Former two-time premiership player David King believes Richmond is far and away the best team in the competition.
Richmond sits on top of the ladder with six wins after seven rounds and King said there’s a fair gap between them and the rest.
“The only thing on the ladder I believe right now – I think Richmond are 20 per cent better than the rest of the competition. 20 per cent better than the next best team,” he told SEN’s Whateley.
“They’ve got a percentage of over 150, it’s a big number seven rounds in.”
However, King said with that dominance comes the pressure to maintain that success from May through to September without getting figured out by the teams below them.
“The alarm for me is that there’s still 15 weeks to go, it’s a long time to be analysed by some great strategic minds in the competition,” he said.
“I think more than ever when you run so well for the first couple of months and we’ve seen this before, we’ve seen the Adelaide two or three games clear on top of the ladder a decade ago, Sydney and Collingwood top of the table.
“So now the next four or five clubs, they’re all assigning one person to say okay, go to the Richmond games, watch them on behind the goal vision, work out the method they’re playing and give me a solution.
“Every team is now planning to beat the team that’s 20 per cent better than the next best team.
“They’re going to be top four minimum the Tigers so it’s a real discussion.”
The Tigers face another tough test on the weekend taking on the in-form North Melbourne.
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