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i hope the players are shattered seeing how richmond leapfrogged from 13th to the flag in a year yet we havent made finals for 11 years. none of the players have really looked like hurting in the off season...

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24 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

No wonder kids don’t want to know this club

try to explain 53 years to an 8 year old

Good Luck

Try explaining 53 years to a 30 year old.........it gets no easier. [censored].

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58 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

No wonder kids don’t want to know this club

try to explain 53 years to an 8 year old

Good Luck

My grandfather managed it somehow (of course back then it was only 36 years). Kids are soft and footy should be sufferingly hard. That makes the demons the best because to support Melbourne is to choose suffering over joy.

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I'm 34 and am honestly starting to think I won't ever see one. My old man was too young to remember much of 64, I'm sure he wishes his old man hadn't have gone the hard sell on the dees when he was a kid. 

My little boy is dees also. He is too young to understand what he is getting himself into. I feel so much guilt making him a dees fan knowing the heartache that is likely to follow.

53 years is a lifetime for many. I couldn't bare not seeing one in mine.

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5 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

No wonder kids don’t want to know this club

try to explain 53 years to an 8 year old

Good Luck

Try & explain  53 years to a 53 yo!

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Comparisons of our list vs Tigers

Reiwolt  225 games 28yo         Hogan 51 games 22yo

Cotchin 198 games 27yo         Viney 88 games 23yo

Martin 178 games 26yo           Petracca 39games 21yo

Rance  175 games 27yo          Oliver 35 games 20yo

                                                     Tom Mac 126 games 25yo

                                                      Jones 239 games 29 yo

I think we forget that the experience is whats its all about & there is plenty of other talent we have playing 2nd/3rd season around 20-24 yo

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1 hour ago, Hogan2014 said:

Comparisons of our list vs Tigers

Reiwolt  225 games 28yo         Hogan 51 games 22yo

Cotchin 198 games 27yo         Viney 88 games 23yo

Martin 178 games 26yo           Petracca 39games 21yo

Rance  175 games 27yo          Oliver 35 games 20yo

                                                     Tom Mac 126 games 25yo

                                                      Jones 239 games 29 yo

I think we forget that the experience is whats its all about & there is plenty of other talent we have playing 2nd/3rd season around 20-24 yo

Probably also worth noting that Richmond had something like 40+ players to choose from each week during the Finals. I don't recall them having much in the way of injuries during the year either.

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9 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

No wonder kids don’t want to know this club

try to explain 53 years to an 8 year old

Good Luck

Yesterday my granddaughter (11 yrs old) said that she is now going to go for the tigers.  Don't know if she is prepared to pay the price, however:  her dad says she would have to leave home and I said: don't bother coming to my place! 

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13 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

No wonder kids don’t want to know this club

try to explain 53 years to an 8 year old

Good Luck

Does the 8-year-old give a rats what happened in the 45 before they were born?

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If we had a year to win a flag, it was this one. Richmond made it all the way with around 6 players on their list who wouldn't start in our best 22, and now they are premiership players.

I hope the thought of 'what if?' lingers in each and every players heads over the off season and start realising that ANY team can win a flag, no matter if they have a bloke like 'Castagna'  running out in their forward line.

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1 hour ago, Supermercado said:

Does the 8-year-old give a rats what happened in the 45 before they were born?

No. That is exactly what i mean. 

45 years to an 8 year old is nearly 6 life times ago

our history means nothing to them

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16 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

No wonder kids don’t want to know this club

try to explain 53 years to an 8 year old

Good Luck

An 8 year old wouldn't give a rats.

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