Tucky to take ‘Jack’ home?
11:44:02 AM Tue 23 August, 2005
Tony Greenberg
richmondfc.com.au
We’re just over three weeks away from learning if Shane Tuck can achieve in just 25 games at Richmond what his illustrious father, Michael, couldn’t in 426 games at Hawthorn – win a club Best and Fairest award.
Amazingly, given Tuck senior’s remarkable 20-year playing stint in the Brown and Gold, which included a staggering seven premierships, he never managed to capture the Hawks’ B & F.
The likes of Leigh Matthews, Terry Wallace, Peter Knights, Dermott Brereton, Gary Ayres, John Platten and Jason Dunstall all managed to pip ‘Tucky’ in Hawthorn’s Best and Fairest count, at one time or another, throughout his magnificent two-decade career.
Shane Tuck, who made his AFL debut with Richmond in 2004 and played three games, has had a huge impact in his first full season of league football this year.
He has played in all 21 home-and-away games, averaging nearly 24 possessions per match, and is widely acknowledged as the competition’s most-improved player this season.
Will it be enough for him to win Richmond’s Best and Fairest award – the prestigious Jack Dyer Medal?
Be there at the Regent Theatre’s Plaza Ballroom on Friday, September 16 (from 7pm) to find out, as another chapter in the proud history of the Richmond Football Club is written.
Tickets for the Jack Dyer Medal Night cost $150 each and can be purchased by calling Mark Campbell on (03) 9426 4485.
Apart from watching all the excitement of the medal count unfold, and other Club awards handed out, you’ll enjoy a three-course meal, refreshments and entertainment, surrounded by all Tiger players and coaching staff, who will be in attendance.
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