Craig Cameron on Trade Week radio

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Craig Cameron was just on TWR...

* Couple of options for Houli now - National Draft or PSD. Need to sit down and decide which is best.

* We'll sit down with Bachar's manager and decide which is the best way for Bachar to get him to Richmond.

* We were in the driver's seat in the trade but we were also willing to do a deal. Problem was both clubs finished close together on the ladder so swapping of picks was meaningless. Our 3rd round pick wasn't worth much to them as they probably wouldn't use it. Essendon using so few picks this draft made our 3rd rounder less attractive.

* Blair Hartley did a lot of work in preparing us for trade week. Wanted more midfielders. Midfielders who could play mid and forward in Houli's case and mid and back in Grigg's case. Sub rule will mean you need players with good engines.

* Blair has made a big difference. Great to have the resources in the football department now to have one guy able to focus opposition players all year. As you would know Terry when resources were thin recruiters are watching juniors in the U18s and coaches are too busy coaching the side so there's a black hole in the middle.

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McMahon is obviously a space pirate capable of traversing black holes

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Tigers eye other avenue for Bachar
richmondfc.com.au
By Tony Greenberg
Mon 11 Oct, 2010

With Richmond unable to seal a deal with Essendon for Bachar Houli, before the 2pm deadline on the final day of the AFL’s trade period, the Tigers will now weigh up the available options to secure his services.

“There are a couple of options - obviously, the National Draft, or the Pre-season Draft -  so we just have to sit down and work out which is the best one,” Richmond General Manager of Football, Craig Cameron told “AFL Trade Week Radio”.

“We’ve already spoken to Bachar and his management group, ESP - we were in contact with them all through the week.  It’s just a matter of us now working out the best way forward for Bachar to become a Richmond player.”

Cameron claimed there was no ill-feeling between the two clubs over the inability to strike a deal at the trade table for Houli.

“I think the difficulty was that both Essendon and ourselves finished so close together on the ladder,” he said.

“So trying to do a deal, even something like swapping picks, didn’t really make much sense to either party, but particularly to the Bombers, because we were so close (ladder position).  And, they probably also felt that our third-round selection may not be as useful to them, as it would have been in other years.

“It was one of those situations where both clubs offered things up, but it just missed the mark a little bit, and he’s going to end up going through the Pre-season or, maybe, the National Draft.”

Cameron said Richmond, through its List Manager, Blair Hartley, had targeted both Houli, and Shaun Grigg, who was snared in a trade with Carlton on the weekend.

“Blair has been a great acquisition for us.  He did a lot of work all year in preparing for trade week, and one of the things we identified is that we needed a few more midfielders, who, in Bachar’s case, could play mid as well as forward, and in Shaun Grigg’s case, mid, and probably a little bit back as well.

“With the change in the interchange rules, it’s going to be important to have players with good engines, who can stay on the ground, rather than having to be rotated quite often.  Both of them (Grigg and Houli) have got big engines, and both can play mid, as well as other positions, so they’ll be important to us.”

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