What Did Zero Rising Star Votes Actually Say About Richmond’s 2025 Kids?
Updated: Aug 30
RTSSG’s full member feature, 🐯 ZERO VOTES IN RISING STAR: A DAMNING INDICATOR — OR JUST A HICCUP?, opens the evidence behind this question.
A panel of AFL reporters produced a 2025 Rising Star ranking in which Richmond players received no votes.
At the same time, Richmond had committed heavily to youth and was asking a large group of inexperienced players to develop inside a struggling senior team.
The next question
How much weight should a supporter give an external award-style vote?
Does zero recognition expose a quality problem, an opportunity problem, an injury problem or none of those on its own?
Which evidence would actually tell Richmond whether its young talent was tracking strongly enough?
Those questions are where the Public version stops. The full RTSSG member feature follows the evidence through to the judgement: 🐯 ZERO VOTES IN RISING STAR: A DAMNING INDICATOR — OR JUST A HICCUP?.
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