How Much Risk Did Richmond Really Take on Luke Trainor?
The full RTSSG member feature Luke Trainor is the best tall defender in the 2024 draft. starts with a question that is still worth asking.
Luke Trainor arrived with elite junior performance and concussion history. Richmond had multiple first-round picks. Did that change the kind of risk the club could afford to take?
Trainor’s talent was widely praised, while his medical history helped push him down the order. Was Richmond buying value created by other clubs’ caution? How should multiple premium selections change risk appetite? And what would the club need to see before calling the gamble justified?
The point of the Public doorway is not to settle those questions here. It is to identify the evidence, the disturbance and the next question — then leave the synthesis where it belongs: in the full member feature.
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