Myself, like many Richmond supporters know what it’s like to be the laughing stock of the competition year after year, and then build up to becoming a dominate force that would win 3 out of 4 flags and be the envy of every other club in the land.
We had the best player in the comp who has also been one of the best marketing sports stars in Australian sport.
A captain/face of the club that everyone could love and would put the team on his shoulders.
Star players on every line, some the best in the comp at that position.
Role players that complimented our stars.
A game plan that was exciting and fun to watch. It held up in the biggest moments of them all numerous times.
Now time does pass and players do get older, have different motivations and everything else.
Although by 2020 we had just only hit our peak.
2021 the boys had finished celebrating a week before the season started so we accept that, I think a lot of us were with them.
By this time the stand rule was brought into the game.
Many will argue that it was brought in to stop our intense pressure style, I’ll listen to those arguments.
Although we adapted, and in 2022 we had another crack. But on the opposite side of the Pies that year, we would lose the close games and then made it into an elimination final.
Yet again, it goes to the script and we lose in an agonising close game.
2023 preseason or even earlier, Dimma gets a offer to coach the Suns on a big contract.
now in the back ground of all this. The business is booming, great and high level people in the football department. The administration and people leading the club were highly regarded and influential people.
Over time those people have been stripped away from the club and put into other organisations/roles, and those organisations are flourishing.
Now my question to all the Richmond faithful is,
Did we become so good as a football club and business that the AFL felt to keep the competition fair we had to be regulated back to the beginner levels?
I believe we could have won 6 flags personally
(All for fun… but seriously)
We had the best player in the comp who has also been one of the best marketing sports stars in Australian sport.
A captain/face of the club that everyone could love and would put the team on his shoulders.
Star players on every line, some the best in the comp at that position.
Role players that complimented our stars.
A game plan that was exciting and fun to watch. It held up in the biggest moments of them all numerous times.
Now time does pass and players do get older, have different motivations and everything else.
Although by 2020 we had just only hit our peak.
2021 the boys had finished celebrating a week before the season started so we accept that, I think a lot of us were with them.
By this time the stand rule was brought into the game.
Many will argue that it was brought in to stop our intense pressure style, I’ll listen to those arguments.
Although we adapted, and in 2022 we had another crack. But on the opposite side of the Pies that year, we would lose the close games and then made it into an elimination final.
Yet again, it goes to the script and we lose in an agonising close game.
2023 preseason or even earlier, Dimma gets a offer to coach the Suns on a big contract.
now in the back ground of all this. The business is booming, great and high level people in the football department. The administration and people leading the club were highly regarded and influential people.
Over time those people have been stripped away from the club and put into other organisations/roles, and those organisations are flourishing.
Now my question to all the Richmond faithful is,
Did we become so good as a football club and business that the AFL felt to keep the competition fair we had to be regulated back to the beginner levels?
I believe we could have won 6 flags personally
(All for fun… but seriously)
