Geoff Ablett wanted Richmond in 1983. The old clearance system turned that football decision into a legal fight.

Richmond’s first season was not a polished origin story. Punt Road was still being turned into the football world supporters now recognise.

Nathan Broad became a three-time premiership defender without ever fitting the usual star template. What should Richmond learn from the way his role was identified, developed and trusted?

Richmond’s 1904 VFA forfeit sounds like football folklore. Underneath it sits a serious story about power, rules and a club learning how institutions really work.

Richmond’s membership growth was not simply a by-product of winning. Part of it came from understanding where future Richmond families would live.

Richmond’s 2010–20 decade was not a smooth climb. It contained humiliation, finals failure, internal pressure, reinvention and eventually three premierships.

Richmond’s elimination-final losses in 2013, 2014 and 2015 became more than failed seasons. They forced a club that had improved to answer what that improvement was actually becoming.

Richmond once had two elite full-forward talents competing for one goal square. Why did the club keep Michael Roach while Brian Taylor had to leave?

Read the full RTSSG investigation“Lids’ warning: what Brett Deledio’s story says about Richmond’s rebuild now” starts with a visible Richmond story, but the more important question sits underneath it. What does a former No.1 pick who carried Richmond through a long unsuccessful era understand about the cost of asking talent to wait? How did Deledio experience leadership, hope, fatigue and the club’s eventual breakthrough — and what warning does that carry for the young core n

How early did Richmond begin treating football information as something that could be systematically recorded, compared and learned from? Long before data departments became standard AFL infrastructure, Bill Meaklim was helping Richmond record and preserve match information with extraordinary care. The interesting story is not nostalgia for notebooks; it is what the club understood about evidence before the industry had a fashionable name for it.

When an old grandstand disappears, what exactly does a football club lose — a structure, or a container for generations of memory? The Jack Dyer Stand was concrete, timber and steel, but Richmond people filled it with far more than architecture. Its story reaches back to supporters raising money for a home grand enough to hold a growing football community.

Was Richmond’s move into the VFL an act of ambition, an act of survival, or both? By 1908 Richmond faced a choice bigger than changing competitions. The VFL was pulling away in crowds, money and prestige, while staying in the VFA risked leaving the club on the wrong side of football’s emerging power structure.

Why was leaving Punt Road Oval necessary for Richmond to become the modern powerhouse it wanted to be? Punt Road had been Richmond’s football home since 1885, yet by the early 1960s the very ground that embodied the club was also limiting what Richmond wanted to become. Moving next door to the MCG was both a break with tradition and a statement of ambition.

Richmond’s 1980 and 2017 premiership teams dominated in completely different football languages. How do you compare two Tiger sides separated by 37 years of tactical change?

Richmond’s premiership teams were not assembled only through elite draft picks. What did the club repeatedly find later that other clubs did not?

Big-name free agents are seductive during a rebuild. But what problems can Richmond genuinely buy its way out of — and which ones cannot be solved that way?

Long before Neil Balme returned to Richmond as an administrator, he was a premiership forward with a reputation of his own. What does the first Richmond chapter tell us about the second?

Richmond and Collingwood turned an old rivalry into an expensive recruiting war in the 1980s. Years later Collingwood donated to Save Our Skins. How did it get that far?

The lace-up Richmond guernsey is tied to premierships, iconic photographs and a very different football era. Why did it become famous — and why did it disappear?

Richmond was founded in 1885 but did not enter the VFL until 1908. What happened in the years between — and why was the road into the league so difficult?