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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft

« Last post by Tiger Khosh on September 11, 2025, 06:39:42 PM »

Sharp and CDT is probably my #1 preference.

I'm in danger of sounding like a broken record but our ruck stocks are essentially this:
Nank (workhorse + gets banged up)
Ryan (crap)
OHB (crap + likely to never debut)
Sims (kid + forward/ruck hybrid)

CDT is more of a ruck/forward hybrid and in 5+ years I think him tag-teaming the ruck/forward duties with Sims would be a great plan, with Armstrong and Faull the two permanent tall forwards.

I’d like to see OHB get a chance before writing him off.

Odds are against him but he has developed well as a Cat B rookie and looks promising at VFL level.

If we have a rookie spot available I’d like to see them upgrade him to Cat A so he can get some exposure at AFL level.

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Richmond Rant / Re: Tigers chase Demons' caretaker to join coaching panel (afl site)

« Last post by ajGreen on September 11, 2025, 06:28:42 PM »

Oh no

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Richmond Rant / Tigers chase Demons' caretaker to join coaching panel (afl site)

« Last post by one-eyed on September 11, 2025, 05:58:22 PM »

Tigers chase Demons' caretaker to join coaching panel

Richmond is hoping Troy Chaplin will return to Punt Road as an assistant to Adem Yze

By Josh Gabelich
afl.com.au
Sep 11, 2025

RICHMOND has approached Melbourne assistant coach Troy Chaplin about a homecoming at Punt Road.

The Tigers are in the market for a new backline coach this off-season, following Steve Morris' departure at the end of the season.

Richmond coach Adem Yze spent three years working alongside Chaplin when they were line coaches at Melbourne, where they were both involved in the 2021 premiership.

Chaplin finished his 215-game playing career at Richmond in 2016, spending the final four seasons with the Tigers after nine years at Port Adelaide.

The former defender joined the Demons in the months after his retirement and has spent the past nine seasons working as an assistant coach at Melbourne, where he coached the forwards in 2025.

Chaplin stepped up as Melbourne's caretaker coach for the final three games of the home and away season after the Demons sacked Simon Goodwin at the start of August.

The 39-year-old made it clear from his first press conference that he wouldn’t be pursuing the vacancy and stated he is happy to remain at the club if the new coach has a role for him.

Chaplin is contracted at Melbourne in 2026, along with midfield coach Nathan Jones and backline coach Nathan Bassett, but the new coach is expected to implement changes.

The Demons are set to appoint a new senior coach by the end of next week and are currently interviewing former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley, Western Bulldogs midfield coach Brendon Lade, Essendon midfield coach Daniel Giansiracusa and Geelong assistants Steven King and James Kelly.

Collingwood senior assistant coach Hayden Skipworth was shortlisted for the role but has opted against pursuing the position after running second behind Andrew McQualter for the West Coast job in 2024.

The Tigers are understood to be keen on adding Chaplin to Yze’s coaching panel but don’t expect too many other changes. Ben Rutten, Blake Caracella, Chris Newman, Jack Ziebell and Sam Lonergan are all contracted for 2026.

Chaplin was named the 2022 assistant coach of the year by the AFL Coaches Association.

 https://www.afl.com.au/news/1416433/richmond-tigers-chase-demons-caretaker-troy-chaplin-to-join-coaching-panel

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Richmond Rant / Re: 2025 AFL Draft

« Last post by Tiger Khosh on September 11, 2025, 05:28:47 PM »

I’m still hopeful CDT is taken by our pick but if he’s there you gotta grab him I guess.

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Richmond Rant / Re: Trade talk, rumours & innuendo 2025

« Last post by WilliamPowell on September 11, 2025, 02:54:47 PM »

Air shagging a blow up doll ffs

Every chance he didn’t know it was anything to do with rape .. just a dumb kid

There are others involved that did far worse IMO .. like dressing up as Jarrod Hayne as a starting point

As a side note , I’m not saying yes or no to picking him up .. all I’m suggesting is it should be decided on footballing ability , not on what he did with a blow up stuffing doll

And I’ll add, comparing him and the Elijah Hollands situation , give me a spell

Just so we are clear on Fahey's involvement

Fahey was the one dressed as Jarrad Hayne. The one with the blow up doll and he did a "skit" with the blow up doll.

Please don't suggest he didn’t know the circumstances around Hayne. It was Front page news

He copped the harshest penalty because his action's were as I've said many times disgusting. Making jokes about a women being raped is not ok. It is simply wrong.

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Richmond Rant / Re: Trade talk, rumours & innuendo 2025

« Last post by Andyy on September 11, 2025, 01:18:46 PM »

Air shagging a blow up doll ffs
Every chance he didn’t know it was anything to do with rape .. just a dumb kid
There are others involved that did far worse IMO .. like dressing up as Jarrod Hayne as a starting point
As a side note , I’m not saying yes or no to picking him up .. all I’m suggesting is it should be decided on footballing ability , not on what he did with a blow up stuffing doll
And I’ll add, comparing him and the Elijah Hollands situation , give me a spell

Just going to agree to disagree and end the discussion there Damo.

Glad we kept it civil

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Richmond Rant / Re: Trade talk, rumours & innuendo 2025

« Last post by Damo on September 11, 2025, 01:14:30 PM »

He was a 20yo kid being egged on by mates

Never heard of peer pressure?

You don’t know anything about the bloke Andyy.
Like I said , he might be all you’ve described and more.
Might also be a good kid that did something silly.

You are indicating he’s a poo bloke without knowing what he’s like at all

Average IMO

I do know at least one thing about the bloke - under alleged peer pressure he will makes jokes about women who have been raped, which he's done in the last 12 months.

Maybe he'll grow up and be a more decent and assertive person because of it, if he hasn't already. We don't know.

Predominantly I'm saying I wouldn't take the chance at our club, personally. If he's a good bloke, or he's grown up, or has sufficient talent - he may not have been delisted by GWS?


You are making excuses for jokes about rape, which I submit to you also has an 'average' look to it IMO.

Air shagging a blow up doll ffs

Every chance he didn’t know it was anything to do with rape .. just a dumb kid

There are others involved that did far worse IMO .. like dressing up as Jarrod Hayne as a starting point

As a side note , I’m not saying yes or no to picking him up .. all I’m suggesting is it should be decided on footballing ability , not on what he did with a blow up stuffing doll

And I’ll add, comparing him and the Elijah Hollands situation , give me a spell

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Richmond Rant / Re: Trade talk, rumours & innuendo 2025

« Last post by Andyy on September 11, 2025, 12:10:57 PM »

He was a 20yo kid being egged on by mates

Never heard of peer pressure?

You don’t know anything about the bloke Andyy.
Like I said , he might be all you’ve described and more.
Might also be a good kid that did something silly.

You are indicating he’s a poo bloke without knowing what he’s like at all

Average IMO

I do know at least one thing about the bloke - under alleged peer pressure he will makes jokes about women who have been raped, which he's done in the last 12 months.

Maybe he'll grow up and be a more decent and assertive person because of it, if he hasn't already. We don't know.

Predominantly I'm saying I wouldn't take the chance at our club, personally. If he's a good bloke, or he's grown up, or has sufficient talent - he may not have been delisted by GWS?


You are making excuses for jokes about rape, which I submit to you also has an 'average' look to it IMO.

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Richmond Rant / Re: Trade talk, rumours & innuendo 2025

« Last post by Damo on September 11, 2025, 11:23:59 AM »

He was a 20yo kid being egged on by mates

Never heard of peer pressure?

You don’t know anything about the bloke Andyy.
Like I said , he might be all you’ve described and more.
Might also be a good kid that did something silly.

You are indicating he’s a poo bloke without knowing what he’s like at all

Average IMO

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Richmond Rant / Re: Trade talk, rumours & innuendo 2025

« Last post by Andyy on September 11, 2025, 11:01:31 AM »

Just trying to stop all the quoting getting too large here.

Would be have been in favor of getting rid of broad. Jack graham. Balta. Dusty etc?
He made one joke with his friends as a 19/20 year old. .
It's not like he poo Charlie Kirk

1. There's a difference between getting rid of a premiership player vs recruiting a delisted bloke from another club. I think we have an obligation to 'work with' a guy like Broad vs bring someone like Fahey in. I'd say the same about E Hollands and his supposed issues.
2. Graham did nothing of the sort at Richmond, copped his whack elsewhere, see #1 above.
3. Dusty, what for? The chopstick allegations that were dropped? Also see #1.

Agree on the overreaction .. basically labeling a guy an f-wit and indicating he’d be a bad guy to have around the club
He might be a good bloke .. he MIGHT be all the above that Andyy has indicated .. but one incident at a team event where he wasn’t the only player involved .. talk about over the top reactions
Stuffing around on the pee with teammates with a blow up doll is far less serious than the photo circulated without permission after the 2017 GF

Yeah I think it's F-wit behaviour, making a joke about raping women, it was less than a year ago and I don't think it's worth the risk at this stage of our rebuild tbbh.
Agree one incident won't make or break him for life, but again - don't see the point taking the risk at face value, personally.
As for the photo vs rape joke, I don't see the relevance and it's a point of opinion also. We could argue that the photo incident was worse than Graham calling someone a bundle of sticks, blah blah blah.


At the end of the day there's the two of you suggesting that making a joke about a girl being raped (in a real, non-hypothetical case) isn't a big deal and maybe what...we should bring this kid into the club during a rebuild after he got delisted? I'd rather not.