Coach lost for words after horror show
Richmond is lost for answers after back-to-back losses and coach Damien Hardwick is struggling to hold on to one key idea.
Richmond is lost for answers after back-to-back losses and coach Damien Hardwick is struggling to hold on to one key idea.
Only five men have ever played 400 AFL games and four of them have revealed just what makes the newest member of the club tick.
Richmond coach Damien Hardwick appeared to be seething after watching his club fall apart in one of the biggest upsets this year.
A week after losing to cellar-dwellers North Melbourne, the Suns have stunned the footy community by upsetting Richmond in Melbourne.
Richmond hosts Brisbane in another top-four stoush, and the result could decide tipping competitions around the country. So why has Jon Ralph abandoned his Tigers?
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Richmond captain Trent Cotchin has a reputation as one of the game’s good guys and, as Daisy Pearce — and a lucky Richmond member found out — the title is well-earned.
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Hawthorn needs to defeat reigning premier West Coast in Perth and have other unlikely results go its way to play finals. But with Alastair Clarkson at the helm, can we really rule the Hawks out? LADDER + RUN HOME
The AFL says the umpire got it right when he paid ‘studs up’ free kicks against Jack Riewoldt, but the interpretation that cost the Tigers forward has been binned a week out from finals.
It might have been five years since Brisbane Lions won at the MCG and 12 games since they defeated Richmond, but those statistics hardly concern matchwinner Lincoln McCarthy.
A combination of momentum swings and low scoring has produced the closest AFL season in 20 years as Round 22 whet the appetite for a finals series to remember.
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