Does anyone remember?

[Nuffers]

When the Tigers were nobodies second team?
The late 60's all the 70's and early 80's

We were feared, our supporters were feral .. and rightly so...... no team has been hated in the history of the AFL/VFL than the tigers.

I remember the 1980 thrashing of Collingwood, the 69 spanking of Carlton, 73 against Carlton and 74 against Norht in 74.... the Tigers will be back when every other poster on BF hate us............ We are miles from from it now.

 

[Spagman]

Re: Does anyone remember

Go check the St Kilda forum, there's no love there right now

 

[Tiges4Life]

Well I wasn't alive in the 60's or 70's and only a kid in the 80's so I don't remember lol but it still astounds me the amount of support there is for the tigers from opposition supporters. So many of my non-richmond friends on facebook posting about the tiges last night, never seen anything like it for another club.
It was kinda like Richo, everyone from opposition clubs hated him for a large majority of his career, then the last few years everyone loved him.

 

[Optimax]

The old man tells me about it, and why collingwood must continually beat you lol.

Anyhow just like us during our resurgence, you'll know you're truly back when no one but your own supporters are happy when you win. Instead you'll get hatred and begrudging respect.

Give it 12 and a bit months and what you want will return

 

[pebblestone]

Born 1980. I do not remember.

 

[1980GFVideo]

People like might like the outside support but it is no compliment.

I used to barrack for the underdog in the late seventies and early eighties to get an upset win but in the late eighties I didnt need to go outside my own team.

As far back as 1988, a pub full of people cheered our win against Carlton. We took less than a decade to become Bambi.

Will take at least three years to change that.

 

[tigs2010]

...when we were good? No

 

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Don't worry if we keep winning for a while you'll all find out.
And you'll love it.
You will be an arseh*le.
You will be painstakingly arrogant and dismissive.
People will want to punch you.
You will not care.
Life's good.

 

[Wallaby]

I'm not sure there was a concept of a 'second team' back in the 60s and 70s. there was no live TV footy (there were replays, but they would only show the last qtr of one or sometimes 2 matches from the Saturday). So you really only saw one match a week - and that was your own team.

Growing up then, I never thought Richmond were hated as much as Collingwood, and to a lesser extent Melbourne (rich silver-spoon kids). You have to remember that up until 1967, we had been 19 years straight without even making the finals. We were treated as one of those struggling sides that everyone felt sorry for. When we started getting success, it was a bit like Geelong recently - 'Well, that's nice for them'.

It was only when Balmey went mad in 73, followed by next year ruthlessly putting down North (who had been our fellow strugglers for so long) that we were identified as a full on hate-worthy side too strong for people's liking. We had also bought a lot of players recently from other clubs - McGhie, Sproule, Walsh etc and we seemed to get the best interstaters. And then we fell apart.

The idea of a second side only arose when the Swans went to sydney and were on the TV every second Sunday. It was very significant, because it showed the VFL that there was an enormous market for live footy on TV, and as long as they could pump out the product, people would watch it.