List of Richmond defenders

Defenders who have played in at least one match for Richmond in a VFL/AFL premiership. This list may be incomplete due to incomplete match player position records (from which these general player positions are generated).

Player List

No. Player Season(s) Match(es) Position(s) Detail(s)
1 Bill Burns 1908-1916 53 Ruckman / Defender
2 Len Incigneri 1908-1911 62 Defender
3 Bill Luff 1908-1910 39 Defender Half-Back Flanker
4 Ted Ryan 1908 12 Defender Back Pocket
5 Doug Chapman 1908-1909 23 Defender Half-Back Flanker
6 George Gibson 1908-1912 70 Defender Back Pocket
7 Ivor Lawson 1908-1909 32 Defender
8 Percy Stainer 1908 7 Defender
9 Harry Neil 1908-1910 31 Defender Key Defender
10 Vic Thorp 1910-1925 263 Defender
11 Andy Pattison 1912 1 Forward / Defender
12 Percy Sheehan 1912 4 Defender Half-Back Flanker
13 Bill Thomas 1914-1919 62 Defender
14 Max Hislop 1917-1927 128 Defender Key Defender
15 Donald Don 1917-1928 159 Midfielder / Defender
16 Jimmy Smith 1917-1926 132 Defender Half-Back Flanker
17 Ernie Taylor 1920-1926 58 Defender
18 Gordon Hislop 1923-1924 22 Defender
19 Jim Spain 1923-1927 40 Defender
20 Joe Harrison 1923-1925 19 Defender Back Pocket
21 Duncan Kellaway 1993-2004 180 Defender
22 Jason Torney 1995-2002 118 Defender Half-Back Flanker
23 Darren Gaspar 1996-2007 207 Defender Key Defender
24 Ben Holland 1996-2003 125 Forward / Defender Forward Pocket / Back Pocket
25 Ben Harrison 1996-2000 74 Forward / Defender Forward / Key Defender
26 Joel Bowden 1996-2009 265 Defender
27 Mark Chaffey 1997-2006 166 Defender
28 Andrew Kellaway 1998-2006 172 Defender
29 Ray Hall 1999-2006 99 Defender Key Defender
30 Ty Zantuck 2000-2004 68 Defender Back Pocket
31 Chris Newman 2002-2015 268 Defender
32 Kelvin Moore 2004-2012 87 Defender Key Defender
33 Andrew Raines 2004-2009 56 Midfielder / Defender
34 Mark Graham 2005 20 Defender
35 Danny Meyer 2005-2007 17 Forward / Defender
36 Will Thursfield 2005-2011 77 Defender Key Defender
37 Luke McGuane 2006-2013 105 Defender Key Defender
38 Graham Polak 2007-2010 38 Defender Key Defender
39 Jake King 2007-2014 107 Forward / Defender Half-Forward Flanker / Back Pocket
40 Daniel Connors 2007-2012 29 Defender Half-Back Flanker
41 Jordan McMahon 2008-2009 34 Defender Back Pocket
42 Alex Rance 2009-2019 200 Defender Key Defender
43 Jarrod Silvester 2009 5 Defender
44 Jayden Post 2009-2012 30 Forward / Defender
45 David Astbury 2010-2021 155 Defender Key Defender
46 Matt Dea 2010-2014 31 Defender
47 Dylan Grimes 2010-2022 207 Defender Back Pocket
48 Jake Batchelor 2011-2017 84 Defender
49 Reece Conca 2011-2018 104 Midfielder / Defender
50 Bachar Houli 2011-2021 206 Defender Half-Back Flanker
51 Steven Morris 2012-2017 87 Defender Back Pocket
52 Troy Chaplin 2013-2016 75 Defender Key Defender
53 Nick Vlastuin 2013-2022 190 Defender
54 Matt McDonough 2013-2015 10 Defender
55 Taylor Hunt 2015-2017 42 Defender
56 Corey Ellis 2015-2018 27 Forward / Defender Forward / Half-Back Flanker
57 Connor Menadue 2015-2019 39 Defender
58 Jayden Short 2016-2022 137 Defender Half-Back Flanker
59 Nathan Broad 2016-2022 107 Defender
60 Oleg Markov 2016-2020 23 Defender Half-Back Flanker
61 Ryan Garthwaite 2018-2021 14 Defender Back Pocket
62 Liam Baker 2018-2022 87 Defender
63 Noah Balta 2019-2022 62 Defender Key Defender
64 Derek Eggmolesse-Smith 2019-2021 9 Defender
65 Rhyan Mansell 2021-2022 15 Defender
66 Hugo Ralphsmith 2021-2022 19 Defender
67 Ben Miller 2021-2022 12 Defender Back Pocket
68 Josh Gibcus 2022 18 Defender Back Pocket
69 Robbie Tarrant 2022 20 Defender Key Defender
70 Bigoa Nyuon 2022 1 Defender Key Defender