the end of richmond for 2007

[Matty4]

Originally Posted by uranium_death

I am sick to death of people bagging Richardson. Deadwood does not kick over 700 career goals considering Richmond's crap midfielders who pass to his feet. He's still a bloody good player on his day.
Nobody complains about Koutoufides, despite the fact that for 5 years he earned 1 million dollars (for each year) and spent 3 of them not playing. He has played only a handful of games where he as actually won a game for Carlton.

Richardson on the other hand has led Richmond to many victories on top of good performances. It is not his fault that the Richmond staff are idiots who cannot teach the team to pass above his head, allowing him to take an overhead mark. Even contested, Richo will generally beat his opponent one-on-one. Sure, his goalkicking isn't the best, but who else will kick goals for them? Ray Hall? At least Richo represents the Richmond Football Club with pride. If I was him, I would have walked out on that club years ago and gone to a place where a player of his caliber is treated and managed properly. Richo has shown greater loyalty to Richmond than the supporters and the club have shown him.

..snip..
Richmond will live on. One day their recruits will actually lift. Hawthorn's have, magnificently.

Could not have expressed myself any better than that!!!
5th (?) highest goalkicker in AFL history does not constitute deadwood.

I have been a lifelong Tigers supporter.......geez it has been hard.
I'm actually glad Gasper's gone, his skills at this level today were below par IMHO, along with a few other senior players too.

Matty