The Hafey Years
A few of us started discussing this book in another thread and I do apologise if there's already a topic or this is on the wrong board, but I thought it deserved a post of it's own. I've just started reading it. I kind of understood why they got Lane to do the introduction. He's a respected name in the football world and he's a non player like most of us, someone who just loves the game, yes he's a Blues man, but that's kind of the point, during the Hafey Years Richmond had a healthy rivalry with the Blues and that's where Lane's coming from. I've just read the first chapter, and it's spooky how similar the situations of Richmond then and now are. Maybe the writer has manipulated things that way, but it was something I thought even before I picked up the book, comparing the current situation with what my parents told me was happening before the '67 season. The quote from Roger Dean at the start of the chapter: "There never seemed to be any point where we were going to make it ... we expected to lose." Roger has been at the club since '57 when Hafey came in, of his first 50 games, only 10 were wins. I wonder if Newman or Lids would say something similar if you asked them honestly? It's a bloody good book though if you're a Tiger.