Operation Premiership

[mightytiges]

I didn't know this was on OneHD now until I flicked through the channels and saw Tommy Hafey talking. It's about North in the 1970s but Hafey talked about how he was paid $8000 in those days as were our top 4 players. Richmond spoke to John Rantall during that brief 10-year rule period but North had borrowed a heap of money for those days from the Commonwealth Bank and were handing over $20000 cash to players to sign on and then another $10000 to play. $20000 in the 70s paid for a house.

It'd be great if we are able to make a doco in the future about 2010+ called Hardwick: Operation Premiership  

[bojangles17]

where did the heck the money come from, they signed a heap of players..is it any wonder they were broke for years to come

[Hellenic Tiger]

where did the heck the money come from, they signed a heap of players..is it any wonder they were broke for years to come

A club with no support borrowing heaps from the bank in the 70's equals a club with no support who have nothing in the bank in 2011 who in 2007 turned down a $100 million offer to play on the Gold Coast.

Morons. 

[mightytiges]

where did the heck the money come from, they signed a heap of players..is it any wonder they were broke for years to come

From memory the board members of North at that time borrowed against their homes.

They just talked about the 1974 GF with vision of the old 'G decked out with Y&B slogans and banners around the grandstands  . They showed Tommy Hafey telling a reporter pre-game that he was confident we'd go back-to-back because we had comfortably beaten North during the season with many of our best players missing. You wouldn't hear such confidence from a modern coach publicly before a GF nowdays because they'd be afraid of giving the opposition ammo as the media would beat it up.