Why Do Richmond and Collingwood Still Carry So Much History Into Every Game?
Updated: Aug 30
The full RTSSG member feature, WHY THE MAGPIES AND TIGERS HATE EACH OTHER, is the source investigation behind this Public doorway.
Richmond and Collingwood did not become rivals because of one game. The relationship was built through player defections, grand finals, supporter geography, repeated finals collisions and decades of accumulated resentment.
Which moments actually hardened the rivalry? Was Dan Minogue’s move from Collingwood to Richmond the spark, or did the successive grand finals of the 1920s matter more? How much did suburb, class, proximity and supporter culture add to what happened on the field?
Why do certain incidents survive for generations while others disappear? What makes a story become part of the inherited script supporters bring to a modern match?
And can a rivalry remain genuinely alive when the original people and circumstances are long gone, or does each era need to create new reasons for the old feeling to matter?
The member feature walks through the flashpoints and leaves the question of what really created the hatred to the full investigation.
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