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Love this article in the Age:

They say that AFL is tribal & that The Tiger Army is one of a kind... this sort of explains it.
God I love this club... hold on as we embark on the ride of our lives!!!!
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/the-outlaws-20120602-1zp0m.html#ixzz1wm5GDJM1
They say that AFL is tribal & that The Tiger Army is one of a kind... this sort of explains it.
God I love this club... hold on as we embark on the ride of our lives!!!!
But the Richmond appeal was deeper than just success and that theme song. The Tigers, as Tim Watson once explained (he followed them as a child), were the outlaws.
The club Godfather, Graeme Richmond, called their motto ''kill or be killed.'' That 1970s and early '80s team was the competition's Hell's Angels, willing to play outside the rules. ''Ned Kelly would follow Richmond,'' was how a friend explained it. For impressionable youth, the notion that a team could be both successful and rebellious was hard to beat; it's the same sympathy for the devil that had some teens choosing the Rolling Stones over the Beatles.
The club Godfather, Graeme Richmond, called their motto ''kill or be killed.'' That 1970s and early '80s team was the competition's Hell's Angels, willing to play outside the rules. ''Ned Kelly would follow Richmond,'' was how a friend explained it. For impressionable youth, the notion that a team could be both successful and rebellious was hard to beat; it's the same sympathy for the devil that had some teens choosing the Rolling Stones over the Beatles.

