us.
Who the Cats have missed out on after topping up with oldies year after year:
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Players taken with Geelong traded draft picks 2014-2020
2014 - Jake Lever
2015 - Wayne Milera
2016 - Jarrod Berry, Jack Graham
2017 - Will Powell
2018 - Lachlan Scholl
2019 - Jeremy Sharp
2020 - Conor Stone*, Ryan Angwin, Brayden Cook, Errol Gulden*, Charlie Lazzaro
https://twitter.com/SnakeTeflon/status/1436466175324553222
To be fair doesn’t look like a massive loss although too early to tell for some.
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About 3 good/solid players
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Lever's a bonafide gun :shh
Berry's on the way :shh
Graham's a dual premiership player who starred in a GF... :shh
Sholl, Gulden & Sharp are probably the three best young kicks in the comp....... :shh
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Milera has had a very bad run of injuries, knee and foot so he's been out most of this year and all of last.