Richmond Wrote Down Its Own Failures in 2011. Which Ones Are Back on Trial?
In 2011 Richmond did something unusually valuable: it described its own football failures before anybody knew a premiership era was coming.
This was not hindsight written after 2017. Richmond was still outside the finals, still carrying the scars of famous draft misses and still trying to rebuild the machinery behind recruiting and development.
That gives the old diagnosis a different value now. Fifteen years later, Richmond has lived through a dynasty, watched that team age and committed enormous draft capital to another generation. The club can no longer judge the 2011 diagnosis only by pointing at three premierships.
Which of the failures Richmond identified in 2011 were genuinely eliminated — and which are now being tested again by the current rebuild?
That question turns an old list of mistakes into a live 2027 audit. The names have changed. The test underneath them may not have.
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