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#1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« on: August 17, 2011, 11:19:01 AM »
KB just mentioned this on SEN.

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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2011, 11:31:07 AM »
Not a bad innings. RIP.
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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2011, 11:32:42 AM »
has given millions to the club he loved rip.


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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2011, 11:37:31 AM »
A wonderful man who loved the RFC unconditionally

RIP Mr Mandie
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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2011, 11:44:50 AM »
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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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2011, 11:56:49 AM »
RIP David and thanks for being such a great friend to the club

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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2011, 03:44:32 PM »
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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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2011, 03:56:11 PM »
RIP Mr Mandie, a true gentleman of the club he loved  :bow

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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2011, 03:58:02 PM »
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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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2011, 04:38:33 PM »
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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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2011, 04:59:36 PM »
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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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2011, 06:13:49 PM »
RIP

A truly great servant to the club he held so dear.  :bow

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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2011, 08:19:18 PM »
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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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2011, 10:22:05 PM »
David Mandie, I salute you sir.

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Re: #1 Ticket Holder David Mandie passes away
« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2011, 10:34:10 PM »
Any word on a final contribution to the FTF?
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