How Close Did Polly Farmer Come to Becoming a Richmond Player?

Read the full RTSSG investigationPolly Farmer to Richmond? It almost happened! took the visible story and followed the question underneath it.

The Polly Farmer story is one of those lost Richmond threads that matters precisely because it did not happen. Near-recruits expose ambition, timing, competition rules and the decisions that quietly reshape club history.

The question beneath the story

How different might Richmond history have looked if one of Australian football’s greatest ruckmen had landed at Punt Road?

This public companion keeps that question discoverable while deliberately withholding the resolved member conclusion.

What RTSSG investigated

Why was Richmond interested in Farmer?

How serious did the pursuit become?

What stood between the Tigers and the deal?

What would his arrival have changed about Richmond’s football?

Why should a club preserve the stories of decisions that never became transactions?

The value is in how those questions connect. The full feature follows the evidence through cause, consequence and what it means for Richmond; this public page stops before that final answer.

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