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26 Jun 2004, 19:24
B. Verdun Howell Tassie Johnson Ivor warne-Smith
HB. Barry Lawrence Laurie Nash Brent Croswell
C. Rodney Eade Ian Stewart Arthur Hodgson
HF> Darrel Baldock(C) Royce Hart Daryn Cresswell
F> Horrie Gorringe Peter Hudson Alastair Lynch
R. Percy Jones John Leedham Terry Cashion
Inter, from Paul Williams,Len Pye, Matthew Richardson, Darrin Pritchard, Rex Garwood,Michael Roach and Neil Conlan.
Coach Roy Cazaly
Assistant coach Robert Shaw
Ian Stewart
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The label 'legend' is bandied about quite indiscriminately these days but it would be hard to disagree with its appropriateness in the case of Ian Harlow Stewart. Born in the western Tasmanian mining settlement of Queenstown, where footballers do not have the luxury of grass to cushion their falls, Stewart is one of an elite band of just 4 players to have won the coveted Brownlow Medal on 3 separate occasions. Although neither strongly built nor especially athletic looking he was enormously tough and resilient, and his outward appearance belied enormous, some would say unique, native ability. Indefatigably accurate when kicking with either foot, Stewart was also deceptively strong overhead (in the 1966 season, for instance, he took more marks than any other player in the VFL), and so courageous that he frequently won possessions that logic told you he had no right to. He was also extraordinarily elusive, seldom being caught with the ball - small wonder that the umpires took note to the extent of awarding him more Brownlow votes than any other player of his era.
Ian Stewart's senior career began with Hobart in 1962 where he played 13 senior games and was selected in both of Tasmania's interstate games that year, against the VFA and the VFL. In the latter game, playing in the centre, he gave clear notice that he was a star in the making by outpointing his direct opponent on the day, Geelong's Alistair Lord, who later that season would win the Brownlow Medal. Wooed across the Bass Strait by St Kilda the following year he rapidly formulated an irresistible partnership with fellow Taswegian Darrel Baldock which was largely responsible in 1966 for steering the Saints to their first, and so far only, senior premiership.
After 7 seasons and 127 games with St Kilda Stewart's career looked to be waning but in 1971 he moved to Richmond and immediately won another Brownlow to add to the two won previously in 1965 and 1966. While at Punt Road he linked up to great effect with another high profile Tasmanian player in the shape of Royce Hart. Stewart's 78 games with the Tigers included the victorious grand final of 1973 and took his final VFL games tally to 205. He originally retired midway through the 1974 season only to make a handful of appearances the following year before finally calling it a day for good.
link (http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/TToC_centreline.htm)
Michael Roach
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Originally from Longford, 193 cm Michael "Disco" Roach was born on the 5th October 1958. He played senior football with Longford in the NTFA and was recruited to Richmond in 1978.
He represented Tasmania twice in State sides in 1980 versus Western Australia and South Australia kicking only four goals for both matches.
Roach was twice leading goalkicker in the VFL topping the ladder in 1980 and 1981. He played 200 games for Richmond kicking 607 goals from full forward and centre half forward.
Michael Roach was a high flyer taking many spectacular marks.
Michael Roach won the goalkicking at Richmond seven times in 1979 (90), 1980 (112), 1981 (86), tied with Kevin Bartlett in 1983 (37), 1985 (80), 1986 (62), 1987 (43).
In the 1979 season his biggest haul was 10.4 against St.Kilda and in 1980 against the Saints kicked 10 goals and against Footscray kicked 10 goals in one game and 11 goals in the next ropund game against the Dogs.. He repeated the dose a few years later against Hawthorn in 1985 he kicked 11 goals.
Michael Roach became part of a Tiger premiership legend playing in the 1980 Richmond premiership win over Collingwood when Kevin Bartlett virtually won the game off his own boot winning the Norm Smith medal in the process.
Michael Roach became an inaugural inductee into the Richmond Football Club Hall of Fame in 2002.
Michael Roach was a true high flyer, an exponent of all that was spectacular about the game.
Royce Hart
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To many observers (including probably himself) Royce Hart was the living embodiment of the ideal centre half forward. Certainly few players in the history of the game have managed to weld supreme natural ability and resolute determination to such telling effect. The determination saw Hart - on the face of it far from the finished article as a footballer - leave Tasmania as a 17 year old in 1965 to try his luck in the 'big time' with Richmond. At the time it was more usual for non-Victorian players to serve out apprenticeships in their own local competitions before embarking on VFL careers, but throughout his football career Royce Hart seldom did things according to accepted guidelines or standards.
Hart enjoyed a dream VFL debut season in 1967 when, playing at the goal front, he was a near unanimous choice as rookie of the year, kicking 55 goals, representing his adopted state, and playing in Richmond's first premiership team for 24 years. There were to be no second season blues either: Royce Hart maintained an amazing consistency throughout most of the remainder of his 190 game League career, even in 1976 and '77 when his knees had virtually 'gone'.
Captain of the Tigers between 1972 and 1975 Hart played representative football for the VFL 11 times, won the Richmond best and fairest award twice, and was a member of 4 premiership teams. There have been few more reliable marks or dynamic all round players in the history of the game.
link (http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/TToC_half_forwards.htm)
Matthew Richardson
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Matthew Richardson was born on the 19th March 1975 starting his football in Devonport. As a teenager, he wanted to be an accountant. This ambition lasted for about six months at high school, until he realised it wasn’t for him.
He is a ‘footy-head’. “If I wasn’t playing, I’d be going to the footy,” he says. “I often go to other games. I do enjoy getting away from it at times, but I follow what’s happening at other clubs.”
He was recruited to Richmond and made his debut in 1993. In his first season he was an AFL Rising Star nominee.
He has made a name for himself as an enigmatic full forward capable of producing great feats of high jumping and marking on his day but has been relatively injury prone during his career.
In 2001 he produced some of the best football of his career in a rare, relatively injury-free season and again proved himself one of the AFL's elite marking forwards. He overcame a knee injury pre-season to play 22 matches and boot 59 goals. Matthew was the leading mark-taker in the AFL, averaging eight per game, and took the most contested marks. Continued to mix periods of brilliance with frustration due to indifferent goalkicking. His form leading into the finals was faultless and peaked with a 17-mark performance against the Kangaroos in round 21.
His honours as a player so far have included a club best and fairest award in 1996 and 1999. He was selected in the All-Australian teams for 1996 and 1999.
He played in the International Rules Series in 1999 and has followed in the footsteps of another Tasmanian Richmond goalkicker Michael Roach winning the leading goalkicker awards in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001.
He is also a recipient of the Alex Jesaulenko Medal in 1996.
link (http://www.footballlegends.org/matthew_richardson.htm)
HB. Barry Lawrence Laurie Nash Brent Croswell
C. Rodney Eade Ian Stewart Arthur Hodgson
HF> Darrel Baldock(C) Royce Hart Daryn Cresswell
F> Horrie Gorringe Peter Hudson Alastair Lynch
R. Percy Jones John Leedham Terry Cashion
Inter, from Paul Williams,Len Pye, Matthew Richardson, Darrin Pritchard, Rex Garwood,Michael Roach and Neil Conlan.
Coach Roy Cazaly
Assistant coach Robert Shaw
Ian Stewart
http://www.sighost.us/members/mellow/stewart.jpg
The label 'legend' is bandied about quite indiscriminately these days but it would be hard to disagree with its appropriateness in the case of Ian Harlow Stewart. Born in the western Tasmanian mining settlement of Queenstown, where footballers do not have the luxury of grass to cushion their falls, Stewart is one of an elite band of just 4 players to have won the coveted Brownlow Medal on 3 separate occasions. Although neither strongly built nor especially athletic looking he was enormously tough and resilient, and his outward appearance belied enormous, some would say unique, native ability. Indefatigably accurate when kicking with either foot, Stewart was also deceptively strong overhead (in the 1966 season, for instance, he took more marks than any other player in the VFL), and so courageous that he frequently won possessions that logic told you he had no right to. He was also extraordinarily elusive, seldom being caught with the ball - small wonder that the umpires took note to the extent of awarding him more Brownlow votes than any other player of his era.
Ian Stewart's senior career began with Hobart in 1962 where he played 13 senior games and was selected in both of Tasmania's interstate games that year, against the VFA and the VFL. In the latter game, playing in the centre, he gave clear notice that he was a star in the making by outpointing his direct opponent on the day, Geelong's Alistair Lord, who later that season would win the Brownlow Medal. Wooed across the Bass Strait by St Kilda the following year he rapidly formulated an irresistible partnership with fellow Taswegian Darrel Baldock which was largely responsible in 1966 for steering the Saints to their first, and so far only, senior premiership.
After 7 seasons and 127 games with St Kilda Stewart's career looked to be waning but in 1971 he moved to Richmond and immediately won another Brownlow to add to the two won previously in 1965 and 1966. While at Punt Road he linked up to great effect with another high profile Tasmanian player in the shape of Royce Hart. Stewart's 78 games with the Tigers included the victorious grand final of 1973 and took his final VFL games tally to 205. He originally retired midway through the 1974 season only to make a handful of appearances the following year before finally calling it a day for good.
link (http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/TToC_centreline.htm)
Michael Roach
http://www.sighost.us/members/mellow/michaelroach.gif
Originally from Longford, 193 cm Michael "Disco" Roach was born on the 5th October 1958. He played senior football with Longford in the NTFA and was recruited to Richmond in 1978.
He represented Tasmania twice in State sides in 1980 versus Western Australia and South Australia kicking only four goals for both matches.
Roach was twice leading goalkicker in the VFL topping the ladder in 1980 and 1981. He played 200 games for Richmond kicking 607 goals from full forward and centre half forward.
Michael Roach was a high flyer taking many spectacular marks.
Michael Roach won the goalkicking at Richmond seven times in 1979 (90), 1980 (112), 1981 (86), tied with Kevin Bartlett in 1983 (37), 1985 (80), 1986 (62), 1987 (43).
In the 1979 season his biggest haul was 10.4 against St.Kilda and in 1980 against the Saints kicked 10 goals and against Footscray kicked 10 goals in one game and 11 goals in the next ropund game against the Dogs.. He repeated the dose a few years later against Hawthorn in 1985 he kicked 11 goals.
Michael Roach became part of a Tiger premiership legend playing in the 1980 Richmond premiership win over Collingwood when Kevin Bartlett virtually won the game off his own boot winning the Norm Smith medal in the process.
Michael Roach became an inaugural inductee into the Richmond Football Club Hall of Fame in 2002.
Michael Roach was a true high flyer, an exponent of all that was spectacular about the game.
Royce Hart
http://www.sighost.us/members/mellow/hart.jpg
To many observers (including probably himself) Royce Hart was the living embodiment of the ideal centre half forward. Certainly few players in the history of the game have managed to weld supreme natural ability and resolute determination to such telling effect. The determination saw Hart - on the face of it far from the finished article as a footballer - leave Tasmania as a 17 year old in 1965 to try his luck in the 'big time' with Richmond. At the time it was more usual for non-Victorian players to serve out apprenticeships in their own local competitions before embarking on VFL careers, but throughout his football career Royce Hart seldom did things according to accepted guidelines or standards.
Hart enjoyed a dream VFL debut season in 1967 when, playing at the goal front, he was a near unanimous choice as rookie of the year, kicking 55 goals, representing his adopted state, and playing in Richmond's first premiership team for 24 years. There were to be no second season blues either: Royce Hart maintained an amazing consistency throughout most of the remainder of his 190 game League career, even in 1976 and '77 when his knees had virtually 'gone'.
Captain of the Tigers between 1972 and 1975 Hart played representative football for the VFL 11 times, won the Richmond best and fairest award twice, and was a member of 4 premiership teams. There have been few more reliable marks or dynamic all round players in the history of the game.
link (http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/TToC_half_forwards.htm)
Matthew Richardson
http://www.sighost.us/members/mellow/richo_2.jpg
Matthew Richardson was born on the 19th March 1975 starting his football in Devonport. As a teenager, he wanted to be an accountant. This ambition lasted for about six months at high school, until he realised it wasn’t for him.
He is a ‘footy-head’. “If I wasn’t playing, I’d be going to the footy,” he says. “I often go to other games. I do enjoy getting away from it at times, but I follow what’s happening at other clubs.”
He was recruited to Richmond and made his debut in 1993. In his first season he was an AFL Rising Star nominee.
He has made a name for himself as an enigmatic full forward capable of producing great feats of high jumping and marking on his day but has been relatively injury prone during his career.
In 2001 he produced some of the best football of his career in a rare, relatively injury-free season and again proved himself one of the AFL's elite marking forwards. He overcame a knee injury pre-season to play 22 matches and boot 59 goals. Matthew was the leading mark-taker in the AFL, averaging eight per game, and took the most contested marks. Continued to mix periods of brilliance with frustration due to indifferent goalkicking. His form leading into the finals was faultless and peaked with a 17-mark performance against the Kangaroos in round 21.
His honours as a player so far have included a club best and fairest award in 1996 and 1999. He was selected in the All-Australian teams for 1996 and 1999.
He played in the International Rules Series in 1999 and has followed in the footsteps of another Tasmanian Richmond goalkicker Michael Roach winning the leading goalkicker awards in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001.
He is also a recipient of the Alex Jesaulenko Medal in 1996.
link (http://www.footballlegends.org/matthew_richardson.htm)