The team at ‘Talking Tigers’, Richmond’s podcast juggernaut, put their collective heads together (definitely not in a literal sense during this coronavirus crisis) to rank the Club’s top 10 players from Western Australia throughout the past half-century. Here’s TT’s list of top 10 WA Tigers . . .
1. Alex Rance – 200 games, 9 goals, 2009-2019, five-time All-Australian representative (2014, 205, 2016, 2017, 2018), Jack Dyer Medallist (2015), premiership player (2017).
2. Neil Balme – 159 games, 229 goals, 1970-1979, two-time winner of the Club’s leading goalkicker award (1972, 1973), dual premiership player (1973, 1974).
3. Darren Gaspar – 207 games, 22 goals, 1996-2007, two-time All-Australian representative (2000, 2001), Jack Dyer Medallist (2001).
4. Robert Wiley – 95 games, 127 goals, 1979-1983, premiership player (1980).
5. Bruce Monteath – 118 games, 198 goals, 1975-1980, All-Australian representative (1979), winner of the Club’s leading goalkicker award (1978), premiership captain (1980).
6. Mark Coughlan – 92 games, 39 goals, 2001-2009, Jack Dyer Medallist (2003).
7. Michael Mitchell – 81 games, 103 goals, 1987-1991, winner of the Club’s Goal of the 20th Century (Round 22, 1990 v Sydney, SCG).
8. Brian Taylor – 43 games, 156 goals, 1980-1984, two-time winner of the Club’s leading goalkicker award (1982, 1984).
9. Nathan Broad – 55 games, 1 goal, 2016-2020, dual premiership player (2017, 2019).
10. Andrew Krakouer – 102 games, 102 goals, 2001-2007.
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