Richmond Kicked 23.30 in 1967. What Does 30 Behinds Actually Tell Us?
Richmond’s 23.30 (168) against Hawthorn in 1967 is one of those scorelines that looks self-explanatory until you actually look at it. Thirty behinds screams waste. A 114-point victory screams domination. Fifty-three scoring shots suggests something even larger was happening.
So what are we actually looking at? Was this simply a terrible day in front of goal, or does the volume of chances tell us more about how Richmond was learning to control games in its premiership season? And how much can a raw goals-and-behinds line really tell us about shot quality, territory and pressure more than half a century later?
That is the puzzle. The member feature goes back through the match and the wider 1967 context to separate what the scoreboard proves from what it merely tempts us to assume.
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