Its a very traditonal hate for Richmond that goes back a long time...

Its in the Blue Genes...

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Oompa loompa doompety dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me

I hate this mob, a small notch below than the filth - no-one could ever match those ferals. But a good thread, nonetheless - a contender for POW.

May the Carlton Football Club inflict the greatest pain on field to all the AFL clubs that were dancing on graves after black Friday, particularly Bitchmond, the filth, the scum, and the aints.

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For some silly reason, you people want to assassinate him, and it's just rubbish. You people. All of you, ALL of you!

I thought you were 15

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Karma

Loyal & Proud

nah im 18, almost 19.

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"I can't wait to win a premiership with this club" - Fev

There is nothing like a Grand Final to set up or stir up hatred. The 73 GF is reason alone for a lifelong hatred. 79nsm and others are right to call it as a pivotal moment. It was disgusting how Richmond went the knuckle. They were so brazen. Their ugly and vicious acts appeared calculated as they took out key Carlton players. No Carlton fan, or any neutral person, could have felt they deserved the win.

Richmond joined the league in 1908. They started off with a geographic reason for a rivalry with the Filth as they share a boundary. Richmond made it their first GF in 1919. They lost to the Filth. They played 5 of their first 6 GFs against the Filth and only won one of them. Three of the losses were in consecutive years 1927-29. In those days they must have hated the Filth as much as we do.

Ancient Carlton fans has reasons to dislike Richmond. They beat us narrowly in the 1921 & 1932 GFs after we had topped the ladder in both of those years. In the 1921 GF a Carlton player called Jack Greenhill was knocked out behind the play and a Richmond player was suspended for 8 weeks. Maybe 1973 wasn't a new plan but an old one deployed again.

Richmond dropped down after the war and went 20 years without making the finals. Tommy Hafey became coach in 66 and won the flag the next year. Their return to the top coincided with ours. That set up a rivalry. GFs in 69 & 72 went one apiece. Then came 73. Their perspective was that they did what they had to do. That it was payback for our win in 72. Richmond stooped very low that day and the villains will never be forgotten.

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We're getting closer to 17

Oh right. That must've been years ago lol.

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Karma

Loyal & Proud

To this day I still hate that fat coward- Neil Balme

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Cheats never prosper (except in the AFL)

I find it hard to hate an organisation that has delivered so much comedy over the past twenty years.

Having said that there is a certain level of satisfaction in watching Richmonds seasons.

Bluehammer posted something years ago that was hilarious - a timeline of the standard Richmond season. Can someone dig it up? (I'm a lazy bastard)

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Richard Pratt - A Carlton legend.

Started following Carlton in the late 60's and so naturally hated Richmond given the close rivalry. The seminal moment was, as other have also said when that fat prick Balme cleaned up Southby. Then add Sheedy and Bartlett and no more reason than that. Then added another bunch of pricks to my list when Sheedy went to the Scum.
Beastly careless about the other teams - just those two. Having said that, love beating Essendon*, especially by a point!

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"our electorate seeks less to be informed and more to be validated." Sad times.

As Taff has said I too started in the late 60's and those game's of the titans of the era were fantastic. We all loved to smash the Tigers and hated their supporters. But in recent times this has subsided due to Richmond's long time in the wilderness. But one thing I take my hat off to the Tigers for is the way they treated SOS after his 300th game. One of the best sporting gestures I've witnessed of the footy field. For that alone I say thankyou Richmond

I think it was 1967 when Richmond won the flag without Nevill Crowe. Could have been 69. Someone out there will know. I was at the prelim or second semi with my dad. Big John (Nicholls for the younsters) was holding Crowe from behind. Crowe elbowed him in the midriff and Big John went down as if shot and Crowe was reported. Biggest stage ever (apart from the dive in the last world cup that cost us the game). Anyway, I was two rows back from the fence and there was this Richmond slag, middle aged in front of us who gave it to Big John something chronic for diving. After Crowe was suspended (subsequently missing the grand final), this same slag was on the front page of the Sun crying outside the tribunal.
We hate them for that horrible Balme and the thug, Sheedy but they hate us just as much, maybe for that incident.
We HAVE to win Rd one.
And make no mistake. They have a good young list and so do we, so in a few years we will be playing against them in finals again, along with Collingwood and Essendon* and the old VFL rivalries will be reborn.
And the AFL will be laughing all the way to the bank with eight blockbusters a year.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

Whilst they clearly have the best song my god it is annoying hearing all those bandwagon jumping supporters scream YELLOW AND BLACK!!!! when they beat us. Their decades of under acievement have left their supporters bitter and twisted.
So may Tigers supporters do not understand football and make ridiculous comments throughout the game....................................
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ohhh and they all smell

As I recall Crowe threw a punch/slap which didn't connect and Nicholls actually brought his hand up over his face and rocked back on his feet. Crowe was reported - I am pretty sure that Nicholls even said at the Tribunal that he was staging for the free kick and was never struck - but the Tribunal went on the Umpires evidence - no camera evidence was allowed in those days.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

In light of the rivalry, it's great that we have had the last (currently) laugh in the 1982 GF, which was a fantastic game that LITERALLY had everything (Hi Helen) form start to finish.

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From little things, big things grow - Paul Kelly (The singer, not the Swan)

Growing up through the 90's it was almost hard to even hate Collingwood as they were so sh*t. But I knew I was supposed to hate them.
When they finally started having some success of recent I understood perfectly what it was all about.

So I guess that experience relates exactly to Richmond for me aside from the fact that they've actually been any good whilst I've been alive. I still know all the stories though through my Dad being a dyed in the wool Blue so flower them.

That c-bomb Knights falling across Kouta's knee in 2001 was one of the worst days of my life. Personally I hope Judd shoves it up their flowering ass by himself in round 1!

Walking around the Tan last night and who should I see but Greg Miller, doing the walk but yammering on his mobile.

I didn't have the heart to listen to what he was saying to whoever on the phone, because I didn't want to have my face rubbed into the fact that they got Judd instead of us.

I hate them for that, more than you'll ever know.

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

You may be right. My memory might not be what it used to be but regardless of the specifics, they screamed good and proper over it and to them, for us to have robbed their captain of his moment in the sun was unforgiveable.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

I personally couldn't give a stuff who we play round 1, as long as we win.

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Bring on 2008

Neil Balme for what he did to Geoff Southby..
Sheedy for wanting to be bigger than the game itself and being seen as a football prophet, visionary......
Neville Crowe for dodgy plastic weatherboards...
Plenty of reasons to dislike the Tigers however the bumbling Greg Miller gives me plenty of enjoyment as he continues to keep the Tigers down where they belong......

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"When you have the attitude of a champion, you see adversity as your
training partner."
- Conor Gillen

Clinton Casey for dodgy holiday time share apartments.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill