How Did John Ronaldson Go From Months Out of Richmond’s Side to Three Goals in a Grand Final?
By the middle of 1967, John Ronaldson looked a long way from becoming part of Richmond premiership folklore. He had played the first five senior games, then disappeared from the VFL side while the Tigers kept winning.
Richmond had options everywhere. Royce Hart was emerging, John Northey was kicking goals and the side had settled into the season without Ronaldson. Then September created a problem nobody had planned for.
How did Ronaldson come back into the equation? What changed after Neville Crowe’s suspension? Why was he trusted in the biggest game Richmond had played for twenty years? And how did a footballer who had spent months outside the senior team end up kicking three goals in the Grand Final?
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