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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on May 29, 2024, 07:27:36 PM
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Welcome to Tigerland, Campbell :)
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Interesting pick, we played against him on Saturday night curtain easier but he wasn't named in the best.
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Campbell Gray
Key defender
https://www.essendonfc.com.au/teams/vfl/squad
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The Tigers got an early jump on the Dons with the opening three goals in the first five minutes, but Essendon responded through a fast start from defender-turned-forward Campbell Gray, who slotted two goals in the opening term from his solid aerial presence.
https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/1565400/vfl-match-report-tigers-overrun-bombers-at-the-g
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Interesting pick, we played against him on Saturday night curtain easier but he wasn't named in the best.
Both clubs probably told him to spud it up......either way good to finally give Dadildo a taste of of his own medicine at least... :shh
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195cm. Dunno weight.
Glad we addressed key position stocks.
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Chris Toce interviewed about Campbell Gray on the AFL live stream:
- Opposite story to Jacob. Came out of nowhere. Played for Keilor and wasn't on the talent pathway. Been following him since round 1.
- Like the idea of him playing both forward and back.
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Campbell just interviewed on the AFL live stream:
- Still a bit shocked. Grateful. Looking to improve, learn and get better. Can't wait. If he gets the opportunity at AFL level, he will grab it with both hands.
- Already spoken to Adem Yze.
- [Played] forward is good but happy to play anywhere.
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Just stuffing play him straight away.
Can't get any worse.
May as well learn on the job instead of a stupid VFL apprenticeship.
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Richmond recruit Gray in Mid-Season Rookie Draft
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Richmond has used its second selection in the 2023 Mid-Season Rookie Draft (pick No. 16) to recruit key position utility Campbell Gray from Essendon VFL.
Recruited from: Essendon VFL
Position: Key position utility
Height: 195cm
DOB: 1/8/03
What the Richmond recruiters say about Gray...
"Campbell has played every game for Essendon VFL in 2024, as a key position utility, spending time in defence, forward and ruck. He is a versatile, competitive key position player who is strong in the air and has excellent recovery and intent at ground level. He is an extremely likeable and hardworking character, currently a fourth year apprentice electrician whilst balancing VFL commitments."
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1566498/richmond-recruit-gray-in-mid-season-rookie-draft
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VIDEO:
(https://resources.richmondfc.com.au/photo-resources/2024/05/29/28d69246-ac4e-48d3-abd1-48c79e0e420b/XjoKNQ2A.png?width=1240) (https://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/1566548/mid-season-rookie-draft-campbell-gray)
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/1566548/mid-season-rookie-draft-campbell-gray
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Campbell Gray, a 195cm utility from Essendon VFL, arrives at Richmond in strong form, having booted multiple goals in four consecutive games since being swung into the forward line from defence.
The 20-year-old also pinch hit in the ruck during the weekend’s Dreamtime curtain raiser against the Tigers’ VFL team, showing his versatility.
The likable and hardworking character is currently a fourth-year apprentice electrician. He stood out to the Club’s recruiters with his aerial ability, follow-up work, and intent at ground level.
Richmond National Recruiting Manager Chris Toce described the Club’s other mid-season recruit, Gray, as a player with significant upside.
“He has come out of nowhere really, (because) he was playing at Keilor (Essendon and District Football League) the last couple of years and has never been in the talent pathways before,” Toce said.
“His highs are really high, and he has a great attitude to improve. We love the flexibility that he gives us with his ability to play forward and back.”
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1566553/tigers-add-talls-at-mid-season-rookie-draft
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I wonder if they’re looking at him as more of a forward
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The fact that he can take a contested mark is a great start.
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I like the profile of not being part of the junior pathways and has blossomed as a senior player at state level, it's the Tom Stewart mould.
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Campbell Gray interview:
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/1567885/still-trying-to-take-it-all-in-gray
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as posted in the Steely Green thread
Gray has been re-signed for 2025
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"Gray, 21, joined the Club in May with the 16th pick in the Mid-Season Rookie Draft.
The 195cm utility booted 10 majors from VFL matches with the Club, including a best-on-ground performance against Carlton in Round 14.
Gray, who played local football just last year, had five marks and booted four goals in that display against the Blues before he suffered a season-ending hamstring injury in the dying stages....
...“Campbell is a great character who has worked incredibly hard since joining our football program mid-year.
“His versatility gives our coaching staff plenty of options, and we look forward to him continuing to develop as a player in 2025."
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1641355/green-and-gray-to-remain-in-yellow-and-black
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In :clapping
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Feeling Gray-tful!
When Campbell Gray called home to tell his loved ones the news!
VIDEO: https://x.com/Richmond_FC/status/1914895758014423272
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Wonder if his number was deliberately made 50 to satisfy the Tiger pun on the app
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Tigers see shades of Gray amid Balta curfew
There couldn't have been many more satisfying ways for Campbell Gray to begin his AFL debut than by plucking a one-handed intercept mark. But, for the 195cm Richmond defender, that was how a first game earned in bizarre circumstances began. Parachuted into the Tigers team due to it being a night game – and thus finishing beyond Noah Balta's 10pm curfew following his sentencing for assault earlier in the week – Gray was the sixth Richmond debutant in seven matches to begin the year. But he handled himself well on the Anzac Day Eve stage, giving another glimpse of Richmond's bright future before being substituted out of the game for Tom Brown just before three-quarter time.
Source: AFL website (https://www.afl.com.au/news/1306144/melbourne-demons-v-richmond-tigers-match-report-afl-round-seven-2025)
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Give him another go. As usual the newbie albeit having a quite game is subbed out when seniors were stinking it up.
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Poor decision to sub him out. Don't understand it
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I agree I don't think he should have been subbed and I don't think brown should have been the sub in the first place.
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He looked really good to me. Don’t know why miller is untouchable
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Gray did some nice things. Shattered he was subbed....maybe he was sore? Most likely structural. I would have pulled short out for brown though.
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Showed some really good signs
As I posted on the match day thread don't agree with him being subbed out. Could Na,e at least 5 who could have been subbed out before him
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Gray’s eye-catching Dreamtime display
"He’s come in and he looks like he’s an AFL player, he’s ready to play."
By Tony Greenberg, Richmond Media
1 day ago
You wouldn’t have known it was just Campbell Gray’s second game of AFL football if you watched his performance for Richmond in the 2025 Dreamtime clash with Essendon.
Gray, who was recruited by the Tigers with their second pick (No. 16 overall) in last year’s mid-season draft from Essendon’s VFL team, shone under the MCG lights in his key defensive role, as a replacement for Noah Balta.
Showcasing elite closing speed to spoil opposition marking attempts, his own aerial and intercept ability (both in the air and at ground level), as well as cool composure, Gray was a major Yellow and Black positive on the night.
He finished the match with 11 disposals, six marks, three rebound-50s, six intercepts, a game-high 14 one-percenters and 157 metres gained.
Those 14 one-percenters were the most by a Tigers player since Tylar Young’s 15 against the Western Bulldogs in Round 4 of the 2023 season at the MCG.
Richmond coach Adem Yze acknowledged Gray’s efforts during his post-game press conference.
“Campbell Gray’s form down back today, like he did in the Melbourne game (his AFL debut in the Anzac Day Eve match), he’s come in and he looks like he’s an AFL player, he’s ready to play,” Yze said.
“We just thought that Campbell Gray’s second game of AFL footy, to put him in a role he’s played before, and that’s down back. He’s been in good form at VFL level.”
When Balta returns to the line-up, Gray has the versatility to play forward and provide a chop-out in the ruck with his impressive leap.
He was moved up forward in the last quarter of the clash with Essendon and has played there previously in the VFL.
“We just wanted to try something different with him. It might be something we need to look at when Noah is back,” Yze said.
“Right now, we feel like Campbell Gray deserves to be playing AFL footy. So, I reckon if I told him he was playing forward next week, he’ll take that.”
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1790970/grays-eye-catching-dreamtime-display
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Persist! Looks like he has some good potential.
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I worry he’s gonna be a reboot of Tyler Young
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Unheralded: The players who deserve more credit for Round 11
By Andrew Slevison, Lachlan Geleit & Jaiden Sciberras
SEN
26 May 2025
50 shades of Gray
Promoted into the senior side in the absence of Noah Balta, Richmond’s Campbell Gray showed plenty of promise in the Tigers clash with Essendon.
Playing deep in the back half, Gray was prominent in battle with the talented Nate Caddy, holding the key forward to just one mark and one goal, collecting six marks and six intercepts of his own.
The 22-year-old has been resolute in his first two appearances at the top level, proving a shrewd mid-season selection out of Essendon's VFL side.
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2025/05/26/unheralded-the-players-who-deserve-more-credit-for-round-11
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I worry he’s gonna be a reboot of Tyler Young
He looks more athletic and skilled then young imo
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I worry he’s gonna be a reboot of Tyler Young
He looks more athletic and skilled then young imo
Agree.
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I worry he’s gonna be a reboot of Tyler Young
He looks more athletic and skilled then young imo
Not too difficult.... :shh
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Has shown he can take a grab as well. Atm he is probably just taking the safe option by punching. A bit of time and confidence and enough of those spoils should become marks.
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13 spoils on the weekend which is a record for a 2nd gamer…