CAN ANYONE CAGE THE TIGERS?
Were it not for one very untimely stumble on preliminary final evening two years ago, we’d be asking just how one of the greatest teams the game has seen can be stopped. That team, of course, is Richmond.
Perhaps we should be asking the question anyway, despite "only" two premierships in three years rather than a coveted hat-trick.
Yes, their stumble against Collingwood in September 2018 was incredibly ill-timed, but the bottom line remains that a side which was mired in mediocrity or worse for three decades has in the past three seasons found a formula which consistently proves too potent for its opposition.
It’s not just that Richmond won 56 of 74 games, it’s how emphatically the Tigers rolled over their rivals when it has mattered most,
