The Michael Roach Medal is an

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award given each season to the leading goalkicker (or goalkickers) for the

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. The award is now named in honour of

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, Richmond's "best post-war

full forward Full-forward is a position in Australian rules football and Gaelic football with a key focus on kicking goals. The Coleman Medal is awarded to the player, often a full-forward, who has kicked the most goals in an Australian Football League seaso ...

". Roach won the goalkicking award at Richmond on seven occasions; in 1980 kicked the highest individual season goal tally in Tiger history and became only the second Richmond full forward to kick over 100 goals in a season; and was the first Richmond player to win the

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goalkicking award twice (

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winning it for the second time in 2012). Richmond's best pre-war full forward,

Jack Titus Jack "Skinny" Titus (9 March 1908 – 19 April 1978) was an Australian rules football player who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1926 and 1943 for the Richmond Football Club. In the golden era of the 1930s, Titus was one ...

, led the goalkicking at Richmond on eleven occasions. Retiring in 2009, Richmond forward Matthew Richardson was the club's leading goalkicker on thirteen occasions. Former Richmond captain Jeff Hogg won the award five times, while and Kevin Bartlett has won the award four times.

has won the award eleven times and has won the

Coleman Medal The Coleman Medal is an Australian rules football award given annually to the Australian Football League (AFL) player who kicks the most goals A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve. Goal may also refer ...

a club record three times. A number of players were the club's leading goalkicker for the season on three occasions –

George Bayliss George Bayliss (30 March 1895 – 2 July 1935) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Victorian Football Association (VFA) over three decades. Football He played for the Richmond Footba ...

Doug Strang Francis Douglas Strang (12 July 1912 – 28 March 1954) was an Australian rules footballer who played as a full forward in the VFL between 1931 and 1935 for the Richmond Football Club. Family He married Ina Lillian McCullough, at Geelong o ...

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, Ray Poulter,

Bob Dummett Arthur Robert "Bob" Dummett (3 October 1935 – 13 April 1994) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1954 and 1961 for the Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nickname ...

Ted Langridge Edward "Ted" Langridge (22 October 1936 – 27 July 2016) was an Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1955 and 1962 for the Richmond Football Club, and in the SANFL between 1963 and 1965 for the Sturt Football Club ...

Recipients

AFL Women's

Multiple Winners

References

External links

Richmond Honour Roll at Footystats
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