Mike and Healy want Richmond to recruit 24-28 year olds

[one-eyed]

Mike Sheahan and Gerard Healy on 3aw reckon we (and Melbourne) need to recruit 24-28 year olds to get our spirit and competitiveness up.

 

[bojangles17]

it's not the silliest thing Ive heard, depending on how Bris go this year it may set a precedent in the modern era in bolstering a battling saides stocks

[jackstar is back again]

Mike Sheahan and Gerard Healy on 3aw reckon we (and Melbourne) need to recruit 24-28 year olds to get our spirit and competitiveness up.

 

Would believe this 100% correct

[tiger till i die]

how would they suggest we do that with the new teams coming up?

[mat073]

Correct me if I am wrong but is the recruitment of 24-28 year olds called taking a "short cut".

[Owl]

short term fix that may not even work...to leave us right where we are now in a few years time?

[jackstar is back again]

we are like an Ocean Crusier , without a captain, with out a Navigator and we are just doing laps of Port Phillip Bay.

[mat073]

we are like an Ocean Crusier , without a captain, with out a Navigator and we are just doing laps of Port Phillip Bay.

Jack...what mature players would target from other clubs ?

[harry bosch]

Idiotic idea , of course if we did this we would be trashed a few years later for "short term fix" by these same people..

[yellowandback]

we are like an Ocean Crusier , without a captain, with out a Navigator and we are just doing laps of Port Phillip Bay.

Nathan Brown, Troy Simmonds, Jordy, Kane Johnston and they were supposedly the good ones.
Won't go into all the others-Luke wellar, Craig Biddoscombe, Trent Knobel, Rory Hilton, Tim Fleming, Simon Fletcher, Steven Sziller, Adam Houlihan, Ben Marsh, Billy Nicolls etc

Has it worked?
No
do we try to build from ground up with untried players?
I reckon.

[camboon]

Stupid, its the reason we are in such a mess - suck it up theres going to be some real pain before we improve.

I cant believe we haven't  all learned from 30 years of recruiting rejects which have a success rate of about 10%

[Hellenic Tiger]

we are like an Ocean Crusier , without a captain, with out a Navigator and we are just doing laps of Port Phillip Bay.

Jack...what mature players would target from other clubs ?

And what would they want in return?
And what about Melbourne too Mike? Abandon the rebuild now?

We need to persist with the plan of rebuilding and not take short cuts and deviate from it.
There is no guarantee of success with picking up mature age recruits and furthermore the Brissy model has some superstars in it already in Brown, Black, Power we don't have any and there is guarantee of success for Brisabne either. In our case let the rebuild continue.

[tony_montana]

I'm telling ya these guys are having a lend of all of us they're the puppet masters and they are pulling the strings. This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard. Over the past 5 years richmond has been consistently ridiculed by these very same ar.seclowns saying how poor we were to take shortcuts whilst teams like hawthorn and carlton stocked up on young talent in the draft and now they are advocating the very thing they used to ridicule us publicly for????? FFS..... now I've heard it all

go stuff yourselves!

[Rodgerramjet]

I'm telling ya these guys are having a lend of all of us they're the puppet masters and they are pulling the strings. This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard. Over the past 5 years richmond has been consistently ridiculed by these very same behindclowns saying how poor we were to take shortcuts whilst teams like hawthorn and carlton stocked up on young talent in the draft and now they are advocating the very thing they used to ridicule us publicly for????? FFS..... now I've heard it all

go eff yourselves!

Brilliant post, it is exactly what they are trying to do. they and others like them will do everything they can in order to derail us from our plan. We are building from the ground up, if we've got no god damn leaders then we better damn well make some out of what we got. Recruit kids, develop them, turn them into leaders, rinse, repeat.

[Francois Jackson]

ive read and heard a lot of reports but this is up there with the worst.

Yes lets recruit old hacks again that cant get a game elsewhere shall we.

Its exactly what has put us in this mess to begin with.

How about spend more money on development and more recruiters travelling around the globe so we pick up and develop the right kid through the draft.

If we play the draft right by trading players like Jackson, newman i believe we have a chance to good more picks.

we need to be smart here not take short cuts like those fu.kwits Terry and Spud did,