Stuart Maxfield

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Giving Northey the flick put the Richmond Football Club back 20 years. Mal Brown should never be allowed to set foot in Punt Road again. And I hate Robert Walls more than anyone else involved in football lol.
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Northey wasn't given the flick. Brisbane knew that Walls was returning to Melbourne, so they offered Northey the job, when he still had a year to run on his contract at Richmond. Northey used this and wanted an extension at Richmond, who knocked him back, telling him that negotiations would happen mid 1996. Northey resigned and walked out and took the Brisbane job. Mal Brown was apparently not a Northey fan and had a hand in refusing his request for an early extension.

Yes this did hurt us enormously.
 
I never liked the way that Brown would make his feelings about Northey publically on the Sunday Football show.

I felt he undermined him publically.

I can imagine Brown folding the arms saying we will hold our ground against your wish for a contract extension.

Well we held our ground. Hope it was a satisfying moment in the board room at least.
 

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Richmond_Groupie said:
Have never gotten over him, Lambert and Ottens leaving :(
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Missed Lambert the most. Blistering hands up there with Diesel. Should've given him five years. So many mistakes. Only one of them got Premierships, but none of them would regret leaving. We never gave them a reason to. Does 2013 count? :)
 
I thought Naish was the first choice for Sydney , but Naish's mother was sick and he didn't want to move. Stewie was the back-up choice as Stewie was only being used as a 'burst' player off the bench at the time at RFC. Stewie was promised more $, a regular gig in the starting 18 and Stewie was also chasing the waves and weather of Sydney beaches. Correct me if I'm wrong anywhere. Cheers.
 
deliberate!! said:
I thought Naish was the first choice for Sydney , but Naish's mother was sick and he didn't want to move. Stewie was the back-up choice as Stewie was only being used as a 'burst' player off the bench at the time at RFC. Stewie was promised more $, a regular gig in the starting 18 and Stewie was also chasing the waves and weather of Sydney beaches. Correct me if I'm wrong anywhere. Cheers.
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I think that's right.
Stewie was great. Very good fighter and could drink bourbon like cordial, too.
 
I think the off field stuff Maxfield contributed to the Swans was enormous..... He was the captain when the Swans started that whole "Bloods" culture thing and was a large driving force behind it, especially in the premiership year when he was injured. He was (might still be) the Swan runner too, which gives adds even more value.

Those were the Tiger Dark Ages post Northey......... took me a long time to forgive the club for that **** up.
 

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CotchinMartinshow said:
Mal Brown = overrated bum = how many games for Richmond ? Bad days when Tigers trust were listening to him:thumbsdown:
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this is where alot here get it all arse about. Prior to 95 we were wallowing in the ****ing mire and had a team with potential to do a 95 doing JS. In steps Brown and starts ruffling fearthers and lighting some fires and the tigers start 95 with 7-0 and extend it to 11-1 by round 12. They were listening to Brown becuse they listened to him prior to 95. Unfortunately he was wrong after 95, but at the end of the day, Northey played a part as well in the stuff up with holding the tigers over a barrel with the Brisbane offer.. and as for Boof, he purely wanted an advance from the club and with that advance he would sign an extended contract. The club said no and in step the Swans and say yes..as for Lambo another fine **** up, going behind his back and puttting up as trade bait, only for him to find out when he gets a call from whichever club we were talking to. He thought **** you, there is no loyalty being shown and wanted out. So what do we do? we get nothing for a top notch player and let him go into the PSD...like WTF were they on back in those days? They had NFI how to keep things on some kind of level. ;)
 
1980GFVideo said:
Good Post. Never knew of any of that.

Bloody Walls. Too much ego to try and build on what the club had achieved.

Had to come in and put his own imprint on the club.
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Have noticed that the Geish and Walls aren't exactly held in the highest regard by most tiger fans - can anyone give a brief overview of why? I was pretty young at the time, maybe 7-8? Just curious as to why they are generally loathed? Didn't Geish get us to 9th and the cusp of the 8?

Did they do something to set us back many years?
 
NUFC Tiger said:
Have noticed that the Geish and Walls aren't exactly held in the highest regard by most tiger fans - can anyone give a brief overview of why? I was pretty young at the time, maybe 7-8? Just curious as to why they are generally loathed? Didn't Geish get us to 9th and the cusp of the 8?

Did they do something to set us back many years?
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They are generally loathed purely on what has transpired since they were shown the door.
 
Sydney offered him double the pay that we could due to help from the AFL plus a job/apprenticeship as a carpenter from memory which was even more attractive. Can't really hold it against him for leaving, I bet most of you would change jobs for more than double your salary. I blame the AFL, not Boof.
 
NUFC Tiger said:
Have noticed that the Geish and Walls aren't exactly held in the highest regard by most tiger fans - can anyone give a brief overview of why? I was pretty young at the time, maybe 7-8? Just curious as to why they are generally loathed? Didn't Geish get us to 9th and the cusp of the 8?

Did they do something to set us back many years?
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you just need to see how bad the umpoires have been for last 8 years to know how much of a dufus geischen was as for walls well ???
 
nut said:
I still think if we were able to keep Maxfield, Lambert and with fit Richo we would have gone very very close to a flag in 96 if Northey had of stayed. We were still a few players short and those 2 would have been a good mix... inside.. and the outside player.

So important now to be strict on our list management. Brendon Gale would know full well why we weren't able to improve our list during the late nineties and early naughts. Over paying players after 1 or 2 good seasons, paying 100% of the salary cap, not having a full list.... and unable to participate in the PSD in most years.
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Yep actually this year and 1996 very similar..in percentage games won and close games we lost...always thought if we had won a couple of the close ones in 96 and made the finals in 96 we would hav been a real show for the flag..we had also belted Geelong that year who were a real nemesis for us at the time ...also if we had northey in 96 we would likely hav taken the 96 flag...Walls is stil the biggest tool in football..
 

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