Did You Know? ‘Gate Crashers’ Demanded Free Entry to Punt Road in 1936

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We've just dropped another RTSSG history piece called Did You Know? ‘Gate Crashers’ Demanded Free Entry to Punt Road in 1936 on rtssg.com.

The ground Richmond had just been forced to keep became the scene of a completely different fight: whether anyone could legally charge people to enter it.

The question Tiger supporters should be asking is simple: How did a dispute over public land turn Richmond home games into repeated confrontations at the turnstiles?

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