Either do l,,Blair doesn't sign player's up long term to trade them,,,
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Welcome to the Tigers - Daniel Rioli
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No Craig Williams.
The academy/father sons are still part of this year's draft intake.
i.e. What we get at pick 27-28 is still the same when comparing to its worth of every other draft year (on assumption same level of talent).
But realistically we weren’t in the running for them.
If we or another clubs bids and the F/S club matches, the F/S player is injected in as that pick, (using multiple “junk” picks)
If those “original” picks are “pushed out” those available players rated at that pick are still there.
Spot on, Willo. But when you take out the F/S and academy players the drafts can look pretty thin. That's coz they are.
Let's draw this 2024 one up. We might see that picks #1 and #2 are Ashcroft and Lombard. The 2023 draft would then look less compromised than 2024. Wow. Add three or more F/S players to 2024.
Draft picks are degraded in value because the drafts are so compromised.
Pick #20? "Not worth a hill of beans." (Dogwick 2023 presser.)
Not really, we wouldn’t be building a strategy to draft them, we’d build them into best rankings and look at available talent when drafting. And if we thought say Tyler Welsh was worth taking we bid forcing the hand.
In the end that is the only way the draft has integrity, if everyone does that.
As an example if we have pick 2 and we rate Lombard as the 2nd best player in the draft we should bid on him. If we don’t we are messing with the integrity of the draft.
I am not sure all clubs do that however.
We just need to remember that tough calls aren't always good calls, just by virtue of being tough.
They get a 3 time premiership defender / attacker in the prime of his career that THEY pursued!,
They give us the two firsts and they get the player that’s it or they can gagf
They can gagf anyway Rioli is staying.
Rioli is Richmond Royalty.
I'm a hard no to trading him altogether. He is a glue player, part of our fabric..
If it's true GC are willing to part ways with 2 1st rnd picks. We can unglue him very quickly.
Love Dan. He was part of the original 3 smalls that changed the course of this club and the course of the game in general.
We be missed but never forgotten
Rioli not going anywhere. https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/06...s-play-down-talk-surrounding-richmonds-rioli/
So the whole thing is the usual media beat up in the desperate attempt for clicks.
No one can really be surprised about this. The AFL media are masters of making assumptions on tiny snippets of information.
I remember when Dan went to the Gold Coast and caught up with Dimma it being pointed out that it would be more surprising if he didn’t catch up with him when he was there than the fact that he did, given their relationship.
Same with the Bolton noise imo, who btw is very close to Dan Rioli.
Baker may go and so may Jack Graham but they are uncontracted.
That article means nothing. 100% the Suns want Rioli. whether they get him is another thing.
That’s the problem with so many footy shows. Everyone is trying to stand out so just make some *smile* up and call it Breaking News
That's always the core of these situations, the initial ground work is done at arms length by other parties, that way when the meedjia come sniffin there's plausible deniability for the accountable operators.
Exactly. That's why I raised it.
Corn and Healy out. Redford P. Reds "Grill Hour" in.
