I agree metres gained can be a wildly misleading stat, but metres gained couple with a high disposal efficiency and effective disposals is gold.
It’s a territory game and Richmond more than anyone have had success over the past couple of seasons with a get it forward at every chance game plan.
Not even saying you are necessarily wrong about short but you can’t say he’s a great kick in the regular season and crap come finals based off 2 finals, 1 where he was very good and the other where the whole team was garbage.