{"id":252113,"date":"2025-10-31T01:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252113\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:14:09","slug":"tigers-farewell-former-first-round-pick-after-six-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252113\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers farewell former first-round pick after six seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Thomson Dow will depart Richmond after 45 games in yellow and black\n <\/p>\n

Thomson Dow after the round nine match between Richmond and West Coast at Melbourne Cricket Ground, on May 11, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

RICHMOND has finalised its list changes ahead of the 2025 Telstra AFL National Draft after choosing not to offer Thomson Dow a contract for next year.<\/p>\n

The Tigers have re-signed Tyler Sonsie, the only other player at Punt Road who was waiting on a contract decision.<\/p>\n

WHO’S CALLED IT QUITS 2025’s retirements and\u00a0delistings<\/a><\/p>\n

Dow played 45 senior games, including 11 this year before a knee injury ended his season early.<\/p>\n

The midfielder was taken with pick No.21 at the 2019 draft, Richmond’s first selection that year.<\/p>\n

“Thomson was very unlucky to miss the second half of the season through injury,” Richmond’s executive general manager, football talent, Blair Hartley said on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, this time of year, we need to make hard decisions, and we were unable to offer Thomson a list spot for 2026.<\/p>\n

“We thank Thomson for his hard work during his six years with us. His attitude was always first class, and we wish him well for his future.”<\/p>\n

Sonsie made 16 senior appearances in 2025, his highest number in a season since debuting in 2022.<\/p>\n

After struggling to find a regular role at AFL level, the 22-year-old played the final 12 matches of the season and appeared to become more comfortable at the level as the season progressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomson Dow will depart Richmond after 45 games in yellow and black Thomson Dow after the round nine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-252113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}