2024 Draft Thread | PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
  • IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.

2024 Draft Thread

Is he really all that good ? The dozen or so games I've seen of him he can go missing a lot, look terribly unco at times, and lack a bit of intensity. Other times he's looked pretty athletic for his size, good leap and will finish off ok. Pads his stats out a bit too I think, with some cheapies but maybe that's a good thing ie mobility.

I can't make my mind up about him. If he is going to be anything half decent, I think it's gonna take 4-5 years maybe.

(I reckon Matt is actually the better of the two as well fwiw. Better mark and can play in defence too.)
I'm not saying he's better, so agree with you.

My post was that we here are counting chickens by supposing that players we want will be available with our later picks.
No particular posters so its not a dig.

We gotta be mindful that we might miss our mark.
Giants have 2 picks, i think will take a mid and key forward. Hynes and JW
Dogs want smalls. Dattoli or Hannaford.
Swans a key forward. MW / Shanana?
Freo Port WC take smalls.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 users
Seems about right.

I actually see the Bendigo Italian maybe being a winger in time, in the Kaps mould. Ok, he's not super quick but neither is Kaps. He'll run and run all day, defend and attack, contest hard and take a grab for you as well.

Lindsay will get around the ground a bit more - into different spaces and situations.
I’ve used the better Kaps call throughout the year for Bendigo Italian. I think Kaps is his floor. Poor mans Jordan Dawson?
 
The beauty is that we have options.
Simms plus MW, Faull, Mraz, Trainor, Gerreyn
we can take 2 talls here
True, Simms probably the best fit as I can't see him pushed around playing deep forward. He also tested well with leap & agility, I even think you could get games into him in his second year. Faull is a good pick too, right in our range, I'd be happy with those two.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 user
True. Will be a cheap pickup for at minimum a very solid key back
He's played up forward more than down back. He played down back in the championships but he plays CHF for St Kevins and has so for Calder too.

His family bought 2 houses next door to each other in Richmond and have co joined them into a palace - not far from Punt Road Oval - so he won't have far to walk :ROFLMAO:
 
  • Love
Reactions: 1 user
These types of picks are 50/50, coming back from an ACL is probably the riskiest because you don't know the extent of agility loss. I'd be ok at pick 20 but that's the earliest I'd bite.
I think the ACL injury is not the death of a career as it used to be 30 years ago and as we seen with Ashcroft thay have improved a fair bit and id be happy to take him. Think he will be gone by #20
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 users
I think the ACL injury is not the death of a career as it used to be 30 years ago and as we seen with Ashcroft thay have improved a fair bit and id be happy to take him. Think he will be gone by #20
Long gone. Someone in the port/freo/gws block will nab him
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 users
I think the ACL injury is not the death of a career as it used to be 30 years ago and as we seen with Ashcroft thay have improved a fair bit and id be happy to take him. Think he will be gone by #20
Not for me, not at 10 or 11, those picks have too much currency to take risks on a rookies in rehab.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 user
Not for me, not at 10 or 11, those picks have too much currency to take risks on a rookies in rehab.
I see Concussion issue's like Trainor a bigger problem than ACL with Hotton

I think im going to be disappointed if we dont get Hotton with 8 picks inside 34
 
  • Like
Reactions: 8 users