Which player gave you the most hope, when they arrived?

[LTT]

Sadly, It was amateur of us letting everyone know our draft plans . Got done over by the hawk

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Tony Free. Developed into a really good captain and had he remained injury free I think he would have dragged the rest of the team up to his level.

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Tony Free. Developed into a really good captain and had he remained injury free I think he would have dragged the rest of the team up to his level.

Good call freezer was a gun in a rubbish side
Injuries ****ed him.

 

[Lacustrus]

Good call freezer was a gun in a rubbish side
Injuries ****ed him.

King hit from Dermott Brereton didn’t help Free much either. A few games back he did his knee. I wonder if Brereton has any remorse or regrets. Remember the brutal king hit on Danny Frawley , all bc they were behind the saints at 3/4 time and he hadn’t had z as kick. Should have gone to jail for that one…

 

[Boston tiger]

Jack Riewoldt

 

[DickieKnee]

I'm not sure thats right at all...

I'm sure I've seen/heard, that we wanted Lids and Roughy as our top 2 picks in the draft.

As we know the Hawks wanted Roughy and Buddy...

Apparently we made it well known that we weren't taking Buddy with either of our top 2, so the Hawks, who were going to take Buddy at #2, took Roughy off the table instead knowing we wouldn't take buddy at #4, so they could at #5...

I think Griffin at #3 to the dogs was well know (or at worst, made the Buddy gamble a genuine 50/50

From memory I think all the pundits had Tambling going to the Hawks before Buddy or Roughy. We had Roughy pencilled in for our pick. I remember listening to the draft and there was a long pause when it was our pick and Tambling was still on the table, he was highly rated that draft.

 

[fargothegreat]

Relton Roberts for me. I remember thinking that if someone that fat could make it on an AFL list they must be super talented.

 

[A Tiger 4 lyf]

One that made it, Deledio

One that didn’t quite make it, Griffiths but that’s mostly due to head knocks


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[RJK Tiger]

Wallet coached the love of footy and the flair and fun out of the game for Tambling.

He could play he showed it early doors then after seemingly having his instinct coached out of him he lost it.

Correct me if im wrong but didn't he kick 4 goals in the first quarter against the Eagles in 2007? So much promise wasted.

Danny Meyer was one for me. Thought we were picking up this silky, creative HFF but he just never got close to it

 

[Growapair]

Maurice Rioli Snr ... we were never going to lose again

 

[GoTigers2015]

Stacky



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[The Mighty]

Stacky

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[jesterx]

Andy collins

 

[jesterx]

Everyone has mentioned the big ones already but I had high hopes for Chris knight but his knees were kaput

 

[energyquant]

Some of the less obvious ones that (in hindsight) I may have been a bit overexcited about

• David Bourke - bloodlines.....
• Leon Cameron - is he a lefty or a righty?
• Tom Roach - bloodlines #2
• JON - the next Adam Goodes?
• Vickery - mobile, 200cm, can't miss
• Aaron Edwards - wasted at North, he'll come good with us....
• Ricky Petterd - reminds me of a young Aaron Edwards
  Aaron Edwards

  Age

  40

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  184cm

  Wt

  93kg

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  Fwd

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  11.6

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  8.0

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  3.6

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  5.7

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  1.0

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  0.6

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• Chris Yarran - can't believe Carlton is willing to let him go
• Patrick Naish - bloodlines #3
• CCJ - big man with a classy hyphenated name...
• RCD - big mid, 2 mums, hyphenated name
• Mav Weller - his name is Maverick, so he must be amazing
• Robbie Tarrant - reminds me of an older Aaron Edwards
  Aaron Edwards

  Age

  40

  Ht

  184cm

  Wt

  93kg

  Pos.

  Fwd

  Career

  Season

  Last 5

  D

  11.6

  3star

  K

  8.0

  3star

  HB

  3.6

  3star

  M

  5.7

  5star

  T

  1.4

  3star

  G

  1.5

  5star

  No current season stats available

  D

  7.4

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  6.0

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  1.4

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  M

  4.6

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  T

  1.0

  3star

  G

  0.6

  3star

 

[wart101]

Dusty, Dusty, Dustttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

 

[kozi]

 

[Cleansweep17]

Yarran for some f’d up reason.

 

[RJK Tiger]

Some of the less obvious ones that (in hindsight) I may have been a bit overexcited about

• David Bourke - bloodlines.....
• Leon Cameron - is he a lefty or a righty?
• Tom Roach - bloodlines #2
• JON - the next Adam Goodes?
• Vickery - mobile, 200cm, can't miss
• Aaron Edwards - wasted at North, he'll come good with us....
• Ricky Petterd - reminds me of a young Aaron Edwards
• Chris Yarran - can't believe Carlton is willing to let him go
• Patrick Naish - bloodlines #3
• CCJ - big man with a classy hyphenated name...
• RCD - big mid, 2 mums, hyphenated name
• Mav Weller - his name is Maverick, so he must be amazing
• Robbie Tarrant - reminds me of an older Aaron Edwards

I really enjoyed that. I was talking to a good Richmond mate a while back about how we both loved footy so much more back in those really shitty richmond days. The peak is always the 3 flag era, but those shitty years were so fun to be part of. Good humour is dark and painful & 90s-2000s Richmond was champagne comedy. Richo was the greatest player to follow for that reason too. We had clowns like Wallet & Miller acting like snake charmers near the end. One hit wonders. Hilariously bad draft picks where the next pick was a generational talent. It was like Faulty ****ing towers. The one year we got good (95) we somehow lost our coach a month later over schoolyard shit.

Be it recycling players, taking every ex-players kid, missing picks - trading shit - sacking coaches etc. It was always so interesting.

Nearly every player to some point has a footnote for us.

For example if i say Ben Hollands........

 

[tiger_tough]

Everyone has mentioned the big ones already but I had high hopes for Chris knight but his knees were kaput

He was a gun in his prime at Adelaide. Body was fkd though.

Yarran for some f’d up reason.

Imagine we had a fit and firing Yarran off a half back flank with Houli during the dynasty. It wouldn't have been fair to the other teams. Shame.

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Ahhhh Stacky...both me and Viney are still wondering what happened

 

[theflea#3]

Was pumped when we got Kane Johnson, he was a gun too

 

[Al Heimer]

Mal Brown in '74 gave me goosebumps especially because two years earlier he punched out half of Carlton and had the other half running in fear.

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[tigers12]

Ross funke

 

[TiggyTig]

Daniel Rioli

17

Daniel Rioli

Age

27

Ht

179cm

Wt

78kg

Pos.

Def

Career

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Last 5

D

11.2

3star

K

5.8

2star

HB

5.4

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M

2.7

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T

3.2

5star

MG

179.2

3star

D

8.1

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K

4.9

2star

HB

3.3

2star

M

2.0

2star

T

2.6

4star

MG

144.9

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D

9.0

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K

3.8

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HB

5.2

4star

M

0.8

1star

T

3.8

5star

MG

160.2

3star

. When his name got called out on draft night i told my wife we were going to win a flag because every Rioli has won one. Didn't make the same call with MJ tho..

 

[Muddiemoose]

Josh Caddy

22

Josh Caddy

Age

32

Ht

186cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

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Last 5

D

17.0

4star

K

9.2

4star

HB

7.8

5star

M

3.6

4star

T

3.5

5star

CL

2.5

4star

D

13.5

3star

K

7.5

3star

HB

6.0

3star

M

4.8

4star

T

1.5

2star

CL

0.7

3star

D

14.0

4star

K

10.0

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

4.2

4star

T

4.0

5star

CL

1.8

4star

Thought he was going to take our midfield to the next level and that cats were stupid for never playing him as a mid