Richmond has qualified for a fourth consecutive finals series, which is the Club’s best sequence at the business end of a season for five decades.

The Tigers, under Damien Hardwick’s coaching guidance, captured the 2017 premiership, finished third in 2018, won the flag again in 2019, and have qualified in third place for this year’s finals.

You have to go back to the early-mid 1970s for the time when Richmond appeared in more successive finals campaigns.

With Club ‘Immortal’ Tommy Hafey at the helm, the Tigers finished third in 1971, runner-up in 1972, premiers in 1973-1974 and third in 1975.

Richmond’s all-time record of consecutive finals appearances at AFL/VFL level is nine. That occurred from 1927-1935.

Under coach Frank ‘Checker’ Hughes, the Tigers finished runner-up in three straight seasons – 1927-1929. They were then fourth in 1930, second again in 1931, before breaking through to win the 1932 premiership.

Billy Schmidt coached Richmond for one season, in 1933, and it was yet another runner-up result.

Percy Bentley continued the finals run when he took over as coach, lifting the Tigers to the 1934 flag, before they slipped slightly to third in 1935.

Richmond also had six finals campaigns in-a-row from 1939-1944. Bentley was coach in 1939-1940, followed by Jack Dyer in 1941-1944.