Training Pre Season ‘25

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Blair is such a good operator, that you just know he’ll be doing everything possible to get Walker. As you say very much a long shot, but for a player of his quality, you’ve got to have a red hot crack .

Have yet to see any Leys footage, BUT have read some very positive reports re him possibly being the best of the F/S picks, albeit very early days to be making any calls.

Granted Leys is a year behind Kellaway but I'd have Kellaway ahead currently from a who has the more rounded game perspective.

In the video I made of Leys I explain a little of my concerns I saw in his club games however he did address the issue in the SA Under 16's game so maybe he has grown and learnt from it.

Leys definitely has some solid potential though!
 

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Type of thing richoplzbreed has been banging crying out for for a while

Find an untapped market full of potential and plant our flag for possible nga recruitment
Wish they kept this kind of thing quiet.

Watch Copywood, they will be sniffing around now.
 
Master Kan, greatest wing of all time has played back and forward in his time. Never in the middle.
How effective was he tagging?
Keep Taranto stat less?

Midfield play is completely different. Bolton swoop past one clearance and not get the footy, Kosi gets a couple while back up rucking, Libba, Pickett ran with Neale for half the final, barely a success. Quick reactions required, I feel the offensive drive from MRJ. Or Lalor & Smilie...
Leave him on the wing.

10 goals from 60 inside 50s last game is our problem.

I would doubt the club is thinking of making McIntosh a staple of our inside midfield. It is probably just a matter of a having a defensive inside option in certain limited scenarios and only for 1-3 years max.
 
Type of thing richoplzbreed has been banging crying out for for a while

Find an untapped market full of potential and plant our flag for possible nga recruitment
We should go all in. Samoans are the highest per capita ethnicity in the NFL. You could only ever have 1-3 on your team though as they are power athletes and generally have poorer endurance.
 

Mykelti Lefau, Josh Gibcus, Tylar Young, Taj Hotton and Judson Clarke off to Samoa​

Richmond were decimated by injury in 2024, particularly knee complaints. Now, Richmond’s “ACL quintet” are taking the next step in their road back to the top level.
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Richmond’s “ACL quintet” will jet off to Samoa on Saturday with Tigers forward Mykelti Lefau to connect with the sites of his family roots for the very first time.
Lefau, Josh Gibcus, Tylar Young, Taj Hotton and Judson Clarke — who is the closest of the five who suffered the knee injury in 2024 to returning to play — will travel to the Pacific country, with an eye to both discovering more about Lefau’s Samoan heritage and further developing football in the Polynesian islands.
The 26-year-old was born in New Zealand with his father from Samoa, and will travel to the village his grandparents call home for the very first time on the five-day trip — his first to the island nation.
Mykelti Lefau was a bright spot before going down with injury. Picture: Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images

Mykelti Lefau was a bright spot before going down with injury. Picture: Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images
“Mykelti is very proud of his Samoan heritage,” Tigers chief executive Shane Dunne said.
“The traditional celebration his family and friends put on for him in our changerooms at the MCG before his debut was a great example of how he carries his heritage and what it means to him.
“For him to now be able to return to his family’s village while wearing the Richmond logo will be a proud moment for him, but also for our club.”
Lefau’s family members delivered a haka to the Tiger upon his debut game in 2024 which he described at the time as “pretty special”.
His grandmother on his father’s side is from Nofoali’i, a village on the Samoan island of Upolu, and his grandfather Falelatai on the same island.
“I’d never really had an opportunity to show my culture before, and doing it in the AFL … I had no hesitation to do it,” Lefau said last year.
“I think it’s very important to see a future with Pacific islanders playing AFL. It’s sort of an untapped area of talent.
“That’s my dream — to make sure we have young kids from islands to have an opportunity to play a sport that they’ve never even heard of.”
The Tigers were ravaged by knee injuries in 2024. Picture: Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images

The Tigers were ravaged by knee injuries in 2024. Picture: Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images
Lefau suffered his ACL injury in May and with his four fellow injured Tigers is expected to be given a full 12 months to recover.
Clarke, 21, has progressed slightly ahead of the five and took part in most match drills at Punt Road Oval on Wednesday morning.
The upcoming Pacific trip will also include visits to sporting organisations and the opportunity for locals interested in learning more about AFL coaching.
“AFL is for everyone,” Dunne said.
“And Richmond embodies that. It’s powerful that our players can engage with the Samoan community actively — and who knows, they might inspire some local talent to consider the sport as a potential option.”
Samoa is a great place, they’ll have a great time there
 

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Need to get in early and set up some kind of academy over there outside AFL jurisdiction. Get Lefau post-retirement to be involved.
My son played rugby against Samoan kids in Melbourne, used to be a rumour that parents didn’t bother getting birth certificates until they were 2 years or so, which sort of explained the twice the size difference and moustaches on ‘14 year olds’ and who dragged the oppo tacklers behind them as they ran to touch ….
 
My son played rugby against Samoan kids in Melbourne, used to be a rumour that parents didn’t bother getting birth certificates until they were 2 years or so, which sort of explained the twice the size difference and moustaches on ‘14 year olds’ and who dragged the oppo tacklers behind them as they ran to touch ….
Have a few Vietnamese blokes at work like that
No official birth records so when they came over they shaved some years off

On paper they are late 50’s but by looking at them they are death warmed up
 
Wardlaw had the same hamstring injury as Lalor in his draft year. Be careful what you wish for.

i dont remember wishing for anything but thanks for the free advice lord
 

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