Marlion Pickett [merged]

[TigerLand]

Bog

Playing incredible footy. Get him to 100 games for father son please

[Gracie]

Bog

Playing incredible footy. Get him to 100 games for father son please

Also father daughter

[Andyy]

Sensational game from him but also our wingmen as a combo.

Combined for 42 touches, 4 goals and 7 tackles. Very solid.

[one-eyed]

Marvellous Marlion

Pickett had an AFL career-high 25 disposals, an equal team-high 10 contested possessions, a team-high six inside-50s, three rebound-50s, eight intercepts, seven score involvements, a game-high five tackles, took seven marks and kicked an AFL career-high two goals in his wing role.

Richmond coach Damien Hardwick heaped praise on Pickett in his post-match press conference.

“I thought he was huge,” Hardwick said.

“He probably set the tone for what we were lacking . . . his hardness in and around the contest, ability to win crucial ball, step-in tackle.

“He epitomised what we need.”

Pickett is averaging 17.2 disposals, 5.0 marks, 3.9 inside-50s, 4.9 score involvements, 4.8 intercepts and 395.9 metres gained per game this season.

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1165030/marvellous-marlion

[one-eyed]

50 games for Marlion this week  .

2019     1 (GF debut) ......... premiership
2020   19 ......................... premiership
2021   18
2022   12*
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Total   50* games

https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/M/Marlion_Pickett.html

[gtig]

awesome, well done Marlion.

[Andyy]

What a find this guy was. Love what he brings with his aerial ability and mongrel.

[WilliamPowell]

And he finally gets to play in the guernsey he and his wife designed for Dreamtime

As it is Naidoc week, club is wearing their indigenous guernsey for the Gold Coast game

[Andyy]

And he finally gets to play in the guernsey he and his wife designed for Dreamtime

As it is Naidoc week, club is wearing their indigenous guernsey for the Gold Coast game

What a nice touch.

Not that he should have been rubbed out anyway. Honestly I feel like they target him. Dunno if it's because he's brown or something else but they nail him for crap they let other people walk for.

[Knighter]

And he finally gets to play in the guernsey he and his wife designed for Dreamtime

As it is Naidoc week, club is wearing their indigenous guernsey for the Gold Coast game

What a nice touch.

Not that he should have been rubbed out anyway. Honestly I feel like they target him. Dunno if it's because he's brown or something else but they nail him for crap they let other people walk for.

Not many of his folk educated at Xavier. 

[DCrane]

Not many of his folk educated at Xavier.

Lightbulb moment for Knighter on institutionalised racism

[Tiger Khosh]

Said the same thing in broady’s thread but I wasn’t this guys biggest fan at the start of the season. Thought he prioritised going for the man rather than the ball and his decision making and disposal were very frustrating. But man has he been great this season. You’d think he’d been playing wing his whole life the way he seems to understand the role with the positions he’s been getting in. Contested marking been great the last few weeks too.

To think we got him and broad for basically nothing with a mid season and rookie draft pick respectively. Yet some chose to focus on our bad picks rather than celebrate the overwhelming wins.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Love his hardness and has added better decision making and has really become a beautiful mark. Hopefully he can play another 7 years and play with his son 

[eliminator]

Congratulations to him. Hopefully can play on for a while.

[one-eyed]

TIGERS TO STEP UP PICKETT TALKS

Riley Beveridge
afl.com.au
7 July 2022

RICHMOND will ramp up contract talks with Marlion Pickett in the coming weeks following the wingman's superb run of form this season.

Pickett is coming towards the end of the two-year deal he signed at the conclusion of the 2020 campaign, though both parties are confident of securing an agreement to extend his time at Punt Road.

The club has been in open dialogue with the 30-year-old throughout the season, where Pickett has enjoyed a career-best stretch of form to average 17.2 disposals and 4.9 score involvements per game.

Already a two-time premiership player with Richmond, having famously made his AFL debut on Grand Final day in 2019 before playing an integral part in the side's 2020 success, Pickett has emerged as one of the game's best wingmen this year.

Tigers coach Damien Hardwick recently suggested the veteran would be an outside chance to claim the side's best and fairest this season, highlighting his importance to the finals-bound outfit.

Pickett, recruited to Richmond during the return of the 2019 mid-season rookie draft, is due to play his 50th game for the club this weekend.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/794553/jesinta-s-surprise-move-could-gun-midfielder-leave-crows-