Ghost of Punt Road said:
Or better still from the RFC Superstore where most of the profits go to the club.
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Richmond 2017 AFL Premiers
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Or better still from the RFC Superstore where most of the profits go to the club.
spook said:I had to be up at 6 this morning, so of course I stayed up until 1 watching the replay for the 6th time.
That's slack spook, I'm up to 8!! ;D
tigerjoe said:Costing me a bloody fortune!
Posters, keyrings, t-shirts, caps........
Isn't it just fantastic to be spending money on these things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE RICHMOND!!!
Yeah same here. Wife not too happy though!
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easy_tiger
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CC TIGER said:
:hihi
I've always figured everybody's pretty weird in their own way.
But in Tigerland, everybody's pretty weird in the same way.
I suppose thats why we feel we belong in Tigerland.
I still feel a bit psychologically shaky, with this success stuff. Im still grappling with what it all means.
Its turned my routine of the last 30 years on its head. I cant study the spring form with any clarity; I dont really give a stuff about the trade period; im not obsessed with the draft.
I am still bursting into spontaneous renditions of Tigerland, choking back tears when I recount the experience, and waking in the night from vivid tiger dreams.
I dunno :don't know. I suppose it hasnt even been a fortnight.
do any of you blokes feel like we'll never be the same again?
Its almost like our security blanket was that all Tiger supporters could wallow in self pity and false hope together.easy said:
I am old enough to remember when it was different and we were hated and hunted. This feeling is different, there is too much goodwill around.
We need to win another one next year .....
easy said:
At the start of the finals I put a picture of the jumper as my phone wallpaper (was the clash jumper as it turns out. Is that an omen?).
Now whenever I turn on my phone, I show it to my daughters and shout out "go tiges!"
They just roll their eyes, but it makes me as happy as a pig in *smile*!
I'm exactly the same mate! I've watched the replay probably 10 times and I get teary everytime I hear the siren and the roar, I catch myself at work just drifting offeasy said:
into ecstatic daydreaming of Grand Final day. This sh1t is messing with my head.......in the best possible way ;D :clap
How good are all these videos of the players recounting the day that the club is putting up on the site? I keep getting goosebumps hearing them talk about what they were thinking and feeling as the siren got close. Brilliant.
For me it's been a radical repositioning of my relationship with the Tigers. I just can't get my head around it to be honest. All I really wanted was for us not to be crap anymore, I never really dared to even imagine we could win the flag.
I confess to having most of the same reactions as the above posters.
But why? Why does it mean so much to us?
Why do I care so much whether the 22 blokes who win the Grand Final are wearing black and yellow or blue and white?
I mean, it's not even geographic any more.
There are nine teams based in Melbourne and the only reason I barrack for Richmond is that both of my parents did.
Mum was born and bred there and we recently found out my Dad had an uncle who played a handful of games for Richmond in the 1920s.
People joke that Australian Football is like a religion in parts of Australia, but at the risk of offending the religious among us, that's exactly what it is.
There are three things that for me, my following of the RFC has in common with most seriously religious people I know ...
1. It's overwhelmingly powerful
2. It's ridiculous that it is so powerful
3. It was indoctrinated in us from childhood.
Again, apologies to any who take their religion seriously, but they are just so similar.
But why? Why does it mean so much to us?
Why do I care so much whether the 22 blokes who win the Grand Final are wearing black and yellow or blue and white?
I mean, it's not even geographic any more.
There are nine teams based in Melbourne and the only reason I barrack for Richmond is that both of my parents did.
Mum was born and bred there and we recently found out my Dad had an uncle who played a handful of games for Richmond in the 1920s.
People joke that Australian Football is like a religion in parts of Australia, but at the risk of offending the religious among us, that's exactly what it is.
There are three things that for me, my following of the RFC has in common with most seriously religious people I know ...
1. It's overwhelmingly powerful
2. It's ridiculous that it is so powerful
3. It was indoctrinated in us from childhood.
Again, apologies to any who take their religion seriously, but they are just so similar.
23.21.159 said:
Pretty much exactly the same here 23. relative played back in the olden days, same psychology and history.
It's really weird.....I think about winning it and instantly tear up.....Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think this day would come........I Don't have Kids of my own and maybe watching the Birth of your child would be the only thing that could Possibly compare.....I thought getting married would be the happiest day of my life...It was awesome but even the Mrs pisses me off from time to time.........But Nothing in my life compares to what occurred Sep 30...I told the Mrs that and she is filthy on me.........The tears, the euphoria the bliss the Joy, not just for myself but for the poor tortured souls that we had become being the Tiger faithfull.....When I was a kid all I ever wanted to do was meet a Richmond Chick, get laid and start a Tiger tribe of my own......Alas it wasn't to be but god damn I have tried to brainwash every one of my nieces and nephews to the point It had come to blows with my In-laws.........It's like the weight of the world has been lifted from my shoulders.....I have a renewed outlook on life..I've got my strut, my mojo or what ever you want to call it back.....The only thing I can put it down to is that I have finally found peace with the world and have found my zen........Now to watch the replay again
I love the Richmond family, after that grand Final Victory, I have become a rejuvenated young at heart 52 year Old,,was lucky to sit with family & friends at the "G" that have comfort me each & every Richmond game.. We Witnessed the many years of pain & frustration but never gave up waiting for this time of absolute extreme happiness to come again. The world around me is a happy place again.. Ahhhh Go Tiges!!! many more to come.. Every photo or piece of film clip of the GF win, urges me to push the play button on the remote, to watch over & over,,I cry each time and reflect of all the good and bad things that have happened in the last 37 years since our last win.. my saddest thoughts are of my late father, who was tragically taken away from us, I vision him smiling from above with a beer in his hand, yelling the words..GO TIGES!!
Ghost of Punt Road
Tiger Champion
Midsy said:
LOL. I just pictured her in a month yelling "It's either the replay or me!"
My wife would be wise enough to avoid that or leave quietly
