His numerous football achievements include a VFL premiership medallion (1980), three Jack Dyer medals (Richmond best and fairest), two-time All-Australian selection, and an induction to the Richmond Hall of Fame and Team of the Century.
Controversially, Raines received no Brownlow votes in Richmond's 1980 premiership year despite being judged by Richmond to be the club's best player.
Raines maintains that he was the victim of a conspiracy to deprive him of votes, a charge which was denied by the former chief of the AFL Umpires Association.
[1] Raines's son Andrew Raines played in the Australian Football League for Richmond, Brisbane and Gold Coast.
[2] This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1950s is a stub.