Matthew Richardson

Matthew Richardson, born on 19 March 1975, is a former professional Australian rules footballer and media personality who represented Richmond in the Australian Football League. Chosen with the fourth pick in the 1992 draft as a father-son selection, he was the club key forward through the mid-1990s and the 2000s, led its goalkicking for thirteen seasons and was selected in the All-Australian team in 1996, 1999 and 2008. He kicked 800 career goals, the most by anyone without winning a Coleman Medal, took 2,270 marks and played 282 senior games, retiring in 2009. He won the club best and fairest in 2007, finished third in the 2008 Brownlow Medal and was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2014. He later worked as a commentator and panellist on Network Ten and the Seven Network.