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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: mightytiges on November 08, 2008, 08:20:22 PM
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With Crawf retiring I think Richo is now the eldest statesman playing in the AFL. It'd be great if he can play 2 more years without injury, play finals and reach his 300 :pray.
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Can we fit a 2010 Norm Smith in there MT ;D
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Can we fit a 2010 Norm Smith in there MT ;D
How popular a decision would that be. We can only dream.
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Richo is now the oldest:
19/3/75 - Matthew Richardson
7/5/75 - Dustin Fletcher
16/2/76 - Adam Simpson
10/7/76 - Brendon Lade
18/7/76 - Brad Johnson
4/8/76 - Andrew McLeod
6/8/76 - Tyson Edwards
2/9/76 - Max Hudghton
5/10/76 - James McDonald
8/2/77 - Barry Hall
20/2/77 - Michael O'Loughlin
24/2/77 - Jason Akermanis
15/4/77 - Darren Milburn
15/8/77 - Anthony Rocca
30/12/77 - Scott Lucas
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The ages of the oldest players are certainly coming down..
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Old man Richo keeps rolling
richmondfc.com.au
By Tony Greenberg
Richmond champion Matthew Richardson will enter his 17th season of AFL football in 2009 as the oldest player in the competition.
Richardson, who debuted with the Tigers in 1993, turns 34 on March 19 next year, making him the league’s oldest player by a couple of months, ahead of Essendon defender Dustin Fletcher, who’ll turn 34 in May.
The recent retirements of Shane Crawford, Robert Harvey, Scott Burns, Scott West, Shane Wakelin and Peter Everitt means ‘Richo’ has now assumed the mantle of AFL football’s “eldest statesman”.
Richo also is in line to reach another couple of major milestones in 2009 . . .
If he plays 19 games, he will break the competition’s record for the most games in the No. 12 guernsey, which, ironically, is held by another Tigerland icon – Jack Titus (294 games).
And, Richo is just nine goals away from becoming only the 11th player in VFL/AFL history to crack the 800-goal barrier.
But he still has a fair way to go to break Titus’ long-standing record for the most goals scored by a league player wearing the No. 12 guernsey . . . Titus kicked 970 goals in his 294 games, which also makes him No. 1 on Richmond’s all-time goalkicking list.
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/tabid/6301/Default.aspx?newsid=69798