Who Wins: Richmond 1980 or Richmond 2017?
Updated: Aug 30
The full RTSSG member feature, 1980 V 2017. Who wins? , is the source investigation behind this Public doorway.
The 1980 and 2017 Richmond premiership sides both produced seasons Tiger supporters will never forget, but they did so in football environments that barely resemble each other.
How should two premiership teams separated by 37 years be compared? Do you judge dominance relative to their own competition, raw talent, finals margins, tactical influence, star power or the difficulty of the path each side travelled?
What happens when modern statistics are used to examine an older game built around different rules, positions and expectations? Does that illuminate the comparison or create an illusion of precision across eras that cannot really be standardised?
Which individual match-ups are meaningful, and which are impossible because the roles themselves changed? Would 1980’s size and scoring power overwhelm 2017, or would 2017’s pressure and collective movement create a problem the older side never had to solve?
The member feature takes the impossible comparison seriously enough to test it rather than simply vote on nostalgia.
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