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Trade period / National Draft 2024
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Maybe thinks he's a wankstain.
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Smillie plays a different sport to RCD they're that far apart as prospects
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Read somewhere Draper sleeps in ice baths so you can see how different they are as people.
Think GC dropping to pick 5 is a real possibility - don't think Crows will be able to get ahead of them.
Splitting pick 1 or 2 for pick 5 and ~pick 10 is worth at least considering.
Worst case the first 4 picks go on Draper, Smillie, Smith & Jagga.
Trainor or a bolter could let one of them slide.
Are we happy likely missing our preferred Draper/FOS option for instaed getting Lalor and Armstrong (or whoever - Bo Allan, Langford.....)
GC should be desperate to get ahead of the Lombard bid and get 2 top 5 players with their 2 first rounders.
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Swingman Balta wants to take Tigers back to the top
Anna HarringtonSat, 27 July 2024, 4:01 pm AEST·3-min read
Noah Balta arrived at Punt Road when Richmond had barely finished the afterparty of their famous 2017 breakthrough premiership.
Three years later, he experienced that dizzying high himself.
Now, Balta, 24, wants to help lead Richmond out of the AFL doldrums and back to the top.
"I'm in a stage of my career now where it starts with a down (moment) and nobody really listens to your story," Balta told AAP ahead of his 100th game.
"Hopefully we come back and we make it back to the top and then everyone talks about how you were at the bottom.
"But this is the part of the story and the journey that's important to me and how I grow through it and develop through it.
"This 100 games is just me reflecting on how I've been going."
Balta's career has been defined by swapping between defence and attack on a needs basis.
Coach Adem Yze, who the defender has built a close relationship with, often jokes he'd like two Baltas.
"I just see it as an opportunity," Balta said.
"Sometimes when you play one position for a long time, you can get into just going through the motions a little bit.
"Switching it up keeps me honest."
The Tigers can strike another hammer blow to Collingwood's flailing premiership defence with a victory at the MCG on Sunday.
Balta isn't thinking beyond what it would mean to Richmond.
"It's always nice to get a win and it doesn't matter who it's against, really, when you're in our position at the moment," he said.
"I feel like when you're on top, you take those little wins for granted.
"But I was speaking to Dustin (Martin) the other day and he just spoke about 'remember this feeling now' because when he first came to the club, this is how it was.
"We have a lot of young boys that were in his exact same position. So for them to now grow and see this part of us will make the highs so much more worth it and better."
Balta is out of contract at the end of 2025, but doesn't see himself anywhere else.
"I like to think of myself as a loyal guy," he said.
"I've won one (premiership) where I was the younger fella and I had Dylan Grimes and Dave Astbury pushing me.
"Now I'm that guy to step up and teach those younger boys what they taught me.
"Dylan Grimes, David Astbury and Alex Rance, what they did for me - it's almost like they put their game aside to make sure that I was growing as a player and that's when they played their best footy as well.
"I'm just starting to understand that now."
Desperately seeking to keep their finals hopes alive, Collingwood suffered a huge blow when star midfielder Jordan De Goey was ruled out of Sunday's clash with the Tigers because of a lingering groin issue.
De Goey failed a fitness test on Saturday and was withdrawn from the Magpies' team, replaced by first-year forward Joe Richards.
Collingwood coach Craig McRae said De Goey's injury is an "ongoing" concern.
"You see week-to-week it looks like he's slightly improving and then another week he might have a corkie or something else," McRae said on Friday.
"I don't think much is going to change in that space for the rest of the season."
He's gonna help them by playing forward so they can get a game.
Smillie is leagues better. Unlike RCD he gets leather poisoning. Some belief amongst other clubs he's our number 1.
To repeat: Because West Coast wouldn't do it.
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time to return the traditional Richmond yellow
the iraqi kids career is already over going to essedon
tigs2010
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Yeah can't see them winning a final before he retires.
tigs2010
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Jagga going to win the Brownlow next year
Already one of our best VFL players. Is everywhere other players need him to be.Jagga going to win the Brownlow next year
Yeah, he's the kind of high stats-low impact player who does. Skinny Tom Mitchell. Do not want at least with out first pick.Jagga going to win the Brownlow next year
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Lachie Neale
Neale is a powerful little bugger who can break a tackle. Jagga seems to get a lot of quick 20 metre kicks out of congestion to no one.
Jagga has 100 times more agility than plodder Mitchell who might be the slowest player in the AFL
Yes but his impact is similar.
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Yep I think that's the box he has left to tick.
The same could be said for Smillie. Does his size translate to playing against mature bodies.
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At 6'9" Josh Giddey would be handy
Dyson Daniels is the one. Played footy and is a mad Tiger fan.
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Probably makes more than Dustys playing earnings per year
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Yep Dyson is a Tiger. What a player he would be !!
the old man was a Melbourne Tiger.
sadly counts for nothing.
I hope OHB comes good.
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A fourth strong senior SANFL performance in a row from Sid. He simply has to be considered one of South Adelaide's best players at this stage. The extremely windy conditions turned this into a scrappy affair, and like most out there Sid had trouble directing his kicks in the first half. He got better as the game wore on, and like last week it was his incisive and damaging play in the second half that played an important role in getting the Panthers ahead on the scoreboard, including a fantastic classy goal in the fourth quarter.
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