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PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
Obviously we aren't showing as much as we'd all like as quick as we'd all like. Personally I put it down to 2 key factors:
1) The Nathan Brown trade. He is our big recuiting purchase of the last decade, and one of the biggest trades of the last decade. Good news is he is as good or better than the game-breaking star we forked out for, bad news is he snapped his leg effectively hasn't played for 2 years, and signs are far from good.
2) The Brad Ottens trade. Our other big play to break the old RFC cycle, the curcuit breaker as I called it at the time. Our recruiting has improved, but from a very low base and it still isn't up with the best for reasons already discussed. We really needed the return from the trade, realistically, to be one star and one good player (obviously you'd hope to jag two stars). Looks like we may have one good player.
Life, and footy is a game of millimeters. With a bit of luck and/or some more nouse, we could easily have Browny with 1 brownlow and favourite for another, Cameron Wood in yellow and black (and any other young gun picked after Meyer) as well as Patto. I should also emphasis that what TW has/ is undertaking is a ground-up, back to bare metal rebuild. For things to improve rel;atively quickly, the above 2 big moves had to go well, it's gunna take longer. As long as you'd expect such a rebuild to normally take.
I know its all far more complicated than this, but there it is in a nutshell.
1) The Nathan Brown trade. He is our big recuiting purchase of the last decade, and one of the biggest trades of the last decade. Good news is he is as good or better than the game-breaking star we forked out for, bad news is he snapped his leg effectively hasn't played for 2 years, and signs are far from good.
2) The Brad Ottens trade. Our other big play to break the old RFC cycle, the curcuit breaker as I called it at the time. Our recruiting has improved, but from a very low base and it still isn't up with the best for reasons already discussed. We really needed the return from the trade, realistically, to be one star and one good player (obviously you'd hope to jag two stars). Looks like we may have one good player.
Life, and footy is a game of millimeters. With a bit of luck and/or some more nouse, we could easily have Browny with 1 brownlow and favourite for another, Cameron Wood in yellow and black (and any other young gun picked after Meyer) as well as Patto. I should also emphasis that what TW has/ is undertaking is a ground-up, back to bare metal rebuild. For things to improve rel;atively quickly, the above 2 big moves had to go well, it's gunna take longer. As long as you'd expect such a rebuild to normally take.
I know its all far more complicated than this, but there it is in a nutshell.