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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 Michael Roach, Richmond's "best post-war

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". 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,

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, 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

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won the award five times, while and Kevin Bartlett has won the award four times.

won the award twelve times and won the

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

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, Doug Strang,

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, Ray Poulter,

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Leading goalkickers by season

The following is a list of Richmond leading goalkickers in each season.

VFA era

VFL era

AFL era

Multiple winners

AFL Women's

References

External links

Richmond Honour Roll at Footystats
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