Greg Miller

It is being reported on both radio and print, that Greg Miller has quit the club, as director of football.
There is no official comment from Mr Miller or the club at the moment.

Mr Peter Welsh

It has sadly come to my attention, that 1980 premiership player Peter Welsh died last night after a long battle with illness.
Our condolences to the Welsh family.

Information on Peter's career can be located at his Wikipedia page.

Richmond History- SOS - Can you help ?

In this, the centenary year of the Richmond Football Club in the AFL - it is an opportune time to send out an SOS, to supporters, history buffs, casual observers - regarding a two points around Richmond and its history.

Can you assist below ?

FOOTBALL RECORDS.

The AFL Record has been in existence since 1912.
That means there is approximately 1,950 Richmond Football Club records produced.

Most Richmond records from 1960- Present Day are in collectors hands, Richmond Museum, Ebay etc etc ,
but it is the Richmond records from 1912 - 1959 that are more difficult to locate.

So this SOS request is simple. If you have any Richmond records covering 1912 - 1959; and would be comfort to advise me, I hope to maintain a list of what records pre 1960 are in existence. There is no intention to purchase the records from you, and you can remain anonymous, I would just like to attempt to identify how many of the pre 1960 Richmond records are in existence.

So feel free to drop an email to:
Rhett Bartlett



RICHMOND GAMES

My next book project I am attempting to work on, is a detailed list of the following; every:

+ Senior Richmond match
+ Reserves Richmond match
+ Under 19's Richmond Match
+ Little League Richmond match
+ Unique matches involving RFC (ie: Appeals / Practice Matches / Post Season Matches / Pre Season Matches)

- for each of these points, I am attempting to documents the score, goalkickers, players for the teams, and unique tidbits that accompany the game.

- all score details of Senior Richmond matches exist, so do their related teams , goalkickers etc.

- if anyone is able to provide any information of score, teams, players, goalkickers for the Reserves/Under 19's/ Little League/ Unique Matches (listed above) please email me below.

Even the smallest piece of information is appreciated- as you never know, you might be the only person to discover it, or be aware of it. So think back to matches you saw growing up, or newspaper cuttings you might have- see what you can find.

- as well, I am looking for any interesting tidbits from any matches in Richmond history. These tidbits can range from , Richmond players acting as runners, unique umpiring decisions, unique moments on the field, changing in guernsey numbers, goalkicking feats (ie: 6 goals in a quarter), 'firsts' in Richmond matches, 'lasts' in Richmond matches. Any notes of interest about any matches would be much appreciated.

These can be emailed to me at :
Rhett Bartlett


- Thank you
Rhett Bartlett

Richmond FC: The Tigers- Book Update

Hello all.
I have received several more copies of RICHMOND FC: The Tigers. These books come personally signed by both KEVIN BARTLETT and myself.

Should you wish to order some, just click on the Shopping Cart image further down the page.
Total cost is only $55- including postage and handling to you in Australia- and signed by Richmond Immortal Kevin Bartlett.


Regards

- Rhett Bartlett

Bill Morris - You Tube Documentary

Here is my 4th mini Richmond documentary - this one is about the brilliant, yet flawed, Bill Morris.
Feedback welcomed to rhettrospective@hotmail.com

Jack Dyer- his final game

Here is a short documentary I have edited, produced and narrated regarding Jack Dyer's last game of League Football.
Further documentaries I have created can be found further down on this site.

KB Signed copies of 'The Tigers- A Century of League Football'

You can now purchase signed copies of the Richmond Centenary Publication
'Richmond FC- The Tigers- A Century of League Football' through this website.

The book was 10 years in the making, and launched by Kevin Bartlett, at the Punt Road Ground- his first official appearance there in 16 years.

The book is 272 pages- an includes first hand accounts of the entire 100 years of the club- from Tom Hafey to Roy Wright to Kevin Bartlett to Matthew Richardson to Bill Barrot to Royce Hart to Francis Bourke. As well, revealling insights from teammates of Jack Dyer and close associates of Graeme Richmond.

As well the book contains rare unpublished photographs of many tigers moments and treasures, as well as a complete list of every Richmond player since 1908 including their respective guernsey numbers and games played.

This is a must for true football fans and Richmond supporters. Not many copies of this book are left to purchase, but you can by your copy of this book SIGNED by KEVIN BARTLETT and myself for only $55.00 (includes safe postage within Australia).

You can purchase the book directly and securely by credit card through the Add to Cart option below (via PayPal), or contact me for alternate payment methods at rhettrospective@hotmail.com

Your purchase is safe and secure and I will personally email you to confirm receipt of your payment.
- Rhett Bartlett

Jack O'Rourke - RFC - In Memoriam Doco

Please find below a short documentary I edited, narrated and produced regarding the late Jack O'Rourke.
I hope you find the information and the documentary of interest
All audio in the documentary is copyright. Photos were supplied by personal collections , Richmond Museum.
- Rhett Bartlett.

The blog can also be viewed at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ucZ3DaxeUQ

RFC 1908 -1919 - Doco by Rhett Bartlett

Below is a video I have created, edited and narrated using my MacBook computer.
It runs briefly for 2mins 47 seconds and gives an overview of the era from 1908-1919 in Richmond's History.

It is by no means professional nor meant to be official.
The purpose of this is to test some ideas and scripting I had written- and potentially to create a full Richmond Documentary in the coming years. Other videos will hopefully be posted.

You are welcome to post this link in other football forums if you like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cpmKq87jMg

Feedback can be sent to rhettrospective@hotmail.com - love to hear from you.

Wallace post match comments Rd 4

'From my point of view, I know a lot of people felt it was going to be a difficult journey. We believed we had the run'

(On Richardson playing on the wing)
'We've got to find out if Polak, Riewoldt, Hughes can step up to be the next generation of key forwards. I asked Richo to give up a bit of his own game. It helped us looking at the our forward line future'
'We will do what we need to do and see what worked. Truly I think if we are going to be a side, we have to develop other players around Matthew. I think for development of the club we need to look elsewhere'

(On some key players)
' I thought Kane Johnson was absolutely outstanding. He has played terrific all year. He has stepped up. I thought McMahon was outstanding player all day, really helped us with link up play'

'(Tambling) is going to be a nice player. He is four games into a mid field career. We have played him around the edged to get games around him. He has shown now he can match it with the players in the middle'


- courtesy of rhettrospective.com

**Not that with Richmond's win- they are 8th on the ladder.

Tom Hafey and Kevin Bartlett respond to the criticism of Punt Road

- By Rhett Bartlett
Exclusive to www.rhettrospective.com

Tom Hafey's style of football was always direct. So much so, that it won him 4 Premierships across 7 years as coach for Richmond.

And his response to the claims by Andrew Dememtriou in The Age to Caroline Wilson that Punt Road was 'a crap ground to train on. It's just a bad ground and it's the wrong size.' was almost as direct.

'That's a ridiculous statement. I think that is wrong, I don't think it is crap' Hafey said when contacted by www.rhettrospective.com this afternoon.

'They talk this way because they play on perfect grounds- yet the number of players that continue to slip on perfect ground is amazing'
'(Punt Road) is a long way better that alot of other teams have to deal with. The ground still is perfect as a training facility.

Tommy should know, for many years he has travelled the breadth of Australia, coaching junior clubs and guest speaking at little known towns. 'How would they (footballers) go playing in Queenstown- it's just gravel!' 'Remember that Docklands was rubbished initially too! and most recently Collingwood and Brisbane played in mud and rain at the Gabba. It won't always be perfect weather and grounds wont always be perfect- regardless if it is in Western Australia or Sydney'

When pressed further regarding suggestions that the ground size, may be consider a reasoning behind Richmond's lack of success- Hafey was adamant 'It has got nothing to do with it!' - citing instead an imbalance in the handballing and kicking stats of the Tigers on the weekend.
In no way, Hafey suggested, does the condition of the Punt Road ground directly relate to the Tigers performance on match day.

And 5 time Premiership player Kevin Bartlett feels the same, 'We never trained at the MCG, we trained at Punt Road, and in my opinion it never affected the Richmond style of play. It never ever impeded the Richmond style of play- and we were the longest kicking, fast kicking ball side in the competition and we trained at Punt Road.

He points out that other teams around his time of playing and coach, played on smaller grounds:
Go down and have a look at Hawthorn's old ground at Glenferrie Oval- it is the smallest ground in the world and they won premierships galore!

Suggesting that Richmond's lack of success lately is due to the state of the Punt Road Ground is something Bartlett disagrees with: 'It certainly wouldn't be an excuse! Training at Punt Road wont stop you from winning a premiership.'

And although the glorious ancient ground herself is unable to defend these Demetriou comments- there are still some Immortals who are more than happy to.

- by Rhett Bartlett

David King Rd 3 Post Match Comments

as interviewed on 3AW.
transcribed www.rhettrospective.com

'we gave Collingwood too much at the start. You can't give good sides 7 of the first 8 scoring shots and expect to be in the game. You got to know when the right time to kick and when your out in space and able to execute them and that's something our players are getting wrong. We've made adjustments to the way we wanted to play from last year and sure that involves an element of handball but we've got the balance wrong at the moment- i think we have 170 odd kicks and over 200 handballs.

Even in saying that, we still shouldn't have made errors by foot that we did.
I think alot of the backline boys are coming along quite nicely , I think people would credit Will Thursfield to have improved, I think they would have seen that in Jake King , although he hasn't a great last fortnight, he has certainly improved. I think Kel Moore has become a player, Jay Schulz was good again today, he's had an up and down career but he's improving.
Teams that are winning , individual form doesn't come into it. If your disciplined enough to stick to the team plans then individual form doesn't come into it.

You recruit good kickers, you either have got that skill or haven't . It's a waste of time trying to get players who can't kick, back to square one and start again because the man hours involved in that is not available to AFL players at the moment.
I just thought today, we talked about stepping back inside , and cutting and taking players on- not once were we brave enough to take people on, we were too straight minded earlier today and it made us pay.'

Rich vs Coll Rd 3 Live Blog

Live Blogging of Rich vs Coll.
To replay it click the button below.
Any feedback please email rhettrospective@hotmail.com

A reminder that RICHMOND vs FREMANTLE will be blogged live here, next Sunday @ 4.30pm (EST). We invite you all to join in on the live Richmond blog then.

Richmond vs Nth Results

Richmond vs Nth Melbourne
4.40pm @ MCG

Richmond 3.1 / 7.4 / 10.7 / 13.8.86
Nth Melb 7.4 / 11.4/ 18.5 / 20.7.127

Goals: Schulz 3.0, Richardson 2.3 , Hughes 1.2 , Simmonds 1.1 , Deledio 1.1 , Hyde 1.0 King 1.0 , Foley 1.0 , Brown 1.0 , Tuck 1.0

Notes:
Matthew Richardson kicks his 750th career goal during the second quarter.

Andrew Raines leaves the field with a dislocated knee cap.

This is billed as the 'Eureka Match' in honour of the men and women of the workforce throughout the last centenary.

Terry Wallace Post Match Comments for Round 2 vs Nth Melbourne

'The one thing I would like to say to our supporter base is just the fact last year we lost games and had a pretty ordinary season and at times we couldn't do anything about it , we just didn't have the blokes up and running and we had to go with the same blokes who let us down week in week out.

I just want to let our supporter base know that we are fully fit and healthy , we've got blokes running around at Coburg- our side won by over 10 goals yesterday against the reigning Premiers.

Blokes who don't respect their position in the side , therfore don't respect the guernsey, won't play.

Therefore we are in a position where we can do that and we will make changes to the side til we have the right blokes in there who want to compete, so I think that supporters shouldn't walk away thinking they are going to get the same old same old, because we will throw it around and give the young blokes an opportunity until we get the right blokes in there who want to compete.

'Collingwood have a longer break this week, so we have to come off a 7 , versus a 9 day break this week. We like it to be a 6 day break ourselves so we can get back there straight-away.

'We were getting beaten at ground level. Clearly our boys in the midfield are extremley disappointed with their efforts, they know that , they understand that and they don't accept that but they were clearly beaten around that area and it just put pressure on every area of that game from that stage onwards. We were really smashed in that part of the game today.

We started Andrew Raines on Corey Jones at the start of the game and wanted Rainesy to do the job and he got beaten in the first few contests and then we went to Jake King as our secondary option, we had sort of set Raines for that job all week, and it didn't work, so you have got to make changes. Jake has been able to play on taller players, he played as a Coburg player at Centre Half Back most of the time, so he has always been able to play on blokes a little bit taller than him. Corey was in fantastic form, I think he was trying to get two weeks out of one after missing last week, and credit to him I thought he played tremendously.

We think Raines dislocated his knee cap but it certainly went back in. It's just a matter of how that sort of settles down over the next few days. We will have to wait til tomorrow to find out where he is at.'

- Terry Wallace post match press conference versus Nth Melbourne, courtesy of rhettrospective.com

Richmond vs Nth Melb- Rd 2- the live blog

The live blog for Richmond vs Nth Melbourne has finished.
But you can replay it anytime by clicking the play button below.

Thank you to all those who participated in the live blog, we were live around the world including Japan, London, Dubai, QLD, Tassie, South Yarra (lol), Maribyrnong, Newcastle...

And thanks to members from yellowandblack, puntroadend and bigfooty for their assistance.

Join us for the live blog of Richmond vs Collingwood next Sunday 6th April
@ 2pm(Melbourne time)

All feedback regarding the live blog below can be sent to rhettrospective@hotmail.com

Carlton vs Richmond Rd 1 2008

Thursdy, March 20, 2008 @ MCG 6.10pm
72,552

1/4 time 1/2 time 3/4 time Final
C: 4.3-27 , 9.6-60 , 10.10-70 11.13-79
R: 4.3-27 , 8.5-53, 11.5-71, 17.7-109

Goals: Richmond: Matthew Richardson 5.2, Nathan G Brown 3, Brett Deledio 2, Kayne Pettifer, Shane Tuck, Adam Pattison, Nathan Foley, Graham Polak, Daniel Jackson, Richard Tambling.

Carlton: Brendan Fevola 2, Eddie Betts 2, Heath Scotland 2, Marc Murphy, Setanta O'hAilpin, Nick Stevens, Ryan Houlihan, Jake Edwards.

Reports:
Cameron Howat (Rch) was cited with a Level Four striking offence against Adam Hartlett (Car) during Q3.
The MRP offered Howat a two-match suspension with an early plea.
Richmond sought the adjudication of the Tribunal. The Tribunal found Howat guilty and suspended him for three matches.
(courtesy of footystats)

Notes:
Matthew Richardson rises to equal 12th on the League all-time goalkicking list with 748 goals from 257 games (with Saverio Rocca - same goals and matches played)

Richmond and Carlton meet for the 200th time in VFL History.

Richmond Hall of Fame 2008

3 players were inducted into the Richmond Hall of Fame on Monday 17 March 2008, along with the elevation of Royce Hart into the Immortal category.

1932 /1934 Premiership Player KEVIN O'NEILL


1980 Premiership Player JIM JESS


1980 Premiership Player GEOFF RAINES

Rich vs Geelong - Friday 7th Match

Challenge Match @ Skilled Stadium

GEELONG 6.2 14.9 20.9 23.11 (149)
RICHMOND 3.0 5.1 6.3 12.5 (77)

GOALS
Geelong: Mooney 4, Gamble 3, Byrnes 2, Ablett 2, Bartel 2, S Johnson 2, Ling 2, Corey 2, Hawkins, Wojcinski, Prismall, Blake, Mackie

Richmond: Richardson 3, Morton 2, Deledio 2, Coughlan, Howat, White, Hughes, Foley

BEST
Ling, Bartel, Kelly, Mackie, Prismall, Byrnes, S Johnson, Enright.
Richmond: King, Tuck.

Richmond vs Swans - Challenge Cup 29th Feb 08

Venue: Narrandera Sportsground
Time: 7pm
Crowd: 8,296

Richmond: 5.5 / 10.7 / 15.8 / 17.11.113
Swans: 3.3 / 7.7 / 11.9 / 13.10.88

Goals:

Richmond: Richardson 5, Deledio 3, Johnson 2, Hughes 1, Tuck 1, Polak 1, Pettifer 1, Tambling 1, Brown 1, White 1

Sydney Swans: Hall 4, Bolton 2, McVeigh, Jolly, Kirk, O'Loughlin, Moore, O'Keefe, Ablett


Team: Richardson, Deledio, Simmonds, Brown, Schultz, Pettifer, Hughes, Johnson (c), Tuck, White, McMahon, Newman, Foley, Thursfield, Pattison, Collins, Tambling, Polak.


Notes: Robert Dipierdomenico was present as part of the AFL's 150th Celebration
Schultz stretched off after sustaining a cracked rib during a goalsquare pack, reports suggested he collided with Richardson.
Polak injures his foot.