The team at ‘Talking Tigers’, Richmond’s podcast juggernaut, have accomplished the testing assignment of ranking the Club’s top 10 players from Victorian metropolitan areas throughout the past half-century. Here is TT’s list of the top 10 Vic Metro Tigers . . .

1. Kevin Bartlett: 403 games, 778 goals, 1965-1983, five-time premiership player (1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1980), Norm Smith Medallist (1980), five-time Jack Dyer Medallist (1967, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1977), four-time Club leading goalkicker (1974, 1975, 1977, 1983), Club captain 1979, Tigers’ Team of the Century member, Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend, Richmond ‘Immortal’.

2. Trent Cotchin: 235 games, 126 goals, 2008-2020, dual premiership player (2017, 2019), dual premiership captain (2017, 2019), Brownlow Medallist (2012), three-time Jack Dyer Medallist (2011, 2012, 2014), Club captain (since 2013), All-Australian (2012).

3. Kevin Sheedy: 251 games, 91 goals, 1967-1979, three-time premiership player (1969, 1973, 1974), Jack Dyer Medallist (1976), Club captain (1978), Tigers’ Team of the Century member, Richmond Hall of Fame inductee, Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend.

4. Michael Green: 146 games, 83 goals, 1966-1971 and 1973-1975, four-time premiership player (1967, 1969, 1973, 1974), Tigers’ Team of the Century member, Richmond Hall of Fame inductee.

5. Bryan Wood: 209 games, 85 goals, 1972-1982, three-time premiership captain (1973, 1974, 1980), Club captain (1981), Richmond Hall of Fame inductee.

6. David Cloke: 219 games, 272 goals, 1974-1982 and 1990-1991, dual premiership player (1974, 1980), Club captain (1982), All-Australian (1979), Richmond Hall of Fame inductee.

7. Dylan Grimes: 152 games, 3 goals, 2010-2020, dual premiership player (2017, 2019), All-Australian (2019).

8. Bachar Houli: 181 games, 33 goals, 2011-2020, dual premiership player (2017, 2019), All-Australian (2018).

9. Wayne Walsh: 88 games, 30 goals, 1968 and 1972-1978, dual premiership player (1973, 1974), Richmond Hall of Fame inductee.

10. Duncan Kellaway: 180 games, 12 goals, 1993-2004. 

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