One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: wayne on August 17, 2011, 11:19:01 AM
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KB just mentioned this on SEN.
Aged 92.
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Not a bad innings. RIP.
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has given millions to the club he loved rip.
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A wonderful man who loved the RFC unconditionally
RIP Mr Mandie
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A great businessman and a great Richmond FC person. RFC probably wouldnt even be around if it wasnt for David Mandie. RIP.
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RIP David and thanks for being such a great friend to the club
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Here's the Club's tribute on the RFC website:
Tigers mourn off-field icon
richmondfc.com.au
By Tony Greenberg
Wed 17 Aug, 2011
Richmond is mourning the passing of its long-time Club patron and No. 1 ticket-holder David Mandie, who died this morning aged 93.
Mr Mandie saw his first Richmond game as a five-year-old, in 1923, when he was taken by his mother to see the Tigers play Melbourne at the MCG.
“Richmond won, and my heart had been stolen,” he wrote in the foreword to the Club’s league football centenary celebration book, “Yellow & Black: 100 Years Of Tiger Treasures”, in 2008.
“Admittedly, an impressionable age, I was swept up in the emotion of the event, and can still recall the Tiger passion that danced around me that winter day,” he added.
Read full article at: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/121210/default.aspx
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RIP Mr Mandie, a true gentleman of the club he loved :bow
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Never knew the guy ,but have followed over the years the time,money,and effort he has put into the RFC.
RIP
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This is a quote from David Mandie
“For that is all we as Richmond supporters can do, follow them “. . . in any weather . . .” It should be every supporter’s mantra, no matter what level they follow the Tigers. Since that day as a very young boy, staring out enraptured between MCG bodies, I have known it always has been, and always will be, about the Club.”
Now if only the club in its entirity could follow this lead we would go ok.
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Here's the Club's tribute on the RFC website:
Tigers mourn off-field icon
richmondfc.com.au
By Tony Greenberg
Wed 17 Aug, 2011
Richmond is mourning the passing of its long-time Club patron and No. 1 ticket-holder David Mandie, who died this morning aged 93.
Mr Mandie saw his first Richmond game as a five-year-old, in 1923, when he was taken by his mother to see the Tigers play Melbourne at the MCG.
“Richmond won, and my heart had been stolen,” he wrote in the foreword to the Club’s league football centenary celebration book, “Yellow & Black: 100 Years Of Tiger Treasures”, in 2008.
“Admittedly, an impressionable age, I was swept up in the emotion of the event, and can still recall the Tiger passion that danced around me that winter day,” he added.
Read full article at: http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/121210/default.aspx
:thumbsup
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RIP
A truly great servant to the club he held so dear. :bow
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I hope he was able to watch and enjoy Sundays win. His last memory will be Shane Edwards dribbling a poster from 10 meters out :lol
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David Mandie, I salute you sir.
When we're at the football you shall be alive like us, and standing beside you. We will close our eyes and look around and we will see you there.
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Any word on a final contribution to the FTF?
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Any word on a final contribution to the FTF?
Caro says Mandie wouldn't have wanted others to know how much he donated.
Richmond bids farewell to an enduring and popular patron
Caroline Wilson
August 18, 2011
Tigerland has lost David Mandie, its most loyal benefactor.
DAVID Mandie's 88-year love affair with the Richmond Football Club was happily bookended by Tiger victories at the MCG - his first game a win over Melbourne in 1923 when he was five, and his last the club's round-seven victory this year against Fremantle.
What happened in between in the context of life is far too broad for these pages. But as a success story Mandie's is epic. In the context of football, Tigerland early yesterday lost its most enduring, loyal and generous benefactor.
Mandie has been Richmond's No. 1 supporter or patron for decades and he would hate the exact amount of his most recent act of generosity to the Fighting Tiger Fund recorded. But it should be remembered that coach Damien Hardwick's oft-spoken request for a competitive football team and department will be brought about largely thanks to the quiet backroom supporter who lived to 93.
Club president Gary March asked Mandie to present last year's Jack Dyer Medal to Jack Riewoldt. ''I'm so glad he did it,'' said March yesterday.
''For me he's up there with the Jack Dyers as a truly great Richmond person. Over the years he employed so many of our great stars and kept them at the club, and I will never forget the unconditional support he has given me.''
My personal memories of David Mandie are highlighted by his great personal charm, a legacy continued by his children and grandchildren. After Richmond won back-to-back flags in 1973 and '74, he presented both my father Ian, who was then club president, and long-time powerbroker Graeme Richmond, a watch and a Parker pen.
Those were happy days at Punt Road, punctuated by the Mandies' love of ceremony and September dinners at Florentino where three couples; the Mandies, my parents and Graeme and Jan Richmond, would quietly toast success - customary then but not seen at Richmond since 1980. That year, reportedly, even Graeme allowed himself a glass of champagne. David's late wife Minnie brought glamour to Tigerland with her fur coats and contagious smile, while David until close to the end would honour every occasion with a small bow and often a speech to mark it.
My father remembers how Mandie knew the numbers of every Richmond footballer dating back to the 1920s: ''Martin Bolger, Basil McCormack, Jack Baggott, he knew them all,'' he said yesterday. ''Whatever Graeme and I did, he gave us his total support, through good and bad times - and there were bad times.''
This was true of every administration, because Mandie was never political, declining repeated offers to join the Richmond board. The closest he moved to controversy in my memory was his unsuccessful attempt to convince Kevin Bartlett to return to the club to unveil the Jack Dyer statue outside the Punt Road Oval - one of his many gifts to Richmond.
Mandie's formal association with Richmond began in the early 1950s when the family bought the James Richardson liquor business in Abbotsford. Just as his mother took him to his first game as a five-year-old, Mandie's eldest son Ian recalls the day his father took him to Moorabbin.
It was 1955 and Jack Dyer jnr was playing on the forward line. ''Richmond was mandatory for our family,'' Ian said yesterday. ''He only had eyes for Richmond in one sense but he had eyes for the game as a whole as well.''
It is true that Mandie is a significant figure in the AFL's history, appointed the chairman of the VFL committee that ultimately established the basis for the transformation of the competition into its present AFL national structure.
But the Tigers, the once mighty football club which has endured so much pain over the past three decades, will always claim the No. 1 benefactor who never deserted them as theirs. Club chief executive Brendon Gale yesterday recalled the forward Mandie wrote several years ago in the Richmond centenary book which referred to his first game, aged five, in 1923. Mandie wrote: ''Since that day as a very young boy staring out enraptured between MCG bodies I have known it always has been and always will be about the club.''
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/richmond-bids-farewell-to-an-enduring-and-popular-patron-20110817-1iy2r.html#ixzz1VIx4yx85
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Great article by Caro :clapping
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Sounds like a great man. RIP
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RIP
A truly great servant to the club he held so dear. :bow
Well said HMH.