I feel really sorry for all the Richmond supporters. I know how they feel. I have always hated it when we have sold our home games interstate and lost. Richmond have given away 8 home and away points. Bad move tigers.
Richmond should not sell their games
Started by Amelia Jane, Jul 17 2011 11:53 AM
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Posted 17 July 2011 - 11:53 AM
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Posted 19 July 2011 - 09:56 PM
It hasn't worked for them. I wonder if they may have been better playing Port in Cairns and Coast (the Gold one) in Darwin?
Darwin in relative terms is not a massive inconvenience for either of the Adelaide teams. So Port would have less hassle than a Melbourne team in playing in Darwin. Yet they did lose on Saturday evening to the Central Demons- though they did beat the Eastern Tigers some weeks ago. Cairns is a two hour flight from Brisbane. For the tigers it is a four hour trip.
Yet back on the selling of their home games- how much is money worth? We can take it a fair amount of $$$ for the Eastern Tigers and that they really need it (as we all do).
We haven't lost to Sydney in Melbourne since the Waverley game of 1987. Yet they haven't played us in the ordinary home and away part of the season in Melbourne since 1998 (which was also at Waverley) We have played them in the finals here on the MCG- three times- for three wins! Is the money worth it - because we were beaten by them earlier in the year in Canberra. If we played them at the Docklands( and remember we never have played them there!) perhaps that would be four points for us?
Richmond were actually the beneficiaries of a sold home game some years ago- way back in 1995. It was the doggies that handed it to them- our previous President Peter Gordon decided to cash in on a better performing Richmond in that 1994-1995 era and transfer the match from the Western Oval to the MCG. So we surrendered our home ground advantage (a winning advantage that had extended back to 1983- Richmond's last win over us at home) to make a few bob. I doubt we made much dough though, as the crowd was not much over 30,000- it definitely was nowhere near 40,000. The idea was to make a killing on the back of the ''dormant bandwagon element' section of the Richmond support that was coming out of the woodwork after having dropped off following their demise after the 1982 Grand Final. So the doggies administration were in essence trying to make a quid by taking away our decided home ground advantage to make some $ from an opposition club's 'fair weather' support
However we lost the game- the crowd was disappointing- mostly tiger fans in attendance. Plenty of our fans didn't bother to trouble themselves to turn up so the whole exercise was a waste of time, energy, preparation and everything else. If it was to give us extra experience on the MCG for the finals- it definitely didn't work as the one final we played in 1995 was all over at 1/4 time- Geelong had 10 goals on the board to our one.
Back with Richmond- it may actually be a blessing in disguise- by losing both it may prevent them doing it again in future years if their fans revolt sufficiently enough to this arrangement. One argument is that if they played these games at Etihad- the tigers would have still lost the match and thus NOT made money. The Richmond support though don't want the game at Etihad- they want it on the cricket ground! Then on the other hand maybe they are so bad on the field that they still would have lost to the Coast thats Gold on the MCG? I can't conclusively answer that and I doubt many others can either.
The tigers are in the doldrums- I know a tiger bloke who was going to email them at tigerland on the Monday (which is now yesterday) But we can't laugh at them- beaten by a team that kicked the sum total of 3 goals the week before!
* It would be interesting to know what the core ' through thick and thin always there' Richmond fan thinks about their 'bandwagon' fellow tiger supporters that disappear then reappear when it looks as if they are about to be returning to the 'good old days of the Hafey era' These 'through the thick and thin' Richmond people probably want them back- but would still not respect them- their fellow tiger fans who aren't there in the bad times like they are. The use of Richmond is because they have been through the thick but also the very thin- Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon have not endured what the Richmond fans have. A few bad seasons for those three don't equal what the tigers have put up with for 29 years, or what St Kilda, Footscray and Melbourne have in our Premiership drought.
Darwin in relative terms is not a massive inconvenience for either of the Adelaide teams. So Port would have less hassle than a Melbourne team in playing in Darwin. Yet they did lose on Saturday evening to the Central Demons- though they did beat the Eastern Tigers some weeks ago. Cairns is a two hour flight from Brisbane. For the tigers it is a four hour trip.
Yet back on the selling of their home games- how much is money worth? We can take it a fair amount of $$$ for the Eastern Tigers and that they really need it (as we all do).
We haven't lost to Sydney in Melbourne since the Waverley game of 1987. Yet they haven't played us in the ordinary home and away part of the season in Melbourne since 1998 (which was also at Waverley) We have played them in the finals here on the MCG- three times- for three wins! Is the money worth it - because we were beaten by them earlier in the year in Canberra. If we played them at the Docklands( and remember we never have played them there!) perhaps that would be four points for us?
Richmond were actually the beneficiaries of a sold home game some years ago- way back in 1995. It was the doggies that handed it to them- our previous President Peter Gordon decided to cash in on a better performing Richmond in that 1994-1995 era and transfer the match from the Western Oval to the MCG. So we surrendered our home ground advantage (a winning advantage that had extended back to 1983- Richmond's last win over us at home) to make a few bob. I doubt we made much dough though, as the crowd was not much over 30,000- it definitely was nowhere near 40,000. The idea was to make a killing on the back of the ''dormant bandwagon element' section of the Richmond support that was coming out of the woodwork after having dropped off following their demise after the 1982 Grand Final. So the doggies administration were in essence trying to make a quid by taking away our decided home ground advantage to make some $ from an opposition club's 'fair weather' support
However we lost the game- the crowd was disappointing- mostly tiger fans in attendance. Plenty of our fans didn't bother to trouble themselves to turn up so the whole exercise was a waste of time, energy, preparation and everything else. If it was to give us extra experience on the MCG for the finals- it definitely didn't work as the one final we played in 1995 was all over at 1/4 time- Geelong had 10 goals on the board to our one.
Back with Richmond- it may actually be a blessing in disguise- by losing both it may prevent them doing it again in future years if their fans revolt sufficiently enough to this arrangement. One argument is that if they played these games at Etihad- the tigers would have still lost the match and thus NOT made money. The Richmond support though don't want the game at Etihad- they want it on the cricket ground! Then on the other hand maybe they are so bad on the field that they still would have lost to the Coast thats Gold on the MCG? I can't conclusively answer that and I doubt many others can either.
The tigers are in the doldrums- I know a tiger bloke who was going to email them at tigerland on the Monday (which is now yesterday) But we can't laugh at them- beaten by a team that kicked the sum total of 3 goals the week before!
* It would be interesting to know what the core ' through thick and thin always there' Richmond fan thinks about their 'bandwagon' fellow tiger supporters that disappear then reappear when it looks as if they are about to be returning to the 'good old days of the Hafey era' These 'through the thick and thin' Richmond people probably want them back- but would still not respect them- their fellow tiger fans who aren't there in the bad times like they are. The use of Richmond is because they have been through the thick but also the very thin- Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon have not endured what the Richmond fans have. A few bad seasons for those three don't equal what the tigers have put up with for 29 years, or what St Kilda, Footscray and Melbourne have in our Premiership drought.
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