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3 hours ago, hemingway said:

Really, is that the best you can do Pro?  I hope your a more agreeable person in real life.

If I agee I agree, if I don't I don't. 

If you ask I'll answer honestly, if you don't ask I'll keep my views to myself.

That's my version of "real life".

Btw, your namesake would disapprove of your "yours".

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2 hours ago, pineapple dee said:

Dont be fooled by the teeth, they're mahogany.

Speaking of Mahogany,   Mahogany leaves a lot to be desired.............. Or is that monogamy ?????

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11 hours ago, hemingway said:

wow, really, what a guy.

He posted a while back that he just likes to argue with people.

Life is much simpler when he's relegated to being a yellow bar, although sometimes you get glimpses like this when others quote him.

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Of course it's hard to go past our crime luminaries. With the game spreading to China, I do see a role for Sam Dastyari within the club. I'm just a little short on specifics at this stage.

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4 hours ago, Return to Glory said:

Of course it's hard to go past our crime luminaries. With the game spreading to China, I do see a role for Sam Dastyari within the club. I'm just a little short on specifics at this stage.

Sam is one hell of a guy. Just make sure he gets briefings from Earl, BBO, Biffen and some of our other "entrepreneurs" ........oh and also that these dealings are at arms length from the club.  

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Man the Tigger supporters are NOT happy with Roos' parting shot at Richmond..lol

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/paul-roos-cgagf.1144605/

All the best fabrications are in there. Melbourne tanking entire seasons. Roos on $2m a season paid for by the AFL. Applying for PPs in 2013 & 2014 (that's a new one). Anything to place themselves above Melbourne. They have integrity, apparently :)

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On 08/09/2016 at 5:24 PM, P-man said:

Man the Tigger supporters are NOT happy with Roos' parting shot at Richmond..lol

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/paul-roos-cgagf.1144605/

All the best fabrications are in there. Melbourne tanking entire seasons. Roos on $2m a season paid for by the AFL. Applying for PPs in 2013 & 2014 (that's a new one). Anything to place themselves above Melbourne. They have integrity, apparently :)

Am one of Roos biggest supporters on here but I thought it was not wise to say something negative about another club's predicament and he was setting himself up for a backlash and he knew it.  It also showed a lack of knowledge of our club history of breakaway groups, Board overthrows and subsequent club disarray. 

That part of his speech was not one of Roos' finer oratory moments.

Also, if another club's senior coach took a shot (however well intended) at our Club and our Board, Demonland would also rally to defend our club's honour.

 

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54 minutes ago, P-man said:

Man the Tigger supporters are NOT happy with Roos' parting shot at Richmond..lol

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/paul-roos-cgagf.1144605/

All the best fabrications are in there. Melbourne tanking entire seasons. Roos on $2m a season paid for by the AFL. Applying for PPs in 2013 & 2014 (that's a new one). Anything to place themselves above Melbourne. They have integrity, apparently :)

Thanks that thread was marvellous. Anyone would think Richmond had won the last 5 Flags reading that!!

smash them yearly Demons. 

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We are a rabble but we ink in the Tigers as a win  each year.

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2 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Am one of Roos biggest supporters on here but I thought it was not wise to say something negative about another club's predicament and he was setting himself up for a backlash and he knew it.  It also showed a lack of our club history of breakaway groups, Board overthrows and subsequent club disarray. 

That part of his speech was not one of Roos' finer oratory moments.

Also, if another club's senior coach took a shot (however well intended) at our Club and our Board, Demonland would also rally to defend our club's honour.

 

Perhaps. I'm sure they'll get over it.

There's something very entertaining about an angry mob of foaming Richmond fans. If trolling Richmond is Roosy's parting gift, thats not a bad note to end on :) 

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8 minutes ago, P-man said:

Perhaps. I'm sure they'll get over it.

There's something very entertaining about an angry mob of foaming Richmond fans. If trolling Richmond is Roosy's parting gift, thats not a bad note to end on :) 

The saliva, the chicken poo, the microwaves, the hysteria on the radio ... it touches the high and mighty, the downtrodden, the eccentrics ... it's a rich tapestry.

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Looking at the Richmond Best and Fairest results, you have to wonder what Brandon Ellis did to annoy everyone in 2015. He's the only player in Richmond's top 10 this year who wasn't in their top ten last year. He replaced the injured Houli.

Over the last 6 seasons, 12 players, comprising this years top-10 plus the injured pair Houli and Morris, have shared 50 out of a possible 60 placings in the top-10.

8 of the players from Richmond's 2011 top-10 are still at the club, including 6 who are also in this season's top-10, with Houli and Vickery the others.

In comparison, there are only 9 players total from our entire 2011 list who are still at Melbourne now.

 

Richmond have had absolute continuity of their best dozen players for 6 seasons, almost all of Hardwick's tenure. Presumably that was the basis of the original '5 year plan' (the Hardwick one, not the Wallace one). But they absolutely failed to develop a second tier or any depth at all. Or a coherent plan.

Now they are going after Prestia in a big way... do they really think that going from 12 to 13 on the B&F merry-go-round will change their problems?

Broken club. Remember when Melbourne was going to recruit Jonathon Brown to 'change everything'?

 

 

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47 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

Looking at the Richmond Best and Fairest results, you have to wonder what Brandon Ellis did to annoy everyone in 2015. He's the only player in Richmond's top 10 this year who wasn't in their top ten last year. He replaced the injured Houli.

Over the last 6 seasons, 12 players, comprising this years top-10 plus the injured pair Houli and Morris, have shared 50 out of a possible 60 placings in the top-10.

8 of the players from Richmond's 2011 top-10 are still at the club, including 6 who are also in this season's top-10, with Houli and Vickery the others.

In comparison, there are only 9 players total from our entire 2011 list who are still at Melbourne now.

 

Richmond have had absolute continuity of their best dozen players for 6 seasons, almost all of Hardwick's tenure. Presumably that was the basis of the original '5 year plan' (the Hardwick one, not the Wallace one). But they absolutely failed to develop a second tier or any depth at all. Or a coherent plan.

Now they are going after Prestia in a big way... do they really think that going from 12 to 13 on the B&F merry-go-round will change their problems?

Broken club. Remember when Melbourne was going to recruit Jonathon Brown to 'change everything'?

 

 

I am sure Roosy will cop a little Flak for his statement. Bu he is correct. Richmond have backed their list since 2011 and only topped up from there

absolute fools. But may it continue...

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Dan Richardson, their football director was castigated for saying that Richmond couldn't rebuild, because the fans couldn't/wouldn't tolerate it.

How true he was, and the emergence of the Board challenge at the Toiyges is living proof.

That said, they did go down the path of importing good average players for a number of years to get themselves off the bottom quickly.  Maric, Rance, Houli, Grigg, Hampson, Chaplin all did that job excellently, and they played finals.  You will find those names in Little Goffys list of Richmonds best players.

But then they stopped and went down the path of trying for the "big one".  Trouble was they got burned when they couldn't attract anyone so they just kept going for second best ala Yarran. Why...because the fans wanted it.

Apart from Yarran, with zero games to his name and Townsend (who?) I don't think they have traded for the past 2 years. And they gave away their 2nd round pick this year as part of the Yarran trade. 

So this year they have pick 6 and nothing else with which to rebuild.  And their fans are all pressuring to bring in Prestia with his injuries, thinking a single player will lift them to glory.

Unlike us who HAVE rebuilt, and as LG has noted, all their best players have been there since 2011.  They are all ageing and have little currency in the trade market, since the fans again would not them trade Cotchin, Martin, Rance or Reiwoldt. 

The future is very very bleak for the Toiyges.

 

 

 

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