I couldn't find this on the web so I scanned it in. According to this we're getting a 2nd round PP.
Richmond's 50m kick in the guts
By Jon Ralph
Wed 9 June 2010, Page 85
IT IS the ultimate irony: Jordan McMahon's greatest moment seems to have consigned Richmond to even more draft pain.
McMahon's post-siren 50m winner against Melbourne in Round 17 last year not only gave the Demons a bonus priority pick, it robbed the Tigers of their own extra selection.
It meant the Tigers won five games, one too many to qualify for a priority pick after the first round of the national draft.
Richmond could have used that bonus late-teens selection on players such as Fremantle's Nathan Fyfe, Hawthorn's Ben Stratton or Melbourne's Luke Tapscott.
But the greater loss will be felt at this year's national draft table.
Halfway through the season the Tigers have only one victory and look remote odds to win more than four games this year. Two years in a row of four or fewer wins gives clubs a pre-draft priority pick -- normally the first selection in the national draft.
The introduction of the Gold Coast means the new club gets picks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9. But Richmond would still have landed a priority pick at selection four, then their first pick at No. 6.
It would have been the ideal platform to take two quality picks in a climate in which few other clubs will get a lick of the cream.
It would also have seen the unprecedented situation in which two clubs took the first seven picks of the draft, with the second-bottom side getting only pick eight.
Instead, the Tigers will receive pick four, then a post-draft pick that will probably be selection 27, then their normal second-round pick (No. 28).
In hindsight, installing caretaker coach Jade Rawlings, who notched three wins, also hurt the club's draft order, though with Terry Wallace resigning it had no other choice.
That McMahon goal, set up by another Tigers whipping boy in Richard Tambling, would in theory also have given Melbourne five wins for the year, robbing them of No. 2 pick Jack Trengove.
But Melbourne beat Fremantle later in the season, aware that victory would not ruin its draft plans.
The sceptics who accused the Demons of tanking believe there is no way Melbourne would have won against the Dockers had Trengove's recruitment been on the line.
Richmond is recruiting in the worst climate to rebuild a club, but so far seems to have made a decent fist of it.
The Tigers will get a very good player at pick No. 4, but the draft would have been even sweeter had McMahon's kick sailed wide.
