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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on September 18, 2025, 11:00:13 PM
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SEN Breakfast's Garry Lyon and Tim Watson speak to Adem Yze about the last two years and what more is to come.
AUDIO: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/NTETP7392740660?selected=NTETP8945114092
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Speaking on SEN on Thursday morning, Yze was steadfast in the Club’s commitment to this year’s draft.
“We’re really clear that we’re going to hit the draft again,” Yze said.
“We’ve got two early draft picks again, and we’re looking for young talent to bring in. For this season, we’ll do that again.
“We might look to free agents and things like that next year and moving forward.
“Last year we brought a lot of young talent in, we’re going to do that again this year and start to think of those things next year.”
Yze added that the plan this year will be to draft players that mesh strongly with the talent injected through last year’s draftees.
“We think we filled a lot of the gaps that we needed. We brought in Harry Armstrong, Jonty Faull and Tom Sims, so we got a lot of height (up forward), and we got a lot of key defenders,” Yze said.
“Our key position stocks are really strong at the moment, we are just really young.
“Obviously, the talent with Sam Lalor, Josh Smillie, Taj Hotton…we feel like we have filled a lot of gaps with our youth.
“We’re looking to bring in some talent through this draft that will complement what we brought in last year. Right now, the gaps are the exposure and experience that we need these players to have and feel on an AFL field.”
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1896804/tigers-clear-in-draft-approach
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Reading between the lines, it sounds like he knows we need small forwards, small defender(s) and mids.