An interesting statistical indicator of just how well Jack Riewoldt is performing this year is the fact that throughout Matthew Richardson’s entire career at Richmond, only once did he have more goals on the board at the halfway mark of the home-and-away season than the rising Tiger star forward has now.

Riewoldt’s six-goal haul in the Tigers’ loss to St Kilda at Etihad Stadium last Friday night, took his season’s tally after 11 rounds to 35, and puts him in equal fourth place overall on the AFL’s goalkicking table. 

He has been the leading goalkicker in the competition over the past six rounds, with 25 goals, ahead of Brendan Fevola (22), Matthew Pavlich (20), Steve Johnson (19), Barry Hall (18) and Josh Kennedy (18).

You have to go all the way back to 1996 to find the only time Matthew Richardson had scored more goals than Riewoldt at the corresponding stage of the season.

Midway through the ’96 season, ‘Richo’ had booted 44 goals, on his way to a career-high 91 for the year.

In no other season, however, did Richo manage to register as many goals as Riewoldt now has at the halfway mark of the 2010 home-and-away rounds.

Riewoldt also managed to write his name in the record books, with his effort against the Saints last Friday night, along with teammate Andrew Collins.

The pair kicked all of Richmond’s eight goals for the match (six to Riewoldt and two from Collins), which is the most Tiger team goals scored by just two goalkickers since Jack Titus and Laird Smith in 1941.

Titus kicked five goals and Smith booted three, in the Tigers’ losing total of 8.13 against Melbourne’s 14.24 in Round 11 of the 1941 season.