\n Richmond’s Noah Roberts-Thomson will achieve his AFL dream on Sunday.\n <\/p>\n
\n By Anna Pavlou, Richmond Media\n <\/p>\n
Richmond small forward Noah Roberts-Thomson will become the Club’s sixth debutant of the 2026 season, set to make his AFL debut against Euro-Yroke this Sunday at Marvel Stadium.<\/p>\n
Selected with pick 54 by the Tigers in the 2025 AFL Draft, Roberts-Thomson has fit into the Club seamlessly, showcasing strong form in the VFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has impressed at VFL level already this season, playing in all six of Richmond’s matches. He has kicked four goals, and had a career-high 18 disposals against Williamstown in Round 7.<\/p>\n
Roberts-Thomson is averaging 12.6 disposals in the VFL, with coach Jack Madgen lauding his growth and adaptability, as well as his improved transitional play, so early in his career.<\/p>\n
“I am liking the way Noah is adding to his game, and the willingness to play new roles. He is team first. He’s running his forward patterns well. He’s added something to his game every week,” Madgen said.<\/p>\n
The pacy midfielder\/forward from Sturt has worked hard on his fitness and running ability, learning to impact contests across the ground in 2026.<\/p>\n
Affectionately known as ‘NRT’, Roberts-Thomson featured prominently in the Draft Combine 20m sprint and agility screening.<\/p>\n
Roberts-Thomson averaged 23 disposals and booted 17 goals at SANFL U\/18 level last season.<\/p>\n
‘NRT’ is also the cousin of dual Sydney premiership defender and cult hero Lewis Roberts-Thomson.<\/p>\n
He becomes Richmond\u2019s sixth debutant this season, joining fellow 2025 draftees Sam Grlj and Sam Cumming, as well as Oliver Hayes-Brown, Patrick Retschko and Tom Burton.<\/p>\n
The Tigers face the Saints on Sunday at 3.15pm (AEST) at Marvel Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richmond’s Noah Roberts-Thomson will achieve his AFL dream on Sunday. By Anna Pavlou, Richmond Media Richmond small forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-671108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}