Star key forward Jack Riewoldt will become the 20th player in Richmond’s league football history to reach the 200-game milestone, when he lines up against Geelong at the MCG on Sunday.
Riewoldt also is set to enter an even more exclusive club at Tigerland – 200-gamers who have kicked 400-plus goals.
Only five players have previously achieved this feat in the 108 years of Richmond’s league football existence – Jack Titus 294 games and 970 goals, Matthew Richardson 282 games and 800 goals, Kevin Bartlett 403 games and 778 goals, Michael Roach 200 games and 607 goals and Jack Dyer 312 games and 443 goals.
In his 199 games to date, Riewoldt has booted 480 goals – an average of 2.4 goals per match.
He has scored four goals or more 46 times, with a career-high 11 against Greater Western Sydney in Round 10, 2014 at Spotless Stadium.
Riewoldt is a dual Coleman Medallist (2010 with 78 goals and 2012 with 65 goals), a two-time All-Australian (2010 and 2015), and he’s won the Michael Roach Medal, as the Tigers’ leading goalkicker in a season, on six occasions (2010-15).
Since 2010, Riewoldt has kicked more than 50 goals each season, and he’s on track for another half-century goal return this year, with 45 after 19 games.
He’s the only Richmond player ever to finish with 50-plus goals in more than five successive seasons.
Of the current-day AFL players, only Sydney’s superstar spearhead Lance Franklin has managed a better goalkicking sequence. Franklin did it eight times, from 2007-14 (seven for Hawthorn and once with the Swans).