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Richo
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I am shattered.
I just dont feel like going to the footy any more, we have been bad for so long but Richo made it worthwhile going to games - With Richo we were always a chance.
I hope that there is a match winner next year, but I cant see who...
Shattered
I just dont feel like going to the footy any more, we have been bad for so long but Richo made it worthwhile going to games - With Richo we were always a chance.
I hope that there is a match winner next year, but I cant see who...
Shattered
Is there any way we can download some clips of the great man? I'd love to put a tribute video up.
I *smile* LOVE THE BIGMAN!!! :'( :'( Will go down as one of the GREATEST Personalities/Players this club has ever seen!!! Gave everything for our team and the jumper!!
If we could transplant his passion and commitment to the RFC into the current players we would be on a winner.
As sad a day as it is, i also think it is the dawn of a NEW ERA at Tigerland!!! His time was up and we had to let go of the past to create our future. I for one am sad but excited at what lurks around the corner. We are in for a fantastic ride i believe with the new breed of coaches and players.
If we could transplant his passion and commitment to the RFC into the current players we would be on a winner.
As sad a day as it is, i also think it is the dawn of a NEW ERA at Tigerland!!! His time was up and we had to let go of the past to create our future. I for one am sad but excited at what lurks around the corner. We are in for a fantastic ride i believe with the new breed of coaches and players.
Knew it was coming soon but actually was hoping for one more year. A sad way to finish - if ever a bloke deserved to walk on the ground & know it was his last game it was the Richoman. Early on - just watched with amazement how athletic such a big fella could be...got frustrated at times at the richoism's....but then sat in utter frustration one day watching him waltz away from his opponent (who had no way of keeping up) & after expecting the kick to be (a) either lace out on his chest - they had plenty of time to size the kick (b) in front of him to allow him to run onto it.... then watch the kick sail over his head & into the arms of the plodder behind him. Again & again...& again.... And what did the media do ? highlight his frustration at the 25 minute of the 3rd 1/4 & none of the reasons that should have shown why he was grumpy. That was the day that I felt like hurting the blokes supposedly giving him at least semi professional delivery & realised what this guy could have been in a good team. Make no mistake at all - in a strong side - he could have been anything.
In a weak side - he has been an absolute champion. He has made opportunities out of nothing on occasion - outmarked - 2 & sometimes 3 opponents in a contest. I am only a baby at 48yo but I have not seen a better athlete for his size. Maybe when I am 84 I may have a different opinion. Geez....he became a winger at 32 !!!!!
An outstanding career & for the Richo doubters out there........& of course you are entitled to your opinion - wrong though it is - yep - there is not one club who would not have been anything but stoked to have this bloke having played for them while we had him. 800 goals in a rabble outfit!!!!! & part of his career at both CHF & further up the ground.
It's been a pleasure big fella.............& it will take some time to adjust for my family to accept an RFC side with no prospect of Richo !!!!
In a weak side - he has been an absolute champion. He has made opportunities out of nothing on occasion - outmarked - 2 & sometimes 3 opponents in a contest. I am only a baby at 48yo but I have not seen a better athlete for his size. Maybe when I am 84 I may have a different opinion. Geez....he became a winger at 32 !!!!!
An outstanding career & for the Richo doubters out there........& of course you are entitled to your opinion - wrong though it is - yep - there is not one club who would not have been anything but stoked to have this bloke having played for them while we had him. 800 goals in a rabble outfit!!!!! & part of his career at both CHF & further up the ground.
It's been a pleasure big fella.............& it will take some time to adjust for my family to accept an RFC side with no prospect of Richo !!!!
cant he sign on for next year and just play the first game, who cares if he just stands in front of goals for the whole game?
he deserves the best send off and all he'll get is a trip around the g in some *smile* house ute.
he deserves the best send off and all he'll get is a trip around the g in some *smile* house ute.
Have been preparing for this since the end of the season but can't believe it has happened.
It's like breaking up with a long term girlfriend.
I can't remember going to the footy without Richo being a part of the team.
What a joy it has been watching him play his guts out week after week with no exceptions.
Absolute.... Bloody... LEGEND!!!
It's like breaking up with a long term girlfriend.
I can't remember going to the footy without Richo being a part of the team.
What a joy it has been watching him play his guts out week after week with no exceptions.
Absolute.... Bloody... LEGEND!!!
stunned.numb.gutted.sad. I can't think of the right words to say about this news.
Richo, I am proud to say I have seen every single one of your games, mostly live at the ground. The rest, obviously, on tv. You were one of the very few reasons I looked forward to going to see the Tigers play over the past 16 years , even when we had no hope of winning. We never knew which Richo would take the field. The only sure things were that you would play your heart out for the club, sometimes to your detriment, and that you would be entertaining.
I remember quite a few games that you won for us of your own boot. The times you tore apart the opposition, including champions. The sitters that you missed ;D, the impossible ones that you got. The passion you showed.
I was worried when the draw came out for 2010 that your 300th, or final game, would be interstate. Breathed a sigh of relief when I worked out it would be here.
Now this news :'(. At least I can say that I saw your first, and also your final game live in person.
While a lot of knockers over the years have made fun of your 'antics', never did I hear any negative remarks about you as a person. We are proud of the way you carried yourself outside of the playing arena. Even the most one eyed opposition supporter respected that. In the latter part of your career, I noticed the heckling from the opposition crowd slowly start to do die down. They finally began seeing what we have known all along. What a great player you have been. Evidenced at the brownlow a couple of years ago.
It's a football tragedy that a great player like yourself played a majority of his career in a crap team. If your teammates over the years had shown half your passion for the club, showed how much you hated losing, we would have been a lot more successful. It's a shame that you didn't get to your 300th, or play in successful teams, but many great players haven't either.
I hope you have great success in whatever you decide to do with your future.
Thank you for all the great memories you have provided me over the years.
Now I'm off to cry
Richo, I am proud to say I have seen every single one of your games, mostly live at the ground. The rest, obviously, on tv. You were one of the very few reasons I looked forward to going to see the Tigers play over the past 16 years , even when we had no hope of winning. We never knew which Richo would take the field. The only sure things were that you would play your heart out for the club, sometimes to your detriment, and that you would be entertaining.
I remember quite a few games that you won for us of your own boot. The times you tore apart the opposition, including champions. The sitters that you missed ;D, the impossible ones that you got. The passion you showed.
I was worried when the draw came out for 2010 that your 300th, or final game, would be interstate. Breathed a sigh of relief when I worked out it would be here.
Now this news :'(. At least I can say that I saw your first, and also your final game live in person.
While a lot of knockers over the years have made fun of your 'antics', never did I hear any negative remarks about you as a person. We are proud of the way you carried yourself outside of the playing arena. Even the most one eyed opposition supporter respected that. In the latter part of your career, I noticed the heckling from the opposition crowd slowly start to do die down. They finally began seeing what we have known all along. What a great player you have been. Evidenced at the brownlow a couple of years ago.
It's a football tragedy that a great player like yourself played a majority of his career in a crap team. If your teammates over the years had shown half your passion for the club, showed how much you hated losing, we would have been a lot more successful. It's a shame that you didn't get to your 300th, or play in successful teams, but many great players haven't either.
I hope you have great success in whatever you decide to do with your future.
Thank you for all the great memories you have provided me over the years.
Now I'm off to cry
Great effort big fella to give your all in each of the 282 you played despite some of the crap footy that was served u[p to you from further afield..
You deserved 300 but it's not to be.
I remember you starting as a skinny two headed Tasmanian and finishing with a build like your old man except you are a foot taller.
Loved the way you played as afree spirit in today's game of robotic footy .
As many on this thread have already said you made coming to watch the tiges play worthwhile no matter what the result was.
You deserved 300 but it's not to be.
I remember you starting as a skinny two headed Tasmanian and finishing with a build like your old man except you are a foot taller.
Loved the way you played as afree spirit in today's game of robotic footy .
As many on this thread have already said you made coming to watch the tiges play worthwhile no matter what the result was.
it had to come, but it could have come a better way....would have loved to cheer him off in a farewell game. sad to hear we will never see the big man running like around like a midfielder, up and down the ground. one of the greatest athletes in football. seeing him virtually play like a wingman confirmed to me he really was freak! a true tiger CHAMP!
on a sidenote, its been a big change for rfc end of this year. indeed a new chapter begins next year. many older players gone, new young breed coach, and now no RICHO!!
on a sidenote, its been a big change for rfc end of this year. indeed a new chapter begins next year. many older players gone, new young breed coach, and now no RICHO!!
As the song goes...
Here's to you, Matthew Richardson,
Richmond loves you
more than you will know...
Whoa Whoa woe...
Here's to you, Matthew Richardson,
Richmond loves you
more than you will know...
Whoa Whoa woe...
only just heard not long ago i am so sad i liked richo i thought he was good for the game for alot of reasons !
best wishes to him i do hope i get to meet him again and have a proper chat in stead of just hi etc etc
he will be missed dearly ! :'(
best wishes to him i do hope i get to meet him again and have a proper chat in stead of just hi etc etc
he will be missed dearly ! :'(
A couple of years ago in the Herald Sun they had a picture of Richo and detailed all his injuries. Absolut bloodbath. It was a miracle he ever played 280 odd games.
Still reckon if he did not do his knee at the SCG, the whole last 15 years would have been totally different for the Richmond football club, and Richo would have reached even greater heights.
Still reckon if he did not do his knee at the SCG, the whole last 15 years would have been totally different for the Richmond football club, and Richo would have reached even greater heights.
I am shattered,Richo you are a champion & i feel proud that it is our club that was lucky enough to have you as ours.Thankyou for the memories,i was dreading this day but all good things must come to an end.Good luck in the future Tiger :clap
