Published: September 22, 2018
Without a match ticket, our man does the next best thing – watches the preliminary final with Richmond and Collingwood fans in a pub
Mark on the 5.05pm train from Preston to Jolimont is wearing a T-shirt showing the 2017 Richmond team, arm in arm before last year’s grand final. His first tattoo, a snarling tiger, stretches from his left wrist to his left elbow. “That’s how much it meant to me,” he says.
He’s reminiscing about a beer he shared with legendary Richmond centre half-back Robert ‘Bones’ McGhee two weeks ago, teed up by mutual friends. Bones arrived at the club in 1973 and helped them to a preliminary final win against the Pies, then the 1973 and 1974 flags. The Tigers haven’t gone back-to-back since.
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