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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on March 16, 2018, 02:11:59 PM
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How did Daria Gavrilova get her hands on Richmond’s premiership trophy?
March 16, 2018
by Alex Blair
Source: news.com.au
THE AFL premiership trophy often finds itself in weird and wonderful places after each year’s grand final as the victor parades the competiton’s holy grail to fans around the country.
The Richmond Tigers had extra reason to show off their silverware after snagging a monumental grand final victory over favourites the Adelaide Crows last September.
The cup travelled to everywhere between Darwin, Adelaide and Melbourne to give stoic fans a taste of success after a 37-year premiership drought. But somehow throughout the two-month tour, the trophy found itself in the hands of an Aussie tennis star.
World No. 26 Daria Gavrilova was reportedly in a bit of hot water with the Tigers following the Melbourne club’s premiership triumph.
The Aussie firebrand’s cheeky personality and on-court aggression have made her a crowd favourite, but she may have lost a few supporters in Richmond after “disrespecting” their chalice on social media.
Football journalist Damian Barrett revealed how the bizarre situation played out on last night’s edition of The AFL Footy Show.
“The cup they so famously won has been to many and varied places in the many months after that famous win, including finding itself in the possession of Daria Gavrilova,” Barrett said.
“She managed to have the cup for some period of time late last year and while she had it, she chose to use it in a way which, it’s probably fair to say, angered the Richmond football players.
“She used it, for what we’ll describe as ‘household chores’ on this particular occasion.”
Richmond players were reportedly furious at the 24-year-old.
“They were not happy,” Barrett said. “They saw that photo in a very different lens to the one which Gavrilova had taken the photo, but she very innocently and playfully did what she did with the cup.”
This was a very different photo scandal to the one which landed Tiger Nathan Broad in hot water when he distributed a photograph of a topless woman wearing a premiership medal, and it stunned Footy Show hosts Eddie McGuire and Sam Newman as they pestered Barrett for more details.
“She used (the cup) around the house for some laundry, maybe some washing,” Barrett said. “I’m just relaying what the players said. They demanded the photo be taken off the airwaves and destroyed.”
A friend of Gavrilova working at the Melbourne club had to step in to “smooth things over” after the Tigers reportedly scolded her for her apology.
“They sought an apology, and it was given, but in their eyes it was a tad flippant,” Barrett said. “That then impacted on Kate Sheahan, a friend of Gavrilova’s who’s also an employee of the Tigers. Senior players had to speak to Sheahan to thrash this matter out.
“It’s been smoothed over but there was some serious tension over what the Richmond players described as “disrespecting the premiership cup”.
In typical blunt fashion, Newman piped up and got down to the dirty details.
“She didn’t ablute in it did she,” he said to howling laughter. “(Did she put) soiled underwear in it?”
Barrett shook off the curveball and simply said the act was “harmless in Gavrilova’s eyes” but angered the club.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/richmonds-new-grand-final-photo-problem-this-time-with-tennis-ace-daria-gavrilova/news-story/562448095e8c8a2bae40a6f4a5fe6f51
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How on earth was she given the cup for any extended period of time?
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Why isn't White Ribbon controlling these floozies
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The real question is How did a stuffing Sheahan get into our club?
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The real question is How did a stuffing Sheahan get into our club?
Ask the CEO one Benny Gale he hired her
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I know the club has been absolutely fantastic with this kind of stuff
If Kate works there she was given it and yeah you just gotta trust your friends
To be appreciative and respectful
Very very disappointing, whoever was entrusted with it should of been with it the whole
Time and not let this happen
🙁
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I blame the club 100% this cup tour has become a joke. The person who gave the cup to Gavrilova should have been sacked but we
are too political, people trash our premiership cup and no one cares except the players. I'm happy with the administration but they
show major weakness sometimes, this premiership cup has been disrespected from the start, from the poor engraving job which is
shocking to what Gavrilova did. Someone should have paid the price with their job, but No, its ok, its just a cup, anybody can just use
use it as a piece of junk.
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Benny gives the OK you have to sign a declaration presume that goes for most bar players ?
Anyway very disappointing
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Theyre going feral on BigFooty Richmond Forum. They all want Sheahan sacked.
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It’s a stuffen tragedy that the spoilt little Ruskie ever got her hands on it!
Then to insult the club with a peeweak apology is a disgrace.
I hope they revoke her stuffen citizenship and put on the next boat home to poosville
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I blame the club 100% this cup tour has become a joke. The person who gave the cup to Gavrilova should have been sacked but we
are too political, people trash our premiership cup and no one cares except the players. I'm happy with the administration but they
show major weakness sometimes, this premiership cup has been disrespected from the start, from the poor engraving job which is
shocking to what Gavrilova did. Someone should have paid the price with their job, but No, its ok, its just a cup, anybody can just use
use it as a piece of junkr
Agree Ramps.
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Ring the club on Monday and vent your disapointment
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Theyre going feral on BigFooty Richmond Forum. They all want Sheahan sacked.
Apparently she was married to a pedo....did not know that...
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To be fair to Gavrilova, she probably didn't really know what to do with the cup.
It is not like she has many in her collection.
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On another matter the Richmond mod on Big Footy reckons he saw our cup and its scratched, dinged and had all sorts of damage
to it.
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On another matter the Richmond mod on Big Footy reckons he saw our cup and its scratched, dinged and had all sorts of damage
to it.
Had anyone taken a dump in it?
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The cup looked fine when I held it a week or two ago at Dusty’s thing at Crown. Good to see a few quality melts on here again though, been a bit too upbeat since September.
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The cup is sitting at my joint at the moment and it’s in perfect nick.
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The cup is sitting at my joint at the moment and it’s in perfect nick.
That's a copy. The real one is at my place.
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Joke’s on you guys. I have the real one and I’m using it as a bucket bong.
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On another matter the Richmond mod on Big Footy reckons he saw our cup and its scratched, dinged and had all sorts of damage
to it.
That's called character ramps.
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On another matter the Richmond mod on Big Footy reckons he saw our cup and its scratched, dinged and had all sorts of damage
to it.
That's called character ramps.
You havent taken up digs as a real estate agent now have you owl?