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Richmond Rant / Re: Patrick Retschko

« Last post by one-eyed on January 19, 2026, 02:08:04 PM »

Deadline day surprise mover Patrick Retschko is mounting a case for a round one debut.

Richmond made a move for the wingman in the closing hours of the trade period, sending pick No.99 to the Cats after meeting with Retschko a fortnight earlier after he was delisted by Geelong with the initial plan to sign him as a delisted free agent.

The 19-year-old finished fifth in the Cats' VFL best and fairest but the list squeeze at Kardinia Park cost him another contract.

But after dominating all the running and impressive in early match play, Retschko is eyeing a spot on a wing in a team that no longer includes Kamdyn McIntosh, while Hugo Ralphsmith is also still recovering from the hamstring strain he suffered in December.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1461267/richmond-tigers-gun-nick-vlastuin-back-in-full-training-after-ankle-injury-veterans-on-modified-programs

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Richmond Rant / Re: Thomas Sims [merged]

« Last post by Hard Roar Tiger on January 19, 2026, 08:09:10 AM »

The new ruck rule will help him and potentially Noah Balta should they decide to put him in the ruck

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Richmond Rant / Re: General preseason training discussion [merged]

« Last post by Hard Roar Tiger on January 19, 2026, 08:06:16 AM »

Even if half the squad is injured, it would be 1-3 weeks or TBC or Indefinite

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Richmond Rant / Re: Favourite player game

« Last post by Wazza on January 19, 2026, 01:48:29 AM »

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Richmond Rant / Re: General preseason training discussion [merged]

« Last post by Tiger Khosh on January 18, 2026, 09:36:29 PM »

Lalor is a freaking monster

Apparently noone is injured

Yeah unless anything happened over the Xmas break I think everyone is training.

Be good to know who is just doing fitness or non contact training i.e. Smillie and how far off they are from getting into full training.

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Richmond Rant / Re: Favourite player game

« Last post by WilliamPowell on January 18, 2026, 08:17:28 PM »

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Richmond Rant / Re: General preseason training discussion [merged]

« Last post by Hard Roar Tiger on January 18, 2026, 05:42:55 PM »

Lalor is a freaking monster

Apparently noone is injured

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Richmond Rant / Re: 2026 free agents - Broad, Lynch, Miller, Nankervis, Prestia, Ross, Vlastuin

« Last post by the claw on January 18, 2026, 12:49:57 PM »

Are you both referencing the suggestion or that the post doesn’t take in the length of an essay?

Both

Good idea

And I love brevity

Yet you asked for 100 quotes of tigers fans calling Chaplin soft shyte rubbish

Just enjoyed wasting your time and energy (trolling)

 

Fear not it was rather therapeutic reading those 100 posts

Almost forgot what a useless list blocking squib he was

Who was he blocking/holding out of the side at the time though?

Anyone who had an ounce of ability to defend 1v1 and a heart.

We did have a few in the system

Rance entering year 6 and really hitting his straps
Darrou a rookie in his second year i think, a long shot that didn't work out.
McGuane always for me a third tall who we would delist end of 2013. Another in a line of ordinary players we would get to 100 games
Astbury was drafted as a key forward and can't remember  if he was being tried as a defender in 2013.
Grimes who imo replaced McGuane ultimately. He had injury woes as we all know early on.

So it was a bit dicey but We had our premiership talls in place we just didn't know it.
Imo as far as list goes getting Chaplin for experience and making up decent tall defensive numbers for depth  was correct.
 I always had a problem with it actually being him though.

We would basically fail in taking or adding good depth and young kpds to the list until 2016 when we drafted Garthwaite really a third tall type given his height and size and it was a token pick at 72.

Balta would come in 2017 pretty sure he was a kpf though and Miller who was definately taken as a kpf.
Biggie Nyuon in 2019 at 54.
Until Finally Gibcus at pick 9 in 2021 and Tarrant as a trade.. At this point in time i think they started to wake up about our talls in general the need to add depth and numbers and go for some quality as well.

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Richmond Rant / Re: Thomas Sims [merged]

« Last post by DCrane on January 18, 2026, 04:22:52 AM »

“Last year I did a bit of rucking to give Nank a chop out, and I was playing against big men, so it was hard for me to try and match them physically, but I’ve got Samson Ryan, I’ve got Ollie Hayes-Brown, and I’ve got Nank, and they are all good resources.

Good interview. Bit odd that the ruck coach doesn’t get a mention in this part.

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Richmond Rant / Re: Favourite player game

« Last post by WilliamPowell on January 17, 2026, 10:02:11 PM »

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