- Two Richmond stars squared off in a heated training ground brawl on Monday
- It comes as the Tigers are attempting to llift themselves following a dismal 2025
Tempers flared at Punt Road on Monday after two Richmond stars were embroiled in a heated training ground scrap.
Footage from 7News’s evening broadcast appeared to show Rhyan Mansell pinning two-time premiership winner Jayden Short to the ground during a training session.
The outlet claims that the exchange was sparked after Short had caught Mansell, 24, with a high shot in a previous contest.
While the wrestle lasted for a few moments, the pair both returned to their feet and bumped shoulders, before appearing to continue with their session.
The Tigers have been hard in pre-season training in recent days and have conducted several intra-club matches on the Punt Road Oval as they attempt to turn around their fortunes during the 2025 season, having finished at the bottom rung of the AFL ladder last season.
It is, though, not the first time in recent weeks that we’ve seen two players from the same club square off in a training ground fracas.
Rhyan Mansell appeared to pin two-time premiership winner Jayden Short to the ground during a training session on Monday
Short(pictured) is understood to have landed a high shot on his team-mate, which sparked the heated scrap
Swans coach Dean Cox had to step in to separate brothers Chad and Corey Warner on Friday after the pair had squared off on the pitch during a pre-season training session.
That fracas came after older brother Chad had landed a heavy hit on Corey during a match simulation.
Mansell and Short’s altercation comes a few weeks after goal kicker Tom Lynch said that the former had ‘taken his training standards to another level’.
‘He works his backside off all the time, but he’s training really well, and he’s probably been the one to watch so far,’ Lynch said.
And it appears the Tigers appear to be ramping things up in training in a bid to get off to a better start in the 2025 season after finishing bottom of the ladded last season.
Speaking on their pre-season training programmes, Jack Ross revealed that training has been ‘nice and competitive’ in recent months, with the Tigers running a variety of match simulations.
‘Nice and competitive,’ the midfielder said earlier in the week.
‘Come this time of year it’s always high-energy and everyone’s a little bit nervous come game-time.
Mansell, who joined the Tigers in 2020, made 21 appearances for the club last season, scoring 21 goals
‘We just want to simplify the game and we’ve been training really hard in a few offensive and defensive patterns. We’re trying to play a little bit faster through the middle of the ground.
‘We have a really young side now so the boys turned up today and we had a really good hit out.’
Lynch, meanwhile, explained that the Tigers have been doing some extra work behind the scenes in a bid to bounce back after last season’s woes.
‘We got away together, spend some did, (did) extra sessions, cultural sessions and things like that,’ Lynch said.
‘There was good buy-in, the boys worked really hard, and it was a great way to finish the year.’
He added that the atmosphere around Punt Road has largely been positive, despite the club winning two games last season.
‘It was exciting (to come back) …you don’t see many of the boys, so it’s good to come back and see what they got up to,’ he said.
‘We had a nice session where everyone sent a photo in of what they did over the break and that was really cool to see what everyone does when they get back with their family.’
