Just thinking I've the players we got from other clubs who would get a game back at their old club?
Maric as a back up maybe?
I don't want a rebuild like the last one.
Maric as a back up maybe?
I don't want a rebuild like the last one.
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A rebuild is putting every option on the table, trading away your talent for kids, and building a new team from the ground up.
We've got some dead wood, and some players to move on. But a rebuild...not even close.
There is a good core of talented players to build on.
Lids, Cotch, Dusty, Jack, Rance, Chappy, Sheds, Maric...though he probably doesn't have much more to give
Vlas will get there
Griff is coming along nicely
Houli can play, and Grimes is a talented athlete that shows glimpses of brilliance
There is a good core of players to work with and talk of a rebuild is way off the mark.
I see our biggest weakness for a premiership as genuine talent and depth of talent in the back line. Vlastuins move there is good and now we need to add talent and depth for whenever our backs go down.
Tall talent in particular, Grimes goes down all the time, hopefully Astbury matures, Chaplin is no spring chicken and of limited talent.
Batchelor is only so so but may come good with games.
I would love to see us find a distributor, a really good kick. Maybe Houli moves to a back pocket, but has he got the strength and the mongrel for a backman? I'd like to see Ellis play a few games there to develop as the distributor.
Rance is our shining light in the back line, if he goes we have a big black hole to fill, the obvious player would have been Darrou but we dropped him. Was it 2 or 3 years developing as a full back and then kapoof. Silly.
Forwards: a third key tall. Not vickery. One who can be relied on to take marks and kick goals. And of course a crumber.
Perhaps I should've used a different phrase other than key tall. We need a third target. Probably a mobile medium-tall sort of player.Three key talls doesn't work. Our biggest issue is the ball coming back out too easily after it goes in - that's how the Dogs and Dees scored all their goals. Preventing that is a small's job.
What we need is someone who is Lloyd when we've got the ball and Gordon when we don't. Each of those blokes is half a player.
Could have used Heppel last night!
I know its old news but really, please recruiting guys respect your taller stronger mids like the rest of the comp!
Three key talls doesn't work. Our biggest issue is the ball coming back out too easily after it goes in - that's how the Dogs and Dees scored all their goals. Preventing that is a small's job.
What we need is someone who is Lloyd when we've got the ball and Gordon when we don't. Each of those blokes is half a player.
Vlass isn't small at 187cm's.We are to small , the midfielders we have taken in recent drafts are to small . Drummond , Vlaustin , Ellis , Conca , maddona , Lloyd are all to small . Add this to our adding if the list with hunt , Miles , Arnott and there is far to many of the same type.
We have one bloke who is around the 190 mark who can run and he is extremely outside . As a result of our lack of midfield size , whenever we win the contested footy we go backwards and rely to heavily on run from behind the contest and setting up from defence . We do play a similar style to hawthorn issue is they have bigger blokes like hodge and even barge arsed Mitchell who allow them to go sidewards or through the contest so they are not as predictable . Shane Edwards is a gem because he is able to go through traffic and defy's what every other richmond player does at clearances and goes forward .
Push hard at us at contests and lock down on our half backs and you have us beat .
We miss Jackson and there isn't a replacement sitting in the wings or even developing .
Great idea..another rebuild. Richmond specialises in them these days. Frawley, Wallace and now Hardwick. Thats 15 years lost to get us nowhere.
Rebuilds only serve to buy a rubbish board of incompetents and freeloaders another 5 years.
Rebuild the board is what's needed. Benny Gale too.
I was just thinking a we seem to go from one rebuild to the next.
It is getting a little boring and deflating to be honest. Here we go again mentality.
I hope we do not do the rinse repeat again but because we are so conservative, we probably will, and we will watch people come and go again while we are watching from the sidelines.
Nah it can't be that bad. Seriously like something to freshen up the place though. I do not think Dimma has to be sacked in 2015 or deserves to be but some change needs to happen end of year a little bit different I think.
I think a few new faces need to come in and a few stalwarts moved on just to start a new beginning even if its the beginning of a new stage just as a change up and revitalisation of new hope from a different tact etc..
Going over old ground again and again is a killer...
Pretty stupid comments really , Gales role is to oversee the whole football club which has seen a massive improvement under his tenure .Great idea..another rebuild. Richmond specialises in them these days. Frawley, Wallace and now Hardwick. Thats 15 years lost to get us nowhere.
Rebuilds only serve to buy a rubbish board of incompetents and freeloaders another 5 years.
Rebuild the board is what's needed. Benny Gale too.
Yes his done a lot of good work like suck us in to purchase memberships and merchandise but what needs to be done is on field success that's what will improve everything else. Look at hawthorn pre Clarkson. Hardly getting people through the gate then quick success and then booming membership the rest happened much easier.Pretty stupid comments really , Gales role is to oversee the whole football club which has seen a massive improvement under his tenure .
Pretty stupid comments really , Gales role is to oversee the whole football club which has seen a massive improvement under his tenure .
I said at the time that Craig Cameron left the football department in a s**t fight and I will say again Francis Jackson is no good . We should have a mass amount of players who have had 4-5 years in a AFL club instead they at running around in district comps , smoking bongs or eating hamburgers at half time of a NTFL reserves game .[/QUOT
Pretty stupid comments really , Gales role is to oversee the whole football club which has seen a massive improvement under his tenure .
I said at the time that Craig Cameron left the football department in a s**t fight and I will say again Francis Jackson is no good . We should have a mass amount of players who have had 4-5 years in a AFL club instead they at running around in district comps , smoking bongs or eating hamburgers at half time of a NTFL reserves game .
So you're saying that the CEO's priorities are not the footy department or onfield performance? So you saw my stupid comments and followed it up with this brilliant insight?
Based on our performances if we were a corporation we would be bankrupt and our board would all be in jail. We are the Enron of the footy world.