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PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum

Interested by Damian Barrett's articles vehemently criticizing RFC's handling of the BC issue.

I wonder if the whole Polak thing was a ploy to get the fans behind the idea of recruiting BC, whatever the price?

After Richmond's "application" to the AFL, quite a few fans changed their take on the idea. How many PRE posters wrote something like "I was originally against the idea, but ..."?

So the RFC made their application, getting the fans interested in recruiting BC. By the time the AFL called our bluff, the groundswell of support was so high that I reckon the RFC would have been vilified if they DIDN'T take him with whatever picks they had.

If that's the case I take my hat off to the RFC and doesn't the whole thing smell of Sheedy? I'm still not sure getting BC was worth it but at least it's nice to see a bit of grunt in the old Tiger again.

Swap out Cousins for Ian Stewart and the Richmond fan base for St. Kilda and the whole thing reeks of the Barrot-Stewart "sting" !!!