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Richmond Rant / Re: Best 23 in 2026?
« Last post by Andyy on Today at 09:53:54 AM »Who guided Rance Asbury houli broad Vlastuin? Chaplin? Lol
It's cliche feel good untruths.
Vlastuin is more than enough. What's going to happen is Vlastuin. Broad. Short will be in the back 6 damaging the development of the club long term. And you'll be there sprouting zomg this is good! Luke hodge!!
Ideally Vlastuin and broad should be phased out of the back 6 either not playing if moving to wing/tagger/mid/ruck/fwd etc. to allow a back 6 develop together.
Most importantly Trainor and gibcus and then balta and miller.
You already likely have Vlastuin as a defender who is more hodge than hodge himself.
Yes, Rance was quite vocal about Chaplin's significant and positive influence on his development. Just because Tross became a legendary player doesn't mean Chaplin didn't help his development. Ironically Chaplin is now part of AFL coaching staff - who'd have thunk it?
Rance guided both Astbury and Grimes IMO. Probably Broad in the early days a bit as well.
Houli and Vlastuin are different sorts of players.
Broad will see out his final year and be useful, then Vlastuin will continue another year or two easily.
So you don't actually need a Luke hodge type to develop a good backline? Those were just lies a few posts up.
You can have a soft spud like Chaplin do it?
Hence balta and miller should be more than up to the task.
Well, we managed 3 flags without Luke Hodge.
Rance spoke highly of Chaplin's influence on him.
I see Broad and Vlastuin playing that role somewhat.
Evidence would suggest Balta may not be the best candidate for mentoring roles at this stage.
Balta twating a bloke in a pub disqualifies him yet hodge is the goat for drink driving. Ending his friendship with rioli. Endlessly elbowing people in the head. Heading a systematic racism scandal. Telling goodes he's a wanker etc etc. is acceptable?
Many Richmond and former Richmond have spoken highly about balta too
I never said Hodge is the GOAT myself. In fact it really annoys me that people call Cotchin a dirty player/sniper but Hodge cops all the plaudits. He was filthy. The rest sounds mostly like conjecture.
Balta won't be getting any leadership roles so soon after an assault charge, we can be sure of that.
I wouldn’t engage Andy. The guy is a circular reference.
It’s not hard to find many examples of older players - either in the club or brought into a club to take an on field role in player development.
It’s happened time and again over many years.
Not strictly a prerequisite but why wouldn’t you do it?
Norf has had to change it’s recruiting because Brad Scott dumped and ran on all his senior experience and their kids were exposed. Not yet fixed because the decay was so bad on morale.
If the circular reference doesn’t see that, he can continue to chase his tail.
Yeah, bit of an echo chamber.
This is also why we have Taranto and Hopper, if not the reason we recruited them initially.
Thankfully someone else manages the list and runs the club.
Yep coming from the bloke that was crying over not having Daniel Lowther, as a SSP
Who?
No idea what you're talking about.
