Since 1950 here are the facts Nobody can't lie about because they are the premierships that all teams strive for. Not runners ups not thirds not fourths not nothing else just premierships.
Adelaide 2
Brisbane/ Fitzroy 3
Cheating Lying Navy Blue Scumbuckets 8
COLLINGWOOD 3
Essendon 8
Fremantle 0
Geelong 3
Hawthorn 9
Melbourne 6
North Melb 4
Port Adelaide 1
RICHMOND 5
St Kilda 1
Sydney/ Sth Melbourne 1
West Coast Eagles 3
Footscray/ Westen Bulldogs 1
Now TM just to come in and clear a few things up champ, facts also state that we are the worst performed club since 1983 no one on this forum in their right mind can shy away from that and yes it hurts me and it hurts, but the Richmond Football Club is our family for better or worse and as members supporters followers it is our choice to support them going to the footy week in week out, reading the paper, coming on to the forum to make our comments and what not. I may admire other clubs for what they do or have done or what they are doing now but they are not my club and I care ONLY about the frustrating way we go about things how long it will take to rectify this frustration and field a team that will make the opposition shriek in fear. Yet despite these shortcomings I was born in 1974 and only experienced ultimate success when I was still knee high to a grasshopper and even though success has been fleeting which by no way is good enough for any one who has yellow and black in them there is no way I would change. It is loyalty. Most people would be loyal to their own blood before showing loyalty to someone else. Yes being the butt of jokes and having to sit through some of the crap served up over the years has been galling painful and yes embarassing but that is the anguish and joys of supporting a footy club. Would you rather be a Saint who have 11 years on us in the AFL have a competitive team with stars on every line that may come close but will ultimately fail because statistically they have won 1 flag in 100 years and have history against them as wll as a tendency to injure themselves with self inflicted wounds also, or would you rather be a Magpie and have the full house every week as that is the experience they want to sell to the nuff nuffs each week as it is easier to promote Pies v Dogs at the Dome rather than the Pies winning the Grand Final? Not me. Or would you be a Carlscum supporter where just about every flag they have won except the Collingwood Grand Finals has had some sort of controversy belittling it. Now is that a way to live to turn a blind eye to misappropriation and embrace a hollow victory to fill a void in your life that would otherwise be empty?That's why 1982 hurts so so so much because the streaker virtually changed the game when we had momentum, yet it defined for them a back to back success and us a fall into the abyss. The contrasts could not be starker. However, I would never betray my footy club club. I LOVE THEM. Some things just should not be tampered with. You can change your house, car, clothes, spouse,nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation but you can never change your footy team. It just does not happen. All I hope is that a few of the boys at this great proud traditional and battling club of ours are a little green with envy of the Geelong's Brisbane's Port's, Swannies of this league and have a burning desire to emulate them and although we are black and yellow they play with no yellow in them.
I love my footy club but I will never ever let anyone get away with telling me that we are not the best club its all part of our character and that is something advertising and all this corporitisation can never dictate for us. If you want flashy lights and jingles go to the Pies but the substance will be lacking. After all we were nowhere from 1943-66 yet won 5 flags in 14 years. A handful of flags in the next 10 years will more than eclipse a generation of losing. I am sure most people on this forum will forgive the club if that took place and think differently in relation to our position in the pecking order of clubs.
RICHMOND FOREVER
And just a general question and off the top of your head as a test for everyone. Who swam second and third to Kieren Perkins in Barcelona 92 and Atlanta 96? See you may know the 2nd because he was an Aussie place getter but not the third. Winners are the ones who are really remembered not also rans. Collingwood can make all the finals series they like compared to us. Its flags that emulate you to hero worship not pf losses or gf losses.
Somewhere along the way Collingwood have got it wrong hence their mediocrity.
Football knowledge we all have to some sort of extent TM because we follow it and we love a club that competes in it . Some of us have more knowledge about footy than others. The application of this footy knowledge is what separates learned opinions from opinions that can be influenced from external surroundings.
I know who of the two footy knowledge categories I am.
