Richmond is preparing to target high-end rival players as well as retain its batch of top draftees with new deals under a clear salary cap strategy.
Speaking before last week’s game in Sydney, Club president John O'Rourke told AFL.com.au the Tigers were managing their total player payments with two clear focuses.
O'Rourke said the Tigers were positioning their cap space to be ready to re-sign top guns as well as go shopping.
"We've always done a good job in planning out where we sit from a cap point of view multiple years in advance and that's what Blair (Hartley) and the team have done again," O'Rourke said.
"I think we've got lots of options now, whether that's capacity for free agents in the short term or it's just maintaining flexibility.
"We haven't had this much young high-end talent even in our most significant period as we were building towards our premiership era. It wasn't as stacked with the high picks that we've got a hold of in the last couple of years, so that's part of the equation as well as to how we accommodate building a team around those players over the next three or four years.
"The starting point is one of great flexibility so I think we're well placed."
