The team at Richmond’s podcast juggernaut, ‘Talking Tigers’, have ranked the Club’s top five players recruited from Essendon throughout the past half-century. Here is TT’s list of the top five Bombers-turned-Tigers...

1. Bachar Houli: 185 games, 33 goals, 2011-2010. Dual premiership player (2017, 2019).

2. Paul Sproule: 86 games, 93 goals, 1972-1975. Dual premiership player (1973, 1974).

3. Michael Thomson: 42 games, 15 goals, 1987-1990.

4. Mark Eustice: 62 games, 26 goals, 1985-1988.

5. Tom Hislop: 20 games, 10 goals, 2009-2011.

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