Richmond Football Club - Club history off australianfootball.com

[Phil Mrakov]

Great read !

Club Bio

As a youngster growing up in the 1920s, Jack Dyer's greatest ambition was to play VFL football for Richmond. Despite the fact that "it was just as hard to get an invitation to train as it was to get into the senior team" [1], such an aspiration was by no means as unrealistic as it would be today, when a young player's football destiny is typically determined by the AFL draft, irrespective of where he happens to live, or what he happens to want.

For Jack Dyer, playing football for Richmond was simply a logical extension and expression of who he was, and it is at least arguable that few if any players before or since have personified, not to mention helped mould, shape and develop, the essential character of a specific football club to the extent that he did. Players drafted by Richmond in the 21st Century will, for the most part, arrive at the club unburdened by expectation, pre-conception or any intrinsic sense of belonging, and for most of them, any loyalty they develop must needs be tenuous and transitory.

Cotinued at http://australianfootball.com/clubs/bio/Richmond/10

[mightytiges]

Nice find Mrakov  .

Even by the era KB played in there wasn't the Richmond born and breed mentality for most players as clubs had designated metro and country regions to recruit from. It was still tribal but KB always said they played for Hafey. Our current group despite the draft and the modern age of professionalism seem to be united for the Tiger cause which hopefully in the next couple of years finally delivers the fruit of success  .