Running amok: Richmond's speed machines and endurance beasts (afl site)

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Running amok: Your club's speed machines and endurance beasts

AFL.com.au
Sarah Black
Jul 3, 2019

WHO IS your club's fastest player? Who is your best gut runner? And how does your team compare to the other 17?

Thanks to Champion Data and the Telstra Tracker, AFL.com.au has compiled the key numbers.

Some of the results may surprise you...

RICHMOND

TELSTRA TRACKER TEAM RECORDS

Season records
Total distance covered for season 2019: 3932.2km (11th)
Total distance at high speed for 2019: 579.9km (1st)
Total sprints for season 2019: 3909 (1st)

Single-match records
Total distance single-match record for each club: 289.3km v Carlton, round one
Total distance at high speed single-match record: 46.3km v Western Bulldogs, round seven
Total sprints single-match record: 339 v Western Bulldogs, round seven

Summary: Unsurprisingly for a team that prides itself on manic pressure from small forwards, Richmond has both the highest number of sprints and the longest distance covered at high speed in the competition. Interestingly, the greatest number of sprints came from a match the Tigers lost badly, against the Western Bulldogs at Marvel Stadium.

TELSTRA TRACKER PLAYER RECORDS

Distance kings – average distance covered per match (minimum of two matches in 2019)
At 192 centimetres tall, Ryan Garthwaite is an unlikely endurance athlete, but as one of Richmond's few fit key defenders, he has had to clock up the kilometres. There's no surprise Ellis and Lambert, both noted runners, complete the top three.

1. Ryan Garthwaite: 15.60km per match
2. Brandon Ellis: 15.45km per match
3. Kane Lambert: 14.71km per match

Distance kings – single-match records for 2019
Just four players take the top 10 records for Richmond, with Kane Lambert and Jack Graham also featuring. The wide expanses of Optus Stadium pushed Ellis and Garthwaite, while the defender's record game against the Bombers is even more impressive considered it was played in torrential rain.

1. Ryan Garthwaite: 16.76km v Essendon, round 10
2. Ryan Garthwaite: 16.69km v Fremantle, round eight
3. Brandon Ellis: 16.44km v Fremantle, round eight

Speedsters – highest speeds recorded in 2019
Half-back flanker Markov has recorded the highest speed in 2019 not just for Richmond but the entire competition. Surprisingly, none of Richmond's large mosquito fleet of small forwards feature, with the highly athletic 194cm Balta taking out the minor placings.

1. Oleg Markov: 37.40km/h v Collingwood, round two
2. Noah Balta: 34.96km/h v Hawthorn, round nine
3. Noah Balta: 34.92km/h v GWS, round three

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-07-03/running-amok-your-clubs-speed-machines-and-endurance-beasts

[lamington]

Balta to ruck rove everything! 190+cm running machines who can boot the ball 60+ metres don’t come around often.

[big tone]

Garthwaite racking up the km’s running around in circles and then gets too tired to spoil.

I never thought I would say this but thank stuff for Dave Astbury.

[Chuck17]

I am not sure why you feel the need to barrel on about it.

When he was in the side, the RFC stated that he would be given a run of games.  Reading between the lines it is obvious they knew he wasnt ready but was given games for his development.