LIVE: AFL great worried by Tigers' double coup

Richmond whitethorn person been bounced by the Lions past weekend, but they look acceptable to beryllium an implicit powerhouse adjacent season.

The Tigers are reportedly acceptable to connection wantaway Giants duo Tim Taranto and Jacob Hopper monolithic seven-year deals to lure them to Punt Road.

However, ex-Port Adelaide prima Kane Cornes is disquieted astir what the determination means for the AFL's hopes of having a level playing field.

"Is it bully for the competition? That's the question this morning," Cornes said connected SEN Breakfast.

"It's not erstwhile a bottom-four squad loses 2 weapon midfielders to a squad that's won 3 of the past 5 premierships.

"The AFL indispensable beryllium going, 'Our equalisation exemplary is stuffed', the wage cap, the draft, the brushed headdress connected coaching spending, the fixture, is each designed to marque the contention adjacent wherever fundamentally each team's got a changeable to triumph it erstwhile each 18 years.

"That's not happening, and it's making a mockery of that full contented that Richmond are going to motion Taranto and Hopper, who are 24 and 25 years of property from a squad similar GWS to a squad that's won 3 of the past five."