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ooo yeaahhh

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JAKEY ‘THE PUSH UP’ KING

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oh yes … the pain has begun ….. wahhh

musicalrevelingswithyoungwomen:

Its football season. For Richmond supporters this means another seven months of swearing, dissapointment and often tears. With luck, one day I won’t have to worry about that.

Well we all wondered how long the Tigers winning run would last…. well I guess not long enough.

I went along to the MCG today to watch a hapless Tigers outfit succumb to the North Melbourne Kangaroos by 50 points.

In a wet and scrappy game, the Tiges were lackluster, showing none of the hunger of recent weeks. 

The final score was

North Melbourne 15.13 (103) def Richmond Tigers 7.11 (53).

….dissapointed

Now that uni is finished I have my weekends back.  Last night I was able to drop into Edihad Stadium an watch the Mighty Richmond Tigers rack up their 4th straight win of the season

What a turn around from the winless start to the season!

This win was even more memorable as Freo has been flying and is a top 4 team.  On top of this, the Tiges were playing at lest half of the match without 2 players, with Griffiths copin a popped shoulder and Nason with blurred vision after a headclash with King.

I could (and should … and will) mention that there was some horrendous umpiring decisions, particulalry in the first half.  Many going against the Tigers.  This may have been accentuated to me at the time, as its hard to see with both eyes when you are amonst the yellow and black army ;)  However it is worth mentioning that the free kick count stood at 13 to 21 at full time, in favour of Freo.  We won despite these Maggots! …. so moving on!

It was good to see Nahas have a run in place of Tambiling who was omitted at the last minute due to soreness.  He kicked one, but looked a little small out there and wasn’t the most influential. 

Jumping Jack Reiwoltd finished the game with 5 and Andrew Collins with 2.

Damien Hardwick called this the “Best win of the Year”, and as I was actually there to see it, I wouldn’t be arguing the point.

The boys did me proud! I am still over the moon, and have not fully come down from last nights high.

I can’t describe the feeling when the final siren sounded and the Richmond theme song was played over and over…… still chuffed

The final score was…

Richmond 15.10.100 d. Fremantle 11.15.81

Carn the Tiges!!

The recent hospitalisation of Richmond star Ben Cousins has again brought the spotlight back on the use of legal stimulants by AFL players.  Apparently Cousins was admitted to Intensive Care due to a reaction to a sleeping tablet, prescribed to counter the effects of legal stimulants taken the day before in Richmonds (awesome!!!) game against the Sydney Swans.

Due to Cousin’s previous shady history with drugs, there are a few question marks surrounding this particular incident. 

However, the use of legal stimulants by elite AFL players is clearly an issue…. or issit?

Players have been reported to load up on Caffeine pills, No-Doze and/or Energy Drinks before they run out onto the ground.  These substances are totally legal and socially acceptable.  But should our players be putting their bodies through this?  Especially when they sometimes require the use of prescription sleeping medication to “come down” and get a nights rest? 

This doesn’t sound right to me. 

One fear is that the youngsters looking up at their footy idols will start following suit and start loading up for their local footy games. 

As far as health concerns go, too much caffeine is definitely not good for you…. evelvated heart rates and possible addiction.

With regards to energy drinks, substances like Taurine, although legal and “approved”, are relevantly new to the consumer market.  What are the long term effects of excessive consumptions?  well … we wait and see.

And this problem is not only in AFL camps.  It seems athletes and sportsmen/women from a range of different sports are doing similar.

I hope Benny Cousins recovers well and can take the field again for the Tiges.  Preferably without the use of stimulants.

what do you think?

I received my first Richmond membership in the mail yesterday.  It is only a 3 game membership … but its a start.

The plan is to catch a min of 3 home games once my uni exams finish and I get my (guilt-free) weekends back.

So far the Tigers are winless this season… and there is a good chance that they will be winless at the end of the season.

This has not influenced me against getting a membership OR wanting to attend some games!  …..

cue the abuse and taunts

gameplans:

 I had the great experience of watching the game on the weekend with two great Melbourne people, both of whom have had a profound influence on my life.

Has our game produced any greater stories than Ron Barassi and Jim Stynes?

I wrote the following in the weeks after I started back as CEO of Melbourne in late 2008. Whilst clearly progress has been made since I penned this, and Saturday’s game at the very least reinforced the direction we are taking to build our team, importantly we are also creating a seamlessness between past, present and future. Heritage as it relates to hope, a constant for 152 years.

This is what I wrote in October 2008…

A few weeks ago I had reason to entertain an overseas guest at the MCG. It was the Monday after the Grand Final, and our guest who had never been to the MCG nor seen a live game of AFL football, remarked how he was amazed that the streets of Melbourne had been so empty that previous Saturday afternoon. 

He watched the game on the television, and was smitten.

Our game does that, and has been doing so for a century and a half.

As we wandered around the cathedral of sport, we came across the Jamie Cooper painting depicting the Melbourne Team of the Century that hangs in the MCC members.

We explained to our guest that the man who stands in the front of the young players is Norm Smith. Not only was Norm coach of the Melbourne Team of the Century, he was also coach of the AFL team of the Century. He is the greatest coach our game as produced.

Norm Smith also sits amongst the players. So great were his coaching exploits, it often forgotten he was a champion player before he became a champion coach.

As a player, Norm formed a close friendship with Ron Barassi. I am sure they would have celebrated the birth of his son, Ronald Dale Barassi in 1936, the year that Ron Snr debuted for the Demons. Tragically Ron Barassi Senior was killed in Tobruk in 1941, the first VFL footballer to lose his life in WWII. Ron Junior was left fatherless as a young child. It is now part of football folklore that Norm Smith helped fill this breach and young Ron lived with the Smith family in his formative teenage years.

Ron Barassi Jnr sits near the young Norm Smith in the Team of Century painting, for he was to become arguably Melbourne’s greatest player in the Norm Smith coached teams. He was also the first man to wear the moniker ‘Super Coach’ so great were his exploits as a mentor of Premiership teams. Is there a more famous name in the game?

As a player, Ron toured Ireland with a team famously named the Galahs. He was taken by the talent of the Gaelic footballers, and in particular their ability to transition to our game. As is Ron’s want, he simply asked “Why couldn’t they?”.

He returned to Ireland fifteen years later and returned with a tall skinny youngster who could run like Forrest Gump. That youngster went on to win a Brownlow and play a remarkable 244 games in a row. Jim Stynes sits in the back row in the painting, respectful, in the same team as a young Norm Smith and Ron Barassi.

Today Jim Stynes stands before you as President of the Melbourne Football Club.

Our overseas guest was captured by this story, the same way as generations of Melbourne supporters have. Norm Smith first stepped nervously into the Melbourne changerooms in the mid 1930’s and Jim Stynes assumes the role of President over 70 years later, at a time of absolute need. Three great men who established three great legacies - and with more to come.

 

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None  from four to start the season….. am finding it hard to write anything about this… kind of expect it and am far from shocked. 

Get out of the tabloid headlines and onto the scoreboard lads!!!!

Carn the tiges!