Poor ball use with a very high clanger and turnover rate + losing 3 of his 5 defensive 1 v 1 contests is probably part of it.
Possibly not adhering to team structures as well. It is hard to know. He is young for a tall player. He seems to have some decent attributes, just a few areas to...
Richmond has recruited 25 bottom agers who remain on our list from the 2019 draft onwards.
Of those, the following are currently unavailable for at least 3 more weeks or face season ending surgery soon:
Ralphsmith, Rioli, Banks, Gibcus, Clarke, Smith? Sims, Smillie, Armstrong, Hotton, Lalor...
Show us the teams that got 3/4+ of their picks right at the last 5 drafts....
Hawks for eg rags to riches in that time:
2021 Ward, Butler, Macdonald J Serong N Long
V Gibcus Brown Sonsie Banks Clarke
2022 MacKenzie Weddle Hustwaite O'Sullivan, Bailey McDonald, Seamus Mitchell
v Smith...
So the guys who have had a run of games without suffering injuries or are not key position players are all great picks. The others are all bad picks. So our recruiters should never pick key position players or players who are going to get injured in the future.
That should narrow it down...
Players on our list currently who have not had a major injury(6-8 weeks+) or repeated similar injuries while on our list since the start of the 2023 season:
Broad
Miller
Balta
Hayes-Brown
Sonsie
Green
Retschko
Trainor
Burton
Roberts-Thompson
Grlj
11 players. Four of those have only been on...
I am starting to view this a little differently.
Oldest to youngest players on the list with only players who have had repeated or major injuries over the last 4 seasons listed:
Prestia - Repeated hamstrings over several seasons, seems to have resolved, for now.
Lynch - the two major...
Our talent in concentrated strongly in our young players. We probably need staff with a proven track record of conditioning young footballers. No trying to gain advantages over other clubs, nothing radical, no funk, no junk. Just people who have proven they can do this job.
And to the AFL...
The last 7 drafts, 2019 to 2025 we have recruited 25 bottom aged players who remain on our list.
12 of that 25 are currently missing with medium to long term injuries, and a 13th, Cumming, will be turned out for surgery at some point during the season.
It is now 3 years running, all of Yze's...
It is absolute rubbish to say the picks were all wrong, they were the envy of 17 other clubs, plenty of people from other clubs have made public comments to that effect.
Recruiters cannot be expected to foresee Gibcus, Clarke, Smillie would miss so much footy for physical reasons. That...