The Michael Roach Medal is an Australian rules football award given each season to the leading goalkicker (or goalkickers) for the Richmond Football Club .
The award is now named in honour of Michael Roach , Richmond's "best post-war full forward ".[ 1] VFL/AFL goalkicking award twice (Jack Riewoldt winning it for the second time in 2012).
Richmond's best pre-war full forward, Jack Titus , led the goalkicking at Richmond on eleven occasions. Retiring in 2009, Richmond forward Matthew Richardson was the club's leading goalkicker on thirteen occasions.
Former Richmond captain Jeff Hogg won the award five times, while and Kevin Bartlett has won the award four times. Jack Riewoldt won the award twelve times and won the Coleman Medal a club-record three times. A number of players were the club's leading goalkicker for the season on three occasions – George Bayliss , Doug Strang , Dick Harris , Ray Poulter , Bob Dummett , Ted Langridge .
Leading goalkickers by season
The following is a list of Richmond leading goalkickers in each season.[ 2] [ 3]
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Denotes current player
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Player won Coleman Medal in same season
VFA era
VFL era
AFL era
Season
Player(s)
Goals
1990
Stephen Ryan 28
1991
Jeff Hogg (3) 68
1992
Jeff Hogg (4)
45
1993
Jeff Hogg (5)
57
1994
Matthew Richardson 56
1995
Nick Daffy 45
1996
Matthew Richardson (2)
91
1997
Matthew Richardson (3)
47
1998
Matthew Richardson (4)
55
1999
Matthew Richardson (5)
67
2000
Matthew Rogers 37
2001
Matthew Richardson (6)
59
2002
Matthew Richardson (7)
36
2003
Matthew Richardson (8)
33
2004
Matthew Richardson (9)
65
2005
Matthew Richardson (10)
65
2006
Matthew Richardson (11)
45
2007
Matthew Richardson (12)
53
2008
Matthew Richardson (13)
48
2009
Mitch Morton 41
2010
Jack Riewoldt +78
2011
Jack Riewoldt (2)
62
2012
Jack Riewoldt+ (3)
65
2013
Jack Riewoldt (4)
58
2014
Jack Riewoldt (5)
61
2015
Jack Riewoldt (6)
54
2016
Jack Riewoldt (7)
48
2017
Jack Riewoldt (8)
54
2018
Jack Riewoldt+ (9)
70
2019
Tom Lynch ^63
2020
Jack Riewoldt (10)
33
2021
Jack Riewoldt (11)
51
2022
Tom Lynch^ (2)
63
2023
Jack Riewoldt (12)
32
2024
Shai Bolton 34
Multiple winners
Number of Wins
Player
Seasons
13
Matthew Richardson 1994, 1996–99, 2001–08
12
Jack Riewoldt 2010–18, 2020–21, 2023
11
Jack Titus 1929–30, 1934–42
7
Michael Roach 1979–81, 1983, 1985–87
5
Jeff Hogg 1988–89, 1991–93
4
Kevin Bartlett 1974–75, 1977, 1983
References
External links
VFL/AFL home grounds AFLW home grounds VFA premierships (2) VFL/AFL premierships (13) Runner-up (12) Seasons (136)italics ) Related articles
VFL/AFL and AFLW club leading goalkickers
