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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: mightytiges on March 20, 2011, 09:07:01 PM

Title: Operation Premiership
Post by: mightytiges on March 20, 2011, 09:07:01 PM
I didn't know this was on OneHD now until I flicked through the channels and saw Tommy Hafey talking. It's about North in the 1970s but Hafey talked about how he was paid $8000 in those days as were our top 4 players. Richmond spoke to John Rantall during that brief 10-year rule period but North had borrowed a heap of money for those days from the Commonwealth Bank and were handing over $20000 cash to players to sign on and then another $10000 to play. $20000 in the 70s paid for a house.

It'd be great if we are able to make a doco in the future about 2010+ called Hardwick: Operation Premiership  :pray
Title: Re: Operation Premiership
Post by: bojangles17 on March 20, 2011, 09:12:56 PM
where did the heck the money come from, they signed a heap of players..is it any wonder they were broke for years to come ::)
Title: Re: Operation Premiership
Post by: Hellenic Tiger on March 20, 2011, 09:38:47 PM
where did the heck the money come from, they signed a heap of players..is it any wonder they were broke for years to come ::)

A club with no support borrowing heaps from the bank in the 70's equals a club with no support who have nothing in the bank in 2011 who in 2007 turned down a $100 million offer to play on the Gold Coast.

Morons.  :lol :rollin :lol
Title: Re: Operation Premiership
Post by: mightytiges on March 20, 2011, 09:57:37 PM
where did the heck the money come from, they signed a heap of players..is it any wonder they were broke for years to come ::)
From memory the board members of North at that time borrowed against their homes.

They just talked about the 1974 GF with vision of the old 'G decked out with Y&B slogans and banners around the grandstands  :thumbsup. They showed Tommy Hafey telling a reporter pre-game that he was confident we'd go back-to-back because we had comfortably beaten North during the season with many of our best players missing. You wouldn't hear such confidence from a modern coach publicly before a GF nowdays because they'd be afraid of giving the opposition ammo as the media would beat it up.