Spearhead Jack Riewoldt found form with four goals as Richmond dismantled Port Adelaide by 37 points in Sunday’s AFL match at AAMI Stadium.
The Tigers stole an early break and were never threatened in winning 13.13 (91) to 8.6 (54), their second victory of the season.
Richmond, with small attacker Robin Nahas booting three goals, led by nearly eight goals in the third quarter.
Port belatedly rallied with four unanswered goals but crashed to their fifth loss in six rounds.
The Tigers set their winning tone with the initial three goals of the game before Port scrapped to within six points early in the second term.
But Richmond then booted the next six goals to bust the game open.
Richmond’s dominating second term set up victory, with the Tigers restricting Port to just two entries inside their attacking 50 metre arc.
In contrast, the Tigers, driven by the likes of Dustin Martin and captain Chris Newman, had 19 inside 50s for five goals.
Richmond led 8.7 to 2.2 at halftime but it could have been more as a sloppy Port revisited their dark days of last year when they won only three games.
Within a minute of the third quarter, Port were 47 points down but they belatedly kicked the next four goals to trail by 24 points at the last change.
But Riewoldt, who also missed two set shots and sprayed another out of bounds on the full, sealed Richmond’s deserved triumph with the opening goal of the final term.
The Tiger forward ran into an open goal and speared a low trajectory kick which hit the goal umpire on the head.