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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on February 02, 2007, 01:55:43 PM
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2007 Hall of Fame and Season Launch
Monday, March 26
Regent Theatre
Who do you guys and gals think will be inducted this year?
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Current Hall of Famers:
Immortals:
2002: Jack Dyer OAM
2003: Tom Hafey
2004: Kevin Bartlett AM, Francis Bourke
Hall of Fame inductees:
2002: Kevin Bartlett AM, Percy Bentley, Francis Bourke, Dick Clay, Roger Dean, Jack Dyer OAM, Royce Hart, Bill Morris, Michael Roach, Kevin Sheedy AM, Vic Thorp, Jack Titus, Dale Weightman, Roy Wright
2004: Michael Green, Richard 'Dick' Harris, Frank ‘Checker’ Hughes, Basil McCormack, Max Oppy, Des Rowe
2005: Martin Bolger, Hugh James, Mervyn Keane
2006: Ron Branton, Clarrie Hall, Bryan Wood
Hall of Fame coaches:
2002: Tom Hafey, Dan Minogue
Hall of Fame servants:
2002: Charles Backhouse, Charlie Callander, James Charles, Neville Crowe, Ray Dunn, Tony Jewell, Graeme Richmond, Alice Wills
2004: Barney Herbert, Barry Richardson
2006: Allan Cooke
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Who do you guys and gals think will be inducted this year?
Royce should be an immortal.
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Umm, this is gonna sound like a really stupid question, but what does AM and OAM mean? :-[
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Geoff Raines should get inducted.
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Umm, this is gonna sound like a really stupid question, but what does AM and OAM mean? :-[
They're Australia Day honours for achievement.
AM - Member of the Order of Australia
OAM - Medal of the Order of Australia
There is also AO - Officer of the Order of Australia and AC - Companion of the Order of Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Australia
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2007 Hall of Fame and Season Launch
Monday, March 26
Regent Theatre
Why a Monday night :banghead :banghead
I agree with MT about Royce being an immortal :clapping
I would also like to see someone inducted as a servant rather than just seeing players inducted - like Dusty O'Brien etc
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I think the time has come for the great Wayne Campbell to be immortalised ;D
Seriously though, agree Hart should be immortalised. Jack Titus probably should as well.
Ian Stewart should be inducted, despite playing less than 100 games for us, and Geoff Raines, Maurice Rioli and David Cloke should all get in as well.
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Geoff Raines ... and David Cloke should all get in as well.
Damir might have to wait a few more years given Travis went to Collingwood but Geoffery has been forgiven lol.
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Geoff Raines ... and David Cloke should all get in as well.
Damir might have to wait a few more years given Travis went to Collingwood but Geoffery has been forgiven lol.
Good point.
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Richmond Football Club Hall of Fame and Season Launch 2007
The Richmond Football Club's Hall of Fame and Season Launch 2007 gala evening will be held on Monday, March 26, at the Plaza Ballroom, Regent Theatre starting at 7.00pm.
Highlights of the evening include the announcement of the Club’s latest group of Hall of Fame inductees, the presentation of the 2007 playing list and an address from both coach Terry Wallace and Tiger captain Kane Johnson.
For $165 per head (incl. GST) you’ll also receive a sumptuous three-course meal, beverages and great entertainment.
For bookings, or further enquiries, please contact the Richmond Events Department on (03) 9426 4485.
Download booking form (pdf format 281 KB) (http://richmondfc.com.au/cp2/c2/webi/article/316697af.pdf)
http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=insidetheclub&spg=aroundtheclubdisplay&articleid=316700
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Barrot back where he belongs
22 March 2007 Herald-Sun
Daryl Timms
IF BILL Barrot has any regrets about his league career, it's simply that he didn't finish it where it began.
In one of football's most famous swaps, Barrot was traded to St Kilda in exchange for Ian Stewart who claimed his third Brownlow Medal in his first season with the Tigers.
Barrot, a star centreman who played 120 games for Richmond, had a brief stint with the Saints. He kicked four goals in his first game with his new club in 1971, but was taken off at three-quarter time in the next game, which was to be his last with St Kilda.
Just a few weeks later he transferred to Carlton where he played 12 games and then went to North Melbourne where he didn't play a game. Next came a stint coaching and playing for West Torrens in Adelaide and then he played for, and later coached, VFA side Oakleigh.
Barrot, 62, and three other Tigers will be inducted into Richmond's Hall of Fame at the club's season launch at the Regent Theatre on Monday.
David Cloke will also be inducted along with premiership captain Alec Edmond who played from 1899-1907, and Alan Geddes who played from 1925-35 and was a captain and premiership player.
Barrot, together with Francis Bourke and Dick Clay an integral part of Richmond's famed midfield, is happy to be honoured.
"In my day you could become a life member and that was it," Barrot said.
"Becoming a hall of famer was an impossible dream because it was never heard of in our day."
Long after his retirement, Barrot's return to Punt Rd nearly killed him when he suffered a heart attack in a Richmond's legends game in 2003.
"Look it could have happened at home while I was doing my training and I would have had my Doberman dog licking my face trying to revive me rather than doctor David Marsh reviving me," he said.
`I was lucky there was an ambulance outside the ground attending an accident.
"There are really no rules. Your heart could stop like a car engine."
Barrot admits he was never the same player after his departure from Richmond.
"I just lost a lot of heart, and confidence in people," he said.
"But, in another respect, it improved my life because I learnt so much when I left Richmond."
Bookings for the Hall of Fame ceremony and season launch, can be made by contacting the club on (03) 9426 4485.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,21424272%255E19742,00.html
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Congratulations Billy, well deserved :bow
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Good choices by the RFC :clapping and a well deserved honour to all four :clapping.
When WP and I were putting OER together we checked out "Tigerland" and newspaper articles from earlier eras for our premiership pages on the website. Geddes came across as a big game player for his time in the early-mid 1930s. From memory the press named him B.O.G. in one of our premierships which these days would have made him a Norm Smith medalist.
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Good choices by the RFC :clapping and a well deserved honour to all four :clapping.
When WP and I were putting OER together we checked out "Tigerland" and newspaper articles from earlier eras for our premiership pages on the website. Geddes came across as a big game player for his time in the early-mid 1930s. From memory the press named him B.O.G. in one of our premierships which these days would have made him a Norm Smith medalist.
Alan Geddes, Eddie Sczeck & Stan Judkins made up great centreline (my older brothers and family members told me so - Richmond since the late 19830s - and proud of it!) :gotigers
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if cloke gets in then its a big joke and being in the HOF will lose all its prestige
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Barrot ... should be inducted ...
Cloke will ... but not now ...
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So who went from OER?
Any goss?
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2007 RICHMOND HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
By Greg Lange, for Richmond Football Club
March 27, 2007
Alec Edmond: Instrumental in Richmond’s rise from VFA power through to its admission to the VFL in 1908. He played as a defender for most of his nine-season, 126-game career from 1899 to 1907. Edmond was Richmond’s first great on-field leader, captaining the side into five successive VFA grand finals from 1901 and taking the premiership in 1905 and 1907. In his seven years as captain the club never finished lower than third.
Allan Geddes: One of Richmond’s finest wingmen and toughest leaders. His polish, stab-kicking and evasive skills made him a stand-out player of his era. He came to the club from Williamstown and was best and fairest in his second season. The next year, 1927, he took over as captain. He played in a total of 18 finals, including six grand finals and two premierships, in 1932 and 1934. Geddes represented Victoria nine times.
Bill Barrot: Supremely fit and superbly built, he was one of the key players in Richmond’s rise from obscurity in the 60s to become a powerhouse. Bugsy’s ability to break the game open and dash from the centre and pepper the goals with his raking drop kicks became an integral part of Tommy Hafey’s premiership formula. Barrot was best on ground in the drought-breaking premiership season of 1967, and starred again two years later against Carlton on the biggest stage of all. Barrot played 120 games from 1961 to 1970, won the Tigers’ best and fairest in 1965, represented the Big V 11 times and is a Richmond Team of the Century member.
David Cloke: Followed big brother Peter to Tigerland and was best first-year player in the Tigers’ premiership year of 1974. The man-mountain started on the half-forward flank but as he matured, took over at centre half- forward from Royce Hart. In the 1980 Grand Final, Cloke kicked half a dozen goals and, along with KB, ensured the winning margin against Collingwood would be a Grand Final record. In 1982 Cloke captained the Tigers into another Grand Final before heading to Collingwood. He came back and played his final two years with Richmond, ending a magnificent 219-game career (1974-82, 1990-91) with an eight-goal performance against Carlton in his farewell game. Cloke won All-Australian honours in 1979 and slipped on the Victorian jumper eight times.
http://richmondfc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/6301/Default.aspx?newsId=40055