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Round 21 – Big, Dumb and Ugly

There is something about football players, that makes you appreciate the ugly ones more. Steve Silvagni might be the Full Back of the Century – but everyone loved Mick Martyn (possibly the ugliest Full Back of the Century) a whole lot more. And while magpie scum supporters might cheer a goal from Chris Tarrant, they [...]

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Round 20 – Raines of Terror

I’m sorry for the title, it’s self indulgent and cheesy. But I’m auditioning for a job as a sports sub-editor on the Herald Sun. And a line like that is pure gold.
These Richmond reports have lost a little bit of impetus, since I haven’t actually watched the Tiges play in over a month, [...]

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Round 19 – Making a decent run….

… at ninth. Now that the finals are all but mathematically impossible (Ray Hall’s got a better chance of winning the brownlow), it’s encouraging to see the mighty tiges doing what we do best – finishing just outside the 8. For a while there it looked like we might slip as low as 11th – [...]

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