How Did Richmond Build a Premiership List Without Living at the Top of the Draft?
Updated: Aug 30
The full RTSSG member feature, Inside story: How Richmond built a premiership list with late draft picks and rookies Sam Landsberger October 21, 2020 ., opens the deeper investigation behind this Public doorway.
Richmond’s premiership list combined high-end talent with rookies, later selections, recycled players and footballers who became far more valuable than their draft position suggested.
What was Richmond actually identifying? Was it football skill, competitiveness, role fit, durability, character or traits that became more valuable inside the game plan? How much of the success belonged to recruiting and how much to development after the player arrived?
Could the same approach work in another era with a different coach and game model?
When Richmond now talks about rebuilding through the draft, what lessons from the premiership list are genuinely repeatable — and which belonged to a very particular moment?
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