\n Richmond has selected Kye Annand in the mid-season draft.\n <\/p>\n
Richmond has selected Geelong VFL defender, Kye Annand, with the second pick in the 2026 Telstra AFL Mid-Season Rookie Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 200-centimetre defender has been a standout for the Cats across the backline.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Annand has shifted to a full-time key defender in 2026, after spending time previously as a ruck\/forward in the Cats program and at local level for Ocean Grove and Geelong West Football Clubs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hailing from Ocean Grove, Annand joined the Geelong VFL program in 2023. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Richmond\u2019s National Recruiting Manager, Rhy Gieschen, welcomed Annand to the Club and is excited to see what he can do at the elite level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Kye is an exciting prospect, he\u2019s a 200cm competitive key defender with a great balance between defending and his intercept game,\u201d Gieschen said.<\/p>\n
“We love his combativeness and courage, and his rate of improvement over the past few seasons.<\/p>\n
“Importantly, he is a quality person off the field who has been working full time as a plumber, whilst developing his game at VFL level as a semi professional athlete.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s been great getting to know him and his family over the last little period. He’s got a good personality and I think the fans will be really excited about welcoming him to Richmond.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richmond has selected Kye Annand in the mid-season draft. Richmond has selected Geelong VFL defender, Kye Annand, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-695854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695854","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=695854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}