Richmond Tigers made plenty of mistakes early in the draft (SportingNews)

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Richmond Tigers made plenty of mistakes early in the draft

Mick Stirling
Sporting News
14 Nov 2018

Richmond’s draft history 1986 – 2017[/b][/u]

Number of top-20 selections: 39

Average games played at the Tigers by top-20 selections: 74.5

Most games played for the Tigers by a top-20 selection
249 Jack Riewoldt (pick 13, 2006)
243 Brett Deledio (pick 1, 2004)
220 Trent Cotchin (pick 2, 2007)

Most games played for the Tigers by later selections
297 Wayne Campbell (pick 29, 1989)
282 Matthew Richardson (father-son, 1992)
268 Chris Newman (pick 55, 2000)

Most games played by rookie draft selections:
188 Greg Tivendale (1998)
154 Nathan Foley (2005)

In AFL draft history Richmond …

… took a long time before they started getting it right with the top picks, with only one of their first 15 top-20 selections getting past 75 games. Richard Lounder’s four games after being taken with the number-one selection in 1987 is still a low point in draft history.

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[wayne]

Richard Lounder’s four games after being taken with the number-one selection in 1987 is still a low point in draft history.

The top 10 was full of superstars in that draft and we picked Lounder!! 

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My Top five AFL draft pick blunders. (Games played)
Note: only those picks immediately before count as direct blunders.

1. Richmond 2004.
Richard Tambling Pick 4 (108) b4 Lance Fanklin 5 (290)
2. Richmond 1999.
Aaron Fiora 3 (78) b4 Matthew Pavlich 4 (353)
3. Hawthorn 2006.
Mitchell Thorpe 6 (2) b4 Joel Selwood 7 (272)
4. Collingwood 1999.
Danny Roach 7 (1) b4 Joel Corey 8 (276)
5. Essendon 2000.
 James Davies 17 (3) b4 Daniel Kerr 18 (220)

Other Notable blunders.
Sydney 2007.
Patrick Veszpremi pick 11(23) b4 Cryril Rioli pick12(189)
Melbourne 2009.
 Jack Trengove 2 (86) b4 Dustin Martin 3 (201)
Richmond 2009.
Ben Griffiths 19 (63) b4 Nat Fyfe 20 (153)
Carlton 2010.
Matthew Watson 18 (23) b4 Isaac Smith 19 (181)
Fremantle 2012.
Josh Simpson 17 (2) b4 Brodie Grundy 18 (108)
Richmond 2013.
Ben Lennon 12 (21) b4 Patrick Cripps 13 (81)
GWS 2014.
Jarred Pickett 4 (17) b4 Jordan DeGoey 5 (71)