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Given results at the time that make sense.It was in fact 49.....
...less than that.
Must still be 0 now I guess.
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Given results at the time that make sense.It was in fact 49.....
...less than that.
In 2004, Richmond had 5 top 20 draft picks.
Deledio
Tambling
Meyer
Pattison
Polo
In 2005, they picked Jarred Oakleigh-Nicholls with Pick 8.
For every Cotchin and Martin, there's been a Conca and Tambling.
With Tassie joining the league, there's going to be stacks of compromised drafts so the Tigers are probably only going to have two swings at it and last time they had about 8 goes at it.
You keep coming to the well on this one.There will probably be a mad dash by aging clubs around 2028 to swap players to top picks from tasmania as they also seek to get in a lot of experienced players.
Tigers fans haven't been in the sellers market for a while. It takes some getting use to.What list manager is giving out 2 first round picks for rioli? He's made the aa top 40 list once? They have Flanders and Powell to play half back, they don't need him and he's not worth 2 first rounders. Bolton is worth a top 10 pick, but I can't see him going to west coast over freo. Baker is 10-20 pick, so you might end up.with fresh first this year for baker, but they're not giving you the keys to the draft for Bolton this year.
Your list is clearly the worst in the league at the moment
I think he means this week you have the oldest team. (2 months older than Collingwood, then daylight btw)Huh? We're not only not the oldest but will also not be the oldest next year.
Richmond will however be the youngest
Without checking, it feels like Geelong have had one of the oldest lists in the league since at least 2011. Probably half of those seasons in the top 2 oldest. We've had a few veterans retiring basically every season in that time.I think he means this week you have the oldest team. (2 months older than Collingwood, then daylight btw)
Let's play a fill in the blanks game, it's a lot of fun!But you found a gun last year in O Henry...who now looks like a gimp.
Before that Dekoning. Earlier this season Bruhn...
The world can't wait to see what Humphries and Dempsey produce when they also get worked out.
Dempsey might want to harden the **** up a bit, ranked outside the top 100 mids for hard ball gets in 2024.
Last one as good as Dempsey was Bolton, who I am sure will be a great player for Richmond for years to comeHave Richmond managed to unearth any young players that have come on as well as Dempsey and Humphries have for Geelong in season 2024?
Obviously we're a top 4 team so we don't have as many spots to gift games to youngsters as the wooden spooners, so I expect Richmond to have found at least two new young guns as we managed to do.
With his contract running until 2028 Richmond supporters can surely keep banking on him to perform for their club well into the future.Last one as good as Dempsey was Bolton, who I am sure will be a great player for Richmond for years to come
On behalf of the Tiger Army I would just like to congratulate the Geelong FC for turning 27 years 7 months old this week, and becoming yet again the oldest team in the AFL. Your rebuild seems to be progressing stunningly well.
I would also like to congratulate "elite" forward Oliver Henry on being the 145th highest rated forward in the AFL in 2024.
Where does Dempsey rank among mids for combined goals/assists per game? Do the research and come back to me, or concede and I can do it for you.The world can't wait to see what Humphries and Dempsey produce when they also get worked out.
Dempsey might want to harden the **** up a bit, ranked outside the top 100 mids for hard ball gets in 2024.
Agreed I don’t mind him either. I just don’t get MR’s unhealthy obsession with deathriding a player who has shown by a very young age playing primarily behind two superstar key forwards that he can be a very good contributor. He gets 2.5 shots on goal a game as it is and you would assume as he gets older that will grow barring some major misadventure or Ian baker finch like case of the yips.
I don't have a big issue with where O Henry sits in reality. But go back to this thread earlier where Cats were referring to him as a nailed on elite talent and follow the conversation from there, then you will understand why I am highlighting Henry.
Which Richmond players who are yet to turn 24, have had the best seasons for Richmond in 2024?
Ralphsmith, Ross, Ryan, Dow, MRJ, Sonsie, Cumberland, Banks, Brown, Green, Blight, Smith, Campbell and McAuliffe have had chances to shine. That could be the nucleus of the team in 3-5 years, along with the 18 year olds you pick up in this year's draft. Gibcus is he can ever get a good run at it.
Because most indicators have shown that he is on track to be that and if you’ve actually watched him this year - which any cats fan will tell you has been an ‘off’ year, you can see that it’s been a case of making some minor fixes and he probably could have been better again than he was last year or at least at the same level. He’s flying for more marks, seems to be putting his body on the line more etc etc but at the moment it’s not sticking and his kicking seems to have regressed a bit, I don’t mind saying that. But the kicking thing I think is fairly easily solvable and the marking will improve. He looks like a player who has tried to add more dimensions to his game and so far it hasn’t actually made him a better player or suited his game whereas if he just stayed put as a lead-out third forward he probably would have had a similar season to last year.
This is the way with so many youngsters. They get introduced to a good team with support around them and put into an easy role and look world beaters. Subsequently(as we have see with Cumberland) they get asked to contest, pressure, and run to AFL level and they suddenly look either also rans or just another young AFL player having to make their way. I said as much about Henry when plenty of your supporters were pointing to his "40 goal season" as evidence he is elite, or going to be.
That seems a remarkably small difference between a Top 4 contender and the bottom team.
Games played by Richmond players in 2024 who are under 23 as of now: 138
Games played by Geelong players in 2024 who are under 23 as of now: 115
So from that I'm getting a Richmond top 6 for 2024 as: Campbell, Ralphsmith, Brown, Banks, Ryan and Trezise.Our young contingent was decimated by injuries to Ross, Bauer, Rioli, Gibcus, Clarke, Fawcett, Gray. Of those who have had a decent run at it, Campbell has looked very promising and is still only 19. Ralphsmith is showing a bit as a fat winger, so isn't in the play much. Banks last half dozen games have been at a very good level. McAuliffe shows promise but at 19 is miles off having an AFL midfielder's tank. Brown has had a good season especially when you consider he is currently undergoing 3 operations, including one on each shoulder, which he carried from some point in the season. Green showed a bit in a couple of games but we need to see more before getting too excited. Dow and Cumberland will be lucky to avoid delisting, they are failed players from where I sit. Coulthard highly likely delisting, not shocked if he pops up at another club at some future point. Sonsie has had a disappointing year but is far from written off. Smith looks a fair way off it to me but it is his second season at the club and the first where he has actually played, and the club seems happy with him. Blight we need to see after a full pre-season. Ryan the jury is out, but the club appears to have seen something they like, because they have signed him for 3 more years. Trezise seems to be developing ok, won't be a world beater, may be along the lines of a Broad.
There is a lot of latent talent in our 23 and under group, I have said this before. We just don't appear to have gun inside mids or key forwards amongst them. But with a likely swathe of rd 1 picks in the 2024 draft that is highly likely about to change.
Based on his per game output, even this season if you take out his two games where he came off the sub bench in the last term (and remove the goal he kicked in one of those games), a full 23 game season would still leave him with somewhere around 35 before finals.
Always best to fact check you. For Geelong the correct number is 125.
I guess those 13 extra games invested into under 23s makes up for a year of being utter trash. That'll definitely pay off. Especially when 17 of that games were invested in all-time potato Thomson Dow.
How bad must the rest of your kids be if Dow can get 17 games?
So from that I'm getting a Richmond top 6 for 2024 as: Campbell, Ralphsmith, Brown, Banks, Ryan and Trezise.
For Geelong: Holmes, Dempsey, SDK, Humphries, Neale and Bruhn.
O.Henry had a strong 2023 but a disappointing 2024. Clark needs to hit the gym and get 50 games under his belt, so the jury is out. Conway was very promising but his body is failing him so far, which is a concern.
Bruhn has missed 8 games through injury, had 4 at less than 50% game time (in-game knocks) and had some poor first-up return games. When he gets a continuous run at it he shows really good signs per minute played. Then the disruptions happen at a worrying rate. He needs to build a tank and do it at 80% game time in the years to come. This has still only been his second year of actually playing in midfield at AFL level.
With Neale he's still raw but 2.1 goals/assists a game is decent as a key forward playing his 6th-17th games of AFL.
The others on the list speak for themselves as having good-great years for youngsters.
Anyway Richmond need that handful of first round picks as a top 4 side shouldn't be displaying more impressive youth output than the wooden spooners.
Richmond aren’t even young though.It's BigFooty.
Better to be young and terrible (one day something might happen), than mature and competitive.