One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: Shiner on May 21, 2011, 05:30:19 AM
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As we are playing Essendon this week. I realized how much the young Tigers are reminding me of the baby bombers exactly 30 years ago.
Under a new coach in Sheedy... they lost their first five or so..... when on a tear and went on to win back 2 back premierships and played finals for about 9 or 10 years.
I am seeing a similar rise and future coming up for Dimma and the mighty Tiges!!!
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15 straight wins coming up eh Shiner ;).
Barry Davis put together most of the baby bombers as coach from 1978-80. Sheedy inherited that young side and turned them into a finals side in his first year and then a premiership side by 1984. One thing Sheedy did do with the list he inherited was weed out those who had been around for a few years and were playing regularly in the seniors yet who he didn't believe were good enough to play in premiership side - Max Crow, Ronny Andrews, Justin Madden and Tony Buhagiar from memory were some of them. Mark Eustice was offloaded to us :P.
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yeh this is true they have a fair crack at it (https://imageshackau.com/sports/52/b/happy.gif)(https://imageshackau.com/sports/123/b/happy.gif)
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