I still can't believe it.
We were the worse club in the history of the draft and now we are all time conquers.
4 flags in 5 years
6 picks under 50.
Where's the party???
As bad as we were, Pavlich never played in a flag, a few of the others we missed out on the same, Melbourne since 1964, Saints with all them top draft picks done nothing with them either, Dee's missed on Dusty, Carltoon took Kreuzer not Cotchin, Pies won just the two flags in 63 years...And counting Us 3 in 4 years lol
Been a big believer in Dimma's saying, It's never as good as you think it is, and it's never as bad as you think it is, it's somewhere in the middle. I used to be the biggest stress head going around and since I started with that saying to myself everytime something bad happens, in life as well, it helps calm me down.
So I never try to get too high after a win (except end of September) and never try to get too low after a loss. Try and stay somewhere in the middle. Even the 2018 Prelim I know many fans still are not over it but I'd dealt with it at half time it was over, I spent the second half at the game calm, the boys made a little comeback but got pushed back, cheered them off the ground and walked out of the stadium and moved on with life.
My philosophy was, and I saw Vlastuin a month after the Prelim and told him this, "If someone came to you/me at the end of 2016 and said here's a contract, Richmond will win 2017 flag, finish on top in 2018 but lose the Prelim, would you sign it?" Of course you would, well I bloody would, after the rubble we were from 1983 to 2016 without nothing.
So man, I've just been enjoying the 'now', not worry too much about bad results, because one day all them video's from 2017-2031 are going to be needed when it turns to crap!!
Parties at Caeser's, he's the Party Man!!