Richmond is likely to target some talented young midfielders in this year’s National Draft.

The Tigers have identified the need to inject both ball-winning, and speedy outside midfielders, to their playing list ahead of the 2015 season.

The Club looked to have secured the services of former Melbourne captain Jack Trengove during the trade period, however the deal fell through after the result of a medical check.

“The reason we had interest in Jack was for midfield depth, and real class in the midfield, to add to the likes of Cotchin and Miles,” Richmond General Manager of Football, Dan Richardson, told SEN.

“Particularly in a contested ball-winning capacity, so the likes of Dustin (Martin), Brett Deledio, Reece Conca and Brandon Ellis can play a little bit more on the outside.

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“Around that pick 12 there’s three or four players we’re interested in, that we hope will get through to that pick.

“Then some genuine outside speed will probably be the way we go later in the draft.”

Richmond had spent the free agency and trade periods looking to add to its playing list, but it was always keen to inject more youth into Club by investing heavily in the Draft.

“Often in these sort of situations you do a lot of hard work and sometimes it doesn’t come to fruition necessarily,” Richardson said.

“But in saying that we’re comfortable with the strategy and path we’re on, which is to retrain our draft picks and get some good young talent into our club come draft time.

“To Richmond people out there, rest assured we worked hard ... if you look back we’ve made more changes to our list since 2009 than most other clubs, and at some stage you’ve got to bring the right talent into the club through the draft.

“Now the pressure is on our recruiting staff to do that come November.”