The Richmond team that drew with St Kilda, in last Friday night’s epic encounter at the MCG, was the least experienced line-up in the competition for Round 2.
Even the Gold Coast Suns, in their AFL debut, had a combined tally of games higher than the Tigers.
Richmond went into the Round 2 match against last year’s Grand Finalist St Kilda with a total of 1152 games among the 22 competing players (at an average of 52.4 games per player). Only captain Chris Newman (176) and Brett Deledio (129) had played more than 100 games.
St Kilda, in comparison, had 2568 games experience within its playing group on the night (at an average of 116.7 games per player). And, 11 members of the Saints’ side had played 100 games or more, with two of them (Lenny Hayes and Stephen Milne) 200-gamers.
The inaugural Gold Coast Suns side contained seven 100-game-plus players, and it went into the match against Carlton with a combined total of 1158 games.
The full list of club games’ tallies going into Round 2 was:
1. Geelong 2640 games
2. St Kilda 2568
3. Collingwood 2358
4. Hawthorn 2305
5. Sydney 1964
6. W. Bulldogs 1955
7. West Coast 1818
8. Fremantle 1769
9. Carlton 1671
10. Port Adelaide 1657
11. Nth Melbourne 1588
12. Brisbane 1564
13. Essendon 1542
14. Melbourne 1357
15. Gold Coast 1158
16. Richmond 1152
