Reverence to "The Flea"

[IDGAF]

Here we sit ... all the "Generation X`ers" ... having downed a few tonight and wistfully thinking about the good ol` days .

Hearing about the demise of a bloke like Terry Smith really rams it home dosn`t it .... in more ways than one .

We were once the kings of our domain... the masters of the house , we walked all over anyone who got in our way and we did not give a f..k ........ "kill or be killed"

Terry was very symbolic of this.

In the space of twelve months from the end of 82 we lost it all ... we all know how , we all know why ....

We held on grimly for a while . We still had Maurice . We had a young bloke called "Bomber" James who was going kill em` all ..... then all of a sudden Edelstens cash had them Swans for a day and it was never the same ....

But one bloke held firm ... a mighty little bloke who used to tear the sandgropers and the croweaters new @rseholes every year ... he defied our downward spiral till the end . Even when his body had clearly had enough his mind willed him to keep going , even though the use-by date had clearly passed . He gave twice as much as he ever got ... and he wore a few . Only one or two more higher on the tiger pedastal for mine

...... and today i read about the support and mateship he and other tigers gave Terry in his last days ..... if you are not deeply moved then you are not Richmond .

Today we see clubs , officials , players , anyone and everyone "staging" and "posturing" to the media in order of self gain , the marketing machines and spin doctors work overtime ... all for "improvement" and higher goals .

Were these acts made public? Did the RFC publicise the desperate last hours of one of it`s favourite sons ?

Can`t tell you how proud i am of Dale Weightman , the RFC , and many other of our heroes from yesteryear today on the way they have conducted themselves through this ordeal .

Reminds us all why we barrack for this club . Sounds corny i know but it aint always about the winning and the losing ......... it`s how we go about it .. i just hope the Delidio`s and the Polo`s and the JON`s etc . soak it up ... the mateship .....

Dale Weightman is the equal of the great man Jack Dyer as the spiritual leader of our great club for mine .... his acts over a generation speak way f..ken louder than any two-bit wordsmith media manipulating w@nker could ever dream of conjuring up .

Can`t tell you how proud i am to be Richmond today .... F..k Em` All .

 

[cairo tiger]

cant help but agree those days were great and it is the oldtimers like us whoo must kee the faith however hard. I am proud to be a tiger and proud that i saw The Flea in his prime and in his days when he could not run anymore....but he did so that he squeezed every amount of give he could concieve to this great club and he is still doing it

 

[Bojangles17]

yeah, good call, some of lus are quick to mock spudder, one of his legacies was to bring back a quality tiger in Flea after the giesh saw fit to appoint a fella that coached SA amateurs ahead of him...RIP to Terry Smith, way too soon

 

[sandeano]

Three weeks back my wife gave birth to our first, a daughter. The following week a friend of mine had some business at the RFC (dealing with the kids doing TAFE training) and had to see Flea in his role as development officer.

Knowing we are Richmond fans she took in a card on the off-chance Dale may scrawl his name, but not only that he wrote a lovely personalised message to our baby girl that was just terrific.

I always loved the guy, from back in the day when I had the time to go every week, rain or shine.

Now he has just confirmed the legendary esteem I always held him in.

Onya Flea!

 

[pantsdown]

Here we sit ... all the "Generation X`ers" ... having downed a few tonight and wistfully thinking about the good ol` days .

Hearing about the demise of a bloke like Terry Smith really rams it home dosn`t it .... in more ways than one .

We were once the kings of our domain... the masters of the house , we walked all over anyone who got in our way and we did not give a f..k ........ "kill or be killed"

Terry was very symbolic of this.

In the space of twelve months from the end of 82 we lost it all ... we all know how , we all know why ....

We held on grimly for a while . We still had Maurice . We had a young bloke called "Bomber" James who was going kill em` all ..... then all of a sudden Edelstens cash had them Swans for a day and it was never the same ....

But one bloke held firm ... a mighty little bloke who used to tear the sandgropers and the croweaters new @rseholes every year ... he defied our downward spiral till the end . Even when his body had clearly had enough his mind willed him to keep going , even though the use-by date had clearly passed . He gave twice as much as he ever got ... and he wore a few . Only one or two more higher on the tiger pedastal for mine

...... and today i read about the support and mateship he and other tigers gave Terry in his last days ..... if you are not deeply moved then you are not Richmond .

Today we see clubs , officials , players , anyone and everyone "staging" and "posturing" to the media in order of self gain , the marketing machines and spin doctors work overtime ... all for "improvement" and higher goals .

Were these acts made public? Did the RFC publicise the desperate last hours of one of it`s favourite sons ?

Can`t tell you how proud i am of Dale Weightman , the RFC , and many other of our heroes from yesteryear today on the way they have conducted themselves through this ordeal .

Reminds us all why we barrack for this club . Sounds corny i know but it always about the winning and the losing ......... it`s how we go about it .. i just hope the Delidio`s and the Polo`s and the JON`s etc . soak it up ... the mateship .....

Dale Weightman is the equal of the great man Jack Dyer as the spiritual leader of our great club for mine .... his acts over a generation speak way f..ken louder than any two-bit wordsmith media manipulating w@nker could ever dream of conjuring up .

Can`t tell you how proud i am to be Richmond today .... F..k Em` All .

Well said IDGAF he is a legend is our Flea, one that is held in the highest esteem at the RFC and rightly so.

 

[Goldust]

Here we sit ... all the "Generation X`ers" ... having downed a few tonight and wistfully thinking about the good ol` days .

Hearing about the demise of a bloke like Terry Smith really rams it home dosn`t it .... in more ways than one .

We were once the kings of our domain... the masters of the house , we walked all over anyone who got in our way and we did not give a f..k ........ "kill or be killed"

Terry was very symbolic of this.

In the space of twelve months from the end of 82 we lost it all ... we all know how , we all know why ....

We held on grimly for a while . We still had Maurice . We had a young bloke called "Bomber" James who was going kill em` all ..... then all of a sudden Edelstens cash had them Swans for a day and it was never the same ....

But one bloke held firm ... a mighty little bloke who used to tear the sandgropers and the croweaters new @rseholes every year ... he defied our downward spiral till the end . Even when his body had clearly had enough his mind willed him to keep going , even though the use-by date had clearly passed . He gave twice as much as he ever got ... and he wore a few . Only one or two more higher on the tiger pedastal for mine

...... and today i read about the support and mateship he and other tigers gave Terry in his last days ..... if you are not deeply moved then you are not Richmond .

Today we see clubs , officials , players , anyone and everyone "staging" and "posturing" to the media in order of self gain , the marketing machines and spin doctors work overtime ... all for "improvement" and higher goals .

Were these acts made public? Did the RFC publicise the desperate last hours of one of it`s favourite sons ?

Can`t tell you how proud i am of Dale Weightman , the RFC , and many other of our heroes from yesteryear today on the way they have conducted themselves through this ordeal .

Reminds us all why we barrack for this club . Sounds corny i know but it always about the winning and the losing ......... it`s how we go about it .. i just hope the Delidio`s and the Polo`s and the JON`s etc . soak it up ... the mateship .....

Dale Weightman is the equal of the great man Jack Dyer as the spiritual leader of our great club for mine .... his acts over a generation speak way f..ken louder than any two-bit wordsmith media manipulating w@nker could ever dream of conjuring up .

Can`t tell you how proud i am to be Richmond today .... F..k Em` All .

BEST post on Big Footy ever!

 

[Ox12]

Sometimes I wonder why I read half the mindless drivel on here IDGAF... you just reminded me why. Top notch.

 

[1980]

yeah, good call, some of lus are quick to mock spudder, one of his legacies was to bring back a quality tiger in Flea after the giesh saw fit to appoint a fella that coached SA amateurs ahead of him...RIP to Terry Smith, way too soon

If you read through IDGAFs post carefully, you'll note the key distinction between what someone like the Flea means to our club, and what someone like Frawley gave it.

The reason frawley brought him back was because it was good PR for him personally. A means to help him win over the supporters.

Exactly what idgaf posts we dont need at our club. Selfishness. Protecting your own job. Putting your interests above the clubs.

 

[1980]

Here we sit ... all the "Generation X`ers" ... having downed a few tonight and wistfully thinking about the good ol` days .

Hearing about the demise of a bloke like Terry Smith really rams it home dosn`t it .... in more ways than one .

We were once the kings of our domain... the masters of the house , we walked all over anyone who got in our way and we did not give a f..k ........ "kill or be killed"

Terry was very symbolic of this.

In the space of twelve months from the end of 82 we lost it all ... we all know how , we all know why ....

We held on grimly for a while . We still had Maurice . We had a young bloke called "Bomber" James who was going kill em` all ..... then all of a sudden Edelstens cash had them Swans for a day and it was never the same ....

But one bloke held firm ... a mighty little bloke who used to tear the sandgropers and the croweaters new @rseholes every year ... he defied our downward spiral till the end . Even when his body had clearly had enough his mind willed him to keep going , even though the use-by date had clearly passed . He gave twice as much as he ever got ... and he wore a few . Only one or two more higher on the tiger pedastal for mine

...... and today i read about the support and mateship he and other tigers gave Terry in his last days ..... if you are not deeply moved then you are not Richmond .

Today we see clubs , officials , players , anyone and everyone "staging" and "posturing" to the media in order of self gain , the marketing machines and spin doctors work overtime ... all for "improvement" and higher goals .

Were these acts made public? Did the RFC publicise the desperate last hours of one of it`s favourite sons ?

Can`t tell you how proud i am of Dale Weightman , the RFC , and many other of our heroes from yesteryear today on the way they have conducted themselves through this ordeal .

Reminds us all why we barrack for this club . Sounds corny i know but it aint always about the winning and the losing ......... it`s how we go about it .. i just hope the Delidio`s and the Polo`s and the JON`s etc . soak it up ... the mateship .....

Dale Weightman is the equal of the great man Jack Dyer as the spiritual leader of our great club for mine .... his acts over a generation speak way f..ken louder than any two-bit wordsmith media manipulating w@nker could ever dream of conjuring up .

Can`t tell you how proud i am to be Richmond today .... F..k Em` All .

You need to post one of these every week. Fires up the pride in our club. Makes me want to go out and smash the first Collingwood supporter I see in the street. To buy 50 memberships. To put up an armed blockade on Punt Rd preventing any non-Richmond supporter from driving through our streets. Screw Border protection. I want suburb protection. make them drive down Hoddle St if they want to get to work.

The Flea made us what we are.

 

[IDGAF]

Selfishness. Protecting your own job. Putting your interests above the clubs.

...

 

[Big Punt]

Good call IDGAF. An underrated Tiger man is the Flea.

 

[Bojangles17]

. We had a young bloke called "Bomber" James who was going kill em` all ..... then all of a sudden Edelstens cash had them Swans for a day and it was never the same ....

QUOTE]

forgot to mention a couple of weeks back when walking out of ground Bomber James strolled past...Good to see he stuck with the clubs after his fifteen minutes of fame

 

[Bojangles17]

The reason frawley brought him back was because it was good PR for him personally. A means to help him win over the supporters.

Exactly what idgaf posts we dont need at our club. Selfishness. Protecting your own job. Putting your interests above the clubs.

Attack Frawley for what his coaching record stood for but dont throw mud like that. For twenty years Flea was on the sidelines and it took a bloke with spuds foresight to bring him back...Not once has any other coach gone to any length at all to do the same....Your massively underselling Frawley as a man...what he did for Krak and Jimmy is another example of decency and integrity..your comments are nothing more than cheap shots that have f$%# all to do with why he failed as a coach

 

[Jumpin' Jimmy]

Here we sit ... all the "Generation X`ers" ... having downed a few tonight and wistfully thinking about the good ol` days .

Hearing about the demise of a bloke like Terry Smith really rams it home dosn`t it .... in more ways than one .

We were once the kings of our domain... the masters of the house , we walked all over anyone who got in our way and we did not give a f..k ........ "kill or be killed"

Terry was very symbolic of this.

In the space of twelve months from the end of 82 we lost it all ... we all know how , we all know why ....

We held on grimly for a while . We still had Maurice . We had a young bloke called "Bomber" James who was going kill em` all ..... then all of a sudden Edelstens cash had them Swans for a day and it was never the same ....

But one bloke held firm ... a mighty little bloke who used to tear the sandgropers and the croweaters new @rseholes every year ... he defied our downward spiral till the end . Even when his body had clearly had enough his mind willed him to keep going , even though the use-by date had clearly passed . He gave twice as much as he ever got ... and he wore a few . Only one or two more higher on the tiger pedastal for mine

...... and today i read about the support and mateship he and other tigers gave Terry in his last days ..... if you are not deeply moved then you are not Richmond .

Today we see clubs , officials , players , anyone and everyone "staging" and "posturing" to the media in order of self gain , the marketing machines and spin doctors work overtime ... all for "improvement" and higher goals .

Were these acts made public? Did the RFC publicise the desperate last hours of one of it`s favourite sons ?

Can`t tell you how proud i am of Dale Weightman , the RFC , and many other of our heroes from yesteryear today on the way they have conducted themselves through this ordeal .

Reminds us all why we barrack for this club . Sounds corny i know but it aint always about the winning and the losing ......... it`s how we go about it .. i just hope the Delidio`s and the Polo`s and the JON`s etc . soak it up ... the mateship .....

Dale Weightman is the equal of the great man Jack Dyer as the spiritual leader of our great club for mine .... his acts over a generation speak way f..ken louder than any two-bit wordsmith media manipulating w@nker could ever dream of conjuring up .

Can`t tell you how proud i am to be Richmond today .... F..k Em` All .

He's the "new" Jack Dyer. Right up there with JD and Tommy Hafey.

 

[IDGAF]

. We had a young bloke called "Bomber" James who was going kill em` all ..... then all of a sudden Edelstens cash had them Swans for a day and it was never the same ....

QUOTE]

forgot to mention a couple of weeks back when walking out of ground Bomber James strolled past...Good to see he stuck with the clubs after his fifteen minutes of fame

Remember that day out at Waverly when we were playing the filth ...."Bomber" had barely played a handfull of games and was on fire? .

Early days in the second quarter and he had nailed 4 and we were about to jump off the top deck of the Sir Kenneth Luke stand with glee when Damir ran off the bench for the scum and made a very deliberate "B" line straight at the kid and absolutely pole-axed him? Can`t remember whether he was stretchered off but pretty sure he was

There are sooooo many things i will never forgive that pr1ck for and thats right up there .

Word around the campfire is Jason is on the market ....MEMO TO MILLER ...."

....NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

 

[1980GFVideo]

keep us the nostalgic posts.

Its good to know there are poster who can still remember the blokes running around in those lace up jumpers.

Im not going to get through this five year plan without constantly reminding myself why I am prepared to wait that long.

 

[froars]

Flea is a legend.
Last seen at the Odeon bar early Thursday morning still rockin' on after a big night

A great clubman

 

[Bojangles17]

Remember that day out at Waverly when we were playing the filth ...."Bomber" had barely played a handfull of games and was on fire? .

Early days in the second quarter and he had nailed 4 and we were about to jump off the top deck of the Sir Kenneth Luke stand with glee "

Yeah I do, and a little while later, our scrawny magpie mate was just about to do his best impression of a paper plane from the top tier of Kenneth Luke stand...aghhh they were the days

 

[turtle27]

Awesome post IDGAF, one of the better one's on here. Always loved the Flea, and I know it's living in the past a bit, but still rate his goal in the 1980 GF (the match's first) as one of the more exciting moments I've seen.

 

[1980]

Attack Frawley for what his coaching record stood for but dont throw mud like that. For twenty years Flea was on the sidelines and it took a bloke with spuds foresight to bring him back...Not once has any other coach gone to any length at all to do the same....Your massively underselling Frawley as a man...what he did for Krak and Jimmy is another example of decency and integrity..your comments are nothing more than cheap shots that have f$%# all to do with why he failed as a coach

Take the blinkers off Anita. He was as shocking as a man as he was as a coach. Any self respecting person not selfishly looking to prolong his coaching career would have put his hand up and said thats it for me. Not hung on to the death. Mid-season of his 5th year he was still saying publically he wanted a contract extension. You can claim all you like he was just a big fuzzy bloke that was misunderstood. He was the kind of man that if he's going down, will take down with him as many as he can. In this case, he took a whole footy club down with him.

 

[peejay]

Take the blinkers off Anita. He was as shocking as a man as he was as a coach. Any self respecting person not selfishly looking to prolong his coaching career would have put his hand up and said thats it for me. Not hung on to the death. Mid-season of his 5th year he was still saying publically he wanted a contract extension. You can claim all you like he was just a big fuzzy bloke that was misunderstood. He was the kind of man that if he's going down, will take down with him as many as he can. In this case, he took a whole footy club down with him.

I think you are giving spud to much credit - he was not half as smart as he would need to have been to do this.

 

[Bojangles17]

Take the blinkers off Anita. He was as shocking as a man as he was as a coach. Any self respecting person not selfishly looking to prolong his coaching career would have put his hand up and said thats it for me. Not hung on to the death. Mid-season of his 5th year he was still saying publically he wanted a contract extension. You can claim all you like he was just a big fuzzy bloke that was misunderstood. He was the kind of man that if he's going down, will take down with him as many as he can. In this case, he took a whole footy club down with him.

i dont disagree that he was a piss poor coach that lacked the vision and strength to be successful , the rest is bull%#$, was simply NO good!