It was horrible, ugly, awful.except for Collingwood supporters who savoured every excruciating minute of the debacle.” I will simply add that I have never seen a worse performance by a St Kilda side and I have seen the Saints put in some shockers over the years. “It was the most one-sided football match I have ever seen. When you are running around in front of 25,000 to 30,000 people, naturally you get a tear in your eye.” “It was the end of 15 years at the club, 15 of the happiest years of my life. I had seven showers that night, walking past John Wren, but he never noticed me!” I went back to my locker, which in those days was just a nail on the wall. “I walked past Wren, and Jock McHale said ‘Great game, young Richards’ – it wouldn’t matter if you were 45, he’d still call you young Richards – and Wren said ‘Good game, son, good game,’ and I thought, Oh, this is it, this could be something coming my way. “There's a chance the players will forget and go to the MCG by mistake." This is what happens when Richmond doesn’t visit Victoria Park for several years… I didn’t become captain that year! But I made it my business that I would do a bit of PR for myself the next year and I became captain.” So Ronnie nominated me for captain and there was deathly silence in the room, and no one seconded it. “I said to my brother, when it comes to the nominations for the captaincy, you nominate me. Those streamers remind me of breaking through the sound barrier.” Then you brace against the streamers, they hold you for a second, then you’re through, and the roar you heard on the way down doesn’t count against the roar from them all as you step on to the field. “You run down the race and the crowd around you yell. Anyone who comes near us today will get their head kicked over the grandstand,” (As said to Geelong captain Fred Flanagan). “We felt that if we could beat them (Geelong) down on their own ground we could beat them at any time.” I knew the league was powerful, but boy!” “Believe it or not, I'm told the AFL has arranged to put Christmas Day back a week if the Qualifying Final is another draw. To make matters worse, I fancied myself as a good player and had no worries about telling anyone within earshot.” “It was the toughest football I ever played and it still makes me wince to think about it. His football development in the sub-district competition… You might win on the field but you rarely escaped unscathed.” “Sport was a matter of survival in those days. Growing up in Melbourne during the 1920s… Pay me!" Ha ha! That's why I get 30 percent.To celebrate the life of Lou Richards, Collingwood Media has compiled an archive of quotes that help tell his story in his own words. Them white b*tches told that white man the must bootiful words you ever want to hear in our profession.īaby, them white b*tches looked that white man dead in the eye and told him, "F*** that. Wasn't no shame in our black women walking around BUCKED NAKED! So he went over to Europe and tried the same thang. He figure he go back to Europe and start the same type of business, taking away from our black women, trying to get them white bithches to dance the same identical way, huh? But to no avail. This white man went from village to village to seek out these bootiful black women, watching them perform, in the nude. Bucked Nakeds! You could see their public hairs. And he saw all these bootiful black women, walking around, dancing, working, living, in the nude. Long time ago, long long time ago, white man went to Africa.
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