Michael Roach (footballer)
Michael Terrence Roach (born 5 October 1958) is a former Australian rules football player who represented Richmond in the Victorian Football League from 1977 to 1989.
Remembered for his long, accurate kicking for goal and strong marking, for a brief period Roach was the best forward in Australian football. The second of a trio of key forwards recruited by Richmond from Tasmania (the others being Royce Hart and Matthew Richardson), Roach was an enormously popular player whose career did not quite live up to expectation because of injury and constant shuffling of his position by the club. Nevertheless, he achieved many honours in the game and became one of the first players from Tasmania to play 200 VFL games.
Read more about Michael Roach (footballer): Early Career, Star Goalkicker, Roach and Taylor, Return To Full-Forward — Final Years, Comparisons
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