In May 2016 Richmond was accused of becoming the home of the list-clogger — a club filling the list with other teams’ footballers without changing its ceiling. A year later Richmond was premier. More awkwardly for the original argument, that premiership side contained a substantial group of players whose AFL careers had begun somewhere else. So the lesson cannot simply be that Richmond stopped recruiting recycled players. Something more important changed between the 2016 coll

The record looks like four quarters of domination. It wasn’t. St Kilda led after one, and Richmond’s record second half began with a problem.

Richmond diagnosed its own football failures in 2011, before the dynasty. Fifteen years later, that old checklist has become a live rebuild test.

Richmond’s Pick 1 story begins after Brett Deledio had already faced another serious state-level sporting path.

Richmond’s 80-point record quarter was not the end of a procession. It began with the game suddenly alive again.

Richmond history is full of huge bets. Calling them wins or disasters after the event may be the easiest part of the argument.

A major Richmond fundraiser changed the financial picture, yet the women at its centre became harder to see in the archive.

The famous Tigresses match looks like a Richmond curiosity until one surviving remark changes what the afternoon may have meant.

A workplace accident appeared to end Vic Naismith’s Olympic dream. Yet a green Olympic football guernsey later returned to Tigerland. The missing link is the story.

Before the 1956 Olympic Opening Ceremony reached the MCG, part of the Olympic world was standing on Punt Road Oval. Tigerland was doing an unexpected job.

Robert Kabbas trained at Punt Road for years before winning Olympic silver. The key Richmond gave him opens a much bigger story than borrowed gym equipment.

Six thousand letters and fifty calls a day once converged on one Richmond desk. That makes “secretary” sound far too small.

Richmond’s sash is fixed now. The archive is less certain about exactly when its direction became fixed.

Richmond’s 1967 revival is remembered through Hafey and the players. The institutional groundwork may have started earlier.

Before websites and social feeds, a Richmond supporter was already publishing the club back to its own people.

The Tiger feels inseparable from Richmond now, but the nickname was not there from the beginning. So how did it become part of the club’s identity?

In 1951 Richmond played at the MCG while international soccer packed Punt Road next door. The strange double-header asks what Tigerland was really worth across two football codes.

Richmond briefly had its own match-day dance troupe in 1980. What does that curious experiment reveal about football culture, promotion and Tigerland at the time?

Dion Prestia, Josh Caddy and Tom Lynch entered the AFL through Gold Coast’s 2010 draft haul. How did three separate careers eventually converge at Richmond?

Mark Coughlan looked capable of becoming one of Richmond’s defining midfielders before injury changed the path. What can his story still tell us about careers that never get a clean run?