Padding up and a question of perspective
Martin Flanagan | The Age | January 24, 2009
... I saw my father-in-law, too. He barracks for Richmond. He picked the Tigers during World War II when they won a flag under Jack Dyer. A genial man in most things, he is ferocious about the Tiges. He says he would have given them away if they hadn't taken Ben Cousins.
Bob Roache, the handyman who lives in our street, is hardly less emphatic. He grew up alongside Punt Road in the '40s and '50s and reckons the Tigers did the right thing taking Cousins.
He is yet to play a single game and already Cousins has got the Tiges roaring.So that was my Christmas. My elder daughter had a baby. My father-in-law says it will barrack for the Tigers.
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