Draft night 1 & 2 wrap up thread

[one-eyed]

Finally, all eight in one frame 🐯🖼️


https://x.com/Richmond_FC/status/1863817093868834842

[Andyy]

Looking good boys.

Stack on the muscle and let's go for 2025!

[Diocletian]

They've all got pretty well defined arms already and no real chicken legs - certainly no Edwards, CEllises or Dows amongst them at least....

[one-eyed]

New Tiger cubs thrive on the contest

There is a common theme among the eight young players Richmond recruited in the 2024 AFL national draft . . . competitiveness.

Every one of them, from the draft’s No. 1 pick overall Sam Lalor, through to the Tigers’ eighth and final selection (No. 58 overall) Jasper Alger, possesses that key football attribute.

“The biggest games, that’s where the whips are cracking. You can’t be taking backward steps,” Richmond’s General Manager of Football Talent Blair Hartley told the Talking Tigers podcast

“The fierce desire to want to improve and be a good teammate was a big focus for us, and all those guys have shown that throughout the course of their junior careers.

 “So, we’re excited to have them with us.”

Another common feature of the newest batch of Tigers is their connection with each other.

Several of them were teammates in the Coates Talent League and at school football level, as well as in the under 18 national championships with Vic Metro or Vic Country.

“It’s huge (the bond between the draftees). I’d love to say it was planned . . . it certainly wasn’t,” Hartley said when asked if it was a deliberate strategy to draft players who had been teammates at junior level.

“We knew they were obviously close through interviews and background and everything else. But it was great to see how excited they were when they got amongst one another.”

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1702812/new-tiger-cubs-thrive-on-the-contest

[ajGreen]

The rumour of Sydney would have taken Faull if we didn’t is a bit hard to believe for me. Not saying they didn’t rate him as the best kpf in the draft because obviously we did too given we took him first. But, they then had picks 22 & 26 where they could have taken any other key position forward in Armstrong, the Whitlock brothers, Shanahan or Sims and they took a couple of small/medium forwards instead. Like how much higher could they have believably rated Faull above every other key forward in the draft if they didn’t use their next 2 picks to take any of them? I remember when the swans took that fella with pick 26 fox footy had him ranked as a pick in the 90s.

Anyway excited to see all the cubs play. Hopefully Faull and Armstrong line up round 1.

Either way I am pretty happy with faull.

Goes hard and makes a contest. Surprisingly good below his knees and when the ball is on the ground. Moves alright too and should fill out to a big size.

That said Murphy Reid looks like a miss.

[Diocletian]

Reid wouldn't look nearly as good in our side. Taranto, Dow & Hopper ain't Serong, Bolton & Brayshaw. If Lalor was playing for Freo he'd have 20 goals by now .

[Tiger Khosh]

Seems like the super draft label may have actually been accurate as I’ve been impressed by a bunch of them.

Anyway too early to tell who shoulda gone ahead of who and who slid badly. remind me in 3-4 years.

[wayne]

Seems like the super draft label may have actually been accurate as I’ve been impressed by a bunch of them.

Anyway too early to tell who shoulda gone ahead of who and who slid badly. remind me in 3-4 years.

Yep, way too early. Look at Brown and Van Slowyen, early days plenty were spewing we didn't take the KPF.