Why Richmond Needed Midfielders... Badly (Youtube video)

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Why Richmond Needed Midfielders... Badly

By Footy A2Z
28 Feb 2023

Following a stop-start 2022 campaign, a busy off-season for the Tigers has media outlets buzzing about a potential return to the top four this season. The arrivals of Tim Taranto and Jacob Hopper on 7 year deals from GWS have provided the team with much needed midfield reinforcements.

So after their engine room stuttered for much of last year, have Richmond now fixed their midfield woes and why did they even need to in the first place?

Click to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuYH7HGMjV0

[Andyy]

That's a great video.

Only thing it doesn't say is that eff face Hocking introduced that rule and said he hated seeing Richmond abuse the guarding of the mark, then his own damned team won a premiership. Fmd corruption or what

[the claw]

I think what is being missed here is just how poor our list management and recruiting, the little we did was in this area.

The title of the thread says it all. Why Richmond NEEDED midfielders BADLY

The same can be said for other areas as well.

To get a dynasty you add quality to younger blokes Prestia, Nankervis Caddy 2016, in this case we roll the dice adding two big mids to an aging list.

I just think sometimes being able to aquire mature players glosses over areas we have been poor in to varying degrees.

[Broadsword]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'd give up our three premierships in a heartbeat for another go at the 2018-2022 drafts with a top-end draft hand. Then we'd see what our recruiters are made of!

[MintOnLamb]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'd give up our three premierships in a heartbeat for another go at the 2018-2022 drafts with a top-end draft hand. Then we'd see what our recruiters are made of!

Er…Um… I’ll take the silverware

[JP Tiger]

I'll take the cupboard full of silverware too ...   

[georgies31]

Success comes at a price to during that era we weren't getting the top picks and add to that gws and sun's coming in creating compromised drafts and yes we did recruit badly at times.

[Tiger Khosh]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'd give up our three premierships in a heartbeat for another go at the 2018-2022 drafts with a top-end draft hand. Then we'd see what our recruiters are made of!

Yeah and maybe just maybe if everything falls together we might be able to jag a premiership which is certainly better than the **checks notes** 3 premierships we actually won 

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Why are they making Taranto look like he is gender fluid?

[Damo]

Why are they making Taranto look like he is gender fluid?

Don’t know what all these new terms mean, and refuse to learn

[Assange Tiger 😎]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'd give up our three premierships in a heartbeat for another go at the 2018-2022 drafts with a top-end draft hand. Then we'd see what our recruiters are made of!

  good stuff from you.

Caught a few nibbles too

[Tiger Khosh]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'd give up our three premierships in a heartbeat for another go at the 2018-2022 drafts with a top-end draft hand. Then we'd see what our recruiters are made of!

  good stuff from you.

Caught a few nibbles too

Did I just get whooshed?

[Assange Tiger 😎]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'd give up our three premierships in a heartbeat for another go at the 2018-2022 drafts with a top-end draft hand. Then we'd see what our recruiters are made of!

  good stuff from you.

Caught a few nibbles too

Did I just get whooshed?

 

[Broadsword]

 

[wayne]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'd give up our three premierships in a heartbeat for another go at the 2018-2022 drafts with a top-end draft hand. Then we'd see what our recruiters are made of!