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Do you have amnesia? We got Nyuon and Stephens just last yearNorth and not getting 'big fish' a match made in heaven.
Do you have amnesia? We got Nyuon and Stephens just last year
Yeah I don't think you have much choice when players want to leave and especially with Tassie coming in it's probably for the best you cash in now, but you have to nail the draft picks you get for them really otherwise its sets the timeline back.Hi Tigers supporter - interested in the opinions of supporters who are attached to a rebuilding club as this is our next few years.
Firstly Richmond has no choice but to trade out players in their prime such as Bolton, Rioli etc as they have trade value now, however, will not in 2 or 3 years. We are an aged team whose list is stuffed/past it and totally injury prone. We need youth injections and the risk is to not trade out as our players will eventually have less suitors as they age further.
Has North erred in not keeping a few of their older players or bringing in a few from other clubs whilst kids were developing?
Your rebuild has taken too long and I’d like to no why this is.
Even though your ladder position is not good, your base now is and it won’t be long until you impact.
We're not sure what they will do. Likely that they just go best talent at the early pick.Thanks for a very objective description of Norths issues. Hopefully we don’t do exactly the same. As yet North do not seem to have enough KP players. Do you think you may use your early pick(s) to select these types.? Eg Armstrong or more onballers?
No doubt used us as leverage to get the 3 years but I still think you make the approach, you make the other team spend more of their cap anyway. Same thing happens with the Crows being used that way but they also got Rankine and Dawson.He though is contracted for next season and it seemed to happen in a flurry once our interest got out.
Yes to Parker. Half thinking of putting you on ignore after reading the part about Shiel.Give Luke Parker 2 years with a trigger for a 3rd
Dylan Shiel could be another to consider been in good form for essendon of late
Rebuilding by drafting elite midfielders sounds like a great strategy until you do the maths and realise you're about 10 times more likely to pick up a decent midfielder in a trade than you are a decent KPP.Thanks for a very objective description of Norths issues. Hopefully we don’t do exactly the same. As yet North do not seem to have enough KP players. Do you think you may use your early pick(s) to select these types.? Eg Armstrong or more onballers?
The key difference is you've won 3 flags and we haven't played in a GF for over 25 years. You can be a bit patient, as you've still got premiership players on your list, whereas a generation of our supporters have never seen a flag.Hi Tigers supporter - interested in the opinions of supporters who are attached to a rebuilding club as this is our next few years.
Firstly Richmond has no choice but to trade out players in their prime such as Bolton, Rioli etc as they have trade value now, however, will not in 2 or 3 years. We are an aged team whose list is stuffed/past it and totally injury prone. We need youth injections and the risk is to not trade out as our players will eventually have less suitors as they age further.
Has North erred in not keeping a few of their older players or bringing in a few from other clubs whilst kids were developing?
Your rebuild has taken too long and I’d like to no why this is.
Even though your ladder position is not good, your base now is and it won’t be long until you impact.
Not at all mate, and I know this is pretty arbitrary but Brisbane between 2014-2018 had 13 losses by more then 83 points.We have already take twice as many floggings as Brisbane in the last trough. We don’t need any more.
Agree 100% - gets 31 disposals that never hurt the opposition. Could have won the game against Collingwood with a gettabke last min goal as the crafty small forward we recruited. Massive disappointment this year and needs to play forward of centre. Sheezel is the only one who should be demanding the football as he uses it well. Very smart footballerFor me, we may as well get rid of Fisher.
Every week I watch a bloke with no right foot, run by on the right hand side calling for a handball. Only to run into trouble and circle back around on his left losing any advantage of receiving the fast handball in the first place.
It is infuriating to me, and how he is not being called out on it, I have no idea.
It was the exact same problem at Carlton. I like that he wants the ball, I hate that he hasn't yet worked out how to be in the best position to receive it.
Reeks of dumb footballer with reasonable skills, but still dumb.
A bit like trying to get your head around quantum mechanics, I just cannot comprehend how any team could be worse than us…things are looking up!Not at all mate, and I know this is pretty arbitrary but Brisbane between 2014-2018 had 13 losses by more then 83 points.
We have had 6 between 2020-2024, and about another six in the 70 point range.
I am not sure how many they had in the 70’s as I looked at a list of their greatest losses ever and it bottomed out at 83.
So let’s not forget that it’s ok to get a hiding or two at this stage of our development.View attachment 2085850
Rebuilding by drafting elite midfielders sounds like a great strategy until you do the maths and realise you're about 10 times more likely to pick up a decent midfielder in a trade than you are a decent KPP.
Father-sons, academies and now NGAs will take away what few good talls are at the top of the draft.
You want your club to build a balanced list from the get-go.
Not to be the poster who zeros onto a specific point, but if the football trauma we have collectively experienced since Bard fatefully retired a 20 disposal, 1.5 goal a game small forward, it’s that nothing but Harry is certain.Only now are we turning the corner, with the newer recruits in Sheezel, Wardlaw, McKercher looking good. We need Duursma also become elite. And for our key backs in Comben and Logue not to get injured. Still, we only won 3 games this year, same as last year so it's a looong time before we are competing again.
100% especially when they've got no one to learn off.Not to be the poster who zeros onto a specific point, but if the football trauma we have collectively experienced since Bard fatefully retired a 20 disposal, 1.5 goal a game small forward, it’s that nothing but Harry is certain.
Wardlaw is a cracking kid with a lion heart, but even he is no sure thing. Duursma is even further back. ZD already has some incredible highlights, but he will need to work his arse off to make his talent turn into success.
It's ironic that Thilthorpe would suit us perfectly while Adelaide is struggling for young midfielders. Sliding doors hey.
Yes to Parker. Half thinking of putting you on ignore after reading the part about Shiel.
Bard and the 2016-2018 list management will be written about as case studies of how to destroy not only a list but the very spirit of a sports club. F*cking criminal.100% especially when they've got no one to learn off.
LDU had a year or so of Cunners and Higgo. Jy didn't have much time playing alongside either. They are two of our most experienced and for most of their time with North they haven't actually seen what a functional midfield looks like.
Logue was Fremantle's 4th choice key defender but he's our best, IMO, because he was able to learn off the likes of Pearce, who learnt off McPharlin, etc.
We've broken the chain of continuity, that kind of passing on of knowledge if you will, and now the boys are having to learn the theory and try to apply it all by themselves.
Can I interest you in a couple of your first rounders for Simpkin and McDonald ?Hi Tigers supporter - interested in the opinions of supporters who are attached to a rebuilding club as this is our next few years.
Firstly Richmond has no choice but to trade out players in their prime such as Bolton, Rioli etc as they have trade value now, however, will not in 2 or 3 years. We are an aged team whose list is stuffed/past it and totally injury prone. We need youth injections and the risk is to not trade out as our players will eventually have less suitors as they age further.
Has North erred in not keeping a few of their older players or bringing in a few from other clubs whilst kids were developing?
Your rebuild has taken too long and I’d like to no why this is.
Even though your ladder position is not good, your base now is and it won’t be long until you impact.
Reckon we could only turn his head with a four year deal. Based on his recent form, he could get a 2 year deal at 17 other clubs.Give Luke Parker 2 years with a trigger for a 3rd
Dylan Shiel could be another to consider been in good form for essendon of late
He's only half thinking about it too. Very charitableThis is certainly the cutest reason I’ve seen somebody mention for ignoring Nostra. I think he’d agree.
It's ironic that Thilthorpe would suit us perfectly while Adelaide is struggling for young midfielders. Sliding doors hey.