Michael Green

[Ruby]

Planning underway for the first Tigers@Law function for 2013.

Will be a ripper ;-)

Lawyers out there should consider joining.

 

[Tenacious]

Great post. Big Nic was a flog.

Was that an intended pun?

 

[cmarkidis]

2. 1974 Grand Final - Sheedy's free handball to an open Green in the goal square, for a game lifting goal.

I recall getting nervous when Doug Wade bombed one from the boundary line a fair way out and North getting a goal or so up, but enter R Hart and K Sheedy (amoungst others). Sheedy's play you refer to showed his thinking was ahead of his time. Little wonder he went on to become one of the greatest coaches the game has seen.

 

[pahoffm]

I recall getting nervous when Doug Wade bombed one from the boundary line a fair way out and North getting a goal or so up, but enter R Hart and K Sheedy (amoungst others). Sheedy's play you refer to showed his thinking was ahead of his time. Little wonder he went on to become one of the greatest coaches the game has seen.

Yes, I was / still am a great Sheedy fan.
Circumstances always seemed to be against Sheedy being coach.

1979 - Jewell becomes Richmond coach.
1980 - Richmond win premiership. Sheedy takes Essendon job.
1981 - Jewell sacked. Bourke becomes Richmond coach.

Even then circumstances appeared to conspire.
It shows little forethought in the planning of the coaching role.

Even with the premiership in 1980, there seems apparent some destructive forces already at work within Richmond, even then.

The Cartledge recount, The Hafey Years, clearly indicates that the destructive force was active from the time of Hafey's demise, through to when the club was effectively broken by the mid-80s.
And, who the two members of that force were.

 

[Tenacious]

He now runs Tigers at Law, which is a really good support/fan group, always with interesting speakers.

This may have been mentioned elsewhere but I only watched it last night

Anyway it was another Open Mike (Sheehan) interview on Foxtel and his guest was Mike Green - a true Tiger legend.
The program must be pretty recent as it was dated 2020 and discussed his grandson Tom at GWS (and the tragic death of another grandson in the US)
But the main focus was on his Richmond career including 4 flags (despite sitting out the entire 67 GF on the bench), retiring at age 23 but then returning to play his last 2 flags, his dominance in the 69 finals series, discussing teammates and opposition players, and also his involvement in the club during the early stages of the sad and sorry 37 years.

Great interview and a great man