Geoff Strang Played Three Games for Richmond, Went Home to Albury — and Richmond Persisted. Two Years Later He Was a Premiership Half-Back. What Did Richmond See?
Geoff Strang’s Richmond story has an ending every Tiger knows how to value: by 1967 he was a premiership half-back in the side that broke the club’s 24-year flag drought.
The beginning is less comfortable. Strang came from Albury, played only three senior games in 1965 and went home when Melbourne life did not suit him. Richmond did not have the benefit of hindsight. It could not know that a premiership photograph was waiting two years away. Yet the club kept pursuing him.
That leaves the more interesting question: what did Richmond believe it could see in Strang before the evidence became obvious to everyone else?
The full feature examines the young country recruit, Richmond’s persistence, the role change that followed and the development decision hidden beneath the eventual premiership story. The outcome is known. The judgement that came before it is the puzzle.
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