Toast Into the Draft

[Calcium Man]

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2015-03-04/into-the-draft

A real fascinating feature by the tigers media department and i think deserves its own thread.

Interesting the comparisons between Ellis and Duggan (thanks to bananatigz for the confirmation)

Interesting hearing the bits and pieces when they took too long to make draft choices

We seemed to be really excited about McKenzie and Butler especially. Also liked hearing Blair say that this was the happiest he'd been after a draft since 08 which netted Port Harlett, Trengove and Broadbent!

A big kudos to RFC_Official and the media team at the tigers... more please in the future.

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Genuinely captivating stuff, really intersting watch. Love how Hartley couldn't contain his excitement over McKenzie, reckon they rated him A LOT higher than that. Gives me a lot more confidence in the Ellis pick too.

 

[no orange peeler]

Sensational insight. Absolutely fascinating

 

[Groupie_]

Carlton are gonna copy us now lol

 

[captain cotch 9]

Who are all the staff?
I'd never put a face to Blair Hartley until tonight haha

 

[Calcium Man]

Who are all the staff?
I'd never put a face to Blair Hartley until tonight haha

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2013-12-16/tiger-talent-scout-coup

Well here is a pic of Luke Williams, and I saw Dan Richardson at the house.

 

[CotchNCo]

Comparing Liam Duggan and Ellis for the majority of the beginning yeah?

 

[Thrillhouse!]

It seemed as if ellis was first priority ahead of duggan. Interesting.

 

[Groupie_]

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2015-03-04/into-the-draft

A real fascinating feature by the tigers media department and i think deserves its own thread.

Interesting the comparisons between Ellis and Duggan (thanks to bananatigz for the confirmation)

Interesting hearing the bits and pieces when they took too long to make draft choices

We seemed to be really excited about McKenzie and Butler especially. Also liked hearing Blair say that this was the happiest he'd been after a draft since 08 which netted Port Harlett, Trengove and Broadbent!

A big kudos to RFC_Official and the media team at the tigers... more please in the future.

Lol

was that bigfooty they were on in the background on the laptop

 

[THE_GUN]

Looks like they knew early on it would be between Duggan & Ellis and more likely Ellis will be there at our selection

Drummond also looks like a pre determined selection

Butler and McKenzie are the players that Blair was really excited fell to our selections and really suprised we got McKenzie at #77 as we all were

Menadue was the player that Francis Jackson was creaming himself over (1st time in a long time i have been on the same page as frank) re menadue

Francis Jackson
Blair Hartley
Luke Williams
Dan Jackson

Not sure who the other 2 are but thinking the older guy with glasses on the laptop could be Ashleigh Dummett

 

[THE_GUN]

Lol

was that bigfooty they were on in the background on the laptop

They were reading my post about Connor Menadue

 

[bananatigz]

Comparing Liam Duggan and Ellis for the majority of the beginning yeah?

Yep, listen closely you here them refer to him as Liam once.

 

[Groupie_]

Who was he talking about when he said he ices a game but doesnt get you into that position ?

 

[Tiger71]

I bloody loved it! See how stoked they were to get Manadue and MacKenzie?

 

[RichoAtzyG]

Lol

was that bigfooty they were on in the background on the laptop

One of the melbourne guys was on facebook for sure.

 

[RobsJourney]

Interesting how happy Hartley was comparing it to 2008, maybe Corey Ellis will actually be a similar player to Hamish Hartlett actually. Probably end up a similar shape and play a similar way. Be stoked if that's the case.

 

[copthat]

Loved the insight but cannot stand listening to FJ speak in any capacity whatsoever.

 

[RichoAtzyG]

Interesting how happy Hartley was comparing it to 2008, maybe Corey Ellis will actually be a similar player to Hamish Hartlett actually. Probably end up a similar shape and play a similar way. Be stoked if that's the case.

When he said that, i thought he was refferring to richmonds 2008 draft and I was like ummm uh oh

 

[Calcium Man]

Who was he talking about when he said he ices a game but doesnt get you into that position ?

Think they were talking about Duggan.

 

[Mr Unbelievable]

That was fantastic, well done RFC

 

[Tomnat Tigers]

Get the impression that Hartley preferred Duggan whereas Jackson preferred Ellis. Menadue I think there was a general agreement that he was the clear pick, although it was interesting to see how much emphasis they placed on him being a project when selling him to Dimma. Not sure who the other options being discussed were in the debate for Drumond, Butler and McKenzie picks.

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Anyone else notice they were more than happy to drop Ellis's name but made a concerted effort not to mention anyone else by name? Really strange.

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Loved the insight but cannot stand listening to FJ speak in any capacity whatsoever.

I reckon FJ is the reason there weren't a couple dozen empty beer bottles scattered about that hotel room.

 

[Grockadoc]

Anyone else notice they were more than happy to drop Ellis's name but made a concerted effort not to mention anyone else by name? Really strange.

Yeah. I found that interesting. Obviously the first two they were discussing would have been Duggan and Ellis when comparing them.

The comment that got me interested was:

"I rate these two higher than I do these two."

Obviously the first two were Duggan and Ellis. You could tell Duggan was one we liked by the reactions of FJ and Blair when West Coast called out Duggan's name. However the other two, I'd bet anything that one of them would have been Weller. I'd say that the 4 picks we had lined up at pick 12 were Ellis, Duggan, Weller and Cockatoo.

 

[Reservoir tiger]

Anyone else notice they were more than happy to drop Ellis's name but made a concerted effort not to mention anyone else by name? Really strange.

I think that would have been a result of careful editing mate.