What's your advice to Richmond with their rebuild?

[sydney_gws]

It looks like there is going to be a real absence of leaders in 2025. I think for success that needs to be addressed. If they gut the team too hard, and don't have natural leaders, all that youth they presumably will bring in will be directionless.

Taranto and Hopper seem like nice guys, not really leaders at their new club.
I think Tigers would ideally lose 3 of those players, not 4.
2025 will be hard, not many 1st year players help their team win at that young age, undeveloped body.

 

[Mr.X]

Extend Adam Yze till 2030

 

[Mr.X]

There’s talk they may bring back gun management consultant Edwin Dondalinger to help develop some strategies and approaches to get the Tiger rebuild going.

Dondalinger helped out at the end of 2016 and his ideas and inputs were seen as some of the key elements which kicked off the tiger 3 flag dynasty

 

[HotelBastardos]

get used to watching other teams play in September for a long long time?

 

[giggler99]

Best to be smart with their draft picks and don't get a case of the "Messiah syndrome" chasing the next Dustin Martin. Players like Martin are one in a generation type you can't go chasing them when they ain't there. Otherwise Richmond will be stuck in the doldrums for another 30+ years.

 

[TP86]

Be it board members, influential supporters or coteries or even football department members, you need resolute characters who won't be swayed by the media and any prevailing narrative about how the "rebuild" or "window" is going.

There are teams in the AFL who spend all season getting licked like an ice cream for being ahead of the win-loss count (Geelong, Port) or winning early season games to sit high on the ladder (Essendon) or are praised for always being in contention without digging too far into why (Sydney) but ultimately all these clubs have combined for one premiership in the last 10 years. A lot of words, a lot of praise, a lot of week-in, week-out perception that they are "good" or "contenders" but ultimately just one cup.

There is something seductive about being talked about every week of the season as a good team compared to spending the quiet of the offseason actually being the best. Nuffy board members and coeteries who live for the week-to-week journey more than the destination will lead you down the wrong path if they are have too much power. Never mind if that mentality permeates your football department.

Worth pointing out as another season passes with the during-the-year praise vs who won the flag being massively out of whack yet again.