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Richmond Tigers AFL 2025 Team Preview, Predictions & Player Movement

Jeremy Darke

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Last updated: 14 Feb 2025

Jeremy Darke 14 Feb 2025

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Richmond Tigers predicted to finish 18th in the 2025 AFL season.
Richmond Tigers focusing on a rebuild after 2024's Wooden Spoon.
All new additions from draft picks with youth development the focus.

Richmond Tigers predicted to finish 18th in the 2025 AFL season. (Photo by Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

Richmond Tigers AFL 2025 Team Preview, Predictions & Player Movement

Richmond Tigers AFL 2025 Team Preview, Predictions & Player Movement
Where the Richmond Tigers finish in 2025: 18
Projected Win total: 4
Best Contender for Brownlow Medal: Tim Taranto
What’s to like
What’s NOT to like
Richmond Tigers Offseason Player Movement
Richmond Tigers Predicted Round 1 Squad

Where the Richmond Tigers finish in 2025: 18

All of Richmond’s additions in the offseason were from draft picks, making it very clear that they are starting to build from the ground up after being handed the Wooden Spoon in 2024.

The loss of veterans to retirement and trading class players to other clubs for first round picks it is hard to see the Tigers finish anywhere but at the bottom of the table again in 2025 after a full cleanout.

Projected Win total: 4

Projecting 4 wins for the Tigers in 2025 is being extremely kind but anything lower feels too harsh.

With a list of unknowns you just don’t know and the Tigers might pull the pants down on a few sides this season with their energy and resilience and if they can snatch one win the confidence and belief can be a dangerous weapon.

Best Contender for Brownlow Medal: Tim Taranto

After winning the Tigers Best and Fairest in his first year at the club in 2023, Taranto backed it up in 2024 with another impressive year, however, it was disrupted heavily by a broken wrist which saw him play just 15 matches.

With the mass exodus of talent from the Tigers, Taranto is now thrusted into becoming a leader that will be vital in developing the young potential at the club as they build heavily towards the future.

What’s to like

Realising that their finals window was slammed shut last season, the Tigers have their focus on the future. Agree or disagree that a full cleanout is the way to go is opinion based but the commitment of the club to do what it believes is its strength.

The Tigers will not be in the top eight this season or next but with a clear goal of development the Richmond club will rise again.

What’s NOT to like

Staying neutral there is nothing not to like about the Tigers. Their situation is clear and it is simply how they go about things in this process that will be to like or not like. Patience will be key but the process can be disturbed if the right methodical calls are made because of the need of short-lived instant success.

Richmond Tigers Offseason Player Movement

Jasper Alger (No.58 draft pick), Harry Armstrong (No.23 draft pick), Jonty Faull (No.14 draft pick), Taj Hotton (No.12 draft pick), Sam Lalor (No.1 draft pick), Thomas Sims (No.28 draft pick), Josh Smillie (No.7 draft pick), Luke Trainor (No.21 draft pick)

OUT

Liam Baker (trade, West Coast), Shai Bolton (trade, Fremantle), Matthew Coulthard (delisted), Noah Cumberland (delisted), Jack Graham (free agent, West Coast), Dylan Grimes (retired), Dustin Martin (retired), Marlion Pickett (retired), Sam Naismith (retired), Daniel Rioli (trade, Gold Coast)