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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft
« Last post by ajGreen on Today at 03:48:40 PM »
What I think is bollocks is the druggies nga zones having millions of immigrants family's that play football and Richmond were given ten square km in the middle of no where with 4 people and a dog.
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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft
« Last post by ajGreen on Today at 03:47:30 PM »
There's just too many top tier academy prospects.

The ideal was to supposedly offset the lack of F/S options but GCS gets 4 this year and we've had what 4 F/S picks in the last 20 years?

F/S can stay IMO, it's fine/not the problem.

Academy selections should just be limited to 1/year, then the club has to trade up to get a suitable pick for the second.

It sounds like the new rules next draft will ease much of the issues.

Already looking like it's going to take some work for Carlton and Port to get Walker, Cochrane.

Maybe Richmond too depending how good Armstrong plays. 1

But yeah gold coast and Brisbane look pretty sorted for a while
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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft
« Last post by Andyy on Today at 03:43:54 PM »
There's just too many top tier academy prospects.

The ideal was to supposedly offset the lack of F/S options but GCS gets 4 this year and we've had what 4 F/S picks in the last 20 years?

F/S can stay IMO, it's fine/not the problem.

Academy selections should just be limited to 1/year, then the club has to trade up to get a suitable pick for the second.
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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft
« Last post by ajGreen on Today at 03:36:38 PM »
Everyone including the afl knows the system is stuffed.

More changes are coming and I wouldn’t be surprised to see father son abolished but imo the real problem are the academy picks as evident in this years draft. 4 picks for GC in the first round is ridiculous, as well as getting petracca via trade. They just have so much capital to work with

Why can’t the teams who miss out on these players (like us this year) be compensated instead ?

For example if an academy player is rated top 5 by majority of clubs why shouldn’t GC in this example have to trade for the right to draft him, maybe half the amount of points ?

So if we wanted Patterson but GC took him, they should have to trade us half pick 3’s value in picks (max 2 or 3 picks) and we retain our pick as well.

Maybe it’s convoluting it more but we have to be compensated, it’s ridiculous

I don't mind it. Some of these kids are jets and they wouldn't be playing footy otherwise.

There shouldn't be compensation for it or free agents IMO.

Furthermore it seems like bad timing to complain about it now with a good chance if Richmond having pick 1 next year and tanner Armstrong ranked high atm
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Richmond Rant / Re: Who do we take at pick 38?
« Last post by Simonator on Today at 03:28:29 PM »
We will get a really handy player imo. Still plenty left… liked the rumours about kickett too.
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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft
« Last post by Simonator on Today at 03:27:06 PM »
Everyone including the afl knows the system is stuffed.

More changes are coming and I wouldn’t be surprised to see father son abolished but imo the real problem are the academy picks as evident in this years draft. 4 picks for GC in the first round is ridiculous, as well as getting petracca via trade. They just have so much capital to work with

Why can’t the teams who miss out on these players (like us this year) be compensated instead ?

For example if an academy player is rated top 5 by majority of clubs why shouldn’t GC in this example have to trade for the right to draft him, maybe half the amount of points ?

So if we wanted Patterson but GC took him, they should have to trade us half pick 3’s value in picks (max 2 or 3 picks) and we retain our pick as well.

Maybe it’s convoluting it more but we have to be compensated, it’s ridiculous
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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft
« Last post by Andyy on Today at 02:44:56 PM »
Following the first round, Richmond's recruiting manager Rhy Gieschen had some choice words for the state of the draft system.

"The system needs to be addressed... if you finish second-bottom on the ladder you probably don't expect to have pick 7," he said.

Four bids inside the first six selections is a sign of the system working as AFL House intended. But its results skew the equalisation that the draft aims to implement in the competition when the semi-finalist Suns land four first-round talents and the back-to-back premiers bring in another star midfielder.

https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/47025333/afl-draft-2025-bids-trades-chaos-made-first-round


This is quite F'd tbh

I don't mind the F/S options because they are far more rare and not always likely to come good, but the academy ones are so unfair.

GCS having another 2 top 5's is absurd, then another 2 before 20.
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Richmond Rant / Re: Who do we take at pick 38?
« Last post by one-eyed on Today at 12:58:58 PM »
So many draftable players still on the board - all of NHH, Phillipou, Allen, Emmett, Hetherton, Thredgold, Oudshoorn-Bennier, Greeves, Dalton, Ludowyke, Krasnadamskis, Wright, Rodriguez, LeRay, Kondogiannis really draftable for mine (and that's without considering tied players)

https://x.com/Tommy_Wolfe7/status/1991098879388065972
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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft
« Last post by one-eyed on Today at 12:47:08 PM »
Following the first round, Richmond's recruiting manager Rhy Gieschen had some choice words for the state of the draft system.

"The system needs to be addressed... if you finish second-bottom on the ladder you probably don't expect to have pick 7," he said.

Four bids inside the first six selections is a sign of the system working as AFL House intended. But its results skew the equalisation that the draft aims to implement in the competition when the semi-finalist Suns land four first-round talents and the back-to-back premiers bring in another star midfielder.

https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/47025333/afl-draft-2025-bids-trades-chaos-made-first-round
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Richmond Rant / Re: Pick 8: Sam Grlj
« Last post by one-eyed on Today at 12:45:37 PM »
Pick 8 (Richmond) - Sam Grlj
-- MID, 182cm

Jasper Chellappah: "Grlj is a speed demon with a game-breaking propensity to take it on and execute in transition. He's also the ultimate professional and couples his athletic tools with a physical edge to his game that doesn't befit his slender frame. The upside of Grlj is a dynamic midfielder that slices the opposition apart, but he needs to win more of his own ball and tidy up his kicking to get there."

Traits similar to: Max Holmes

https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/47025333/afl-draft-2025-bids-trades-chaos-made-first-round
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