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Sam Lloyd

SkillzThatKillz said:
Some are looking at this from a differing perspective.

We have been blessed with an amazing run with injuries in the past couple seasons and therefore haven't really required the need to utilise the depth players.

A few more injuries and being without the likes of our departed players we would have been stuffed.
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Let's be honest you get injuries to your Martins and Cotchin and Jack they a unreplaceable.Those guys had there chance and besides Lloyd were dead wood.Can Lloyd play 22 rounds consistent season who knows.Time for our next batch in vfl to step up.
 
YinnarTiger said:
We got him with pick 66, got 57 games out of him over 5 years and got pick 64 back. Seems a pretty reasonable return to me.
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Yes if he was a car you would be over the moon. Warranty expired as well.
 
daniel30 said:
Let's be honest you get injuries to your Martins and Cotchin and Jack they a unreplaceable.Those guys had there chance and besides Lloyd were dead wood.Can Lloyd play 22 rounds consistent season who knows.Time for our next batch in vfl to step up.
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Who are our next batch of mids in the VFL?

Townsend - tick.

Drummond? Baker? Naish?

Drummond will likely be delisted and Naish nowhere near ready. Baker can pinch hit here and there but not a big body.

Clutching at straws.

Recruiting big bodied mids this post season has to be our priority and hope they are ready if we need them.

We have lost alot of experience.
 
SkillzThatKillz said:
Who are our next batch of mids in the VFL?

Recruiting big bodied mids this post season has to be our priority and hope they are ready if we need them.

We have lost alot of experience.
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yr right skillz. this is what makes me think the club must have a plan? there ain't much in the VFL. Higgins will maybe go to the Mids?
 
artball said:
we've lost depth in the sense of good people around the club D30. Cotchin has been very complementary of Lloyd, Miles and Conca and their influence on the playing group and the club. they'll be missed. there's a bit of change going on but reinvention is healthy.
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Agree and this is why the club hasn't played hardball and treated them as commodities. They've treated them respectfully and done everything possible to get them to somewhere they want to go, where they can possibly prolong their careers with significantly more coin/opportunities. It's a fine line between being ruthless or pushovers. The fact these guys are being moved on and expressing zero bitterness and still speaking highly of the club builds a stronger culture and helps make Richmond a destination club where players want to play/work. If you don't have this then all you can do is throw coin at players and that's not sustainable.
 
SkillzThatKillz said:
Who are our next batch of mids in the VFL?

Townsend - tick.

Drummond? Baker? Naish?

Drummond will likely be delisted and Naish nowhere near ready. Baker can pinch hit here and there but not a big body.

Clutching at straws.

Recruiting big bodied mids this post season has to be our priority and hope they are ready if we need them.

We have lost alot of experience.
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Recruit a few from state leagues as insurance big body midfielders.Like I said besides Lloyd rest were deadwood even Conca.Not all of them a inside midfielders that left.Time for Markov,Menadue,Baker and Naish to step up and given a go.
 
daniel30 said:
Recruit a few from state leagues as insurance big body midfielders.Like I said besides Lloyd rest were deadwood even Conca.Not all of them a inside midfielders that left.Time for Markov,Menadue,Baker and Naish to step up and given a go.
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Yep I think Higgs, Baker and Markov are next in line.

Question marks over Menadue - a lot of talent but needs to tidy up his ball handling.
Made some horrible fumbles when under little pressure in his last game.

Naish looks promising but still a way off yet.
 
TigerTribe5 said:
Sorry to see you go Lloyd!

Will always remember the kick after the siren to sink the Swans!
Good times!
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There are some great highlights of Lloyd on the club website at the moment. It obviously finishes with his famous goal after the siren.
 
rombosghost said:
There are some great highlights of Lloyd on the club website at the moment. It obviously finishes with his famous goal after the siren.
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Watched it - still get goosebumps!
 
rombosghost said:
There are some great highlights of Lloyd on the club website at the moment. It obviously finishes with his famous goal after the siren.
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He was a good finisher. Lot of time for Sam, good footballer.
 
The sad part is I liked Lloydy as a player and he didn't do a heap wrong when he got his chance then was dropped when the others were available again. Kicked some ripper goals in his time. But happy to see him get a chance at a club I don't hate seeing he struggled to regularly make our best 22. Soooo close though.
Good luck man.

The bright side of all this is, that even though we're 'losing some depth players and quality people that were great examples for our juniors to learn from' - this is now the sort of thing we are saying about our reserves as opposed to our seniors. Sam Lloyd version 2018 would have easily been in many of our previous best 22's in years gone by. No disrespect to Sam as I think he's a pretty decent player, (vital to us winning the 2nd game against the Cats for us this year) - just a reflection on us being a whole lot better than we used to be.
 
Outside of the stars Lloydy was one of my favourites - the kind of player that got the absolute most out of the natural attributes he was born with. Still remember his debut against Collingwood where we only kicked two goals in the first half and he got both of them. I’m really glad he’s joined the Bulldogs, a club that I quite like, rather than Carlton or Gold Coast. Hope he does well there.
 
rombosghost said:
There are some great highlights of Lloyd on the club website at the moment. It obviously finishes with his famous goal after the siren.
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Just hope he's never in that situation against us.
 
Sam never let us down and sad that he hasn't quite what it takes to be a regular in our best 22. One thing for sure though, he will star in the Dogs best 22. Best wishes to Sam for the next faze of his career
 
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