As we tick over into 2017, here’s a list of the key anniversaries at Tigerland this year...

• 90 years since Richmond’s rugged dual premiership defender Joe Murdoch made his senior debut for the Club.
• 70 years since the Tigers made what was to be their last finals appearance for two decades.
• 60 years since champion ruckman Neville Crowe made his senior league debut with Richmond.
• 60 years since the Tigers’ Team of the Century half-forward, 1969 premiership captain, and member of the 1967 premiership side, Roger Dean, made his senior league debut.
• 60 years since champion Richmond ruckman and dual Brownlow Medallist, Roy Wright, won the fourth of his four Club Best and Fairest awards.
• 60 years since Tigers’ Team of the Century member, star defender Des Rowe, played the last of his 175 games with the Club.
• 50 years since champion centre half-forward and Richmond ‘Immortal’, Royce Hart, played his first senior league game.
• 50 years since another Tiger ‘Immortal’, Francis Bourke, made his senior league debut.
• 50 years since triple Tiger premiership player, Kevin Sheedy, debuted at the game’s highest level.
• 50 years since Richmond broke what, to that point, had been the longest premiership drought in the Club’s history.
• 40 years since Tiger ‘Immortal’, Kevin Bartlett, won his fifth and final Jack Dyer Medal.
• 40 years since star ruck giant, Mark Lee, played his first senior game for Richmond.
• 40 years since star spearhead, Michael Roach, made his senior league debut on a wing with the Tigers.
• 30 years since Tiger great, Maurice Rioli, played his final game of league football.
• 30 years since Michael Roach won Richmond’s leading goalkicker award for the seventh and final time.
• 30 years since star centreman, Terry Wallace, had a one-season playing stint with the Tigers.
• 30 years since Alan Bond ever so briefly sat in the presidential chair at Tigerland.
• 25 years since legendary league football coach, Allan Jeans, coached Richmond for one season.
• 25 years since the Tigers’ Team of the Century member, Matthew Knights, won the second of his two Jack Dyer Medals.
• 10 years since current-day star, Jack Riewoldt, made his senior league debut with Richmond.
• 10 years since Tiger icon, Matthew Richardson, won his one and only Jack Dyer Medal.