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Richmond Was Born With a Debt Problem. So Why Do the Numbers Refuse to Agree?
Richmond’s foundation story has three different debt figures attached to it. The disagreement is not a nuisance — it may be the clue to what the club was really created to solve.
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2 hours ago2 min read
Richmond Led Port at Three-Quarter Time in 2020. Why Did the Scoreboard Stop?
A one-point lead became a scoreless final quarter. Was it one bad term, or had the game already been telling Richmond something the scoreboard was hiding?
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6 hours ago1 min read
If Richmond’s Women Were There All Along, Why Did We Remember Them as Curiosities?
Richmond’s women were members, voters, footballers, organisers, fundraisers and supporters long before AFLW. The records survived. The connections did not.
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11 hours ago1 min read
While Protesters Forced the Punt Road Gates, a Richmond Official Sold Memberships
Richmond’s 1936 turnstile revolt produced one wonderfully Richmond response: somebody apparently saw the chaos and tried to sell season tickets.
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11 hours ago1 min read
Olympic Park Offered Richmond the Ground Free During the 1936 Punt Road Crisis
After the League blocked Richmond’s proposed move, Olympic Park reportedly came back during the gate crisis with an extraordinary new offer.
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11 hours ago1 min read
Did You Know? ‘Gate Crashers’ Demanded Free Entry to Punt Road in 1936
Months after Richmond was stopped from leaving Punt Road, protesters challenged whether the cricket club had any right to charge admission there at all.
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11 hours ago1 min read
Did You Know? One Casting Vote Kept Richmond at Punt Road in 1936
Richmond wanted Olympic Park. The League vote finished level. One casting vote preserved the ground we now call Tigerland.
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11 hours ago1 min read
The Day Richmond Nearly Walked Out of Punt Road
In 1936 Richmond almost unanimously chose Olympic Park over Punt Road. A tied League vote and one casting vote kept Tigerland where we know it.
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11 hours ago1 min read
Did You Know? Jack Dyer Received The Argus Cup at the Duke of Wellington Hotel in 1939
In 1939 Jack Dyer’s Argus Cup was presented not at the MCG or Punt Road, but at a Richmond smoke social inside the Duke of Wellington Hotel.
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11 hours ago1 min read
Did You Know? The Cremean Brothers Made Richmond’s Goalposts for Free in 1885
When the new Richmond Football Club needed goalposts in 1885, Lawrence and Timothy Cremean made them for free — before Lawrence later became a Richmond publican.
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11 hours ago1 min read
The Swan Hotel Fed Richmond’s Footballers — Until Its Young Publican Drowned at 36
Tom O’Brien’s Swan Hotel fed and entertained Richmond teams. Then, in 1921, the 36-year-old publican drowned during a pleasure trip near Healesville.
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11 hours ago1 min read
Billy Malone’s Black Bag: The Richmond Vice-President Who Brought the ‘Creature Comforts’
Long before nutrition departments and match-day logistics, Richmond vice-president Billy Malone arrived with a black bag of ‘creature comforts’ — including sherry for the players.
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11 hours ago1 min read
Did You Know? One of Richmond’s Earliest Vice-Presidents Was a Woman Publican
Annie Tabulo was a Richmond vice-president from 1900 to 1905 and a hotel licensee. Her story changes how we see women, money and influence in early Tigerland.
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11 hours ago1 min read
Before Richmond Had Corporate Sponsors, Did the Club Run on Pubs, Publicans and Sherry?
Before sponsorship departments, Richmond’s pubs were often meeting room, patron, dining room and unofficial clubhouse. Who actually kept the club going?
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11 hours ago1 min read
Did You Know? A Former Richmond Secretary Helped Take Checker Hughes to Melbourne
Percy Page did not merely leave Richmond administration. He helped another club recruit one of Richmond’s greatest football minds.
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11 hours ago1 min read
Did You Know? Richmond Played the First Grand Final Under the Page–McIntyre System
In Jack Dyer’s debut season, Richmond immediately became part of the first dramatic test of the new Page–McIntyre finals system.
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11 hours ago1 min read
Percy Page Helped Create the Finals System Australia Grew Up With. So Why Is the Richmond Man Almost Forgotten?
Richmond’s secretary helped change the structure of September in Jack Dyer’s debut season. So why is Percy Page almost absent from the Richmond story most supporters know?
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11 hours ago1 min read
The 16-Day Rebellion: How Focus on Footy Tried to Take Richmond — and Disappeared Before the Season Had Even Begun
Seven Richmond people launched a board challenge in a boxing gym. Sixteen days later it had vanished. What actually happened in between?
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22 hours ago1 min read
Richmond Kicked 23.30 in 1967. What Does 30 Behinds Actually Tell Us?
Fifty-three scoring shots. Thirty behinds. A 114-point win. Was Richmond wasteful, overwhelming, or both — and what does that scoreboard hide?
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1 day ago1 min read
Richmond Beat Geelong Three Times. Geelong Won the Next Three. How Did the Seventh Become 118 Points?
Richmond won three straight against Geelong, then lost the next three. Eleven weeks later the same match-up became a 118-point finals massacre. What changed before the seventh meeting?
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1 day ago1 min read
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