Richmond considers dumped Carlton midfielder Mitch Robinson as a delisted free agent Michael Warner
Herald Sun
October 27, 2014 8:00PMAXED Carlton hard-nut Mitch Robinson will meet with Richmond today in the hope of his reviving his 100-game career as a delisted free agent.
The Tigers have expressed interest in throwing the dumped Blues utility an AFL lifeline and will interview him at Punt Rd this morning.
Brisbane is also considering recruiting Robinson, cut by the Blues last month after the club failed to find a suitor at the trade table.
Richmond is keen to bolster its midfield stocks and made a play for Melbourne’s Jack Trengove and St Kilda’s David Armitage during the trade period.
The Tigers will use five draft picks on young talent in next month’s national draft but could secure Robinson, 25, for free as a delisted free agent and place him on the rookie list.
The delisted free agency window opens on Saturday with Taylor Hunt (Geelong), Jared Petrenko (Adelaide), Sam Blease (Melbourne) and Shaun McKernan (Adelaide) in the mix for a second chance.
Richmond’s medical due diligence saved the club from a major mistake in recruiting Trengove last month.
Melbourne had presented the Tigers with a scan taken in September which showed Trengove’s injured foot was recovering from surgery.
But the Tigers carried out their own testing and discovered a new problem, forcing them to pull out of the Trengove trade.
Robinson would be seen as a risk given his repeated behavioural breaches at the Blues but is a proven contested ball-winner.
Taken with pick 40 in the 2008 national draft, he finished seventh in Carlton’s 2011 best-and-fairest and ninth in 2012.
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