All-time top 10 Tiger draftees?

[yellowandback]

I presume Lids will be Top 2 so that makes it 5 current day players. Doesn't speak volumes for our 25 years of drafting.

[one-eyed]

Yep Lids is No.2.

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No.2: Brett Deledio

We continue the countdown of the top 10 Tiger draftees of all time with the player ranked No. 2 by our panel of experts - dual Jack Dyer Medallist, Brett Deledio.

Consistency, durability and versatility have been the hallmarks of Brett Deledio’s eight-year career at Richmond.

Deledio was Richmond’s reward for finishing last in season 2004.  The then 17-year-old, from Victorian country town Kyabram, was taken by the Tigers with the prized No. 1 pick in the ’04 National Draft.

Read the full article here: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/151417/default.aspx

[JVT]

Mine.

nb. I only included Tigers picked up only with picks in the National draft and having never played an AFL game before we drafted them and who played all their AFL games with Richmond.

1. Wayne Campbell (pick 29, 1989) ...... 297 games, captain, All-Australian, 4 B&Fs
2. Trent Cotchin  (pick 2, 2007)  ..........  86* games, soon to be the new captain, All-Australian, 2 B&Fs with still most of his footy career ahead of him at just 22 y.o.
3. Brett Deledio (pick 1, 2004) ............ 172* games, All-Australian, 2 B&Fs, Rising star 2005 in debut year, and only half-way through his footy career.
4. Chris Newman (pick 55, 2000) ........ 214* games, captain
5. Brendon Gale (pick 27, 1987) .......... 244 games, off-field star as CEO
6. Jack Riewoldt (pick 13, 2006) ........... 112* games, Dual Coleman medallist, All-Australian, 1 B&F, 3 times club leading goalkicker. Still only 24 y.o.
7. Andrew Kellaway (pick 71, 1997) .....  172 games, All-Australian, 1 B&F. Not bad for a guy selected at pick 71 and off our then supplementary list.
8. Matthew Rogers (pick 37, 1992) ...... 197 games. Club leading goalkicker 2000. A smart underrated footballer.
9. Nick Daffy (pick 49, 1990) ................ 165 games. 1 B&F, Club leading goalkicker 1995.
10. Shane Tuck (pick 73, 2003) .............. 162* games. Like Kellaway a very late pick who has become a life club member.

You nailed it mate 

[the claw]

not hard to be a top 10 pick at richmond there have been so few top notch players go thru our system.
 was going to have a go but got depressed looking at so many duds.
without a doubt we have to be the worst performed drafting club in the history of the draft.
you want see why we have played finals just twice in the draft era last 26 yrs  just look at that top 10 list of mt's. apart from 3 or 4 nothing but foot soldiers who somehow managed to carve out reasonable careers.

[one-eyed]

No.1: Wayne Campbell

Wayne Campbell maintained an impressively high level of consistency throughout his 15-season, 297-game league football career at Richmond.

Campbell was a big, bargain-basement buy for the Tigers, who secured his services at pick 29 overall in the fourth National Draft, held back in 1989.

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/151459/default.aspx

[mightytiges]

Mine.

nb. I only included Tigers picked up only with picks in the National draft and having never played an AFL game before we drafted them and who played all their AFL games with Richmond.

1. Wayne Campbell (pick 29, 1989) ...... 297 games, captain, All-Australian, 4 B&Fs
2. Trent Cotchin  (pick 2, 2007)  ..........  86* games, soon to be the new captain, All-Australian, 2 B&Fs with still most of his footy career ahead of him at just 22 y.o.
3. Brett Deledio (pick 1, 2004) ............ 172* games, All-Australian, 2 B&Fs, Rising star 2005 in debut year, and only half-way through his footy career.
4. Chris Newman (pick 55, 2000) ........ 214* games, captain
5. Brendon Gale (pick 27, 1987) .......... 244 games, off-field star as CEO
6. Jack Riewoldt (pick 13, 2006) ........... 112* games, Dual Coleman medallist, All-Australian, 1 B&F, 3 times club leading goalkicker. Still only 24 y.o.
7. Andrew Kellaway (pick 71, 1997) .....  172 games, All-Australian, 1 B&F. Not bad for a guy selected at pick 71 and off our then supplementary list.
8. Matthew Rogers (pick 37, 1992) ...... 197 games. Club leading goalkicker 2000. A smart underrated footballer.
9. Nick Daffy (pick 49, 1990) ................ 165 games. 1 B&F, Club leading goalkicker 1995.
10. Shane Tuck (pick 73, 2003) .............. 162* games. Like Kellaway a very late pick who has become a life club member.

You nailed it mate 

Thanks JVT  .

Mind you as Claw rightly says our drafting over the past 26 years until more recently had been very poor. So it was actually hard to find 10 names to tell you the truth  . No.11 would probably have been Mark Chaffey. Hopefully when we revisit this question in 10 years time we'll be fighting and arguing over who should be in the top 10 because all of them are/were superstars of the game and multiple-premiership players with us  .

[Judge Roughneck]

Mark.coughaln

Would.have been 30 this season