Richmond kicked 11.5 in one third quarter against Footscray in 1989. Seven days later it had one goal at half-time. The gap is the puzzle.

Richmond told Mick Malthouse he had the senior coaching job in 1983. He accepted. Days later the decision was reversed — then another Richmond role apparently disappeared too.

Robert McGhie’s famous 1973 cigarette photograph looks like an old-football novelty. The harder question is what the rest of the frame is telling us.

Richmond found and developed an elite full-back in Darren Gaspar. The harder question is why the team around that answer never became consistently strong.

A Richmond teammate remembered George Rudolph smoking during a 1925 match, marking one-handed, flattening the umpire and kicking the goal first. How much of that extraordinary story can the surviving record actually prove?

David Rodan played 65 games for Richmond before his career continued elsewhere. Years later, Tiger supporters still claim a piece of D-Rod. Why?

Dale Weightman represented Victoria 20 times in an era when State of Origin carried enormous prestige. What did those games reveal about the Richmond champion?

A settled 1908 Richmond player record stopped matching the evidence, exposing how one Tiger can disappear while another name survives.

Richmond lost three major players in an era when contract rules gave players unusual leverage. Was it simply money, or was something deeper happening at Tigerland?

Richmond had several young players attracting Rising Star attention in 1994. What did their later careers reveal about how much early promise can really tell us?

Richmond’s great eras are remembered through famous coaches and players. What should supporters make of the recruiter, selector and football figure whose influence sat behind so many of them?

Relton Roberts played only two AFL games for Richmond after arriving from a football life far removed from Punt Road. What sits behind the tiny career total — and what gets lost when the story is reduced to a cult-football punchline?

Alex Rance built a 200-game career against the competition’s best forwards. Which parts of his game made him so unusual — and which are hardest for Richmond to replace?

By 2008 Matthew Richardson’s Richmond identity looked settled. He was 33, had spent years carrying the forward line and was already one of the most recognisable Tigers of his generation. Then Richmond changed where he played. The result was not a gentle late-career adjustment. Richardson suddenly became a serious Brownlow contender in a season that forced supporters to reconsider what his football could still be. Why did moving one of Richmond’s great forwards away from the r

Bill Morris is easy to place in a Richmond record book. He won the 1948 Brownlow Medal. The clean line of an honour board makes the rest of the life look almost secondary. It was not. Morris belonged to a generation shaped by war, country sport and a very different football world before his Richmond career made him one of the League’s most admired players. What do we miss when Bill Morris is remembered first as Richmond’s 1948 Brownlow Medallist and only afterwards as the man

Two Brownlow Medals should make a Richmond footballer almost impossible to overlook. Roy Wright won them in 1952 and 1954, placing him in a tiny part of the club’s individual-award history. Yet Richmond memory is crowded with premiership dynasties, larger personalities and eras captured far more vividly on film. Wright’s peak arrived in a period when the Tigers were no longer the wartime power and had not yet become the Hafey machine. So what does Richmond lose when one of it

Richmond history can turn Roy Wright into a line of honours very quickly: champion ruckman, club great, two Brownlow Medals. His son Paul grew up with a different version. The memories sit away from medal nights. They are about ABC commentary boxes, work on Mondays, football people around the family, a famous player who could be shy about media and the strange normality of having one of Richmond’s greats simply be your father. What disappears from football history when the ch

John Perry did not arrive at Punt Road as an outsider. Richmond already ran through his family before he pulled on the jumper, and by 1967 he had a premiership medal of his own. Read backwards, that can make the career look almost inevitable. It was anything but. Perry was close enough to the centre of one of Richmond’s greatest eras to share in its breakthrough, yet his place in the side never became as secure as the family pedigree might suggest. How can a footballer be tha

Richmond’s 1950s were a barren decade, but Havel Rowe became one of the players worth remembering. How did he arrive at Tigerland, and what made him stand out?

Geoff Strang came from one of football’s great family lines, starred in Albury and reached Richmond’s senior side in 1965. Then he went home. Why?