ANDREW Krakouer's AFL career may be over at just 24, after Richmond cut him yesterday.

Krakouer played only nine games in 2007, kicking six goals, finishing the season with Coburg in the VFL with his cards apparently marked. He was one of three Tigers delisted yesterday as the club prepares for the national draft, the others being Brent Hartigan and Patrick Bowden.

The son of the legendary Jimmy Krakouer is confronting a more significant battle, with a court case pending over an assault in Perth last Christmas.

But Richmond says his departure is not linked to that matter. "I think Andrew's career with us has been reasonable," said football director Greg Miller yesterday.

"He's had his highs and lows. His first half of this year was good; his second half wasn't as good. His form dropped away a bit. I hope he still gets a chance at another league club.

"He's been no problem for us. He's been a good clubman and he's played a few good games for our club. But I guess the bar gets higher, and the seven or eight games he played this year just wasn't enough to get another contract."

In at least one sense, Krakouer has had a difficult career since he was drafted by Richmond in 1999. Lack of size — he is only 176 centimetres and 76 kilograms — leaves him with only the small forward position as an option, and each side carries only one of those.

"The defensive pressure's so important," Miller said. "He makes every endeavour. He's good at it. But it's not an easy position to play."

Krakouer played 102 games in seven seasons for the Tigers, and kicked precisely the same number of goals. Richmond elevated Jake King and Angus Graham from the rookie list for 2008.

Krakouer's court hearing will be in February. He and his brother Tyrone, 21, and Elwyn Roger Colbung, 19, have been charged with assault causing grievous bodily harm over a bashing outside a Fremantle nightclub on December 22, 2006.