Thoughts?

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1701018/2025-richmond-guernsey-numbers

Look, great draft haul.

BUT it all just seems too good to be true. and when its too good to be true it almost never works out the way you want it.

There has been many times teams have had great draft hauls, only for most to end up busts

Us in 2004:

Brett Deledio

Richard Tambling

Danny Meyer

Dean Polo

Luke Mcguane

The only hit in that crop was Deledio, the rest busts

Melbourne in 2009

Tom Scully

Jack Trengrove

Jordan Gysberts

Luke Tapscott

Max Gawn

Jack Fitzpatrick

At the time this seemed like a DREAM draft haul for Melbourne, but the only one who ended up becoming any good for them was Gawn.

Good teams rarely build on the back of one draft.

Marlion Pickett  - Melton South - RDFNL (just announced)

Bachar Houli - Newport - WFNL

Jake Aarts - Beaconsfiled - EFNL

Tyrone Vickery - Edithvale-Aspendale - MPFNL

Ryan Garthwaite - Albury Tigers - Ovens & Murray League

Josh Caddy - St Arnaud - North Central league

Sam Lloyd - ??

Friday, December 13
Swinburne Centre, Punt Road Oval
Gates open 9:00am
Training from 9:15am – 12:00pm
Short signing session to follow training

Plenty of numbers are up for grabs next season for the Rookies! Who do you think should take each one?

Can see a few of our other players opting to switch numbers like Bauer and Blight.

Here’s the list of available numbers from 1-35:

#2 #4 #6 #7 #8 #9 #11 #12 #16 #17 #24 #26 #29 #34

My Preference:

#2 Luke Trainor #4 Sam Lalor #6 Seth Campbell #7 #8 Harry Armstrong #9 Josh Smille #11 #12 Jonty Faull #16 Jacob Bauer #17 #24 Jacob Blight #26 #29 #34

I know it’s very early days still, but what do we think our Round 1 lineup looks? And who from the draft gets a crack under the Thursday night lights next March?

I personally like Lalor and Smillie to debut, possibly one of the talls like Armstrong even.

Honestly couldn’t care less about how many wins we get next year, I just care about giving the kids 15-20 games under their belt and some exposure. Very exciting times ahead with a perfect blend of older and younger players. I genuinely think in 3-5 years we will have one of the best lists in the comp.

Blighty's coming for that 2nd key defender spot

It was definitely a Dimma thing to make the cubs earn their numbers, so what do we reckon they'll do?

I'd feel a bit uncomfy about not even giving the number 4 a year off... But maybe Smilie can go straight into 9?

Is moving Trezise to a new number and giving Lalor number 36 with the expectation of going into 4 too much pressure?

Am I giving this too much thought? Probably.

“Richmond will hopefully soon stop patting itself on the back over the decisions it made to off-load in-contract star players in return for access to a heap of high-end kids in the national draft.”

Pardon?

Richmond have been fairly modest for mine, have taken time to credit the departing players, and duly went about their business smashing the draft while dealing with CT’s illness at the same time.

ALL of the pats on the back have come from the media. Not purple obviously.

My Mum and I were watching and she said that the woman looked like her and it did

Spotted this legend at tonight's gig. He's here with Bob Murphy.