The SuperFooty Podcast: Mick Warner says Richmond can make the finals next season

THE Tigers can make the finals next year, but it will take some bold, but shrewd off-season moves, the SuperFooty Podcast’s Mick Warner says.

Jack Riewoldt gets the handball off under pressure against the Giants on the weekend, their big loss adding more heat at Punt Rd. Picture: AAP

THE Tigers can make the finals next year, but it will take some bold, but shrewd off-season moves, The SuperFooty Podcast’s Mick Warner says.

Mick, Huddo and Sam Edmund covered a huge Round 19 and looked ahead to the weekend’s action.

“I reckon they could play finals next year if they have a massive shrewd off-season,” Mick said of the Tigers.

“I don't think it’s like Brisbane Lions who wont play finals for five years.

He said they had good top-enders, good kids and a great facility “they just need to mix it up”.

“There’s something rotten in the joint,” he said about Tigerland.

“Would it be harsh to say the next four weeks decide Dimma’s fate? Or has it already been decided?

Sam Edmund asked whether they should keep their first round pick or trade it the Gold Coast for Dion Prestia and the boys wondered if the Tigers should trade favourite son Brett Deledio?

The Tigers have 16 players out of contract and Sam said that’s a blessing.

“All these so-called list cloggers and players who aren’t going to take you to your next premiership have just got to go,” he said.

“Richmond down the years have been far too loyal, slow, patient, trusting.”

“Get em out, get new faces in.”

Huddo says he has milestone fatigue, but Sam said the achievements of Brent Harvey, Matthew Pavlich, Corey Enright and Jimmy Bartel saved the round.

“We saw so many milestones over the weekend that my kids made me chair them off to bed last night,” Huddo joked.

Mick says Port Adelaide can usurp North Melbourne and reckons Jarrad Waite’s announcement of his hip surgery keeping him out until finals might mean he is out for the season.

The podcast boys also touched on:

■ Boomer’s book and the tanking storm

■ What Michael Tuck was doing while Boomer Harvey broke his AFL games record on Saturday night.

■ Does anyone actually want the Coleman Medal?

■ Has Patrick Dangerfield sewn up the Brownlow or can Dustin Martin or smoky Stephen Coniglio challenge?

■ Which team is the best on its day

■ Brendan Bolton’s masterstroke to tag Sam Mitchell

■ The Dockers escaping the heat after a horrible fall from grace

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Originally published as The SuperFooty Podcast: Mick Warner says Richmond can make the finals next season