It is with some bewildered thoughts and feelings I look at some of the behind-the-scenes and off-the-ground doings of the current board of the Richmond Football Club.
As a 56-year supporter maybe I am qualified to write this.
Firstly, the removal and non-existent now museum, which held so many treasured items, now sits in boxes.
Secondly, the stripping of the Jack Dyer Medal, or the best and fairest as it was called, of 1932 from the man himself.
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Similarly the stripping of the ‘34 medal won by Ray Martin is extraordinary seeing the reason these medals being taken out of the record books is due to lack of evidence.
It’s an inditement on the current board that in fact there is significant evidence via a The Argus newspaper article.
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The Jack Dyer Medal has also bizarrely been dated back to only 1965 so Neville Crowe is the inaugural winner.
This makes no sense, as does the abolition of the ‘ten years service to the club’ policy for recommendations for the very coveted life membership of the club.