Draft night 1 & 2 wrap up thread

[Diocletian]

Looks like a good draft to me for the Tiges but anybody else notice how few Aboriginals were drafted? Did the Ku Klux Klan suddenly take over the AFL?( That's a joke for those who don't get it, obviously non white kids were taken)
I was reading this
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/reality-bites-as-crisis-in-the-number-of-indigenous-afl-players-gathers-pace-20241119-p5krpz.html
And they reckon only 2 will be drafted and the first night was like wow yeah it's true. Maybe tonight will change things

Histrionic race baiting crap like this is why Trump won easily.

Yeah but Trump did the race baiting.

LMAO ...is the big bad orange man in the room with you now?

[WilliamPowell]

Let's keep this thread on topic which is the draft

Want to talk about the President-elect flip over to the General Discussion board

Thanks

[Diocletian]

Let's keep this thread on topic which is the draft

Want to talk about the President-elect flip over to the General Discussion board

Thanks

What about hysterical rants comparing the AFL to the KKK because the draft didn't meet some imaginary racial quota?

[WilliamPowell]

What about hysterical rants comparing the AFL to the KKK because the draft didn't meet some imaginary racial quota?

 

Someone gave an opinion and as a joke (yes a very poor one) used a poor analogy ..isn't the 1st and certainly won't be the last

My comment wasn't directed at any one poster but was to simply get the posts in this thread back on topic.

Want to me take it further? I can and will edit and hand out suspensions if that's what you're suggesting

[Owl]

Herding feral cats again Will lol

[Assange Tiger 😎]

Hooter!

I thought you were dead

[Tiger Khosh]

Overall very happy with our draft.

My preference would have been 1 extra top end mid rather then the third tall in Sims.

I know I’ve been told otherwise, but can’t shake the feeling that we could have taken Allen/Reid at pick 14 and still ended up with Faull, Trainor and Armstrong with our next 3 picks while still doing that deal with the Kangas that gave us their 2025 1st rounder. I mean 3 of the first 4 key forwards taken in the draft were all picked by us and the 4th taken by the kangas was using the pick we traded them lol

Lalor, Smillie, Hotten, Allen/Reid, Faull, Trainer, Armstrong, Alger + Norths F1 is a better balance imo. Anyway all speculation. Club knows hell of a lot more then we and maybe caught wind that Faull would have been taken before P21.

[tdy]

I would have taken a second tall KPD I don't think our current crop is all that great and defense's take years to develop. At least 100 games usually. I'd start at the back and move forward.

[Andyy]

I would have taken a second tall KPD I don't think our current crop is all that great and defense's take years to develop. At least 100 games usually. I'd start at the back and move forward.

Any indigenous KPDs we overlooked?

[Diocletian]

I would have taken a second tall KPD I don't think our current crop is all that great and defense's take years to develop. At least 100 games usually. I'd start at the back and move forward.

Any indigenous KPDs we overlooked?

Yes - all of them.

[WilliamPowell]

Snip

Back to the topic folks and leave the baiting etc off the forum

[one-eyed]

“It’s just been a masterclass”: Hutchison applauds Tigers draft haul in the face of a swift rebuild process

By Oliver van Bronswijk
SEN
24 Nov 2024

Sports journalist Craig Hutchison and former AFL player manager Liam Pickering have tipped their hats to Richmond’s recruiting staff as the Tigers have pulled off a faultless AFL Draft.

The Tigers held the first overall pick and added to their first selections with pick seven. Later selections in the first round included 12,14,21 and 23. These selections were headlined by midfield gun Sam Lalor.

Hutchison was staggered by the Tigers' accuracy and the young talent they brought into the club over a single draft.

“Gee, they’ve had a great draft. They’ve thought this through well over the last three or four months,” Hutchison said on SEN's Off The Bench.

“I reckon it’s just been a masterclass. Hats off to them. I underestimated them.

“I just think it’s genius what they’ve done.”

Liam Pickering is resolute that this can speed up the Tigers' rebuild process. A task which is vital before the new Tasmania side enters the competition.

The move to trade pick 27 for a future first from North Melbourne could very well create two top-five selections again for Richmond in the following year's draft.

If Richmond can bounce back, Pickering believes it could save them from being perennial basement dwellers once again.

“Their rebuild will be quick, it’s not going to be next year. But it’ll be within five,” Pickering said.

“They’ve probably got to get 80 games into these guys, but this group will be good.

“They replenish quickly and they’ve got two next year (first-round picks). They talked North into their first pick next year.

“How have they done that?”

The Tigers are widely tipped to finish with the wooden spoon again in 2025, an unfavourable position for members of the Richmond faithful. However, Lalor, Smillie, Hotton and Faull are likely to bring a youthful injection which could spur the Tigers back to competitive form once again.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/11/23/its-just-been-a-masterclass-hutchison-applauds-tigers-draft-haul-in-the-face

[one-eyed]

Richmond will hopefully soon stop patting itself on the back over the decisions it made to off-load in-contract star players in return for access to a heap of high-end kids in the national draft. And now that the teenage talent in those kids has been identified, the senior development phase must begin immediately.

- Damian Barrett

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1258251/barrett-the-big-issues-facing-every-club-and-the-afl-over-summer

[Tiger Khosh]

What a knob

[Knighter]

Richmond will hopefully soon stop patting itself on the back over the decisions it made to off-load in-contract star players in return for access to a heap of high-end kids in the national draft. And now that the teenage talent in those kids has been identified, the senior development phase must begin immediately.

- Damian Barrett

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1258251/barrett-the-big-issues-facing-every-club-and-the-afl-over-summer

Barrett really is a miserable campaigner