When I was a kid no-one would say that, we were a powerhouse. Pain was for Collingwood supporters, or Fitzroy, South Melbourne, not for Richmond supporters.
That long period of mediocrity changed Richmond and we need to expunge it forever.
DS
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Hardest loses
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When I was a kid no-one would say that, we were a powerhouse. Pain was for Collingwood supporters, or Fitzroy, South Melbourne, not for Richmond supporters.
That long period of mediocrity changed Richmond and we need to expunge it forever.
DS
Agree DS. I started when we were a power, then most of my adult life we ranged from poor to frustrating, with some good stuff sprinkled in.
Hopefully we can maintain our excellence and ensure we are always a strong club and competing team.
Yep one big capitulation and hence the devastation after that pathetic game. Thankfully we have a ruthless Richmond these days.
What your daughter said about the game reminded me of a story Peter ‘Grubby’ Stubbs (brother of Richard) told on a radio show he used to do. The family are mad keen Swans supporters (they come from South Melbourne). Grubby and his son had just seen them thrashed and it was raining and his son said ‘Dad, why do w do this?’ Grubby snapped back ‘Because we have to!’ Such a supporter thing to say. The hard times make you appreciate the good ones even more.
And for most English fans an away game isn't the same as your home ground or merely in another suburb of the same city. Imagine travelling every second week the distance of Ballarat, Sale, Warnnambool, swan Hill or Seymour .... Long way to get there trip home worse for the type of beatimgs discussed herein.
My son was born on September 8th 1995 the North final, loss. His 18th Birthday was the Carlton final, heads down the pub with mates to watch the game, another loss. Comes home as shittie as the rest of us saying" I'm jinxed, I will never see a Richmond premiership, Carlton didn't even make finals, really dirty. He goes to me "what do you reckon Dad", I reply "it wasn't as bad as 1982". But deep down I thought it wasn't much of a Birthday.
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My lowest point and hardest loss was round 19, 30th of July 2016 against GWS in Canberra- When the 2016 draw came out I was excited to see that finally the RFC was playing a game in Canberra - I got premium seating for myself, my partner, my daughter and my step son and was expecting to see a decent contest - at qtr time we were down 51 to 1 and I had never seen a more dispirited disgraceful performance from the RFC (and like most people on here I have seen plenty of poor efforts over the years), I remember walking out of Manuka oval after the game (that we lost by 88 points) and saying that we are as far away as being a decent side and winning a premiership as any time since 1980. Only 14 months later I was standing with thousands of other tiger fans at the MCG with a tear in my eye watching Cotch and Dimma hold the premiership cup thinking miracles do happen!
Worse still, that was a week after we went down to the cats by less than a goal i think at their pretend footy ground. In that game Chris Naish was mugged while trying to mark 20m out directly in front, and somehow there was no whisle.
Those 2 games changed the whole context of that season.
Brings up bad memories of Geelong yet again. The night Milburn (a serial thug) body slammed Sheds into the ground and then somehow managed to not get suspended on a technicality. Everything they now get from us they have earned, and it’s going to take a lot of beatings before it’s been paid back.
Yep and the playing group didnt take it well and reacted accordingly.......they didn't turn up.
