The site insider.net has been doing one of these "One Pick From A Premiership" articles for each club. I think in our case they might just a tad be stretching a long bow
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One Pick From A Premiership: Richmond Tigers
aflinsider.net
November 9th 2006 23:01
1995 was the year that the yellow and black roared loud after many years down the bottom of the ladder. Led by Matthew Knights, the Tigers got on a roll and ended up only one win from the Grand Final. The 1991 draft didn't help Richmond at all and a better draft then would have meant a better Tigers team in 1995.
The Tigers got a total of 0 games from all the players they drafted. Todd Hawes, Shaun Brooker, Glen Hoffman, Nick Roney, Jay Burton, John Kennedy and Paul Dimattina were the Tigers' draft picks.
The drafting wasn't even the worst part, it was the trading of draft picks. They sent pick 3 for big ruckman Steven O'Dwyer, they then traded their next pick which was number 16 to the Eagles for forward Stevan Jackson. Pick 42 was also sent to West Coast for Todd Breman.
The Demons drafted Darren Kowal at number 3 and the Eagles took Daniel Metropolis at pick 16. Both were good players, Kowal in the midfield and Metropolis as a medium-sized option up forward or down back. But Richmond could have done better than that too, as Shane Crawford went at pick 13, Matthew Hogg went at 18 and Andrew Dunkley went later at pick 56.
But adding Kowal to the midfield for Richmond in 1995, and putting Metropolis in the forward line, would have helped Richmond. The Tigers might have had enough to get past Geelong at Waverley that season and into the Grand Final. Even if Kowal and Metropolis were not going to make the difference for Richmond then, they certainly would have added more to the Richmond team of that time than the two big players Richmond had traded for.
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