5. Richmond a powerhouse?For decades we enjoyed the shenanigans over at Punt Road. A rotating door of coaches, botched draft picks, manure dumped on their doorstep et cetera. Ah, the good old days. And now Richmond has won two flags in three years as well as powered away in terms of membership figures. As a lifelong Collingwood supporter, this also traumatises me. What we have to truly understand here is the psyche of the Richmond Football Club is about angst, self-loathing and self-detonation. This success thingy in the modern era is an anathema. Let’s disallow these two flags and nature will do the rest. Their flags should be awarded to their opponents – to Adelaide in 2017 and, since GWS is out of the competition, to GWS’s last opponent in 2019, Collingwood.
https://www.theroar.com.au/2020/02/24/a-brilliant-new-direction-for-the-afl/