Richmond's seeming reluctance to go into a Hub

[Tigers of Old]

It's the old addage.. when your football is crap it doesn't matter what you say, it'll be scutinised within an inch of it's life.

 

[Tiger Rob]

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Maybe? But he can play with the kids with other peoples money.

To be clear. I love the RFC.

But the F is what consumates the relationship and makes it financial.

If i wanted to financially support a bunch of sooks to stay home and play with the kids,

I dunno what I'd buy? a cafe in Fitzroy?

Too true. I ain’t cheering someone to finger paint and change nappies.
IMO there is a serious disconnect between the club and reality.
Many of us are doing it tough on many fronts due to this pandemic.
My mortgage ain’tgetting smaller and I ain’t getting younger.
The one thing that was supposed to be a beacon of hope and shed a little light was Footy and they decided not to turn up.
If that’s a Richmond man, then GAGF.
Be there for your supporters as they have been there for you through so many decades of rubbish.

 

[zgod]

Get ready for another season like this next year and beyond.
This aint going away and I bet my left nut we won't have a vaccine in the foreseeable future if at all.
People think this will just ho away in time for Xmas.
Im glad I witnessed firsthand possibly the last premiership pf the AFL as we know it.

 

[caesar]

Get ready for another season like this next year and beyond.
This aint going away and I bet my left nut we won't have a vaccine in the foreseeable future if at all.
People think this will just ho away in time for Xmas.
Im glad I witnessed first hand possibly the last premiership pf the AFL as we know it.

Ho Ho Ho! was that you being witty or a keying error

 

[Tony Braxton-Hicks]

If we have to go into a hub, and we will, then WA would be the go. We have a lot of WA players who will enjoy being back, and the ground there is MCG size.

 

[Baloo]

It's the old addage.. when your football is crap it doesn't matter what you say, it'll be scutinised within an inch of it's life.

Yep, can you imagine how we would have been ripped apart for not taking things seriously if we lost 17 when we were seen laughing and joking before the Grand Final. Or if we had a *smile* year in 18 but Higlet was still telling pre-game huddle jokes?

 

[brigadiertiger]

What a crock. Some players may not want to go so the world is ending and Victorians are sooks etc. Tim Kelly wasn't going to Queensland unless his family went and that happened pretty sure a couple of other West Coast and Freo players are in the same situation no one said boo about that.

 

[Jetboy]

If we have to go into a hub, and we will, then WA would be the go. We have a lot of WA players who will enjoy being back, and the ground there is MCG size.

Not to mention that we have a big supporter base in WA

 

[tigerman]

I've been a bit conflicted thinking about this the last couple of days.
The last few years have been fantastic, the 2 premierships have given me the thrill of a life time. So with that in mind, the players who choose not to go into the hub will have my blessing.

 

[AngryAnt]

Or we might just be over-reading things people say in the media

 

[tigerman]

By the way, different time and different place but I wonder where one of our outspoken guy's values and beliefs around family were when Dustin talked him into flying to Thailand the next day at the 2017 Best and Fairest count?

He was fatherless then, and I'd expect he got the ok from his better half.

 

[UKTiger]

Or we might just be over-reading things people say in the media

All media has their own agenda so treat most of what is said or written as inconsequential opinion and move on

 

[spook]

Getting a few public slaps might help switch a couple of fellas on. We'll know more a) when hubs are announced and we find out who's not going; and b) how we go against Melbourne. An easy kill of a bunch of slow fatties is just what we need. Another poor showing and I'll wonder if Richo and Greenberg's 'play the kids' talk on the podcast didn't come from their own heads.

 

[year of the tiger]

He was fatherless then, and I'd expect he got the ok from his better half.

and partners don’t count (Which is the sarcasm one)

 

[tigerman]

Appreciate that but I think the point still stands. Kids aren't the only people in a family after all.

Yes that's true, but I'd be pretty sure his wife would've been consulted, and gave her approval.

 

[craig]

If a few of our seniors choose to stay away that's up to them I don't really care because for mine this season is a total bunch of Booolshhheeeet.

If we lose the next 2 to the Demons and Kangas (ordinary outfits) the season is nigh on shot anyways.

And I think the players already know it.

 

[spook]

Remember when you were a kid and you would ask your mum something in front of your mates so she wouldn't say no? And then afterwards she would tear you a new one?

Remember when you didn't want for anything thanks to your partner's massive income and denied him the chance to go on holiday with a few mates after he'd just achieved the absolute pinnacle he'd been working for all his life, with those mates?

 

[tigerman]

and partners don’t count (Which is the sarcasm one)

What about fiancee's?
It still cuts me to the quick, that my then fiancee played the emotional card on me which stopped me from going on an end of season footy trip.
She got an engagement ring, but she didn't get a wedding ring..............and I'm left "suffer-ring" about the stories I got told about that footy trip.

 

[zgod]

Ho Ho Ho! was that you being witty or a keying error

Hahaha. Simple mistake but so perfect!

 

[Althom]

I too am really disappointed with our approach to this situation.

No-one has a real issue with the pending births being a reason to stay but having said that we are talking about being a few hours away, not going on a tour of England.

That aside however, I think our general attitude towards things, in public at least, has been this is all a bit hard.

It could be satisfaction with the previous achievements but personally I think we have gotten to a point where everyone has pumped up our tyres so much about our 'connection' and whatever other wanky term you would care to apply, that we have started to believe our own hype.

Once you go down that path you have no option but to try and be deeply caring and philosophical every time you open your mouth in the media and that's exactly what we have been doing. "Footy? Oh no, we are Richmond brothers, we care about life and love and being at one with the universe. There's no way we will let football get in the way of our quest for inner peace and tranquility".

We've become so caught up in our own dribble that we are drowning in it.

I don't think this issue has any bearing whatsoever on our football this season, just as I don't think all the garbage that gets spoken about our off-field stuff had any bearing on winning two premierships, but it is a poor reflection of our character as a club in difficult times.

Ironically, we are so confident that we have life worked out and have perfected the art of being good blokes, that we are blind to the fact that we are setting an awful, selfish example in a time when everyone in the world needs some hope and inspiration.

Completely agree but I think if anyone else had said it the pitchfork crowd would be out in force.