Patrick Naish (born 15 January 1999) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Box Hill Hawks in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Naish previously played for the West Coast Eagles and Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by Richmond with the 34th pick in the 2017 AFL national draft and made his debut for the club in round 12 of the 2019 season. He is the son of former and forward Chris Naish and was drafted to Richmond under the father–son rule. Naish was delisted by Richmond at the end of the 2021 season after failing to break into playing group. He was signed by West Coast as a Supplementary Selection Period (SSP) during the 2022 AFL pre-season. Early life and junior football Born in January 1999, Naish is son to former and forward Chris Naish who was playing his final AFL season at the time of Patrick's birth. Naish grew up in the northern suburbs of Melbourne and first represented Victoria at the Under 16 AFL championships in 2015. In 2016 Naish began playing representative football with the Northern Knights in the TAC Cup. While attending high school at Ivanhoe Grammar School he played for the school's representative side and local football with the school's lower division alumni sides. That year he earned selection the Victorian Metropolitan squad, but did not manage selection to the final team at the 2016 AFL Under 18 Championships. Naish was a member of the AFL Academy in 2016 before becoming just one of 30 players in his age group to join the more advanced program in 2017. Under that program he traveled to the USA on a training trip with his Academy classmates and trained for two weeks with Richmond's senior AFL team during the 2015/16 and 2016/17 off-seasons. Naish spent significant additional time around the club in his junior years, completing weights training and receiving coaching due to his father–son rule draft eligibility. He earned selection to the Victorian Metro side at the 2017 AFL Under 18 Championships and was named in Metro's best players in three of his four matches, including against Victoria Country in June where he was among his side's best players with two goals, nine marks and 24 disposals. He held an average of 21.8 disposals per game and led all players for average metres gained (519 per game) while playing wing