Richmond has a good record overall in the season following each league football premiership it has won.

The Tigers have made it back-to-back flags twice (in 1921 and 1974), finished runner-up on two occasions (1933 and 1944) and third twice (1935 and 1975).

They’ve missed the finals four times post-premiership (1922, 1968, 1970 and 1981), but could consider themselves a bit unlucky in two of those seasons – 1968, when they won 14 of 20 games and were just two points (half a game) adrift of fourth-placed team St Kilda (under the final-four system), and 1981, when they won 13 of 22 games and were four points behind fifth-placed Fitzroy (under the final-five system).

Here’s the full list of how Richmond has fared in each season following premiership success, as well as the Tigers’ Round 1 record in those years . . .

 

1920 premiership

1921 finish: Second at the end of the home-and-away season. Went on to win the premiership, defeating Carlton in the Grand Final at the MCG by four points – 5.6 (36) to 4.8 (32).

Total games played: 19

Won: 15

Lost: 4

Round 1 result: Lost to Carlton by nine points at Punt Road – 7.11 (53) to 8.14 (62)

  

1921 premiership

1922 finish: Fifth (in a final-four system) at the end of the home-and-away season.

Games played: 16

Won: 7

Lost: 9

Round 1 result: Defeated Collingwood by 17 points at Punt Road – 10.13 (73) to 8.8 (56).

  

1932 premiership

1933 finish: Top of the ladder at the end of the home-and-away season. Went on to lose the Grand Final against South Melbourne at the MCG by 42 points – 4.5 (29) to 9.17 (71).

Total games played: 21

Won: 16

Lost: 5

Round 1 result: Defeated Melbourne by 32 points at the MCG – 14.12 (96) to 9.10 (64).

  

1934 premiership

1935 finish: Fourth at the end of the home-and-away season. Went on to lose the preliminary final against Collingwood at the MCG by 28 points – 9.12 (66) to 14.10 (94).

Total games played: 20

Won: 13

Lost: 7

Round 1 result: Defeated Footscray by 35 points at the Western Oval – 14.12 (96) to 7.19 (61).

  

1943 premiership

1944 finish: Top of the ladder at the end of the home-and-away season. Went on to lose the Grand Final against Fitzroy at the Junction Oval by 15 points – 7.9 (51) to 9.12 (66).

Total games played: 21

Won: 14

Lost: 6

Drew: 1

Round 1 result: Defeated Melbourne by 40 points at Punt Road – 19.18 (132) to 14.8 (92).

 

1967 premiership

1968 finish: Fifth (in a final-four system) at end of the home-and-away season.

Games played: 20

Won: 14

Lost: 6

Round 1 result: Defeated Collingwood by 16 points at Victoria Park – 11.22 (88) to 10.12 (72).

 

1969 premiership

1970 finish: Sixth (final-four system) at end of the home-and-away season.

Games played: 22

Won: 12

Lost: 10

Round 1 result: Lost to Fitzroy by 20 points at the MCG (first-ever game of league football on a Sunday) – 14.12 (96) to 16.20 (116).

 

1973 premiership

1974 finish: Top of the ladder at the end of the home-and-away season. Went on to win the premiership (making it back-to-back flags), defeating North Melbourne in the Grand Final at the MCG by 41 points – 18.20 (128) to 13.9 (87).

Total games played: 24

Won: 19

Lost: 5

Round 1 result: Lost to Hawthorn by 16 points at the MCG – 12.16 (88) to 15.14 (104).

 

1974 premiership

1975 finish: Fourth at the end of the home-and-away season. Went on to lose the preliminary final against North Melbourne at Waverley Park by 17 points – 8.11 (59) to 10.16 (76).

Total games played: 25

Won: 15

Lost: 10

Round 1 result: Defeated Fitzroy by five points at the Junction Oval – 15.13 (103) to 14.14 (98).

 

1980 premiership

1981 finish: Seventh (final-five system).

Games played: 22

Won: 13

Lost: 9

Round 1 result: Lost to Carlton by 62 points at Waverley Park – 12.10 (82) to 22.12 (144).