Richmond premiership list build

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Richmond premiership list build

Half the 2019 premiership side were recruited from outside of the first two rounds of the National draft (beyond pick 40).

1st rounders:     7 - Riewoldt, Cotchin, Martin, Ellis, Vlastuin, Rioli, Prestia (trade)
2nd rounders:    4 - Edwards, Astbury, Bolton, Caddy (trade)
3rd rounders:     1 - Nankervis (trade)
4th rounders:     1 - Broad
Preseason draft: 2 - Grimes, Houli
Rookie draft:      5 - Short, Castagna, Lambert, Soldo, Baker
Midseason draft: 1 - Pickett
Free agents:       1 - Lynch


2006
Jack Riewoldt (pick 13)
Shane Edwards (pick 26)

2007
Trent Cotchin (pick 2)
Alex Rance (pick 18)

2009
Dustin Martin (pick 3)
David Astbury (pick 35)
Dylan Grimes (pick 2, pre-season draft)

2010
Bachar Houli (pick 3, pre-season draft)

2011
Brandon Ellis (pick 15)

2012
Nick Vlastuin (pick 9)
Kamdyn McIntosh (pick 31)

2014
Connor Menadue (pick 33)
Dan Butler (pick 67)
Jayden Short (pick 11, rookie draft)
Jason Castagna (pick 29, rookie draft)
Kane Lambert (pick 46, rookie draft)
Ivan Soldo (Category B rookie)

2015
Daniel Rioli (pick 15)
Jacob Townsend (traded from Greater Western Sydney)
Oleg Markov (pick 50)
Nathan Broad (pick 67)
Callum Moore (pick 12, rookie draft)
Mabior Chol (pick 30, rookie draft)

2016
Josh Caddy (traded from Geelong)
Dion Prestia (traded from Gold Coast)
Toby Nankervis (traded from Sydney)
Shai Bolton (pick 29)
Jack Graham (pick 53)
Ryan Garthwaite (pick 72)

2017
Jack Higgins (pick 17)
Callum Coleman-Jones (pick 20)
Noah Balta (pick 25)
Patrick Naish (pick 34)
Ben Miller (pick 63)
Liam Baker (pick 18, rookie draft)
Derek Eggmolesse-Smith (Category B rookie)

2018
Tom Lynch (free agency)
Riley Collier-Dawkins (pick 20)
Jack Ross (pick 43)
Fraser Turner (pick 58)
Luke English (pick 62)
Jake Aarts (pick 16, rookie draft)
Maverick Weller (supplemental selection period)
Sydney Stack (supplemental selection period)

2019
Marlion Pickett (pick 13, mid-season draft)

Bold - 2019 premiership players

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/creating-greatness-how-the-grand-final-lists-were-built-20190926-p52vd2.html

[mightytiges]

This shows how far we've come as a club over the past decade. Pumping resources into our recruiting dept. has paid off big time. Also explains why we were in the wilderness for 30 years when we relied on part-timers and didn't keep up with the times as footy went professional on and off field. In the 90s we traded away first round picks for ordinary opposition fringe players while no way in the 00s would we have ended up finding so many quality players from the 3rd round down. We use to joke on here how bad we were with middle-late range and rookie picks. So we would've remained languishing in the bottom half of the ladder and worst still a number of those in the top bracket would have had every right to look to free agency under the current system to leave for a top club. That gawd all that crap is in the past and now Tigerland has a well resourced club from top to bottom and a great people culture.

[Dougeytherichmondfan]

This shows how far we've come as a club over the past decade. Pumping resources into our recruiting dept. has paid off big time. Also explains why we were in the wilderness for 30 years when we relied on part-timers and didn't keep up with the times as footy went professional on and off field. In the 90s we traded away first round picks for ordinary opposition fringe players while no way in the 00s would we have ended up finding so many quality players from the 3rd round down. We use to joke on here how bad we were with middle-late range and rookie picks. So we would've remained languishing in the bottom half of the ladder and worst still a number of those in the top bracket would have had every right to look to free agency under the current system to leave for a top club. That gawd all that crap is in the past and now Tigerland has a well resourced club from top to bottom and a great people culture.

Couldn't agree more.

But I know for a fact that the mentality around how we treat our late round picks and rookie picks is totally different. We used to use them like hail marys and flyers with a whatever sticks is a win ethos, to treating them as preciously and carefully as we do our first and second round picks.

And we used to roll out the red carpet and pull out all the stops for the first round picks, now we treat all our recruits with the same amount of respect and expectation. How could those late round picks possibly be expected to prosper if the club itself had halfway written them off?