Richmond has been a pleasant surprise this year. Traditionally they've had a terrific top 5 or 6 stars and then fallen away quickly. They seem to have developed a better second rung of talent but I think their bottom rung of players is still a real concern. Their supporters should be excited.
Reckon our bottom rung - say, Lambert, McIntosh, Short, Menadue, Castagna, Butler at the start of the year - have shown marked improvement during the season and don't think much more could be expected of them at this stage. But if you go past, say, Bontempelli/Stringer/Dahlhaus/Johannisen, the next group of Murphy, Daniel, Hunter, Macrae, Morris, M.Boyd, Picken, Liberatore, Roughead, Wallis, Wood is clearly better than our equivalent (and that of many other clubs). Then you've got players finding their way like T.Boyd, Dunkley, McLean, C.Smith who also have an impact.