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Richmond Rant / Long-lost Francis Bourke goal highlight (via Rhett Bartlett)
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 11:58:04 AM »Long-lost Francis Bourke highlight has been found !
(Thanks to Andrew Taylor who provided a large reel of Richmond v Hawthorn 1970 to digitise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZDiof2JxZY
(Thanks to Andrew Taylor who provided a large reel of Richmond v Hawthorn 1970 to digitise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZDiof2JxZY
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Richmond Rant / The 18 minutes in Croatia that changed the game for Richmond (Age)
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 11:36:02 AM »The 18 minutes in Croatia that changed the game for Richmond
Michael Gleeson
The Age
February 13, 2026
Richmond coach Adem Yze stood on the edge of Croatian soccer club Dinamo Zagreb’s pitch and looked at his watch. Twelve minutes. That’ll probably be enough, he thought to himself.
It wasn’t.
Three minutes later, he checked his watch again. They must be done now? No.
Two minutes more, and Yze was agitated. He looked around, wondering who had stuffed up and left these blokes stuck on the same drill? Who was running this? Had they wandered off?
A minute later a whistle blew and the drill finally ended. The players ran to the next drill before main training started.
Later, after the training session, Yze spoke with the coaches. What had happened with that first drill? It was 18 minutes long, was that a mistake?
“I thought someone had stuffed up because it went nearly 20 minutes. And I was watching a senior team after an international break, so they have just got back from playing for their country but even within that, the touch of the ball is everything,” Yze said.
“And there is no way known every time they touch it is perfect. It might go 30 centimetres from their foot instead of 10, but they are looking for this pure perfection. We are never going to get it, especially in our game with an oval ball.”
But it is the pursuit of that perfection, the understanding that the game is predicated on skill that must be honed and not at the cost of tactics and structured movement, that was the key message.
Consequently, after Yze’s trip to two clubs in Croatia, things have changed at Richmond this summer. The focus on skill drills has changed, and they are longer. Previously, the Tigers spent a lot of time looking at drone footage from overhead at training, analysing ball movement. Now they spend longer analysing ground-level video of skill execution under pressure.
“Drone footage doesn’t show the technique of footwork, skill execution, handball, ball drop under pressure, marking technique; when you are using your body instead of your hands. You only learn them with repetition, no matter who you are,” he said.
“I could picture the whiteboard after each game last year and attitude and effort had massive ticks because the boys tried hard, but execution was a question mark, especially against the really strong teams who put you under more pressure, and their execution was better than ours.
“Our list profile has changed so our mindset has to change as coaches. There’s one thing of having the detail of the way we play but within that detail of offence and defence there is skill execution and handball technique and marking technique and just becoming automatic with the ball, and that takes time.”
It altered Yze’s attitude to how they train and redoubled the focus on skills and emphasis on development.
Now with more money in the soft cap, they have added more development coaches – all fresh out of the game – in Luke Breust and Taylor Duryea. Jack Madgen is the VFL coach. Richmond have returned to pre-COVID staffing levels.
Defying expectations
The deliberate draft-mining and list overhaul two drafts ago left Richmond expected to go winless in 2025. Consequently, externally at least, it was a free hit given the low expectations.
They won five games, far exceeding those expectations even though they finished the year with a percentage of 60. It was figure that spoke to the inconsistency of a young team.
Those five wins theoretically set the bar higher for them for this year, but as he was last year about others’ expectations, Yze is sanguine about any change in pressure.
“If you asked ‘Fages’ [Lions premiership coach Chris Fagan] … he would expect to get better. Top of the ladder or bottom, you want to get better year-on-year as a team and individually,” he said.
“Scott Pendlebury is in the game and going to play until he is 40 years old because he is working on his craft every day and trying to get better. He is not there because he is just highly talented, there is a reason why he is still in the game.
“I need to fast track how quickly we bounce back and how quickly we can get back up and compete against the best players and provide that environment.
“We can’t shy away from average performances, that is why our percentage was not good enough – because we weren’t good enough for long enough against the good teams. We need to be in those games for longer.”
Smillie’s evolution
Mention Josh Smillie and Yze smiles.
For a period last year the player and the club began to wonder if it was all in Smillie’s head. He had a hamstring problem and then a quad issue that denied him the chance of an AFL debut. The quad problems then lingered into the pre-season.
It was a tease. He could run at full pace and do all sessions but would then pull back complaining of quad pain when he kicked. No one could explain why, so began to figure it as phantom pain.
Eventually, they found there was something there and surgery could fix it.
“I am so excited we found the solution because there was something underlying it. It was almost to the point where even our staff were thinking it was a mental battle but then to find, no, there is an underlying issue with the tendon – that gave him some clarity.
”So it was like, ‘This isn’t a bad thing’. An operation sounds like a worst-case scenario and we have got nothing else we can do so we try surgery. It’s not. It was the way your body was healing – that part wasn’t healing. So the awareness [of pain] you have been having you have had. It’s not in your head.
“You could see his whole demeanour shift. It was like, ‘I knew there was something wrong and now we can fix it’.”
That is not the only reason for the smile. Smillie arrived at the club pick seven in the draft and built like Patrick Cripps. Now he’s not – he’s bigger.
“He grew three centimetres last year, now he is like 197 centimetres. Paddy Cripps’ size (in fact he’s taller than Cripps by two centimetres from the Carlton captain’s listed height). We are thinking should he be playing centre half-forward?
“It’s pretty cool. To have him coming in, he is almost into full training now. He is such an important person for our next 10 years.”
Smillie speaks to the Tigers’ still changing complexion. He will come into the midfield this year. Sam Lalor will play more games than the 11 he managed in 2025. And the Tigers picked up more midfielders in Sam Cumming and Sam Grlj with two draft picks in the top 10 last year.
Then there is Taj Hotton. He arrived at the club with a knee injury, but managed to play the last seven games last year as a half-forward. This summer he has been training with the midfield and is agitating to get up on the ball. He will get a chance.
“He’ll be similar to Shai Bolton with some centre bounce access, you see ‘Kozzy’ Pickett doing it, Cyril [Rioli] and Luke Breust used to do it at the Hawks,” Yze said.
“Getting him some access to centre bounces where you don’t have someone scragging you and stopping you kicking goals every minute, gives us a different look through the midfield.
“Now he is physically capable so hopefully we get some access to that at AFL level.”
He fits at the moment in a forward line that orbits around Tom Lynch, who played last year like he was searching for his place and wondering how to fit with these new teammates. He also played like a cranky old man at times, getting reported for whacking Jordon Butts and being banned for five weeks.
“He knew he stuffed up. The leadership he has shown our young forwards since then has been fantastic. If you look at our lines, our forward line is our youngest line and he is the godfather overseeing it all. He is carrying a lot of weight with that,” Yze said.
“He knows he let his teammates down, but he didn’t let them down after that, he became a coach for that crew.”
Tigers ‘went hard enough’ on Balta
If Lynch let the Tigers down, it was nothing on what Noah Balta did. Balta pleaded guilty last year to assaulting a man outside a pub, for which he was fined, given a curfew and an alcohol ban by the court. The club suspended him for four matches, and two pre-season games. In the context of suspensions for what occurs on the field, and given the severity with which the court considered his action, Richmond’s ban was light.
Still, the court imposed curfew meant he missed more games than he was suspended for and his season ended up gurgling away to just 13 underwhelming games.
“When he made that mistake it threw his whole season out of whack. And fair enough, you cop your right whack and he knows that,” Yze said.
“We think we went hard enough on him and that was not just my decision but a club decision. We went as hard as what we think we needed to.
“Based on the curfew and things it threw everything out of whack. He couldn’t get into any rhythm.
“We almost punished him by throwing him around after that. Because you are in and out your form might fluctuate because you are back one week and forward the next but you kind of have to do it because our forward line needs some support, so bad luck.
“Whereas this year he has earned the right to cement a position. He is doing everything we have asked. I don’t want to punish him any more than what he got punished for last year. He dealt with enough, I want to look forward and expect him to get better.”
Stand: a change is coming
The hard thing with coaching a young group is that you can redouble your focus on skills, you can drill them in how you want them to play and you can instruct where you want them to be at any one time on the field to play the game. But the AFL can also change the rules by which they play.
For a young team, rule changes are an extra load. Yze has already spoken of his frustration at the level of access to players in the off-season and the rule changes are an additional reason for wanting more time over summer to educate players.
This year there are a bunch of rule changes. The most contentious, Yze said, would not be the last touch out of bounds, but the stricter stand rule.
Now if you are within five metres of a free kick or mark, you have to stand the mark (unless there is a teammate also there, in which case only one of you has to stay put).
“The main one for the first few prac games is manning the mark, whether you should man it or not,” he said.
“If you are in a contest and land, then someone in that vicinity has to stand still. Your natural reaction is to run away and let someone else come in.
“Some teams would come into the mark then back out, but you are not allowed to do that now.That became a habit ... now if you don’t want to man the mark you have to stop yourself and let them mark it and stay outside five.”
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-18-minutes-in-croatia-that-changed-the-game-for-richmond-20260211-p5o1do.html
Michael Gleeson
The Age
February 13, 2026
Richmond coach Adem Yze stood on the edge of Croatian soccer club Dinamo Zagreb’s pitch and looked at his watch. Twelve minutes. That’ll probably be enough, he thought to himself.
It wasn’t.
Three minutes later, he checked his watch again. They must be done now? No.
Two minutes more, and Yze was agitated. He looked around, wondering who had stuffed up and left these blokes stuck on the same drill? Who was running this? Had they wandered off?
A minute later a whistle blew and the drill finally ended. The players ran to the next drill before main training started.
Later, after the training session, Yze spoke with the coaches. What had happened with that first drill? It was 18 minutes long, was that a mistake?
“I thought someone had stuffed up because it went nearly 20 minutes. And I was watching a senior team after an international break, so they have just got back from playing for their country but even within that, the touch of the ball is everything,” Yze said.
“And there is no way known every time they touch it is perfect. It might go 30 centimetres from their foot instead of 10, but they are looking for this pure perfection. We are never going to get it, especially in our game with an oval ball.”
But it is the pursuit of that perfection, the understanding that the game is predicated on skill that must be honed and not at the cost of tactics and structured movement, that was the key message.
Consequently, after Yze’s trip to two clubs in Croatia, things have changed at Richmond this summer. The focus on skill drills has changed, and they are longer. Previously, the Tigers spent a lot of time looking at drone footage from overhead at training, analysing ball movement. Now they spend longer analysing ground-level video of skill execution under pressure.
“Drone footage doesn’t show the technique of footwork, skill execution, handball, ball drop under pressure, marking technique; when you are using your body instead of your hands. You only learn them with repetition, no matter who you are,” he said.
“I could picture the whiteboard after each game last year and attitude and effort had massive ticks because the boys tried hard, but execution was a question mark, especially against the really strong teams who put you under more pressure, and their execution was better than ours.
“Our list profile has changed so our mindset has to change as coaches. There’s one thing of having the detail of the way we play but within that detail of offence and defence there is skill execution and handball technique and marking technique and just becoming automatic with the ball, and that takes time.”
It altered Yze’s attitude to how they train and redoubled the focus on skills and emphasis on development.
Now with more money in the soft cap, they have added more development coaches – all fresh out of the game – in Luke Breust and Taylor Duryea. Jack Madgen is the VFL coach. Richmond have returned to pre-COVID staffing levels.
Defying expectations
The deliberate draft-mining and list overhaul two drafts ago left Richmond expected to go winless in 2025. Consequently, externally at least, it was a free hit given the low expectations.
They won five games, far exceeding those expectations even though they finished the year with a percentage of 60. It was figure that spoke to the inconsistency of a young team.
Those five wins theoretically set the bar higher for them for this year, but as he was last year about others’ expectations, Yze is sanguine about any change in pressure.
“If you asked ‘Fages’ [Lions premiership coach Chris Fagan] … he would expect to get better. Top of the ladder or bottom, you want to get better year-on-year as a team and individually,” he said.
“Scott Pendlebury is in the game and going to play until he is 40 years old because he is working on his craft every day and trying to get better. He is not there because he is just highly talented, there is a reason why he is still in the game.
“I need to fast track how quickly we bounce back and how quickly we can get back up and compete against the best players and provide that environment.
“We can’t shy away from average performances, that is why our percentage was not good enough – because we weren’t good enough for long enough against the good teams. We need to be in those games for longer.”
Smillie’s evolution
Mention Josh Smillie and Yze smiles.
For a period last year the player and the club began to wonder if it was all in Smillie’s head. He had a hamstring problem and then a quad issue that denied him the chance of an AFL debut. The quad problems then lingered into the pre-season.
It was a tease. He could run at full pace and do all sessions but would then pull back complaining of quad pain when he kicked. No one could explain why, so began to figure it as phantom pain.
Eventually, they found there was something there and surgery could fix it.
“I am so excited we found the solution because there was something underlying it. It was almost to the point where even our staff were thinking it was a mental battle but then to find, no, there is an underlying issue with the tendon – that gave him some clarity.
”So it was like, ‘This isn’t a bad thing’. An operation sounds like a worst-case scenario and we have got nothing else we can do so we try surgery. It’s not. It was the way your body was healing – that part wasn’t healing. So the awareness [of pain] you have been having you have had. It’s not in your head.
“You could see his whole demeanour shift. It was like, ‘I knew there was something wrong and now we can fix it’.”
That is not the only reason for the smile. Smillie arrived at the club pick seven in the draft and built like Patrick Cripps. Now he’s not – he’s bigger.
“He grew three centimetres last year, now he is like 197 centimetres. Paddy Cripps’ size (in fact he’s taller than Cripps by two centimetres from the Carlton captain’s listed height). We are thinking should he be playing centre half-forward?
“It’s pretty cool. To have him coming in, he is almost into full training now. He is such an important person for our next 10 years.”
Smillie speaks to the Tigers’ still changing complexion. He will come into the midfield this year. Sam Lalor will play more games than the 11 he managed in 2025. And the Tigers picked up more midfielders in Sam Cumming and Sam Grlj with two draft picks in the top 10 last year.
Then there is Taj Hotton. He arrived at the club with a knee injury, but managed to play the last seven games last year as a half-forward. This summer he has been training with the midfield and is agitating to get up on the ball. He will get a chance.
“He’ll be similar to Shai Bolton with some centre bounce access, you see ‘Kozzy’ Pickett doing it, Cyril [Rioli] and Luke Breust used to do it at the Hawks,” Yze said.
“Getting him some access to centre bounces where you don’t have someone scragging you and stopping you kicking goals every minute, gives us a different look through the midfield.
“Now he is physically capable so hopefully we get some access to that at AFL level.”
He fits at the moment in a forward line that orbits around Tom Lynch, who played last year like he was searching for his place and wondering how to fit with these new teammates. He also played like a cranky old man at times, getting reported for whacking Jordon Butts and being banned for five weeks.
“He knew he stuffed up. The leadership he has shown our young forwards since then has been fantastic. If you look at our lines, our forward line is our youngest line and he is the godfather overseeing it all. He is carrying a lot of weight with that,” Yze said.
“He knows he let his teammates down, but he didn’t let them down after that, he became a coach for that crew.”
Tigers ‘went hard enough’ on Balta
If Lynch let the Tigers down, it was nothing on what Noah Balta did. Balta pleaded guilty last year to assaulting a man outside a pub, for which he was fined, given a curfew and an alcohol ban by the court. The club suspended him for four matches, and two pre-season games. In the context of suspensions for what occurs on the field, and given the severity with which the court considered his action, Richmond’s ban was light.
Still, the court imposed curfew meant he missed more games than he was suspended for and his season ended up gurgling away to just 13 underwhelming games.
“When he made that mistake it threw his whole season out of whack. And fair enough, you cop your right whack and he knows that,” Yze said.
“We think we went hard enough on him and that was not just my decision but a club decision. We went as hard as what we think we needed to.
“Based on the curfew and things it threw everything out of whack. He couldn’t get into any rhythm.
“We almost punished him by throwing him around after that. Because you are in and out your form might fluctuate because you are back one week and forward the next but you kind of have to do it because our forward line needs some support, so bad luck.
“Whereas this year he has earned the right to cement a position. He is doing everything we have asked. I don’t want to punish him any more than what he got punished for last year. He dealt with enough, I want to look forward and expect him to get better.”
Stand: a change is coming
The hard thing with coaching a young group is that you can redouble your focus on skills, you can drill them in how you want them to play and you can instruct where you want them to be at any one time on the field to play the game. But the AFL can also change the rules by which they play.
For a young team, rule changes are an extra load. Yze has already spoken of his frustration at the level of access to players in the off-season and the rule changes are an additional reason for wanting more time over summer to educate players.
This year there are a bunch of rule changes. The most contentious, Yze said, would not be the last touch out of bounds, but the stricter stand rule.
Now if you are within five metres of a free kick or mark, you have to stand the mark (unless there is a teammate also there, in which case only one of you has to stay put).
“The main one for the first few prac games is manning the mark, whether you should man it or not,” he said.
“If you are in a contest and land, then someone in that vicinity has to stand still. Your natural reaction is to run away and let someone else come in.
“Some teams would come into the mark then back out, but you are not allowed to do that now.That became a habit ... now if you don’t want to man the mark you have to stop yourself and let them mark it and stay outside five.”
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-18-minutes-in-croatia-that-changed-the-game-for-richmond-20260211-p5o1do.html
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General Discussion / Re: Cricket thread
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 11:26:28 AM »We got done by Zimbabwe 
Zim 2/169
Aus 143 .... Renshaw 65 (44), Maxwell 31 (32), Head 17 (15). Everyone else didn't get past single digits.
Zim 2/169
Aus 143 .... Renshaw 65 (44), Maxwell 31 (32), Head 17 (15). Everyone else didn't get past single digits.
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Richmond Rant / Re: Favourite player game
« Last post by Wazza on Yesterday at 09:23:20 AM »Lalor 21 +
Hotton 34 -
Hotton 34 -
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Richmond Rant / Re: Favourite player game
« Last post by 1965 on Yesterday at 01:07:29 AM »Lalor 20 -
Hotton 35 +
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Richmond Rant / Re: Punt Road Oval Redevelopment [merged]
« Last post by one-eyed on Yesterday at 12:00:49 AM »February 2026: Car park structure nears completion
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/albums/1953271/february-2026-car-park-structure-nears-completion?modal=true&type=gallery&playlistId=1953271&playlistSize=8#
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/albums/1953271/february-2026-car-park-structure-nears-completion?modal=true&type=gallery&playlistId=1953271&playlistSize=8#
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Richmond Rant / Re: General preseason training discussion [merged]
« Last post by one-eyed on February 13, 2026, 11:53:49 PM »
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Richmond Rant / Re: Richmond ressies/VFL side [merged]
« Last post by one-eyed on February 13, 2026, 11:29:30 PM »VFL Tigers take down Lions in practice match
By Connor Burns
Richmond Media
Feb 13, 2026, 9:08 pm
Richmond 1.4 2.6 5.8 7.10 (52)
Coburg 1.0 4.5 5.9 6.12 (48)
Goals: Macdonald 2, Connolly 1, Collier 1, Ball 1, Daniels 1, Renfree 1
---------------------------------------------------------------
Richmond's VFL team headed to Tony Sheehan Oval in Bundoora to take on Coburg in its first practice match of 2026, recording a 7.10 (52) to 6.12 (48) victory after an exciting finish to the game, with plenty of youngsters impressing for the Tigers.
The game started at breakneck pace as first-year Tiger Zaydyn Lockwood made his presence felt early, producing several big spoils and highlighting his incredible athleticism.
Lively forward Tom Ferguson played higher up the ground, breaking the game open with his pace and exceptional ball use off both his right and left foot.
Mohammed Yassine also looked lively early as he aims to back up a career-best season ahead of his fifth year at the Club.
Finally, after 15 minute of intense and pressurised football, Nick Collier broke the shackles, pushing forward, roving the ball off the pack and side-stepping an opponent before finishing off with a goal.
But Coburg almost immediately responded on the stroke of quarter-time through Hayden Polley who was rewarded after a great run-down tackle, going back and slotting the set shot from 40 metres out on a slight angle.
Despite Richmond kicking with a breeze and having many more inside-50s, it led by just four points at the first break, 1.4 (10) to 1.0 (6).
Experienced Lions ruckman Cooper Keogh started the second quarter with a bang for Coburg, taking the ball out of the ruck and snapping it through from 25 metres out.
The Lions soon got some breathing room on the scoreboard courtesy of a classy snap from Max Thompson in the right forward pocket.
The Tigers roared back into it though, with Jack Ball finding the big sticks following repeat entries, but Coburg managed to bridge the gap once again with a goal to Dom Payman.
A strong second term from Coburg saw it up by 11 points at the main break.
Richmond turned the tide in the third quarter, kicking three quick goals, two of them coming from the boot of Seth Macdonald and the other a classy finish from former St Kilda player Leo Connolly, who is heading into his first season in the yellow and black.
Zane Greenham was also on fire, playing like a man possessed through the middle of the ground, as he vies for a list spot at the Tigers in 2026.
Despite Richmond having plenty of momentum, Coburg steadied the ship, keeping the ball in the contest before a late goal from Eddie King gave the Lions a one-point lead heading into the last term.
The Tigers started the fourth quarter on the right note as Kai Daniels kicked his first goal of the day, giving his side the lead back once again.
The ball pinballed from end-to-end with neither team able to find the big sticks, until Payman once again gave Coburg the lead after his second goal of the day.
As time ticked down, the Lions were able to keep the ball in their half for long periods of time, but just when all hope looked lost for the Tigers, first-year basketball export Ned Renfree pushed forward.
He proceeded to take a towering mark before calmly slotting the drop punt from the pocket, giving Richmond the lead with just two minutes left.
In a tight final few minutes both teams gave it everything, with many players starting to cramp and looking out on their feet.
But it was the Tigers who were able to hold on and win by just four points, starting the first of four practice matches off in style. Richmond will next face Essendon next Friday.
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1953876/vfl-tigers-take-down-lions-in-practice-match
By Connor Burns
Richmond Media
Feb 13, 2026, 9:08 pm
Richmond 1.4 2.6 5.8 7.10 (52)
Coburg 1.0 4.5 5.9 6.12 (48)
Goals: Macdonald 2, Connolly 1, Collier 1, Ball 1, Daniels 1, Renfree 1
---------------------------------------------------------------
Richmond's VFL team headed to Tony Sheehan Oval in Bundoora to take on Coburg in its first practice match of 2026, recording a 7.10 (52) to 6.12 (48) victory after an exciting finish to the game, with plenty of youngsters impressing for the Tigers.
The game started at breakneck pace as first-year Tiger Zaydyn Lockwood made his presence felt early, producing several big spoils and highlighting his incredible athleticism.
Lively forward Tom Ferguson played higher up the ground, breaking the game open with his pace and exceptional ball use off both his right and left foot.
Mohammed Yassine also looked lively early as he aims to back up a career-best season ahead of his fifth year at the Club.
Finally, after 15 minute of intense and pressurised football, Nick Collier broke the shackles, pushing forward, roving the ball off the pack and side-stepping an opponent before finishing off with a goal.
But Coburg almost immediately responded on the stroke of quarter-time through Hayden Polley who was rewarded after a great run-down tackle, going back and slotting the set shot from 40 metres out on a slight angle.
Despite Richmond kicking with a breeze and having many more inside-50s, it led by just four points at the first break, 1.4 (10) to 1.0 (6).
Experienced Lions ruckman Cooper Keogh started the second quarter with a bang for Coburg, taking the ball out of the ruck and snapping it through from 25 metres out.
The Lions soon got some breathing room on the scoreboard courtesy of a classy snap from Max Thompson in the right forward pocket.
The Tigers roared back into it though, with Jack Ball finding the big sticks following repeat entries, but Coburg managed to bridge the gap once again with a goal to Dom Payman.
A strong second term from Coburg saw it up by 11 points at the main break.
Richmond turned the tide in the third quarter, kicking three quick goals, two of them coming from the boot of Seth Macdonald and the other a classy finish from former St Kilda player Leo Connolly, who is heading into his first season in the yellow and black.
Zane Greenham was also on fire, playing like a man possessed through the middle of the ground, as he vies for a list spot at the Tigers in 2026.
Despite Richmond having plenty of momentum, Coburg steadied the ship, keeping the ball in the contest before a late goal from Eddie King gave the Lions a one-point lead heading into the last term.
The Tigers started the fourth quarter on the right note as Kai Daniels kicked his first goal of the day, giving his side the lead back once again.
The ball pinballed from end-to-end with neither team able to find the big sticks, until Payman once again gave Coburg the lead after his second goal of the day.
As time ticked down, the Lions were able to keep the ball in their half for long periods of time, but just when all hope looked lost for the Tigers, first-year basketball export Ned Renfree pushed forward.
He proceeded to take a towering mark before calmly slotting the drop punt from the pocket, giving Richmond the lead with just two minutes left.
In a tight final few minutes both teams gave it everything, with many players starting to cramp and looking out on their feet.
But it was the Tigers who were able to hold on and win by just four points, starting the first of four practice matches off in style. Richmond will next face Essendon next Friday.
https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1953876/vfl-tigers-take-down-lions-in-practice-match
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