List analysis [merged]

[Stalin]

General Manager of Football, Dan Richardson's comments on the state of our current list:

"A lot of people forget, if you go through and analyse our list, particularly our key players, it’s still quite young and it’s still developing. Even if you project forward to 2017 and beyond, particularly two or three years away, there are not too many players that you would say won’t be around due to age. So our list is young, and we still think there’s scope for improvement. We’ve got to keep improving, we know that.  We think improvement can come from within. We’re confident that what we’ve seen over the summer will highlight that this year.”

Full article: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2015-03-25/tigers-have-an-eye-to-the-future

reading that article makes me cringe.i can pick holes in it everywhere but cant be bothered atm. why are we kidding ourselves. geez the first club i looked at was adelaide they  had 34 players aged 25 and under and richardson is crowing about how many again. not one mention of the quality and likelihood of players making it. not one mention of the holes that will have to be filled in two yrs time and beyond.
theres real spin here and things are made to look rosy when the opposite is true.

pettard hampson grigg newman thomas gordon chaplin foley knights etc.

the list is not that young

Looking older an older

[Stalin]

i dont know what year it is

[Francois Jackson]

"i cant believe these idiots are funding my retirement account for pretending to know what i am doing"

[Tigeritis™©®]

 
"I saw a great video highlights package sent by a young fellow from the Chadstone Amateur football club, really good production quality, graphics too and the whole thing set to a fantastic modern sound track.....
Now where's the play button?"

[one-eyed]

From SEN:

Wallace said Richmond was paying the price for poor recruiting decisions “over a long period of time”.

“You look at their top-end draft selection since Dustin Martin (in 2009), you go through that group of guys — there’s about eight of them — and they really haven’t come on anywhere near the degree that you need, and that’s your top-end selections let alone your gems in the rough that you want to get.”

Richmond has held on to its first-round picks and selected players including Reece Conca (pick 6, 2010), Brandon Ellis (pick 15, 2011) and Ben Lennon (pick 12, 2013).

Brisbane champion Jonathan Brown said today Richmond had “real problems” and he couldn’t see the Tigers staging a recovery this season as they have the past two years after poor starts.

“They are 1-5, I doubt they will rebound,” he said on Nova 100.

“Trent Cotchin on the weekend broke his cheekbone, no Alex Rance at the moment as well, no Chris Yarran, the Tiges are lacking leg speed. They’ve got some real problems out there.

“They will not be playing in September this year. The will have to look closely at their list, it is not up to AFL finals standard.”

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/travis-cloke-talks-rumours-are-incorrect-says-richmond-football-boss/news-story/79eaff305c8e1ad4d249605db1bd30b4

[Diocletian]

“They will not be playing in September this year. The will have to look closely at their list, it is not up to AFL finals standard.”

It's not up tp AFL standard full stop.

[🏅Dooks]

[big tone]

From SEN:

Wallace said Richmond was paying the price for poor recruiting decisions “over a long period of time”.

“You look at their top-end draft selection since Dustin Martin (in 2009), you go through that group of guys — there’s about eight of them — and they really haven’t come on anywhere near the degree that you need, and that’s your top-end selections let alone your gems in the rough that you want to get.”

Richmond has held on to its first-round picks and selected players including Reece Conca (pick 6, 2010), Brandon Ellis (pick 15, 2011) and Ben Lennon (pick 12, 2013).

Brisbane champion Jonathan Brown said today Richmond had “real problems” and he couldn’t see the Tigers staging a recovery this season as they have the past two years after poor starts.

“They are 1-5, I doubt they will rebound,” he said on Nova 100.

“Trent Cotchin on the weekend broke his cheekbone, no Alex Rance at the moment as well, no Chris Yarran, the Tiges are lacking leg speed. They’ve got some real problems out there.

“They will not be playing in September this year. The will have to look closely at their list, it is not up to AFL finals standard.”

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/travis-cloke-talks-rumours-are-incorrect-says-richmond-football-boss/news-story/79eaff305c8e1ad4d249605db1bd30b4

Wallace also said that Houli had been great this year.....enough said.

[Stalin]

St kilda are playing paddy Pick one in reserves

Richmond are playing troy Chaplin forward

Wtf

[Stalin]

for some time Richmond has made decisions based on making finals

Not winning flags

[Stalin]

Unpopular opinion puffin:  The list is pretty good



Forward:  Cotchin. Deledio. Rioli. Edwards. Lennon. Jack.

Mids:  martin. Vlastuin. Miles. C Ellis. Mcintosh. Menadue. Lambert. Maric.

Back:  rance. Grimes. Yarren. Castagna.

[Andyy]

It's hard watching all the recently traded ruckman running around having effective games.

Sinclair, Currie, Smith, Leuenberger just to name a few...

[Stalin]

It's like every club in Australia has a gun ruckman ...  (Or 3 )

And then tere is Richmond with a broken Maric. An embarrassing Hampson

And a bunch of people that are not really ruckman. Griffiths. Vickery  soldo. McBean

Wtf