Tigers cover all bases in recruiting Polak
3:29:53 PM Fri 13 October, 2006
Richmond coach Terry Wallace
richmondfc.com.au
I believe the following is the formula for good recruiting in AFL football:
• Keep your early picks.
• Don’t give away your quality players.
• Add talent to your playing list.
Obviously, that’s difficult to achieve when dealing with rival league clubs, who are seeking to do something similar, but I really feel we, at Richmond, covered off all this during the 2006 trade period which finished on Friday afternoon.
We’ve retained picks in the first and second rounds of the upcoming National Draft, we haven’t traded away any of our players, and we’ve managed to snare a player who was a top four selection in the Draft and finished runner-up in the AFL’s Rising Star Award.
In securing the services of 22-year-old Graham Polak from the Fremantle Dockers, I now regard us as having gained two first-round picks, as well as a second-rounder, in our recruiting endeavors.
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