Apathy or anger?

[Tiger_Of_Old]

I'm not gunna tell you what to feel Tiger, but I'm ******* ropable that our captain laid no tackles. It's not exactly like he had the ball so often he didn't have the chance to lay one. Even Tyronasaurus was credited with 5.

What a slap in the face to us supporters really.We pay his wages because the going gets tough he puts up the white flag,Sound familiar RB? Just like the Elimination finals.
From now on i'm going to refer to him as Captain 0(Finals,Tackles).

 

[Harvey Leadpipe]

We may have been s hit in those days Harvs but we always had the best supporters. At the footy, the Richmond fans were always the loudest and yelled the best insults at umpires. In my neighborhood the Richmond supporters always won any fights in the schoolyard.

And we still do mate. Due to being kicked in the nuts for so long, we've got the best analogies, stories, sense of humour, funniest anecdotes amongst all supporters. A few of us in my industry have a "letter to Brendan..." lunch every few months where we analyse all things Punt Rd in the vain attempt of penning a letter to Benny G, and it's a crack up. A Hawthorn supporting bloke from work here went along with his RFC supporting brother to the 'G the night we beat the Swans after the siren in Rd 8. He reckons he's seen nothing like it. Everyone was going ballistic, chanting "Chopsticks" in admiration every time Dusty went near it, and after the siren he said it was like a rock concert at the Punt Rd end, 2 blokes were even crowd surfing. Seriously, only Collingwood (as much as I hate them, you gotta admire them) has anywhere near the same level of passion as we do.

It's why it's tough supporting this lot. We won't let it go, but after 35 years and counting they ******* owe us. I feel like Chevy Chase at the end of National Lampoons Vacation, when they rock up to Wally World to see it's closed. Where he goes on his rant like "We watch his program... We buy his toys, we go to his movies... he owes us. Doesn't he owe us? He owes the Griswolds, right? F***ing-A right he owes us!". The Tiges owe us.

But I'm getting over being angry at the club. I just wear it like a badge of honour now. Like a battered housewife suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, I'll just cop another hit and miserably go about my day.

 

[johnno77]

And we still do mate. Due to being kicked in the nuts for so long, we've got the best analogies, stories, sense of humour, funniest anecdotes amongst all supporters. A few of us in my industry have a "letter to Brendan..." lunch every few months where we analyse all things Punt Rd in the vain attempt of penning a letter to Benny G, and it's a crack up. A Hawthorn supporting bloke from work here went along with his RFC supporting brother to the 'G the night we beat the Swans after the siren in Rd 8. He reckons he's seen nothing like it. Everyone was going ballistic, chanting "Chopsticks" in admiration every time Dusty went near it, and after the siren he said it was like a rock concert at the Punt Rd end, 2 blokes were even crowd surfing. Seriously, only Collingwood (as much as I hate them, you gotta admire them) has anywhere near the same level of passion as we do.

It's why it's tough supporting this lot. We won't let it go, but after 35 years and counting they ******* owe us. I feel like Chevy Chase at the end of National Lampoons Vacation, when they rock up to Wally World to see it's closed. Where he goes on his rant like "We watch his program... We buy his toys, we go to his movies... he owes us. Doesn't he owe us? He owes the Griswolds, right? F***ing-A right he owes us!". The Tiges owe us.

But I'm getting over being angry at the club. I just wear it like a badge of honour now. Like a battered housewife suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, I'll just cop another hit and miserably go about my day.

Very well said. Stockholm syndrome sums things up pretty nicely.

 

[iwantnecktatts]

I'm frustrated during the week, but lately apathetic on gameday.

Being flogged by Hawthorn and GWS left me feeling fairly blank. But by the time Monday comes around I'm back to doing my best to shovel coal back into the tiggy train, despite it not even being on the tracks.

 

[1980]

And we still do mate. Due to being kicked in the nuts for so long, we've got the best analogies, stories, sense of humour, funniest anecdotes amongst all supporters. A few of us in my industry have a "letter to Brendan..." lunch every few months where we analyse all things Punt Rd in the vain attempt of penning a letter to Benny G, and it's a crack up. A Hawthorn supporting bloke from work here went along with his RFC supporting brother to the 'G the night we beat the Swans after the siren in Rd 8. He reckons he's seen nothing like it. Everyone was going ballistic, chanting "Chopsticks" in admiration every time Dusty went near it, and after the siren he said it was like a rock concert at the Punt Rd end, 2 blokes were even crowd surfing. Seriously, only Collingwood (as much as I hate them, you gotta admire them) has anywhere near the same level of passion as we do.

It's why it's tough supporting this lot. We won't let it go, but after 35 years and counting they ******* owe us. I feel like Chevy Chase at the end of National Lampoons Vacation, when they rock up to Wally World to see it's closed. Where he goes on his rant like "We watch his program... We buy his toys, we go to his movies... he owes us. Doesn't he owe us? He owes the Griswolds, right? F***ing-A right he owes us!". The Tiges owe us.

But I'm getting over being angry at the club. I just wear it like a badge of honour now. Like a battered housewife suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, I'll just cop another hit and miserably go about my day.

What the club needs is to get rid of all the old cronies on the board and inject some younger passionate professionals who will breathe new life and fire into this pathetic club. I bet a couple of your "Letter to Brendan" lunch crew would do a better job than dinosaur gimps like O'Shaunessy, Mathies and Dalton.

It just seems these days we are too used to making fun of the club than getting angry about how useless they are and keep stuffing it up over and over again.

 

[partycorolla]

For me, tug, anger gives way to apathy every off-season about the same time it's 100% clear Hardwick will remain coach. This year was the worst dose with that utterly foolish extension.

For the last three seasons I've watched us with very little joy involved beyond the odd little glimpse of player development happening largely independent of our abysmal 'game plan.' Watching Richmond has not been the anticipated pleasure of the past, a celebration of who and what we are, it's been a duty I don't look forward to and I am in a completely apathetic state when we play, because of the way we play.

Same rookie football 101 errors Hardwick promised to banish half a decade ago, still repeated ad infinitum.

Same horrible ball movement apparently designed to ensure our players get smashed at every opportunity, while our supporters cringe and suffer having to sit through it.

Same horrible certainty that the side you're watching in its current incarnation, under Hardwick, has absolutely no football soul left worth speaking of.

But a new era is coming very soon, tug, you can feel it in the winds. I feel the best I've felt about our club in half a decade.

The Essendon Accountant is almost gone and we're all going to experience a happy wave of relief soon.

I can't wait to finally be excited to watch my team again, get back to the days of being a club genuinely trying to win a premiership.

When was that? Mid 70's to late very early 80's?

The horrible ball movement has been the last 3 years imo, 2013 and before we were much more fluent (without some of the personnel to actually do it properly).

 

[BILC]

Angry when I look at the big picture of what's gone wrong, but I'm apathetic on gameday at the moment.

 

[Rayzorwire]

I have listened to a talk given by Hardwick where he explained quite clearly: We draft for stars and trade in players for need.
My reading of that presentation now from 2012 is that we clearly have a LOT of needs and we didn't draft any stars.

Dimmer's record on addressing 'needs' effectively, ranks right up there with 'needs more cowbell.'

When was that? Mid 70's to late very early 80's?

The Wallace and more fully the Frawley era both aimed for flags. And before that, our reputation for being ruthless on failure came because we were actually trying to win a flag.

None of those era's set out quite deliberately to aim for the bottom end of the final-8/5, call it a success then hand out a fresh batch of contracts to the architects for that disgusting betrayal of our supporters.

 

[theyellowsash]

Dimmer's record on addressing 'needs' effectively, ranks right up there with 'needs more cowbell.'

Lol it reminds me of the scene in the Simpsons where they elect homer as mayor simply because he is someone else. Kinda like how we elected abbot.

Hardwick: we need a player
Delisted player: I'm a player
Hardwick: you're hired!

 

[Rayzorwire]

Lol it reminds me of the scene in the Simpsons where they elect homer as mayor simply because he is someone else. Kinda like how we elected abbot.

Hehe...I guess Turnbull and Shorten got their gigs the same way.