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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on November 01, 2008, 03:26:23 AM
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Sheedy - always ahead of the game
Dan Silkstone | November 1, 2008
Sheeds is always reading: politics, history, geography and coaching. At the moment, a history of India nestles in his portmanteau. Mention of it sparks him as he runs through his plan for an Essendon-Richmond game on the subcontinent: "We could call it the Bengal Tigers versus the Bombay Bombers."
Richmond first approached him about returning soon after he left Windy Hill. Sheedy told them he needed time away and to ask him again in a year. Now, he says, he is ready to go back to the club where he made his name. It is a club that tried more than once to recruit him as coach and which has enjoyed little success since he left it three decades ago.
He goes to the club, brimming with ideas and hoping to lift membership and fortunes while resolving to stay resolutely out of football department business.
He wants to build a new corporate coterie group for young executives, the sort of thing that Collingwood and Essendon have specialised in. "Richmond could be masters in that area," he says. He wants to further promote the dreamtime game and his newest contribution to the fixture, a "Eureka Game" between Richmond and North Melbourne based around paying tribute to the working class.
He felt, he says, an obligation to go back there and now considers himself a Tiger once more. When the two clubs clash next season in the Dreamtime at the 'G match that he invented, Sheedy will be barracking for Richmond. "I left Essendon and that was their decision not mine," he says. "I am a Richmond person now."
http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/sheedy--always-ahead-of-the-game/2008/10/31/1224956333152.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
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"I left Essendon and that was their decision not mine," he says. "I am a Richmond person now."
Sheeds is still not over his sacking by Essendon. If it motivates him for us to stick it up the Bombers and we fill out the 'G when we meet in the Dreamtime game then he's doing his job.
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Yep I think it was excerpts from his book that I read bits of that he is definitely still peeved with the way the EFC handled his sacking and has major questions over the integrity of their president (I think it was the president anyway)
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i hope Sheedy turns this club to like it was in his playing days
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Fair play to him - its not dilly dallying about sitting on the fence with his fingers in both pies (how many more idioms should I add). Strong words there.