In search of the Tigers’ September superstars
10:27:49 AM Thu 7 September, 2006
Miles Wilks
richmondfc.com.au
With the sweet smell of September in the air, Miles Wilks set about the task of rating Richmond’s greatest finals players over the past half-century . . .
To unearth Richmond’s best players in finals from the past 50 years, I set about collating all the best-on-ground votes from the newspaper panels that covered the Tigers’ September (and the odd October) appearances.
A voting system was utilised in which three votes were given to the player deemed as Richmond’s best player in a final, two votes to the second best and one to the third best player.
Due to the increased importance of Grand Finals, votes in these matches were awarded at double the rate of the other finals.
The votes were obtained from the writers at ‘The Age’ newspaper and when this paper didn’t award best-on-ground votes, ‘The Sun’ newspaper was used.
Here are the results, followed by an in-depth summary of each player’s September exploits . . .
Richmond’s greatest players in finals over the past half-century
Bartlett 38 votes
Hart 18 votes
Bourke 16 votes
Sheedy 16 votes
Barrot 12 votesFull article and breakdown of votes are here:
http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=296203