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Tigers draft a couch potato

Rosy

Rosy

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Inside Sport magazine this month has a good article, much as I hate the story it tells, about Richmond.  It's called "The Why of the Tiger" and I'm thinking of typing it out and posting it but am not sure of the legalities.  Actually have already typed out a fair bit of it but am unsure whether to continue.

Anyway this is a small aside they have in the mag.  Those were the days.  I only remember the name from comments on PRE but I bet people know instantly who it was.


Tigers draft a couch potato

Richmond's draft picks have performed the worst of any club in the league.  One former No. 1 draft pick infamously played only four senior games.  It was during Bartlett's stint that the two-metre, 118kg ruckman was scooped from the 1988 draft, and the future looked rosy after he kicked four goals on debut the following season.
  But his weight and fitness quicky became an issue, and one Sunday morning Bartlett sent the fitness coach over to the star recruit's house for some extra running.
He was somewhat unprepared for the 10am call, however - he was sipping a tinny with an esky full of beers at his feet watching Wide World of Sports.  Empty pizza boxes littered the floor.
   He didn't play senior footy again, returning to his native South Australia at the end of the season.  "I used to enjoy a beer," he says of those days. ;D

Who was the couch potato?
 
As the article says, Rosy. He kicked 4 goals in his first game. HE propped up in the goal square and took a few grabs, and from memory kicked one off the ground that was going to be a goal anyway.

Then someone had the bright idea that maybe he should be manned up.

Then someone else had the bright idea of manning him up with a player who could run off him.

End of career.
 
One of the laziest blokes to take the footy field that I have ever seen in my life. I remember this guy at VFL Park playing at full forward & leaning on the goal post looking stuffed - it was the first quarter!! :eek: :eek: Mick Nolan could run more than this bloke
 
Strewth - just for a minute there I thought I had been drafted after reading the title of this post.

Don't frighten a bloke like that - now excuse me whilst I nestle into my lounge chair with a good pipe and a drink for the next footy replay.
 
Tigers of Old has this to say:

Richard Loundner 6'8" 203 18 stone 3lb 116 kg

Richmond Seniors 1989 4 games 5 goals
" Seconds 1989-90 12 games 26 goals

. . . recruited from Central Districts. He came to Richmond after being nominated as a number one draft choice. He never reproduced his good form he showed previously in his home state. In his first senior game he kicked 4 goals against North Melbourne, however, he returned to South Australia after a season and a half. Richard has not played senior football since leaving Richmond. He remains the heaviest player ever to play for Richmond.


That's something to be remembered for - the heaviest player ever to play for Richmond. :hihi
 
Anyone who is interested follow this link on The Age website.

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Two-minute interview
By Tim Lane
November 22, 2003


Richard Lounder, football's most derided No.1 national draft pick, recalls his time in the spotlight.

TL: Could you describe the experience you had those years ago? Was the draft as big an event back then?

RL: Well, I wouldn't have thought so, being some 10 years ago or more. Today, it's televised, it's high-pressure stuff really, you know, all the family, everyone's involved. It was a big thing back then but certainly nothing as to what it is today.

What was your reaction when your name came up as No.1 draft pick?

Well, I more or less knew. Richmond had told me they were going to draft me as No.1, so it wasn't really a surprise. It was probably more of a formality than anything.

http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/11/21/1069027325424.html

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Sorry, I copied the spelling of Loundner from the Tigers of Old, though in the index he is listed as Lounder.

Seems he is "Lounder". Sorry, Richard. [I'm just scared he might sit on me]

Another extract from that interview:

TL: So how's your weight now compared to in your playing days?

RL: I'd say it's probably ballooned a touch, Tim.

TL: Can we put a figure on it?

RL: Oh, I haven't got any scales and I don't think I've got any that could weigh me.

TL: It sounds as though you're enjoying life.

RL: Oh well, it's all about here for a good time not a long time.
:hihi
 
I have said it before and will say it again many times (unfortunately).


From the draft that we got lounder at number 1. Of the top 10 drafted that year, only 1 other player (Jason 4 clubs MacCartney) ever played a senior game.

Sure we made a mistake, but look at it in context. ::)
 
I really just posted this for his attidute Td, not as any comment on him being #1 draft pick. I just found it amusing being sprung like that.

On the topic of draft picks though the article also says "In '91 the Tigers' seven draft picks failed to play a single game between them. They finished second last. The club was broke."

Does anyone know who the 7 picks were? I'm just wondering if they bombed out or went on to successful careers.
 
Wow, we finished second last, yet not one of seven picks played a game. Does this say more about the Football Dept than the players? Yet four years later, we were in a prelim. Looking forward to these household names. Was Elliott one? Was that the year we let Barry Young go to Essendon?
 
geez we certainly r good at our draft picks arent we....touch wood that is all past history from now on.... ::)

wonder if we can set up some sort of draft :police: to ensure we dont go down that track again...
 
hi

i remember reading an article about him and they had him posing for a photo in his overalls and gumboots working at the fish market?

am i right? does any one else remember?

Cass
 
rosy23 said:
On the topic of draft picks though the article also says  "In '91 the Tigers' seven draft picks failed to play a single game between them.  They finished second last.  The club was broke."

Does anyone know who the 7 picks were?  I'm just wondering if they bombed out or went on to successful careers.
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I looked them up.

1991 Pre-Seas Richmond 4 Mark Trewella
1991 Mid-Seas Richmond 5 Athos Hrysoulakis
1991 Pre-Seas Richmond 10 Andrew Underwood
1991 Mid-Seas Richmond 18 Shane Fell
1991 Pre-Seas Richmond 27 John Mrakov
1991 Pre-Seas Richmond 41 David Cloke

1991 National Richmond 49 Todd Hawes
1991 National Richmond 51 Shaun Brooker
1991 National Richmond 55 Glen Hoffman
1991 National Richmond 66 Nick Roney
1991 National Richmond 77 Jay Burton
1991 National Richmond 85 John Kennedy
1991 National Richmond 89 Paul Dimattina

1991 National Richmond Trade Todd Breman
1991 National Richmond Trade Stevan Jackson
1991 National Richmond Trade Steven O'Dwyer
 
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