There is no "however since then"
you don't get to cherry pick periods to make yourself feel better about us breaking your club in half and relegating you to 9th for most of your history, you're a joke, and a few flags doesn't fix that, in fact choking the 3peat just reinforces it
At the end of the days with all eras accounted for 15 > 12
That's the reality, you blew your shot at BIG 4 and Hawthorn stepped up and took it (oooh, that must hurt)
Once again - you have missed the point. You were the one (not me) cherry-picking a particular point in history - Collingwood's 4-in-a-row (which I acknowledge was a great effort - particularly back in the horse-and-buggy days). Maybe you should re-read what you wrote in the OP. Sure Collingwood have won 3 more flags than Richmond - and 3 of them were before Richmond even entered the competition. But you specifically referred to the era 1927-1930 and how it changed history - and I agreed with you. I disagree with the fact that it 'broke us' - your words - and pointed how significantly superior Richmond have been since then.
Try and stick to the point of the thread next time - particularly one you start yourself.