THE Melbourne Football Club may not have won but they at least played well enough for fans and the media to ease up on the pressure that they have piled onto the club as Richmond notched their fifth win of the season with a 34-point victory in front of 39,148 fans at the MCG.

Indeed while the Demons walked off the field with a sense of having achieved something, the Tigers were less than enthusiastic about their own performance as they struggled to put away their surprisingly feisty opponent

              WEST COAST EAGLES v NORTH MELBOURNE Friday May 17, 6:40pm, Patersons Stadium West Coast B: Brennan, Glass, Schofield HB: Hurn, Mackenzie, Waters C: Rosa, S Selwood, Gaff HF: LeCras, Darling, Masten F: Hill, Kennedy, Kerr Foll: Naitanui, Priddis, Shuey I/C: Sheppard, Wellingham, Cox, A Selwood Emg: Brown, Dalziell,

RICHMOND’S Nick Vlastuin, the club’s top pick of the 2012 National Draft, has been rewarded for hi efforts in Saturday’s victory over Port Adelaide with the Round 7 Rising Star nomination. Vlastuin’s efforts in the the Tigers’ 41 point win over the Power included 23 disposals, 11 marks and one goal. Vlastuin was the ninth

GEELONG CATS v ESSENDON Friday 10th May, 7:50pm, Etihad Stadium Geelong B: Andrew Mackie, Tom Lonergan, Corey Enright HB: Cameron Guthrie, Harry Taylor, Taylor Hunt C: Mitch Duncan, Jimmy Bartel, Steven Motlop HF: Allen Christensen, Steve Johnson, Billie Smedts F: Mathew Stokes, Tom Hawkins, James Podsiadly Foll: Trent West, Joel Selwood, James Kelly Int: George

Richmond Tigers
vs
Geelong Cats

WHEN: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 7:40pm AEST
WHERE: MCG (VIC)

FLAGGING changes to a team that lost to Collingwood by 34 points, Richmond coach Damien Hardwick has given the strongest signal so far that Nick Vlastuin, the club’s top draft pick, may have his debut this week. “He’s in the mix, there’s no doubt he’s been in the mix for quite some time,” said Hardwick

Richmond Tigers
vs
Western Bulldogs

WHEN: Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 1:10pm EST
WHERE: Etihad Stadium (VIC)

St Kilda Saints
vs
Richmond Tigers

WHEN: Friday, April 5, 2013 at 7:50pm AEDT
WHERE: MCG (VIC)
LAST TIME: Round 2012, RICHMOND 18.13 (121) def ST KILDA 16.17 (113) at Etihad Stadium

Carlton Blues
vs
Richmond Tigers

WHEN: Thursday March 28, 2013 at 7:45pm AEDT
WHERE: MCG (VIC)

THIS year’s Victorian AFL draft hopefuls were on display for the first time in 2013 on Sunday at Visy Park as the TAC Cup season kicked off with a triple header featuring all six metro teams. Northern Knights 15.7 (97) def Calder Cannons 11.9 (75)  Game one saw the Calder Cannons take on the Northern

Guest contributor RowdyOne continues his series looking at each club’s best 22 players for the upcoming 2013 season.   Key Personnel Questions for the Tigers: As their most effective weapon up front, can Jack Riewoldt push up towards the 80 goal a season level for Richmond? With the added responsibility of the captaincy will Trent Cotchin have

Coburg Coach: Tim Clarke (new) Key Player Arrivals: Adam Saad [Calder Cannons TAC], Ricky Petterd, Sam Lonergan, Orren Stephenson Key Player Departures: Willie Wheeler [Williamstown VFL], Leigh Masters [Williamstown VFL], James Saville [East Fremantle], Pat Contin, Rhett Jordan [Norwood EFL], Angus Graham Last Year’s Finish: 12th This year’s prediction: 13th And why?: With a young,

TRIAL MATCH Richmond Tigers vs Western Bulldogs   WHEN: Saturday March 16, 2013 at 2:00pm EDST WHERE:  Visy Park, VIC   Richmond’s last hit-out for the pre-season will be against the Western Bulldogs this Saturday, March 16, at  Visy Park with the game commencing at 2pm local time. There will be no interchange cap, and teams will

WE all know that the Tigers had a lot of close losses in 2012 and their inconsistent, you could even say horrendous, kicking for goal was a big part of that.

ROUND 2 of the NAB Cup competition is complete and Football Nation’s team of writers takes a detailed look at the actions and outcomes of each of the games

FIRST year draftee Nick Vlastuin must be on the Richmond’s selection committees’ minds given his outstanding pre-season and such was his promising form in the eight point win over the Bombers in Wangaratta on the weekend, Vlastuin is well and truly in contention for a senior debut in round one

Essendon Bombers
vs
Richmond Tigers

WHEN: Saturday, March 2, 5.10pm EDT
WHERE: Norm Minns Oval, Wangaratta, VIC

LEAVING key players on the bench in the dying minutes of their NAB Cup opening encounters proved the Tigers weren’t putting all their eggs in one basket for the pre-season series. Brett Deledio, Trent Cotchin, Dustin Martin and Shane Tuck – Richmond’s key on-ball brigade – were on the sidelines when North Melbourne came from

North Melbourne v Richmond v Melbourne   WHEN: Fri 22 Feb 2013, from 6:45 EDT WHERE: Etihad Stadium, VIC GAMES: North Melbourne v Melbourne (6.45pm EDT) Melbourne v Richmond (7.50pm EDT) Richmond v North Melbourne (8.55pm EDT) Players to watch: North Melbourne: Ben Cunnington – Has had a solid pre-season and starred in an intra-club match in

          North Melbourne Kangaroos vs Melbourne Demons vs Richmond Tigers   WHEN: Fri 22 Feb 2013, from 6:45 EDT WHERE: Etihad Stadium, VIC GAMES: North Melbourne v Melbourne (6.45pm EDT) Melbourne v Richmond (7.50pm EDT) Richmond v North Melbourne (8.55pm EDT)   NORTH MELBOURNE 1. Daniel Currie, 2. Brad McKenzie, 3. Ryan Bastinac,

THEY say that Richmond supporters are the most optimistic AFL fans in March and the most pessimistic by Round 5, hardly surprising given that the club’s last premiership success in was 1980 and that they have only made it into the finals on three occasions since then – in 1982, 1995 and

WE’VE had free agency, trade period, delistings, retirements, the National Draft and the pre-season and rookie drafts as well.  Now as the dust settles on 2012 Football Nation looks at all the player movements for every club in advance of the 2013 campaign       Adelaide Losses Retired: Michael Doughty Delisted: Brad Symes, Will

WE take a club by club look at this year’s draft and, where we have them, we link to our prospect profiles for more details and video of individual players

LOG on to Football Nation from 7pm on Thursday night for a live blog from the Gold Coast for this year’s AFL draft. See who will end up at your club as we go through club by club at the conclusion. 7:00pm – Welcome to our live draft blog from the Gold Coast Convention Centre.

FOOTBALL Nation continues the process of compiling information and video highlights about the top prospects in the 2012 AFL Draft. As part of our coverage we are in the process of developing an extensive draft minisite that we will launch in the coming weeks but in the meantime we will be posting profiles and articles to

THIS year’s AFL Draft will be held on November 22nd at the Gold Coast Convention Centre. Between now and then we are having a crack at predicting who will go when and to which team: welcome to the Football Nation 2012 Mock Draft. We move on to version 4.0 of our mock draft with a look

THIS year’s NAB AFL Draft Combine will feature players invited from across the country to participate in the “t-shirt Olympics”  of the national level combine at Etihad Stadium from 2nd to 5th of October. This year there have been 111 players invited, classified according to seven position groups plus one additional grouping of International Players. Players

PROLIFIC Gippsland Power midfielder Nick Graham won the 2012 Morrish Medal in the TAC Cup on Sunday night at Etihad Stadium. In a tight vote count, Graham claimed two votes in the final round to give him the lead and the win on 17, one vote ahead of North Ballarat Rebels’ Nick Rippon. The Morrish

IT is never to early to look towards the future and so here at Football Nation we have started the process of compiling information and video highlights about the top prospects in the 2012 AFL Draft. As part of our coverage we are in the process of developing an extensive draft minisite that we will

VIC Metro midfielder Nick Vlastuin is starting to become an outside midfielder after spending most the early part of his career playing inside