SEASON 27: Patrick Carr Is 217cm Tall. What Should Richmond Actually Be Measuring in 2027?
We've just dropped another deep dive feature called SEASON 27: Patrick Carr Is 217cm Tall. What Should Richmond Actually Be Measuring in 2027? on rtssg.com... Richmond has a 217cm Category B rookie who barely played Australian football after under-14 level. The obvious number is his height. The harder story is whether height tells us almost nothing about whether the project is actually working.
The question Tiger supporters should be asking is simple:
What should Richmond actually count as progress for Patrick Carr in 2027 — before selection, hype or centimetres start pretending to be development evidence?
Because that's exactly what this feature examines.
In the article we break down:
🍃 why an AFL debut is the wrong first checkpoint for this project
🍃 what training continuity and contact tolerance can tell Richmond before games do
🍃 why ruck craft matters more than simply being the tallest player on the list
🍃 what football reading and positioning look like for a late convert
🍃 how marking and ground-level repeatability change the value of the experiment
🍃 why VFL exposure is evidence only when the role is clear
🍃 what Mate Colina’s Richmond experience warns against
🍃 what Mason Cox’s slower development path can and cannot teach us
🍃 how Richmond should separate Carr’s development from the Toby Nankervis succession question
🍃 when a Category B list spot becomes a genuine future option rather than an interesting idea
And that's only the start.
This is not a prediction that Carr will or will not make it. It is a test of whether Richmond can define development tightly enough to know when an unusual long-term bet is actually moving.
The intriguing part is that the first meaningful answer may arrive well before Patrick Carr ever plays an AFL game.
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