Looking forward to see how Deledio fairs this year. I have followed Richmond since before primary school, but it was only really 2003 - after a decade or two of seeing my team consistanly be pooh that I started to want to know why. I joined various football boards, looked up the clubs history (the importance of the draft started to dawn on me at this point). I asked my more learned fellow Tigers if we had any young up and comming prospects. After years at the bottom, we could boast the like of Alex Gilmour and Roach, via bad dozen years of drafting, poor coaching/runned club and trading away draft picks.
In 2003 I followed junior football very close as it seemed more like my club would a top two pick.
Deledio in some sectors had some people claiming 'best young since Judd'. This got me rather exicited. His first year was near perfect and with two solid seasons year is going to be intersting. He has all the tools to become our LeBron James type star. THe RFC need Deledio to show he will furfile his potential as a top 5 player in the AFL.
If Lids is spoken about in the some breath during finals as Hodge, Pavlich, J Brown - deadset guns, then the future will be bright for this club. With Cotchin and Foley as his future vice captian duo - there is finally some hope. I do relise he is still 20.
You know my worsedream? I hear Lids does a knee.
