Players who supported the Tigers before being drafted

[Jack 17]

Dom Tyson

 

[Top_4_Tiger]

Richo

 

[Tygrys]

Also David Rhys-Jones

 

[Hank Heavenly]

Come back to Victoria Fyfe. You know you want to be a Tiger

Fyfe is not from Vic, he is a country WA boy

 

[Tiger_4_Life]

Shane Crawford and Tim Watson

 

[smasha]

A pretty bloody good list assembled here.

 

[NUFC Tiger]

Richo and (probably) Stevie Morris

 

[Groupie_]

Richo and (probably) Stevie Morris

I don't think Morris did

 

[Groupie_]

Jason and Cameron Cloke but not Travis
Sav and Anthony Rocca
Tony Lockett
Andrew Gowers (a premiership player for Hawthorn whose dad played for Richmond and apparently was one of the first kids to run on the field and congratulate Michael Roach when he kicked his 100 goals in a season. Decided not to go to Richmond though because by the time he was ready to play VFL the culture was that bad)
Wayne Harmes (and still publicly does even though he is a Carlton premiership player)
Robert Murphy of the Western Bulldogs
Thorold Merrett (Collingwood team of the century member - he tried out at Richmond but Jack Dyer rejected him because he was too light)
And Wayne Campbell (I think?)

This is so funny:

Sacred blue - Tiger Harmes

Thanks to the events of 1979, the name Wayne Harmes is pretty synonymous with this time of year. Just ask 2003 premiership hope Collingwood which, 24 years later, is still rueing the Carlton champion's controversial boundary-line lunge at the ball from which teammate Ken Sheldon kicked the deciding goal in the dying minutes of the grand final.

Well, this won't do anything to ease the Magpies pain. Harmes, who went on to become a three-time Carlton premiership player, has now revealed that even though he played 169 games for the Blues and despite single-handedly destroying the old enemy in that famous match, he never was a "true-Blue" Carlton person.

The truth is, he would have much preferred to have been playing for the club he supported as a kid - and still barracks for today - Richmond. The shock revelation was made late last week in a pre-recorded interview he did for the Fox Footy Channel program Grumpy Old Men that will go to air next week, fittingly in grand final week.

"The fact of the matter is I was an employee of the Carlton Football Club and that is all," said Harmes, insisting that throughout his 12-year tenure at Princes Park he was a Richmond person "through and through" and remains that way today. And to make the Tiger picture complete, the former Blue revealed that his hero in his childhood days was none other than 245-game Richmond great Roger Dean.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/14/1063478065480.html

 

[Groupie_]

Oh forgot to mention that the wizz was and still is a Richmond supporter (Sydney too though obviously)

 

[NUFC Tiger]

I don't think Morris did

Really? Would have just figured it would have stem from his old man?

 

[Mr Magic]

This is so funny:



http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/14/1063478065480.html

I got a feeling I read Bontempelli supported the Tigers.

Also have an inkling about Jackson Macrae, might be wrong.

Anyway I know there are other prospects I can't think of I seen somewhere and usually RFC fights above its weight for young stars supporting the club. I think it is to do with the club's culture of passionate supporters!

Harmes knock from the boundary to win the GF makes so much sense now, only a Tiger supporter would do that!!

 

[CLFC23]

Joel Bowden

 

[CLFC23]

Would Patrick Bowden count?

 

[Groupie_]

Really? Would have just figured it would have stem from his old man?

Don't know but when he was being drafted he never said he supported the Tigers growing up

 

[nobulltiger]

I want to know who the players are that post on bigfooty that play for rival clubs but come on here as closet Tiger supporters.

 

[RFCanalysist]

Nah he was Richmond. And he's best friends with Chris newman.

 

[Groupie_]

Nah he was Richmond. And he's best friends with Chris newman.

He has said many times he was a St Kilda fan. newmo was Carltank

 

[BC9_]

Matt White

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

Marcus Bontempelli.

 

[RunningBounce]

FEV!

NOOOOOO!!! Say it's not true

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

NOOOOOO!!! Say it's not true

It's not true.

Fev supported St. Kilda.

 

[RunningBounce]

It's not true.

Fev supported St. Kilda.

Phew! Emergency averted. Thanks

 

[Groupie_]

I'm still lolling at the fact that a 3 time Carltank premiership player supported Richmond all through his playing career and still does.

"Carlton was my employer, I was a Richmond person" LMAO

 

[TJTIGER]

I'm still lolling at the fact that a 3 time Carltank premiership player supported Richmond all through his playing career and still does.

"Carlton was my employer, I was a Richmond person" LMAO

Guess that's what happens when the Tiger gets under your skin.