What Did Richmond’s 1967 Second Semi-Final Tell the VFL Before the Grand Final?
Richmond entered the 1967 second semi-final with the best home-and-away record in the competition and one enormous unknown: not one Tiger had played in a VFL final.
Carlton had experience, talent and Ron Barassi. Richmond had form, youth and twenty years of September absence sitting behind it. The match was supposed to be the first real test of whether the home-and-away rise could survive finals pressure.
So what did the afternoon actually reveal? Which Richmond strengths transferred immediately to September? What did Carlton fail to take away? Which players looked different once the stakes changed? And what should Geelong have learned from the first Richmond finals performance in two decades?
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