Pass mark for 2025?

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Breaking down every AFL club’s ladder range

Jack Jovanovski
Fox Sports
March 5th, 2025

RICHMOND: 15th-18th

Improving on a two-win campaign in Adem Yze’s second year at the helm shapes as a manageable hill to climb, but it will still prove a difficult task given the significant void in experience left by their departed stars, as well as unavailability across the board to begin the season.

The Tigers will be without Noah Balta for four games and Josh Gibcus for at least the early portion of the season in a blow to their key-position defensive-half stocks, while Josh Smillie — one of the Tigers’ eight fresh-faced draftees from last November — is hamstrung, veteran Dion Prestia suffered an Achilles blow, and Judson Clarke, Mykelti Lefau, Taj Hotton and Tylar Young continue to rehabilitate ACL injuries.

While Yze plots improvement from his Tigers after a baptism of fire in year one, they will need to correct troubling performances in key metrics.

In 2024, Richmond ranked dead-last for scoring, last for inside-50 differential, second-last for disposal differential, second-last for points-from-turnover differential, and second-last for forward-half scoring differential.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2025-every-clubs-predicted-ladder-range-premiership-finals-top-eight-bottom-four-predictions-analysis/news-story/776bc2cc8a6fdd5c6bd20e9dfb9b04b5

[tdy]

Ok here's a question or two. How many times will we get belted by 100 points or more and how many by 10 goals or more?

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Broad expects 'intent' as new era dawns

Anna Pavlou
RFC website
11 March 2025

Richmond veteran Nathan Broad has declared the new era at Tigerland has begun, but it doesn’t mean the intent and hunger must change.

“Our organisation, and us as a team, are here to win and that’s what we want to do,” Broad said.

“It might not be what it looked like in 2017, but we still want to see things that are the same from 2017.

“Effort, intent and pressure is something you can bring, whether you have played one game or 100.

"I think our fans will see that throughout the year and they’ll see little wins along the way.”

“We’ve had a great pre-season. We’re healthy. We had a pretty interrupted year with injuries last year, so we’re excited,” he said.

“We have a healthy list at the moment. There’s not as many spots up for grabs. You have to earn your jersey; we’re not giving out games.”

“We want to teach the new kids coming what the standards are at Richmond and what’s required. I think we will see that on Thursday night,” Broad said.

“We just want to see growth every week from these young kids getting better and better.

“Effort and intent is one thing hopefully our Tigers fans will see on Thursday night and for the year.

“It’s a new journey; it’s a new era. But we’re still here to win games at the end of the day.”

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1728536/nathan-broad-ready-for-new-era-round-1

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Overs, unders or evens: Where your club ranks after eight rounds

By SEN
8 May 2025

Richmond (2-6, 16th):

Simpson: “I think they’d be quite enthused by what they’ve done. They’ve only won two games but I think it’s two more games than we all thought.

“I think Adem (Yze) has done a really good job because they’re playing with spirit and they play with fight.”

Whateley: “Totally on Richmond. If they pick up wins as regularly as they have through the first eight rounds, they’ll finish with six and we’ll go ‘big salute for six’.”

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2025/05/08/overs-unders-or-evens-where-your-club-ranks-after-eight-rounds

[one-eyed]

Kinda crazy that last year’s wooden spooners and last year’s minor premiers are both 3-6...

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2025-power-rankings-after-round-9-afl-analysis-every-team-ranked-from-best-to-worst-collingwood-games-in-melbourne-advantage-essendon-defensive-improvement/news-story/7cf7cd9fe3e961da0c2006e395df98e1

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Tigers’ burning question: Should we be worried about them ‘winning’ the spoon?

At one stage Richmond was three games and percentage ahead of West Coast, and level on wins with Sydney and Melbourne. But after a solid few weeks of form capped off by the fall-from-ahead loss to GWS, the young Tigers have fallen off a cliff, losing four games by a combined 263 points. It makes sense they would get tired across the season, plus we all knew being 3-6 was a bit of a misnomer about how good the Tigers actually were. But it’s concerning with the Eagles, outside of last week against GWS, showing much improved form. The two bottom sides play each other next week in the west; so, if the Tigers can win on Saturday night, in arguably their next-best shot at a fourth win for the season, that’d go a long way to ensuring they don’t cop another wooden spoon.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2025-the-blowtorch-round-18-preview-every-clubs-burning-questions-analysis-stats-how-to-watch-on-fox-footy-commentators-latest-news/news-story/1bafa7b0fdb9c72cf6e37213d922d325

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Richmond

Is 2025 a success?

Gerard Healy: “They knew they were going down the bottom, they orchestrated going down the bottom, and I think they will pop much more quickly and much more easily with the players that they’ve got.”

Cam Luke: “I think they have done it as well as any club in recent times, when it comes to the draft.

“It’s a major success.”

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2025/07/10/one-looming-question-over-each-afl-team

[the claw]

Cam Luke the draft is only ever a success i repeat only ever a success when players actually prove themselves at what ever level.

[Simonator]

We made the best of our situation. Plenty of work to be done yet though