The Day Richmond Nearly Walked Out of Punt Road
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Punt Road feels inseparable from Richmond now. In 1936 the football club almost unanimously decided to leave it for Olympic Park — and the League decision that stopped the move finished level before the president used his casting vote.
The question Tiger supporters should be asking is simple: how close did Richmond come to giving Tigerland a different address, and why was the club prepared to walk away from the ground we now treat as sacred?
The feature follows the cricket-club dispute, Olympic Park’s commercial offer, Richmond’s 1935 night experiment, state-government involvement, the tied League vote, the free-entry turnstile revolt and the later Supreme Court fight over whether Punt Road could charge admission at all.
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