Does Richmond Have Enough Midfielders — or Enough Midfield Jobs?

Richmond’s midfield problem no longer looks like a shortage. It looks like a traffic jam.

By Season 27, the club can point to more genuine midfield options than it can reasonably feed with meaningful centre-bounce and stoppage time. Depth sounds healthy until development, role clarity and senior influence all start competing for the same minutes.

That makes selection only part of the issue. The harder decision is about hierarchy. Richmond has to decide which players are being developed as primary midfielders, which are expected to add value elsewhere, and how much opportunity can actually be shared without blurring everybody’s job.

The names matter, but the tension matters more. Eight plausible options do not create eight equal midfield careers, and the first sign of Richmond’s real pecking order may come through who is no longer being given the same access.

So when the midfield minutes become finite in 2027, who loses them — and what does that decision reveal about the side Richmond is actually trying to build?

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