With his third goal against Geelong at Etihad Stadium last Sunday, Richmond spearhead Jack Riewoldt joined an elite group of players in Tigerland history . . .
It was Riewoldt’s 50th goal for the 2011 season, making him just the eigth Tiger to kick 50 goals or more in consecutive years.
Riewoldt won his inaugural Coleman Medal as the leading goalkicker in the AFL competition last year, with 78 goals, and now has 50 goals with five home-and-away matches remaining for the Tigers in 2011.
Matthew Richardson achieved back-to-back goal half-centuries on two occasions throughout his illustrious 17-season league career (1998-99 & 2004-05), while Michael Roach did it once (1985-86) and also completed a hat-trick from 1979-81.
The great Jack ‘Skinny’ Titus, full-forward in Richmond’s Team of the Century, holds the record at Tigerland for the most number of successive 50-goal milestone achievements.
Titus, one of just two players in Richmond history to kick 100 goals in a season (100 in 1940), did it three times - 1929-30, 1934-37, and 1940-42.
The full list of Tiger players to score 50 goals or more in consecutive seasons is:
GEORGE BAYLISS
1920: 63 goals
1921: 53 goals
JACK TITUS
1929: 54 goals
1930: 50 goals
JACK TITUS
1934: 80 goals
1935: 83 goals
1936: 83 goals
1937: 65 goals
JACK TITUS
1940: 100 goals
1941: 87 goals
1942: 67 goals
DICK HARRIS
1943: 63 goals
1944: 63 goals
RAY POULTER
1949: 51 goals
1950: 56 goals
MICHAEL ROACH
1979: 90 goals
1980: 112 goals
1981: 86 goals
MICHAEL ROACH
1985: 80 goals
1986: 62 goals
KEVIN BARTLETT
1980: 84
1981: 58
1982: 58
MATTHEW RICHARDSON
1998: 55 goals
1999: 67 goals
MATTHEW RICHARDSON
2004: 65 goals
2005: 65 goals
JACK RIEWOLDT
2010: 78 goals
2011: 50 goals (at the completion of Round 18)
