How Much of Kevin Bartlett’s Legend Was Already Visible at Twenty?
Kevin Bartlett’s Richmond career became so large that it is easy to read the young player backwards through the legend. By 1967, though, he was only twenty.
The habits supporters later knew so well were beginning to appear: reading the fall of the ball early, finding space around stoppages and turning a contest into a scoring chance before opponents had completed their first reaction.
How developed was Bartlett already? What did Richmond ask of him in the premiership season? Which parts of the future champion were visible before the records, the games tally and the mythology? And what did the 1967 finals tell Richmond about the player it actually had?
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