The best way to avoid a compromised draft, is to finish with pick 1, 2 or 3, and get ahead of the academy players.
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Iām not certain Allen will get them band 1 but even if so there will still be some good kids available
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This is the afl we are talking about here, if thereās a dodgy way to give a struggling club a bullshite pick they will.
Battle last year for example
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Iād trade all of them
All average ordinary players
They arenāt taking us anywhere
Rebuild properly and get rid of average injured constantly players
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That could be why youāre not in the job.
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SA and WA boys better start practising spelling Gatorade backwards.
*As long as that struggling club is NOT EFC (which the AwFLās own decisions contributed to its struggling status over the last dozen years).
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We are not a struggling club.
The AFL absolutely would help us but as a club we are too āproudā to bottom out.
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Perhaps not financially struggling but you would have to agree that we are and have been struggling to achieve any sort of on-field success.
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AFL could have just given us something like the suns had.
Opportunity to pickup NGA kids and father sons outside of draft.
Then it doesnāt overly impact the draft itself.
To get help you have to bottom out properly.
Finishing 9th to 14th every year means you donāt deserve help.
Richmond and West Coast will get help because they will finish bottom 2-3 for several years running. That is the territory we would need to find ourselves in to get help
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Nope, itās our fault we continue to win enough meaningless games to finish in mid table obscurity. You want help, you bottom out
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We are a struggling supporter base.
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Absolutely no way Richmond should be getting any hand outs. The Tiges have designed this through smart list management and arenāt exactly easy beats getting pumped week in, week out.
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Disagree.
Just because we are either too dumb or too proud to make those list decisions shouldnāt mean other sides are punished.
I say good luck to anyone who wants to game the system, maybe we should try it
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Richmond are a smart club who know what they must do, to have another run at the Premiership.
The handouts are a plus for them. Thatās the way the system is rigged. So clubs at the bottom can push their way to the top.
Weāre a club attempting to fight against this system. Weāve refused to acknowledge it, or use it.
Thatās our fault.
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We should only be considering players with elite pace, elite kicking and two-way running. Two of the three at least.
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There is no way in the world Richmond deserve, will get or they would even expect help. They have won 3 flags out of the last 8 and chosen to trade majority of their senior players
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But how would that work exactly, I remember the vitriol in here after north deliberately blew up their list and wanted hand outs from the AFL to fix it.
That to me just isnt right, you shouldnt be getting rewarded for deliberately blowing up your list.
If your list is ā ā ā ā turn over players but stay competitive, look at geelong and collingwood neither of them has blown up their list and is still managing to stay up there through trades.