Tigers big on new faces talent quest (RFC)

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Tigers big on new faces talent quest
By Tony Greenberg | Mon 21 December, 2009

Richmond will enter 2010 with the most number of new faces in its playing squad since the inception of the AFL’s drafting system in 1986.

The Tigers have recruited 14 players since the end of the 2009 season, via the trading period, national draft, pre-season draft and rookie draft - Mitch Farmer (trade), Dustin Martin (national draft), Ben Griffiths (national draft), David Astbury (national draft), Matt Dea (national draft), Troy Taylor (national draft), Jeromey Webberley (national draft), Ben Nason (national draft), Dylan Grimes (pre-season draft), James O’Reilly (rookie draft), Robbie Hicks (rookie draft), Pat Contin (rookie draft), Relton Roberts (rookie draft) and Nick Westhoff (rookie draft).

Only twice in the past 23 years has a league club added more new talent to its playing list in one off-season:

19 - Carlton (2003 for 2004 season)
16 - Brisbane (2009 for 2010 season)

Richmond’s previous highest number of new players in one recruiting period was 13, at the end of 2003 - Nathan Brown (traded by Western Bulldogs), Alex Gilmour (national draft), Tom Roach (father-son rule), Daniel Jackson (national draft), Shane Morrison (national draft), Brent Hartigan (national draft), Shane Tuck (national draft), Andrew Raines (national draft), Simon Fletcher (national draft), Kyle Archibald (national draft), Kelvin Moore (rookie draft), Matthew Shir (rookie draft) and Adam Pickering (rookie draft).
 
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/88358/default.aspx

[Judge Roughneck]

what a daft draft picks Alex Gilmour was 

[WA Tiger]

I looked at this article earlier this morning, I then looked at those names and was too ashamed to post the thread...

[mightytiges]

Gilmour was Miller's speculative pick and Tommy Roach as F/S was a political decision because the Club wanted a good news story to sell to supporters.

I looked at this article earlier this morning, I then looked at those names and was too ashamed to post the thread...

Even the Club was too embarrassed to include our PSD picks in that list - Ben Marsh and Luke Weller 

I thought we picked up Moore, Pickering and Shir in the 2002 rookie draft and Foley was selected in 2003? I'm pretty sure Kel on our rookie list in 2003. That's what it says in the AFL Record preview booklet.

The 2003 draft will go down as one of the weakest drafts. Lucky to find a dozen decent footballers from it. Cooney and Sam Fisher the standouts. Heath Shaw would be next but he was a father-son pick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_AFL_Draft

[WA Tiger]

Gee just a big mess that draft wasn't it, Marsh and Weller....... who, lol??

[Stripes]

Not a big confidence boost in the 'mass recruitment' theory if we look at our success rate last time we attempted it  One ND pick -Tuck and one rookie pick -Moore out of 13 choices is not a great incentive or advertisement for the process. I just hope we can develop more of this batch than we did last time...

When Carlton recruited 19 in 2003 they finished bottom or near bottom for the next 4 years. IS this what we can expect too?

Stripes

[Judge Roughneck]

Carlton got done for cheating in 03 did they not?

[mightytiges]

Carlton under Pagan recruited mostly recycled mature players when they did it. Pushed them up to around 10th for year before they crashed back down again.

Reckon Greenberg is wrong on 2003 being our most. We had 16 new faces in 1989 (Banik draft - only name was Cambo) and 1992 (Richo, Rogers, Tape, Bulluss, Bond) and then 15 in 1991 (zip  ).

http://oneeyed-richmond.com/draft_history.htm