Richmond’s Best 22 of the AFL era? ..... (Herald-Sun)

[Owl]

I would pick Dimma as well, this is the only time in this period of our history we have even looked remotely like a team that could win a premiership.  Any other time we made finals I thought it was all very nice but just peeing in the wind, we were making up numbers.  Despite our stupid 3 peat exits.  The North one could be argued was a perfect storm of bs.  Team resting, umpire error and Chaplin getting owned by a midget we de-listed years ago bahaha.

[Petey]

MATE, ya kidding me aren't ya pal? Northey/Frawley get into prelims but we were just making up the numbers. Dimma coaches 3 straight finals, 2 pathetic losses against 8th(9th) and a pathetic smashing against POrt Adelaide...yet he was unlucky and we should have been premiers? give it a rest

[torch]

Northey should be coach. He won us a final and united the team with an "us against them" mentality that we haven't had since.

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and in 1995 had half a side out and still made a prelim.

what on earth happened post-1995 season?

[eliminator]

1995 was a great effort when you consider that Richo was seriously injured that year. If Richo had not been injured that year we could have gone further. If Northey had stayed in 1996 I believe we would have made the finals but instead Walls set about destroying a good team.

[RollsRoyce]

Northey should be coach. He won us a final and united the team with an "us against them" mentality that we haven't had since.

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and in 1995 had half a side out and still made a prelim.

what on earth happened post-1995 season?

I don't know, it would've been interesting to be a fly on the wall around the place at that time. There was all kinds of speculation amongst supporters that Northey waving his jacket around after the semi- final win against Essendon was a reference to the club head-hunting Sheedy. All I remember was a couple of days after the great win, turning on the news and seeing Northey's girlfriend in the carpark outside the club angrily telling the assembled media that Mal Brown was a back-stabber and a bully. Next thing Walls is our coach, and despite assurances that he will only "tweak" our game plan, goes about methodically destroying everything we had built up.

[Owl]

MATE, ya kidding me aren't ya pal? Northey/Frawley get into prelims but we were just making up the numbers. Dimma coaches 3 straight finals, 2 pathetic losses against 8th(9th) and a pathetic smashing against POrt Adelaide...yet he was unlucky and we should have been premiers? give it a rest

dont stuffing put words in my mouth , I didn't stuffing say we should of been premiers anywhere right? I said this team is the first time we have even remotely looked like a side that could have a serious crack at it and Dimma is the coach, therefore correct weight, he gets the nod.  Give yourself an uppercut and sit the stuff down

[Petey]

You're silly dude. how can sides who get near a GF "make up the numbers" and a side that can't beat poo teams "look like an AFL Premiership winner".

[Owl]

You're silly dude. how can sides who get near a GF "make up the numbers" and a side that can't beat poo teams "look like an AFL Premiership winner".

why are you putting quotes around 'AFL Premiership winner'?  Who are you quoting?  It wouldn't be me because I didn't type any such thing.  I wrote, and here Ill quote it for you, this; "this is the only time in this period of our history we have even looked remotely like a team that could win a premiership".

[the claw]

You're silly dude. how can sides who get near a GF "make up the numbers" and a side that can't beat poo teams "look like an AFL Premiership winner".

why are you putting quotes around 'AFL Premiership winner'?  Who are you quoting?  It wouldn't be me because I didn't type any such thing.  I wrote, and here Ill quote it for you, this; "this is the only time in this period of our history we have even looked remotely like a team that could win a premiership".

Why do you say that, so far we dont remotely look like a premiership team. I would go so far and say we were no closer to a premiership this year than we were in 2012.
There has been more than enough people at the start of each year saying we are a middling side. Our eventual finishes three years in a row confirm this.
Middling sides don't win premierships.

The 95 side whilst average  and was destined to fail was much closer than anything hardwick has put together.