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Richmond Rant / Re: Trade talk, rumours & innuendo 2024

« Last post by Andyy on Yesterday at 08:33:51 PM »

Wouldn't surprise Andy  if he may want to leave given the circumstances he ended up at ours.

We need to get active on FA big time. We need talent both young and old. Even Nank is pushing 30 now as well ffs.

Will be hard to prize FA talent compared with the likes of pies unlsss we offer the farm, but we must  to remain relevant and to use up a salary cap which should be bare soon.   

Problem is nobody would want to trade him in on performance so it would need to be like the Geelong taking Bowes deal. If a team has cap space and wants to hit the draft we'll need to package him with a pick that makes it worth their while to pay him $700k for 5 stuffing years lol.

Why in gods name would we do that? Our salary cap will be bare especially with dusty, Prestias and Lynchys contracts done. If anything we should be front loading who has remained while we are down on talent so that when we make our way up the ladder we’ll have optimal cap to bring in FA’s.

Oh I agree re: not needing the cap.

Just don't know if Hopper is going to be worth it and FJ posited he may want to leave anyway.

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Richmond Rant / Re: Everything new is old again

« Last post by Andyy on Yesterday at 08:29:56 PM »

Agree Claw, the list was old and failing at the end of 21-22.

Club probably should have known 22 wasn't an indication that the window was still open but I think none of us wanted to admit that.

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Richmond Rant / Re: Sack Yze

« Last post by Assange Tiger 😎 on Yesterday at 08:00:27 PM »

Agree.

Don't think some of these old boys would be overly confident with their footy at the moment either given their form. Wouldn't hurt them to go back to the 2's and rack up some kicks and get some enjoyment back in their game

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Richmond Rant / Re: Jayden Short [merged]

« Last post by the claw on Yesterday at 07:38:10 PM »

Don't know what was said here but it is a blessing in disguise.
But it will only be a blessing if we back in a kid to do his role. I am hoping when he does come back he is actually asked to perform in the vfl for a few weeks and actually work on his deficiencies.

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Richmond Rant / Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]

« Last post by WilliamPowell on Yesterday at 07:35:26 PM »

Well done Ben for finally getting your life back on track. I'm rapt for his family especially his folks

I posted somewhere in this thread how much Ben's family appreciated everything the RFC did for their son while he was at our Club.

I got to meet his folks, sensational people. I will never forget his father saying to me that he would be forever grateful to the RFC for giving Ben a chance and at the same time giving them their son back. Over the time Ben played for the RFC and a few seasons afterwards I'd see the Cousin's family at RFC games when I was in Perth. His Dad Brian would always come and say "hello" and we'd have a chat. Just a great bloke

Have to say Ben's Nanna's Chocolate cake wasn't too bad either 

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Richmond Rant / Re: Everything new is old again

« Last post by the claw on Yesterday at 07:34:17 PM »

Claw you do have a point.

2021 was when we should have realised we were cooked.

2022 trade efforts were a glaring mistake.

I don't blame the club for trying to stay at the top but it looks to have backfired and put us back 2-3 years in a rebuild IMO.

It’s very easy to say that. I wasn’t on the forum in 2016, but how many people were opposed to giving up or top pick for Prestia and other picks for caddy and nank? I’d wager there would have been quite the outcry at that point as well.

I don’t think we could have won the flag in 2022, but reverse that BS goal review in the final against Brisbane and who knows.

Like chucky said, hindsight is 20:20. Trades and list management decisions are always a gamble, you win some (2016), you lose some (2022). The main reason we are down is because we did not have access to the top end of the draft because we were too busy winning flags. I keep mentioning it but there have been 4 dynasty teams in the AFL era, ourselves, hawks and Brisbane have all dropped off a cliff and go through a rebuild. While Geelong seem to ‘contend’ every year and avoid rebuilds, they still went 11 years btw their 2011 and 2022 flags and were mainly pretenders in that time.

The big difference between 2016 and getting Caddy Prestia and Nank to 2022 and getting Taranto and Hopper is quite obvious. The number of high quality players we had accumulated  going right back to 2006 and topping it all off in 2016 and the age demographic most of them were in compared to 2022. In 2022 almost all of our best players who were going to carry us to another flag were vets.

By the way i will put my hand up and say i was one who did not want Prestia at the end of 2016. I was rapt we got Nankervis and i had never really rated Caddy as a player and i still don't.

Taranto and in a lesser way Hopper were very large list needs weather we were in a window or not. We had just plain refused to draft adequate numbers of their type and in good positions in the draft with only RCD  being a decent pick. Our infatuation with smalls and flankers is well documented. I still maintain we took smalls because there is a better chance of getting something out of them over big bodied players and talls.

I have not heard one supporter here actually acknowledge just how bereft we were of big mids and we had no choice but get at least one good mature one. That was not to win a premiership it was just to compete. We are in that place with key forwards and have been for years and Key defenders is not much better.

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Competitions / Re: OER's 2024 Tipping Competition - Round 6

« Last post by torch on Yesterday at 07:30:30 PM »

Fremantle (18)
Sydney (18)

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Richmond Rant / Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]

« Last post by Tiger Khosh on Yesterday at 07:22:40 PM »

Seems to have finally turned the corner these past few years. Hope he can continue that way.

I know we got him at the tail end of his career and we were a crap side anyway but it was still cool to see a player of cuzs stature playing for us.

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Richmond Rant / Re: Sack Yze

« Last post by Tiger Khosh on Yesterday at 07:18:48 PM »

You tell me the benefit of playing Mcintosh, Pickett etc vs playing a young bloke?

I mean, you lay out the positives and maybe I'll change my view. Why does it matter if we're a laughing stock? We're already at the arse end of the ladder and that's where we shall remain this year regardless of selections. It's not as if Coulthard or Cumberland haven't shown that they can play...they can. They could have a future. Bring them in and any other half decent kid and drop the underperforming senior players.

As important as earning a game is, it's important to perform to keep yourself a game of senior footy. We have too many senior players not performing.

The only positive I have seen people raise is to get him to 100 just on the chance that his boys end up being gun footballers. I wouldn’t mind that if he only needed a handful of games to get there but he has to play almost every game this season. At the very least, make the guy the sub. Him and kmac haven’t been in form other than the odd game here or there for 3 seasons.

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Richmond Rant / Re: BEN COUSINS [merged]

« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 07:15:34 PM »

“I don’t like Richmond.

"I LOVE Richmond ❤️

"I will forever stay connected to the group,” - Ben Cousins on @Richmond_FC.

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/thefrontbar7/status/1780567196709867884

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BEN COUSINS ON WHY HE STILL “LOVES” RICHMOND

By Andrew Slevison
SEN
18 April 2024

After spending 2008 out of the game, Cousins was afforded a lifeline by Richmond who selected him with Pick 6 in the 2009 Pre-Season Draft.

He spent two seasons at the Tigers where he shared a locker room with the likes of Dustin Martin, Jack Riewoldt, Trent Cotchin, Shane Edwards, Alex Rance, David Astbury and Dylan Grimes, who would all become premiership players for the club.

Cousins’ gratitude was evident when describing his love for the Tigers and how he followed their recent premiership run with great joy.

“It was a really tough lead-up to getting picked up,” Cousins said.

“There were no guarantees that it was ever going to happen. I was the last pick in the last draft and I was super keen to get an opportunity to play.

“It came about at the death knock and I was just rapt to be playing footy.

“I don’t like Richmond, I love Richmond.

“I will forever stay connected to the group and the footy club because they played such an important part in my life which far exceeds football.

“But even from just a pure football sense, one of the great things to come out of not finishing up at West Coast was the opportunity to come here (to Melbourne) and play football.

“It wasn’t until I got in the fabric and lived here (in Melbourne) that I learnt to love the place. Richmond was a big part of that.

“We had some tough times on-field, but even after I finished up from afar to just sit back as a supporter and fan of the footy club to be on the ride with the Tigers. There were guys that went on to play in premierships and steer the club through a dynasty.

“To watch that from afar has been one of the great joys of my footy life.”

After 32 games across two years with Richmond, Cousins retired from the AFL in 2010 as a 270-game player and one of the most decorated midfielders of his era.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/04/17/ben-cousins-on-his-eagles-exit-harley-reid-and-why-he-still-loves-richmond/