Richmond - "The Outlaws"

Roachy8

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Love this article in the Age: :thumbsu: :thumbsu: :thumbsu:

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.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/the-outlaws-20120602-1zp0m.html#ixzz1wm5GDJM1
 

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Jake Niall is highly condescending.
I thought he was trying to be funny? I thought it was a fairly entertaining read, but I live in none of those suburbs mentioned and everyone in our house is a Richmond supporter.

How any tiger parent could accept anything less than 100% tiger allegiance in their house is incomprehensible :p
 

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Im from the north and there has always been healthy Richmond support.
Pies and Blues are biggest though but going on the Eltham train to the Hawks game,it was wall to wall Tigers(standing room only).

Saints game I left earlier so couldn't tell but there were about 20 on the Watsonia platform to 5 saints.

Richmond support has definately grown in the north in the past 20 odd years.
 

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I see rfc supporters everywhere, prolific....interesting article, our being defies all logic but says plenty about us....once you understand it....the result on sat night when they passed the hat around probably wasnt that suprising
 

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Tim Watson supported the tigers as a child? Can't believe it. Certainly no signs of any soft spot, backhands us every time the opportunity arises.
 

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PS. Make sure to vote in the 'most passionate fans' down the bottom. Currently leading at 55% :eek:

PSS. Even though we don't need a scum-journo poll to tell us that we wipe our asses with every other mobs 'passion'
 
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