After half a season of carnage and struggle on the field, Richmond are finally on the mend and will welcome back three key players for Thursday night’s clash in Adelaide.
The Tigers will regain gun midfielder Tim Taranto after a long absence, triple-premiership star and veteran Dion Prestia and the club’s best match-winner Shai Bolton, who has recovered from a concussion he sustained in the Dreamtime game.But the brightest news for the beleaguered Tigers is that champion forward Tom Lynch is slated to return for Dustin Martin’s 300th game, which will be against Hawthorn next Saturday.
Taranto has missed seven games after fracturing his wrist and requiring surgery. With Lynch, he is arguably the player that the Tigers have missed most amid a horror run of injuries. The return of those three key and experienced players more than offsets the absence of champion veteran Martin for the Adelaide trip. The Tigers have chosen to rest Martin in part because of the short, five-day break between games and also to ensure that his 300th game is played at the MCG in front of the Tiger army the following week in what will be a significant event for the club collectively.
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