Recent content by rbartlett

Tigerland is now updated with all the changes you sent me via email.

FYi Peter Corkran's dob is incorrect in a couple of places (ie: AustFootball Oliver G ) It's Jan 8 1948 - wikipedia is correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Corkran...

No official appeals from any of the families involved (remember it wasn't just Dyer, but Thorp, Herbert and more who were affected). Certainly families were upset, but we've always said to them we are happy to reopen anyone's case if new evidence surfaces.

At this rate I suspect I'm going to have to start watching most of the Richmond games of the 80s. Though sadly there weren't many finals matches in that period

Oliver G There's a lot of pre 1965 behinds data that exists that I have (and Col has previously given me data as well ), did you want that info to upload into AustralianFootball

Summary: Rd 10 1940, Jack Scott (Richmond) who normally wears Number 6, wore no number at all for this game. Oliver G

Thanks for the kind thoughts.

And a little tip Searching for "League Seconds Permits' in Sun-Pic brings up a lot of hits

SOmeone is tagging Football Permits for articles in Trove. So it may come in handy for people down the track https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?l-publictag=Football%20permits

This is probably already known, but Simmonds when back to Murtoa after Richmond, as per his permit in the Sun Pictorial

Cheers mate. The AFL has contacted me and they hgave some files on their database that may fill in the games (and maybe prove your theories) so I'm gonna check with them on Tuesday. Cheers

A few first names have been found so thank you all. They have been crossed off the above list. There's a bunch of 1998 Reserve players whose first names we don't know. They were most likely top up players. They are below ? Grundell (1992, perhaps first name is Duncan, or is it Simon the Leopold...

Summary: Jim Stewart (Nth) wore No.2 in Rd 18 1939 v Geelong Eric Clark (Nth) wore No. 14 in Rd 189 1939 v Geelong (however our records may already show that) *Paul* Oliver G , Rodgers

Summary: According to this article, Bob Syme (Ess) wore Number 30 in the 1951 Grand Final (AFLTables has him as No. 26, so too the footy record of the day) *Paul* Oliver G rodgers

After 4 years, we are nearing the end of documenting where possible every Richmond Reserves player. This project couldn't have been anywhere as complete without the help of 35Daicos and former player Peter Foot. There are however about 10% of first names/initials missing, so I thought I would...