Tigers' Draft plan (RFC video and summary)

[one-eyed]

Tigers Draft plan

Richmond Recruiting Officer, Matt Clarke, shares the Tigers strategy going into the 2013 National Draft.

VIDEO: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2013-11-21/tigers-draft-plan



Summary

* During the year we look at preseason training, trial games, match reports, U18 carnival, U16 carnival (prepare a couple years out), interviews with the families, draft combine, all the testings, more interviews, more meetings to get the rankings right. All preparation so we have our rankings locked in so tonight becomes a bit easier.

* Pick 12 - we've still ranked our guys and are still hopeful a couple of our guys will fall through to our pick. Still pretty confident about that. Our coach has doesn't us favours winning so many games lol but we're still confident of getting a good player at our first pick as we've done over the past few years.

* Been speaking to managers, coaches over the past month and especially the past two weeks to get a read on who other clubs are considering. Even speak to the kids themselves whom we have a good relationship with to see where they are at. We have an understanding of the first 12-15 but after that it gets a bit more difficult however we're pretty confident who will be available at our pick.

* Picks 50 & 66 - we've ranked about 80 guys on our board so it goes all the way down to the end of the draft. We'll tick them off as we go and hopefully wait for someone to be out there. There's a couple of guys that we like and we've got them ranked as being future AFL players so we'll see how it pans out.

* The new draftees will get straight into preseason training and will be down at the Club next week for an induction process and meet the players.   

* Rookie draft - earlier this year so we don't have to get guys down to training. We'll see who falls out of the draft tonight.