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Its @richmond_fc’s very own Bambi’s (aka Trent Cotchin) 50th game today.
Fingers crossed the boys get up against the doggies for a 4th in a row, unfortunately I think they will be too quick for us and the game is at Etihad… Stupid Etihad. On the bright side they don’t have Lake in so maybe just maybe if our midfield ie Bambi can get it down to Riewoldt and Miller stays out of his way we may just be in with a chance!
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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
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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!!
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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
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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!
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Our Benny cousins has coped a, club imposed, 1 week suspension for his involvement with “something or other” on Sunday morning in Sydney.
Two of his cronies also coped a week, while the actual drunken player (Daniel Connors) coped 8 weeks.
I am unsure what these Richmond n00bs have been doing … but after another hiding, this time from the Swannies … they have no excuse for partying.
Carn the Tiges
