Dan Richardson discusses our draft strategy (RFC)

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Recruitment Zone: Panel show ep:1

Bingle presents: General Manager of football, Dan Richardson, explains to Nathan Brown about what he's looking for in the 2014 National Draft.

VIDEO: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/2014-10-07/recruitment-zone-panel-show-ep1

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* List needs are midfield depth and outside speed. Believe we can acquire these via the draft which has been our strategy in recent years but that doesn't mean we won't look for that improvement in the trade period if it arises. Confident of the draft pool this year especially depth in quality mids. Requires us to be patient with our list building strategy as kids take time to develop. By and large it's the direction we are going with.

* No to Greenwood and we haven't entertained getting Mitch Robinson at this stage. 

* Interviewed 20 odd players at the Draft Combine and from the testing there's quality midfield depth. Names such as Petracca and Brayshaw will be gone before our first pick but there will be other quality mids available. Some can have immediate impact while others will take a couple of years, but there's no doubt there's a depth of 35-40 players in this year's draft we feel can help us. We just need to make the right decisions when the draft comes. 

* Depth of this year's draft is strong. Not quite the top end quality of a 2001 superdraft (Judd/Ball/Hodge) but the depth is strong well into the 40s & 50s even.

[Chuck17]

Inb4 whiney old moles have a rant

[Francois Jackson]

Dud

Delist

[Tiger Tragic]

In a trade period when we are unlikely to be heavy participants, the concept of this recruitment zone is a bizarre initiative.

Would be much more interesting at Carlton who can't help themselves but get involved in picking up wannabes and hasbeens.

[scjhammo]

we haven't entertained getting Mitch robinson at this stage...... I reckon there is a big chance he will be coming across to the yellow and black

[tigs2011]

we haven't entertained getting Mitch robinson at this stage...... I reckon there is a big chance he will be coming across to the yellow and black

Hope so. The meltdowns would be worth 500k per year IMO. 

[dwaino]

we haven't entertained getting Mitch robinson at this stage...... I reckon there is a big chance he will be coming across to the yellow and black

Hope so. The meltdowns would be worth 500k per year IMO. 

Oh I hope so 

[YellowandBlackBlood]

we haven't entertained getting Mitch robinson at this stage...... I reckon there is a big chance he will be coming across to the yellow and black

OMG, he'd make Jake King look like a rocket scientist!

[the claw]

he identifies just two of the list deficiencies,  the mid field is not in as much need as other areas yet no mention of other areas.  truly delusional or just bull pooting..

he lies outright when he says he believes he can aquire mids and speed  thru the nd  which is correct, but has the gall to add the nd has been the strategy in recent yrs. sorry dan but 1 junior player in the entire trade and ND PERIOD last yr is not a strategy of recent yrs.

lol hes confident of the midfield depth in this draft pooland  will target mids, yet forgets to say its also one of the most promising drafts for talls. theres always plenty of midfield depth in nearly all nds but the same cant be said about talls. imo would be a mistake to totally  ignore talls in this draft, as he says kids take time to develop and talls take the longest of them all.
atm we have just 12 talls on our list which includes too many underachievers ffs every week in the seniors alone we will look to play anywhere from 6 to 8 talls every week. our tall stocks are critically low and we ignore this area in a strong draft for talls.unbelievable .

lol no to greenwood it seems its no to everyone. but thats right we only need a few mids and a bit of speed. locked and loaded eh dan.

lastly we need to make the right decisions with our picks eh dan, it aint a good record so far for the doyens of recruiting but no mention at all about doing something to strengthen this area, more blind faith eh dan they are sure to get it right sooner or later lol.

finally if we are going to embrace the draft in a big way dan why are we not trying to trade for better picks rather than re-signing every tradeable commodity we have.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

he identifies just two of the list deficiencies,  the mid field is not in as much need as other areas yet no mention of other areas.  truly delusional or just bull pooting..

he lies outright when he says he believes he can aquire mids and speed  thru the nd  which is correct, but has the gall to add the nd has been the strategy in recent yrs. sorry dan but 1 junior player in the entire trade and ND PERIOD last yr is not a strategy of recent yrs.

lol hes confident of the midfield depth in this draft pooland  will target mids, yet forgets to say its also one of the most promising drafts for talls. theres always plenty of midfield depth in nearly all nds but the same cant be said about talls. imo would be a mistake to totally  ignore talls in this draft, as he says kids take time to develop and talls take the longest of them all.
atm we have just 12 talls on our list which includes too many underachievers ffs every week in the seniors alone we will look to play anywhere from 6 to 8 talls every week. our tall stocks are critically low and we ignore this area in a strong draft for talls.unbelievable .

lol no to greenwood it seems its no to everyone. but thats right we only need a few mids and a bit of speed. locked and loaded eh dan.

lastly we need to make the right decisions with our picks eh dan, it aint a good record so far for the doyens of recruiting but no mention at all about doing something to strengthen this area, more blind faith eh dan they are sure to get it right sooner or later lol.

finally if we are going to embrace the draft in a big way dan why are we not trying to trade for better picks rather than re-signing every tradeable commodity we have.

It's easy claw. They don't want to go backwards. They see trading guys like Vickery for unproven youngsters that need time to develop as a step that will drop us out of the finals. Yes we need a mini rebuild but the club doesn't have the kahunas to do it. Plain and simple.

[WilliamPowell]

we haven't entertained getting Mitch robinson at this stage...... I reckon there is a big chance he will be coming across to the yellow and black

I reckon there is absolutely NO chance of Mitch Robinson ending up at the RFC (thank goodness)

[mightytiges]

The Club clearly doesn't rate the free agents on offer nor the names we could possibly get via a trade. Not something I disagree with. A shame they didn't have this attitude last year with Hampson  . Beams and Christensen would be the only guns on offer (both also suit our needs) but they both want to head to Qld so we can't get them. It sounds more like we plan to wait a year, find out who will come on from our existing list and then go hard at free agency in 12 months time.

[The Big Richo]

I'd much prefer Robinson to Armitage, Winderlich, Greenwood or any of the other nuffies we tend to trade for.

[JVT]

Robinson would add something, Garlett would too and it appears both would come cheaply if for anything at all.... Christensen would have been amazing to get to RFC but unfortunately he wants to go to QLD 

[Rampstar]

I like how every year recruiting duds or recruiting no one is regarded as a draft strategy