Before Richmond Had Corporate Sponsors, Did the Club Run on Pubs, Publicans and Sherry?
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Richmond was founded in a hotel, publicans became vice-presidents, hotel owners fed teams and local businesses carried money, rooms and supplies into the football club long before sponsorship became an industry.
The question Tiger supporters should be asking is simple: before Richmond could house every football function inside Punt Road, how much of the club was actually being carried by publicans, hotel rooms and the people behind the bar?
Billy Malone’s black bag, Annie Tabulo/Brennan and the Surrey Hotel, Tom O’Brien feeding Richmond teams at the Swan, the Cremeans supplying goalposts and Jack Dyer’s own publican years all sit inside the answer.
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