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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on December 04, 2008, 06:30:05 PM
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For those interested Billy Barrot was interviewed on Sport 927
"Our Past To Present segment features former Richmond star, Bill Barrot."
http://www.sport927.com.au/gateway/Daily_Audio/Sound%20Grabs/BB_031208.asx (http://www.sport927.com.au/gateway/Daily_Audio/Sound%20Grabs/BB_031208.asx)
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Sad day for the tiges, another legend has passed away.
Condolences to his family.
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One of the most dynamic players ever to wear the yellow and black.
Escaped a massive heart attack and cardiac arrest several years ago. I saw him in ICU at Epworth when that happened. At least his family got some quality time with him after that.
Condolences to the Barrot family.
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Nooooo!
Loved watching Buggsy play.
It was great seeing him at the JD a few years ago.
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Bit young to remember him playing but his legacy was huge for anyone who read up on the history of the Tigers.
An all time Tiger great, sad to hear of his passing.
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Bit young to remember him playing but his legacy was huge for anyone who read up on the history of the Tigers.
An all time Tiger great, sad to hear of his passing.
Yep well said.
RIP Billy
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RIP Billy.
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RIP Billy.
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Bummer :-[ RIP Billy Barrot
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Vale Buggsy
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R.I.P.
Tigers flags hero Barrot dies, 72
Jon Anderson
Herald Sun
29 November 2016
BILL Barrot, the roaming Richmond centreman of the 1960s who put the “m” into mercurial, has died of heart failure aged 72.
Barrot was a catalyst of the Tommy Hafey years, setting the Tigers alight in premiership seasons 1967 and 1969.
Those years provided “Bugsy” Barrot with the only five finals of a 120-game career with Richmond (he also played two games with St Kilda in 1970 and 12 at Carlton in 1971) and each time he was named in Richmond’s best, in 1967 twice best on ground.
He was a strongly-built 180cm centreman who could also go forward with devastating effect as he proved against Carlton at Princes Park in Round 19 of 1969 when kicking eight goals after swapping between the centre and full-forward with Eric Moore.
AFL Team of the Century wingman Francis Bourke, who formed the famous Richmond centre line of Bourke-Barrot-(Dick) Clay, recalled his teammate.
“He was by far the best running drop-kick exponent I saw and you could argue he was most spectacular big-game player I’ve seen for Richmond,” said Bourke, 69.
“Who else but the eccentric Bugsy Barrot would take a mark on the forward flank in front of the MCC Members, hold the ball aloft to that section of the crowd before slotting a 55m torpedo goal straight through the middle in the Grand Final, as he did in 1969?
“He was born to play in big games and had a unique way to respond to the pressure of those games. He was extremely powerful and the ball seemed to drop into his hands, which is what often happens with those freakish players.
“We wouldn’t have made the finals in 1969 but for Billy kicking all those goals against Carlton when we were in real trouble.”
Ian Stewart, centre in the AFL Team of the Century, was a regular opponent of Barrot between 1963-71 and they swapped clubs in 1970, Barrot to St Kilda and Stewart to Richmond.
He believes the ultimate accolade paid to Barrot were the number of children who wore his number 24.
“Richmond obviously had many great players in that era but because of the spectacular nature of his game, more kids wore 24 than any other Tiger number,” said Stewart, 73.
“He was a very fit player and as such a prolific runner, like a lot of players are today.
“He was supremely confident the ball was going his way and as such would run forward, making him a dangerous opponent.
“I honestly don’t why he dropped out of favour at Richmond but I would think it hurt him because he was very much a confidence player.”
Barrot (centre) with premiership teammates Francis Bourke and Dick Clay.
Legendary sports journalist Mike Sheahan said you needed to think of enigmatic players to conjure up an image of Barrot in full flight:
“When Billy Barrot was on he was Phil Carman-like, unstoppable,” Sheahan said.
“But you didn’t always know when you had him or not. To give you an idea, Billy at his best was a better player than Patrick Dangerfield because he hurt you a lot more with his feet.
“He was the player who the opposition hope and pray would have a bad day because there was nothing you could do otherwise.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/richmond-premiership-hero-bill-barrot-has-died-aged-72/news-story/d3e580cac850473746bbcbf4daf895bb
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What did he pass from?
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What did he pass from?
Heart failure.
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What did he pass from?
Heart failure.
Following richmond will do that to you
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What did he pass from?
Heart failure.
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Was at Princes Park when he kicked 8 in the second half
Great player who could turn a game
The day he kicked 8 was the day when Lionel Rose lost his world title
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Tiger greats gather to farewell Barrot
JON ANDERSON
Herald Sun
7 December 2016
PLENTY played more games and hundreds kicked more goals but few have matched the excitement generated by Bill Barrot in a Richmond career spanning from 1961-70.
And that was the theme on Tuesday at a memorial service in Dandenong when a crowd of 300-odd came to celebrate the life of the enigmatic centreman in 120 games with the yellow and black, Barrot dying from heart failure aged 72 on November 29.
His premiership teammates from 1967-69 were out in force, including Roger Dean, Tony Jewell, Graham Burgin, Mike Perry, Dick Clay, Francis Bourke, Paddy Guinane, John Ronaldson, Kevin Bartlett, Michael Green, John Perry and Ian Owen.
It was those years that were spoken of when eulogists in brother Lou Barrot, Francis Bourke, racing trainer Robbie Griffiths and Richmond historian Bill Meaklim captured the extremities in Barrot’s life.
From a junior Victorian discus champion and teenage five-handicapper at golf, to a racehorse trainer at Cranbourne where he more resembled US comedian Rodney Dangerfield than AFL footballer Patrick Dangerfield, whose explosive playing style has been likened to Barrot.
The Richmond premiership centre-line of Bourke-Barrot-Clay will remain indelibly etched in AFL history, the same line that forms Richmond’s 1997 Team of the Century. According to Bourke, Barrot was the catalyst for the fame that line enjoys to this day.
“Billy could do things most of us wouldn’t even consider such as the goal he kicked at Adelaide Oval against Sturt in an end of season game. He was the key to the Bourke-Barrot-Clay ‘thing’ as I call it, but don’t worry, Dick (Clay) and I have got plenty of mileage out of it,” said Bourke, 69.
Clay, who played with Barrot from 1966-70, agreed that Barrot was a one-off: “Ask anybody about Billy and you will get the same descriptions: inspirational, explosive, dynamic. It didn’t worry him if it was wet or dry because he read the play so well,” said Clay, 71, who played 213 games with Richmond including four Premierships.
“Some players just seem made for big games and that was Billy. And he was superfit which helped although towards the end he probably became too obsessed with the weights.”
Certainly fitness was a key component in his life, from his bulging biceps to the racehorses he trained after his football career ended with VFA club Oakleigh. As Robbie Griffiths noted, when speaking on behalf of the Victorian branch of The Australian Trainers’ Association, Barrot was a fitness fanatic.
“He was hardcore about fitness and I have no doubt people like Bill and Tommy Hafey changed attitudes towards fitness. He would come down to the Cranbourne track each morning where there are 158 trainers, and I reckon by the end of the morning he had spoken to every trainer,” laughed Griffiths.
Michael Green said there wasn’t too much Barrot couldn’t do if he set his mind to it.
“I played with and against many champions but very few of them were what you would call out and out matchwinners, but Billy certainly was,” he said.
“One of the tests of Bill Barrot was how opposition supporters responded so strongly to his death because his style and personality made him one of those rare players who was loved outside of his own team.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/bill-barrot-farewelled-by-hundreds-celebrating-his-life-on-and-off-the-field/news-story/9dcafe6eaf363b1e0c8836e22626856c
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Rhett Bartlett has posted on Youtube & Twitter/X some highlights of Billy Barrot.
Youtube:
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vYZhCou3OnU/hqdefault.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYZhCou3OnU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYZhCou3OnU
Twitter/X:
https://x.com/rhettrospective/status/1872500471400984702