RICHMOND coach Damien Hardwick says a cap on interchange rotations could decide whether Ben Cousins plays on next season.
The AFL is looking at restricting the number of interchange rotations teams can make in a game despite the opposition of coaches including Collingwood's Mick Malthouse.
Hardwick said he'd like to know now what the rule would be so he can plan for next year.
Dustin Martin is ineligible for the AFL Rising Star award.
IT'S time the AFL tinkered with the Rising Star Award fine print in the interests of the game, if not basic justice.
It's patently wrong that Richmond's Dustin Martin and now Western Bulldog Jarrad Grant are ineligible to win this season's prestigious award ... even though neither has been suspended.
This award celebrates the elite talent in our... [Read More]
AFTER being on the verge of the sack last year, Richmond's much-maligned Shane Tuck has been offered a new contract at Punt Road.
The Tigers are in the process of keeping Tuck on their list for at least one, and possibly another two years, with a performance trigger attached.
Tuck, 28, the son of AFL legend and former Hawthorn captain Michael Tuck, was saved from being delisted because he was contracted until the end of... [Read More]
TIGER Ben Cousins has earned his stripes in the hunk-of-spunk stakes, being named the sexiest AFL player.
With his chiselled good looks and bad-boy reputation, the former Eagle has won over the hearts of fans in this year's Herald Sun/Seven News Footy Fans Survey, receiving 9.8 per cent of the... [Read More]
RICHMOND midfielder Trent Cotchin says he has ''let the team down'' after the match review panel yesterday rocked the Tigers by suspending him for three matches for charging.
Cotchin, who today is expected to accept the MRP's offer of a three-match suspension on a guilty plea - as opposed to fighting the charge and risking a four-match suspension - said the suspension for a heavy bump on North Melbourne's Sam Wright had... [Read More]
FOR his first three seasons in the AFL, Richmond's Jack Riewoldt was better known as "Nick's cousin".
But the full-forward has made a name for himself this year with a blistering season for the Tigers that has catapulted him to the top of the Coleman Medal standings with 58 goals.
His out-of-the-box season has even led some to cheekily refer to St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt as "Jack's cousin". ... [Read More]