Two schools of thought on Tigers' trade moves (SEN)

[one-eyed]

The other school of thought with Richmond's moves

Ashley Browne
SEN
12 October 2022

Two schools of thought on what the Tigers have done.

One is that they have shored up their midfield for years to come by trading out several draft picks, including their first-rounders this year and next for GWS midfield pair Tim Taranto and Jacob Hopper.

The other is that without a first-round pick at the next two drafts, they risk not bringing enough young talent into the club, It was the same mistake Hawthorn made in the years after the 2013-2015 flags. Tom Mitchell, Jaeger O’Meara and Chad Wingard took the club no closer to winning a flag than had they taken those selections to the draft.

Perhaps the one difference between the Tigers of now and the Hawks of yore is that the Richmond has already injected some quality youth into the side before eschewing the next couple of drafts with Josh Gibcus, Tyler Sonsie and Noah Cumberland each looking like 10-year players for the Tigers. The Hawks never did that.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/10/11/notes-and-observations-from-day-9-of-the-trade-period-as-the-big-names-got/

[wayne]

We were wanting to trade away a lot of picks last year though, we were just lucky Norf didn't want to do the deal.

Question is though, did we want JHF or to break pick one up to give us picks to trade for Taranto and Hopper? We could have shipped it to Adelaide for their 2021 first and two 2022 firsts.

[Jonesracing82]

Clear difference with Hawks/Tigers during their dynasty's was while Hawks always traded out of the draft, we always invested in it heavily. There are 2 clearly different outcomes also.