2021 Draft thread

[one-eyed]

Looks hope it ends up much better than it did for our 2014 draft haul in this pic   (although Butler did play in our 2017 premiership).

[one-eyed]

Here's the footage of our 5 new draftees at Richmond station:

Click below to watch:

https://twitter.com/Richmond_FC/status/1465963126248157189

[one-eyed]

THE AFL this week wrote to all clubs to advise of the arrangements for the Pre-Season Supplemental Selection Period (SSP) and the 2022 Mid-Season Rookie Draft (MSRD).

Clubs have been advised the SSP will take place from Monday January 10 to Wednesday March 9, 2022 while the Mid-Season Rookie Draft is currently scheduled for Wednesday June 1, 2022.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/690161/afl-confirms-rookie-rules-for-ssp-mid-season-draft

[one-eyed]

Inside the draft: The tension, tactics and trades that didn't come off

Cal Twomey goes inside the hectic first round of the 2021 NAB AFL Draft, revealing whose phone ran hot and which clubs were desperate to trade up.

afl.com.au
2 December 2021

With Gibcus still on the board, some clubs sussed their options. The Giants offered pick 15 and a future first-round pick to Richmond for pick nine.

After Richmond selected key defender Josh Gibcus with pick No.9, pipping midfielder Ben Hobbs for the spot, the Tigers set out to try and nab both players.

THE TIGERS were on the hunt.

... the Tigers looked at ways to bring forward their second first-round pick ...

When Fremantle with the next choice also overlooked Hobbs, the Tigers got on the front foot. St Kilda was on the clock for its pick 11 when the Tigers rang with an offer of picks 17 and 28. The Saints weren't interested in sliding back that far.

A similar deal, involving those two selections plus a future second-round pick for pick 12 and a second-round selection, was put to West Coast. But the Eagles were already in discussions with Port Adelaide about a swap of pick 12 and 14, so knocked back the Tigers' bid to jump up the queue.

Richmond had one last shot at pairing up the Greater Western Victoria Rebels duo, offering pick 17 and 28 to Essendon for pick 13, before the Bombers pounced on Hobbs to bolster their midfield.

... the Tigers chose Brown [at pick 17] to add to their talented defensive group and as a partner to Gibcus in an exciting young backline. Eye-catching forward Kai Lohmann was also in the Tigers' mix.

The Tigers remained active, seeing if they could package picks in the 20s to nab Brisbane's final pick of the first round, but the Lions stuck with it and drafted Lohmann.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/689980/inside-the-draft-the-tension-tactics-and-trades-that-didn-t-come-off

[Rampsation]

At least we tried. I remember the trade period where we got mcmahon from footscray and miller came out abd said he was exhausted lol. 1 trade mcmahon equalled exhaustion. No wonder we were stuffed as a club.

[camboon]

Miller was trying to do everything on his own as manager and had a part time recruiter , he just couldn’t do it on his own. How do you research and monitor players around the country with a skeleton staff. Thank goodness we are financial and can afford staff these days.

[yandb]

So Twomey presented no evidence that we were after Hobbs other than the fact that we were trying to trade up.

 

[Diocletian]

Pretty sure Clarke has said as much since....if not since he did at least say before the draft that the first pick would likely be one out of Gibcus,Ward,Amiss & Hobbs...

[PremiershipClock]

Remember when Miller drafted Oakley-Nicholls at pick 8 because he had 'nice eyes'. Or is that just an urban myth!

[camboon]

Lol, poor JON, should have been a rookie, Miller must have miss read the memo that said 1st pick in the rookie draft

[Gracie]

Lol, poor JON, should have been a rookie, Miller must have miss read the memo that said 1st pick in the rookie draft

Memo?? It was just Miller so no one to send or get memos from

Would have been post it notes

[pmac21]

Remember when Miller drafted Oakley-Nicholls at pick 8 because he had 'nice eyes'. Or is that just an urban myth!

Good bloke as he was mowing his mums lawn when they went to visit him in WA was the story I heard.  I asked Blair Hartley at a supporters club event in 2014, it didnt go down that well.

[mightytiges]

Remember when Miller drafted Oakley-Nicholls at pick 8 because he had 'nice eyes'. Or is that just an urban myth!

Good bloke as he was mowing his mums lawn when they went to visit him in WA was the story I heard.  I asked Blair Hartley at a supporters club event in 2014, it didnt go down that well.

I asked Wallace about JON at preseason training after JON was drafted and Wallace said JON was 4 years away from playing seniors. Not the sort of thing you want to here about a top 10 pick  . At the end of the day, it wasn't JON's fault that he was stupidly judged as a top 10 pick when he was at best really a rookie pick. His kicking technique alone was very suspect.

[Knighter]

Remember when Miller drafted Oakley-Nicholls at pick 8 because he had 'nice eyes'. Or is that just an urban myth!

Good bloke as he was mowing his mums lawn when they went to visit him in WA was the story I heard.  I asked Blair Hartley at a supporters club event in 2014, it didnt go down that well.

What was Blair's problem?  Not like he had anything to do with recruiting JON. 

[the claw]

Remember when Miller drafted Oakley-Nicholls at pick 8 because he had 'nice eyes'. Or is that just an urban myth!

LOL once a myth takes hold no matter how much fact comes out  the myth remains.

Greg Miller did not get a whole lot right when it came to our drafts but fmd Oakley Nicholls was not his choice.He has openly said he wanted Travis Varcoe at that pick that was said straight after the draft.. It has  also been acknowledged that fine eyes was given a full time job on the back of his work in the 2005 draft. go figure. I have bought the article up a few times and that is exactly what the club said when they made him full time head of recruiting at the start of 06.
Yes Jackson was only doing it  part time for us in 05  so was Miller virtually, but FJ  was the major player in that draft PART TIME OR NOT.

As inadequate as it was we also had another bloke from NM cannot remember his name  and half a dozen people around the country  giving  regular input.As i said inadequate but the myth makes it sound like there was just Miller and Jackson.