The AFL Has Capped Contact Training. What Does Richmond Have to Learn Faster in 2027?
The AFL has placed mandatory limits on pre-season contact training from 2027, including tighter ceilings on high-intensity work and a ban on scheduling high-intensity contact on consecutive days.
For Richmond, the timing is hard to ignore. The Tigers are coming out of an injury-ravaged season, have changed high-performance leadership and still need to build the pressure, contest, stoppage and team connections that a young side cannot simply assume will appear. The easy reading is that Richmond will now train with less contact. The deeper question is what the new scarcity forces it to teach differently before those high-intensity minutes are spent.
Which football behaviours genuinely need full collision exposure? Which can be installed before the bodies arrive? And what should supporters look for to know that a safer pre-season has not become a softer one? The full member feature examines what Selwyn Griffith and Adem Yze now have to build into Richmond’s 2027 preparation.
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