Time to fess up

[RemoteTiger]

I am middle aged verging on old age (I can officially retire in 5 months time) and every Richmond game day since I can remember - no matter where my travels take me I always wear some Tiger colours - if it is a formal black tie evening I have worn my Tiger socks - if it is a barbeque my tiger cap - if it is a cold winters day (we get a few of them up here in the mountains around Queanbeyan) I have my Tiger track suit pants on with my PuntRoadEnd windcheater.

And with a cold wind hollowing off the snowy mountains up here today it is my Tiger tracksuit pants and PuntRoadEnd windcheater that I was wearing as I popped up to the shops to do some grocery shopping. Whilst walking from the car park to Woollies a handful of kids on BMX bikes were riding around in circles out the front of the shops - one yelled "Hah Richmond supporter - what a loser!". I smiled and said "yeah a win would be a change and kept walking".

Fess up time
I know as a mature thinking adult; footy should not mean so much to me - but it does and for the first time ever I want to take my colours off and leave them to rot on the laundry floor at home - I felt ashamed to be a Tiger!

PS when I was those kids ages back in the '60s we used to say that about the perennial losers St Kilda and South Melbourne - my how the once mighty Tigers have fallen

.................RT

 

[frickenel]

I am middle aged verging on old age (I can officially retire in 5 months time) and every Richmond game day since I can remember - no matter where my travels take me I always wear some Tiger colours - if it is a formal black tie evening I have worn my Tiger socks - if it is a barbeque my tiger cap - if it is a cold winters day (we get a few of them up here in the mountains around Queanbeyan) I have my Tiger track suit pants on with my PuntRoadEnd windcheater.

And with a cold wind hollowing off the snowy mountains up here today it is my Tiger tracksuit pants and PuntRoadEnd windcheater that I was wearing as I popped up to the shops to do some grocery shopping. Whilst walking from the car park to Woollies a handful of kids on BMX bikes were riding around in circles out the front of the shops - one yelled "Hah Richmond supporter - what a loser!". I smiled and said "yeah a win would be a change and kept walking".

Fess up time
I know as a mature thinking adult; footy should not mean so much to me - but it does and for the first time ever I want to take my colours off and leave them to rot on the laundry floor at home - I felt ashamed to be a Tiger!

PS when I was those kids ages back in the '60s we used to say that about the perennial losers St Kilda and South Melbourne - my how the once mighty Tigers have fallen

.................RT

Phew, Remote - at first glance of your opening sentence i thought you were confessingto being a middle aged virgin!

Be honest though, didn't you have an inkling of a thought of parking the kids front tyre up to the handlebars up his fundimental orifice?

 

[RemoteTiger]

Phew, Remote - at first glance of your opening sentence i thought you were confessingto being a middle aged virgin!

Be honest though, didn't you have an inkling of a thought of parking the kids front tyre up to the handlebars up his fundimental orifice?

Yeah - but there was to many people around to witness it - then I would have spent the night in the Queanbeyan lock up and missed the game......

 

[Cutterst]

I sometimes where my Tiger jockettes to more formal game day events. Nobody knows !

Ps I am older than you RT

 

[jamo]

I wear my tigers cap when I go to Bunnings and work around the house.

Atleast you remember them being good.

I am 33 and they were good when I was 5 years old.

The most important years of my life as a teen and young adult, they have been a rabble.

My wife can't believe I am a member, she also can't believe our kids are now members.

 

[Streak]

Yeah - but there was to many people around to witness it - then I would have spent the night in the Queanbeyan lock up and missed the game......

Well there is your answer RT. No matter how you feel, you still couldn't bring yourself to run the risk of missing a game.

Once a Tiger, always a Tiger :emblem

So pick up your dummy and your bottom lip, get your Tiger beanie back on your head, and show the world that you stick by your team through thick and thin.

 

[Tubytiger]

Gee RT, I cop that at work most every week mate from cocky co-workers. Keep the faith mate. As streaker said - through thick and thin we stick.

 

[graystar1]

As an also mature aged Tiger since being a little tacker, I also cop all the flack from friends and club mates. Generally speaking it is in good fun and no malice intended. Gets boring though I know. Thank goodness we older members can cast our minds back to the 60's, 70's and 1980 to relive those heady days when the Tiger was a feared animal. I feel for those younger ones who have never seen a Tiger outfit in full flight. Hang in there youngin's, it might happen one day. Wish I knew when.

 

[Rosy]

I confess I don't wear my PRE jumper in public. I don't own any tiger skin jocks. I do like to slop around the house in my tiger flannelette jamies but I've never worn them to Bunnings.

 

[tigertim]

I understand your feelings RT. I am 42 and was lucky enough to see the 80gf victory and the losing 82 gf but since then its been sad. I too don't feel the passion but that's understandable with what's happening.

I assume when/if we start winning again the desrire to wear your Tiger clothing will return.

 

[Phar Ace]

RT, you old bustard, I'm only few years shy, and was on an early morning walk in far flung Noosaville this morning with my Motorola/AFG relic T-shirt (thank god I dont live in Canberra - makes me shiver just watching the Canberra promos on 9HD) and as i passed Harvey Norman, I had someone also comment on why I would wear such a loser's T-shirt, in public .

Now I have been a life-long supporter (ever since I saw Roger Dean blitz em at Lake Oval), and have copped ribbings from those I know in last 20 years, but this too was the first in public - is it a sign from the universe? Has the club crossed over, you know that half way point where you finally tip from still being quietly respected enough but known to be struggling, to no longer being respected and derided and on the slide to being derided? ???

I've laways thought of the RFC as half full in the last few decades, but are we really half empty afterall?

Geez i hope not, or my youngest daughter will never forgive me for buying her all that RFC crap she hides in the back of her cupboard!!!!!! :-[

 

[23.21.159]

I am 46 and console myself with two facts .....

1. Old enough to remember (just) 67-82.
2. They WILL get good one day and it will be such a sweet feeling.

What I do fear is that I have known my wife for 20 years - she is not even Australian - and when the Tiges do get good she (and the kids) will see a side of me they have never seen before, and I do wonder about the impact on the family harmony.

As for the clothes ... doesn't make alot of difference in Denmark. Here, you have to actually TELL people how bad they are .

 

[Willo]

I am 46 and console myself with two facts .....

1. Old enough to remember (just) 67-82.
2. They WILL get good one day and it will be such a sweet feeling.

What I do fear is that I have known my wife for 20 years - she is not even Australian - and when the Tiges do get good she (and the kids) will see a side of me they have never seen before, and I do wonder about the impact on the family harmony.

As for the clothes ... doesn't make alot of difference in Denmark. Here, you have to actually TELL people how bad they are .

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