Technically.
Technically they were 9th.
But that does have the bonus of richmond being the only team in vfl/afl history to be eliminated from the finals by 9th.
Ohhh baby that was oh so sweet when that happened

and to think it could have easily been us that eliminated them at the MCG (albeit from 8th) if not for Essendon. Towards the end of the 2013 season I was hell-bent on playing Richmond in that first week of finals because I knew they were going to lose that game no matter what.
But we smashed them in the finals the next year

and the only reason they made it that year was because it was meant to be us that beat them at the MCG the year before so we got what was ours in the end, we just had to wait another year for it
