The last of the cuts are in for the Richmond Tigers

Today the Tigers made their final or delistings cuts before the 2009 draft.

No Surprises here:
Graham Polak
Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls
Cleve Hughes
Nathan Brown
Mark Coughlan
Kayne Pettifer
Adam Pattison
Dean Putt
Jarrod Silvester

Also Gone:
Joel Bowden (retired)
Kane Johnson (retired)
Andrew Raines (traded)
Jay Schulz (traded)

Richmond general manager of football Craig Cameron said the club would attempt to take advantage of the AFL's new rules which would allow Polak to be added to the rookie list as a mature-age player.

Robin Nahas and Andrew Browne have been elevated to the senior list and Mitchell Farmer joined the Tigers via a trade with Port Adelaide.

In the 2009 NAB national draft Richmond will select at 3, 19, 35, 44, 51, 67, 72 and 83. The Draft will be held on Thursday the 26th of November.

Wash up of Richmond's 2010 fixture.

Well, the Tigers have been punished by the AFL for stinking up its competition last season.

The AFL sticking true to form has banished the Tigers to Sunday... where all bad teams are sent to like a naughty child to the corner.

Richmond will play 12 games on Sunday and 8 games on Saturday, the final two games are a Friday night game where Richmond will host St Kilda in round 11 at Etihad Stadium (just penciling in the loss now) and just like last year Calton will try to destoy all the hopes and dreams of Richmond supporters everywhere on Thursday night to open the AFL season.

BUT there are some positives:

12 Games at the MCG (Up from 11 in 09)
Only 4 games a Etihad (Down from 5 in 09)
Only one trip to Perth
Only play three top 8 teams twice (St Kilda, Adelaide and Carlton)
Five MCG games in-a-row (Round 16-20)
Most Road trips in First half of the season.

I am not sure if the past point is a positive or negative.... It could be all over by half way which means the softer finish to the year wont matter.

Either way Tiger fans get your Fox Sports subscriptions if you want to see the Tigers this season.

Richmond's NAB cub fixture.

Richmond will open the 2010 campaign against Hawthorn at Aurora Stadium on Saturday the 13th of February at 7:30pm. The game will be shown on 10 or One.

If Richmond get pas the Hawks they will take on the winner of the Western Bulldogs vs Brisbane Lions match.

Tigers want Ball and will Richo be back after all?

News out of Tigerland and new CEO Brendon Gale on SEN 1116 this morning is that Richmond would be interested in bringing Luke Ball to Punt Road.

BUT

Will not use draft picks to secure the services of Ball, the 25 year old will have to make it through to the pre-season draft for Richmond to have any shot at him.

In the same interview Gale said “As far as I know Matt’s yet to confirm whether he’s going to play on,

“I think there’s a role for him in the coach’s plans but really the decision is Matthew’s to go away and decide whether he has the capacity from a physical point of view and the conviction to go around another year.

“At this stage we’re confident he will, but we’re just awaiting final confirmation from Matt … my understanding is that he’s just reserving his judgement for a little bit longer.”

Hey Richo, Please get on the phone to Damien and give him the big thumbs up!

Deal done Richmond swaps Schulz for Farmer to Port Adelaide

Richmond and Port Adelaide have completed the deal to trade Jay Schulz from Richmond and Mitch Farmer of Port Adelaide.

This deal was expected to go through after it was rumored earlier in the week that this deal might happen.

Still no news on Shane Tuck

No new trade news on Tuck or Schulz

It has been quite since we first heard about Jay Schulz being moved to Port Adelaide.

I think this deal will probably get done but Port need to sort out the star midfielder Shaun Burgoyne's trade first.

There has been no news what so ever on Shane Tuck, I have not heard his name mentioned so we might be seeing Tuck back in the yellow and black this season.

Richmond to trade Jay Schulz to Port Adelaide

There are reports that Richmond is set to trade forward Jay Schulz to the Port Adelaide Power.

The trade will be a direct swap for young Port Adelaide defender Mitch Farmer, who did not play a game in the 2009 season after making a solid debut in 2008.

I am guessing that Damien Hardwick has some inside knowledge about Farmer from his Port Adelaide days, stay tuned to see if this deal goes through.

Richmond's Andrew Raines traded to Brisbane Lions

On the first day of trade week, Richmond and Brisbane have come to terms to trade Andrew Raines from the Tigers to the Lions for their third round pick which is 44 overall.

23 year old Andrew Raines; who has played 56 games since his 2004 debut, was limited to just three games in 2009 by knee injuries. He failed to break back into the Tigers ' senior side after round nine.

Mike Sheahan end of season Top 50.

Mike Sheahan has released his end of season Top 50.

1 - G. Ablett
2 - N. Riewoldt
3 - M. Scarlett
4 - L. Hayes
5 - C. Judd
6 - J. Selwood
7 - J. Brown
8 - C. Enright
9 - N. Dal Santo
10 - B. Fevola

In the top 10 we get seven players from the two grand final teams no suprises there. Six players survived from his top 50 from the start of the year including number one Gary Ablett Jr.

The two Richmond players from the start of the year list number 15 Matthew Richardson and number 41 Brett Deledio are both out and have been replaced by no one from the Tigers. But on a par with Richmond was Melbourne, North Melbourne and Port Adelaide who also had not one player listed.

Good thing this list means nothing except for the people at 1116 SEN who can now take talk back all weekend from Collingwood supports who think there players snubbed, thanks Mike see you next year.