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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft
« Last post by Diocletian on Today at 12:00:47 AM »


1. WCE - Cooper Duff-Tyler
2. WCE - Dyson Sharp .......... ( compo pick for Oscar Allen )
3. GC - Zeke Uwland ................( matched bid  )
4.WCE- Josh Lindsay                    (Richmond pick for Reid)
5.WCE- Will Duursma ............. ( Richmond pick for Reid)
6. Bris - Daniel Annable .............. ( matched bid )
7. GC - Dylan Patterson ............. ( matched bid )
8. Syd - Max King ........................ ( matched bid )
9. StK - Mitchell Marsh
10. Ess - Harley Barker ................... ( Melb's pick held by the Bombers )
11. Ess - Oliver Greeves
12. Haw - Aidan Schubert ................. ( Carlton's pick held by the Hawks )

Fixed. :shh
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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 Membership - One Richmond
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 11:29:01 PM »
As of 08/07/2025

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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 11:27:48 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SwREeRDsAg

1. WCE - Cooper Duff-Tyler
2. WCE - Dyson Sharp .......... ( compo pick for Oscar Allen )
3. GC - Zeke Uwland ................( matched bid  )
4. Rich - Josh Lindsay
5. Rich - Will Duursma ............. ( Norf's pick we hold )
6. Bris - Daniel Annable .............. ( matched bid )
7. GC - Dylan Patterson ............. ( matched bid )
8. Syd - Max King ........................ ( matched bid )
9. StK - Mitchell Marsh
10. Ess - Harley Barker ................... ( Melb's pick held by the Bombers )
11. Ess - Oliver Greeves
12. Haw - Aidan Schubert ................. ( Carlton's pick held by the Hawks )
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Richmond Rant / Re: Injury Update 2025
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 11:16:31 PM »
The "staggering" statistics surrounding taxing injury crisis

By SEN
8 July 2025


Garry Lyon is staggered by the amount of young players missing AFL games through injury due to the demands of the modern game.

Lyon says he has an issue with the demands that the game puts on first and second-year draftees in particular.

Read Lyon's thoughts below:

“We narrow the size of lists, which means we then put more pressure on the actual list you've got. We lengthen the game. All we've done in recent times is make the season longer,” Lyon said on SEN Breakfast.

“So what's your answer? It started on the 7th of March. The season started on the 7th of March.

“We're now in the middle of July, we've got 15 weeks still for the season to finish. 15 weeks!

“We've got these kids who are coming in and we make lists smaller. So the poor old Tigers, who are in a situation where they've got to play their kids - I’m not saying they're under pressure to play Sam Lalor - but in an ideal world, Sam Lalor doesn't play last week and might only play two times for the rest of the year.

“I’m looking at Melbourne's future. There's Harvey Langford and Xavier Lindsay. I don't want them to play every game for the rest of this year.

“Alix Tauru, who I think is the most exciting young player I've seen emerge for a long time, had to be held back because he had a back injury. So he gets more time to prepare.

“I spoke to a senior coach about this - they draft these kids out of under-18 or school footy. They de-load them, so they get them into the system, and you're not lifting heavy weights to prepare yourself for a big season.

“They de-load so you're just all about technique to make sure that (you build good habits), so they haven't got that basis.

“They're drafted in October. They do a few weeks, the Christmas break comes around, they get weeks off, they come back, within six weeks they want them to play senior footy, and they want them to play over a 25-week period.”

Staggering numbers

“The amount of games missed to injury by top 30 draft picks.

“In 2021 it was 147, in 2022 it was 251, in 2023 it was 379.

“And last year it was 447 games missed, and at the moment we're at 383 games of kids who have missed through injury.

“So this is just my opinion - you don't have to agree with it. I look at Geelong, who have been the smartest team in the competition - when's the last time you saw an 18-year-old kid play for Geelong?

“Connor O'Sullivan played one game last year for the Cats, and then they said, ‘no, no, no, you're not ready’. So he didn't play again (until this year).

“Ollie Dempsey won the NAB Rising Star for Geelong in his third year.”

Cats in unique position

Co-host Tim Watson pointed out that Geelong is in a very different position to a lot of other teams, giving them the luxury to debut some of their youngster at a later stage.

“But they've worked their way into a unique position though because of the success they've had over a long period of time now, and the type of team that they've been building,” said Watson.

“I would think that they've looked at this, and they've looked at the productivity that they can get out of early draft picks, but then their philosophy within the club has been different to a lot of other clubs.

“They haven't gone back for a reset or a rebuild or call it what you like. They've been able to continue to top up and they've been able to manage it beautifully.

“They haven't relied like Richmond on a complete rebuild or reset, go and get all the kids and play the kids and try and get as much time and experience into them as quickly as they possibly can.”

Limited numbers on lists

Lyon continued: “Not to the detriment of their careers.

“This is the problem with limited numbers on lists.

“I understand where Richmond are at. They'll turn around and say, ‘Hey, we ain't got any choice’. So they'll play another debutant at some stage.

“But you don't want Sam Lalor playing 20 games this year. You want him playing 250 games down the track.

“I’ve got every club's top picks over the last five years.

“The list of players that have missed through injuries after they've got drafted is staggering.

“Do you know much about Josh Goater? Drafted in 2021, missed five games, then he missed 22, then he missed 15 games. So he's the first or second-round pick.

“Taylor Goad hadn't played much footy. These kids that have come through and missing footy is unbelievable.

“And what's our answer? The AFL will go, ‘we're going to make the season longer, we're going to make it more demanding, and we're going to take numbers off the playing list’.”

What about Daicos, Sheezel, Selwood etc.?

“There are exceptions. There's no problem about that, and I understand that.

“But we need to limit how much game time they should have in their first and second years and try and facilitate it that way, because you don't want this list I've got in my hand…

“Zach Reid, who's just come in… the Will Ashcroft knee, Nik Cox, Denver Grainger-Barras, Josh Gibcus, Josh Goater, Brayden George, Angus Sheldrick, Elijah Hewett, these are all kids.”

Longer season not the answer

“I spoke to a senior AFL coach who said this - The answer from the AFL to all these questions is to put more weeks into the season and build more pressure on these kids.

“I would ideally love to see a 20 or 22-week season, but it's about managing loads for these kids, essentially is where I'm getting to.

“In an ideal world, percentages of time you can play, senior games, try to take it out of the hands of the teams themselves.

“But you've got list sizes which compromise your ability to do that. If we did that to Essendon and said, you can only play first-year players 65-75 per cent of the season, and second-year players 85 per cent, then that might mean they have to take Isaac Kako out of the side this week, and they just might not end up with enough players.

“Again, what's the answer from the AFL? ‘Oh, let's make the season longer’.

“And guess what? I'll tell you what else we'll do in this game that you've just described as the hardest physical game in the world - let's make the quarters longer as well.

“Let's leave them out there longer because of all this nonsense, bull dust reviews, wait for a boundary umpire, for all that nonsense.

“So, season gets longer, weeks get longer, you're in training longer, and the damn games are going longer.

“And you wonder why you these first and second-year players are missing so many games.”

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2025/07/08/lyon-staggering-injury-toll-on-young-players-is-an-issue
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Richmond Rant / Re: Nick Vlastuin - 250th this week [merged]
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 11:14:26 PM »


250 games for our #1 Tiger

A heart and soul Tiger, Nick Vlastuin is set to play his 250th AFL game on Saturday night.

By Henry Milic
RFC website
8 July 2025


Ultimate Richmond man and three-time premiership player, Nick Vlastuin, will play his 250th AFL game in front of the Tiger Army when the side faces the Bombers on Saturday night at the MCG.

Vlastuin’s career at Punt Road first began when he was picked up in the 2012 National Draft with the ninth overall selection.

Hailing from Eltham in Melbourne’s North-East, Vlastuin quickly rose through the ranks, captaining the U18’s Vic Metro side in his draft year.

“I played for Eltham Junior Footy Club and then went to Northern Knights in Under 16s, where I went through that program, Vic Metro, and then I got drafted to Richmond,” Vlastuin said on the latest episode of Forging Forward, which airs on Friday night on the Richmond website, app and YouTube.

“I’ll be honest, I didn’t do too well at school and didn’t really have much else going for me, so I had a gap year between finishing school and getting picked up because I finished when I was 17.

“I was just lifeguarding, and I went to uni, but I ended up dropping out because I hated studying, so it was kind of footy or bust for me.”

On the latest episode of Forging Forward backed by Latitude, we went surfing with Vlastuin and Luke Trainor, and spoke to Nick and key figures from his football career. Tune into Richmond’s website, app and YouTube on Friday night at 7pm to watch the full episode.

Vlastuin’s good friend, and 2016 premiership player with the Western Bulldogs, Tom Boyd, said that Tigga's leadership shone through from an early age.

“Nick was the captain of Vic Metro when I played as a bottom-age player,” Boyd said.

“He was named Tigga because he was a maniac of a kid and very difficult to keep down in one place, and he was exactly that when I met him.

“He was full of energy and always wanted to do things, certainly was a good leader from a very practical point of view and just played the game the way it should be played.”

In Round 5 in 2013, Vlastuin made his AFL debut against Fremantle at Subiaco Oval, where the side fell short in the dying minutes of the game, losing by one point.

“I remember getting told on the Thursday, and we were playing on the Saturday, so it was pretty hard for a lot of family and mates to get over there,” Vlastuin said.

“It was in Subiaco vs Freo, and we ended up losing by one point, and I remember Hayden Ballantyne kicked a goal at a stoppage with like 10 seconds to go or something.

“It was a bit of a baptism by fire.”

Now on the cusp of his 250th game, Vlastuin has cemented himself as one of Richmond’s all-time greats.

Last year, the 31-year-old won the Jack Titus Medal as runner-up in Richmond’s best and fairest, an accolade to go alongside his three premierships acclaimed in 2017, 2019 and 2020.

Former teammate and now assistant coach, Chris Newman, reflected on how big of an influence Vlastuin has had on the Club during his tenure.

“He was always very easy to play with. One thing about Tig is that he was always very reliable, and he is able to be really level-headed regardless of the scenario,” Newman said.

“He is still that reliable self, he still puts the jumper on and cares for his teammates more than you could ever hope for, and he is the one those people turn to when they need some help.

“He sees the game so well, and that is why he has been able to be one of our most consistent players for a long, long period of time, and that is really hard to be able to do.”

Vlastuin is now the most experienced player amongst the current playing group, having accumulated more AFL games than any of his teammates.

The 31-year-old has taken it upon himself to be a leader for the next generation of Tigers both on and off the field.

Away from footy, Vlastuin likes to make the most of Victoria's pristine surf coastline, even taking the first-year players under his wing by teaching them how to surf.

“As soon as I got my license, I was driving down here (Torquay), flat out and just surfed whenever I could,” Vlastuin said.

“One of my good mates, Tom Boyd, who I lived with, we would literally look every day to see where the best surf was in Victoria on our day off and either go down to Phillip Island or Mornington Peninsula, Torquay and all the way down to Johanna.

“The best surfer is the one who has the most fun.”

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1824192/250-games-for-our-1-tiger
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OER Tiger of the Year Award / Re: Votes for Round 17, 2025 - Tigers vs Cats
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 11:05:56 PM »
Votes for Round 17

Rioli      2 3 = 5
Mansell    3 1 = 4
Campbell   1 2 = 3

Leaderboard after Round 17

Vlastuin  32
Taranto   31
Nankervis 30
Campbell  27
Hopper    21
Broad     20
Lalor     18
Ross      14
Trainor   12
Miller    12
Brown     11
Banks     10
Mansell   10
Lynch      6
McAuliffe  6
Prestia    6
Rioli      5
Dow        4
Gray       4
Balta      3
Sonsie     3
Alger      2
Blight     2
McIntosh   2
Ralphsmith 2
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Competitions / OER's 2025 Tipping Competition - Round 18
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 11:05:23 PM »
OER's 2025 Tipping Competition - Round 18

Game rules:

Pick the winner and margin of the Tigers' game plus another match of your own choosing.

For each match each week:
* if you tip the winner and are within or at 10 points either side of the final margin you get 2 points.
* Tip the winner OR are within 10 points of the final margin you get 1 point.
* -1 if you get both wrong.
* Your overall total can never fall below 0.
* Bonus 5 pts if you predict the correct margin and winner.

Prize:  $100

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Round 18

Richmond vs Essendon        @ the M.C.G.

GWS Giants vs Geelong       @ Engie Stadium
W.Bulldogs vs Adelaide      @ Mars Stadium, Ballarat
St Kilda vs Sydney          @ Marvel Stadium
Carlton vs Brisbane         @ Marvel Stadium
Melbourne vs North Melbourne @ the M.C.G.
Gold Coast vs Collingwood   @ People's First Stadium
Port Adelaide vs West Coast @ Adelaide Oval
Fremantle vs Hawthorn       @ Optus Stadium
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Competitions / Re: OER's 2025 Tipping Competition - Round 17
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 11:03:40 PM »
Results for Round 17

Geelong by 72
Bulldogs by 49
Collingwood by 56
GWS by 59
Gold Coast by 41
Brisbane by 28
Hawthorn by 20
Sydney by 11
Adelaide by 13

Points for Round 17

torch, Andyy 3
wayne, cub, JPT, MT 2
WP 0

everyone else -2

Leaderboard after Round 17

torch   35
cub     34
Andyy   32
wayne   28
JPT     21
MT      21
WP       8

everyone else 0
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Richmond Rant / Re: Maurice Rioli junior [merged]
« Last post by WilliamPowell on Yesterday at 09:46:30 PM »
Would be one id delist come seasons end. Regardless of what position he plays he will always be a battler.

Atm our senior team sure can do with his pace and he stands out in this simply because we are so lacking for that commodity.
The problem is well outside of being fast over 10 metres he just does not have an outstanding attribute to get him over the line.

By my reckoning he is in year five and enough is enough we as a club need more than just pace in players we retain.

Imo he and Green should both go at seasons end we just have to do much better to simply attain a good player.

MRJ is contracted for 2026, so will not be delisted

As for Green, I find it interesting you say he should be delisted but you've posted in other threads that you see Smith as long term option.

I have to be honest I am not sold on either
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Richmond Rant / Re: Jacob Bauer [merged]
« Last post by pmac21 on Yesterday at 09:35:58 PM »
Harsh but agree he will probably be delisted
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