Richmond Tigers | Australian Rules Football Club

Richmond Tigers ~ "Eat 'em Alive!"

Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990, when a large debt almost forced them to fold. In the last 15 years, Richmond has worked itself back into a strong financial position without enjoying any sustained finals success. But the Tigers boast a mighty history... Wikipedia

Jack Dyer is the player that everyone associates with the Richmond Football Club. He had an amazing playing career and left his impact on the club and the game of Australian Rules Football:

Games played ~ 312 games (all for Richmond).
Goals kicked ~ 443 goals.
Playing career ~ from 1931 to 1949.
Richmond FC captain ~ from 1941 to 1949.
Richmond FC coach ~ from 1941 to 1952.
Richmond FC best and fairest ~ 6 occasions.
Premiership as Captain-Coach ~ 1943.
Richmond FC Team of the Century ~ Captain.
Player style ~ hard, physical, used "shirtfronts"
Innovations ~ introduction of the drop punt.

Michael Terrence Roach (born 5 October 1958) is a former Australian rules football player who represented Richmond in the Victorian Football League from 1977 to 1989.

Remembered for his long, accurate kicking for goal and strong marking, for a brief period Roach was the best forward in Australian football. The second of a trio of key forwards recruited by Richmond from Tasmania (the others being Royce Hart and Matthew Richardson), Roach was an enormously popular player whose career did not quite live up to expectation because of injury and constant shuffling of his position by the club...

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Doug Strang was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL between 1931 and 1935 for the Richmond Football Club.

Whilst several injuries restricted his VFL career to just 64 games. In just his second VFL game, his 14 goals kicked against North Melbourne in 1931 still stands to this day as the record for the most goals kicked by a Richmond player in a single game, and the youngest player to kick 10 or more goals in a VFL game, at just 18 years and 300 days old. He was the brother of dual Richmond premiership player Gordon Strang and father of dual Richmond premiership player Geoff Strang... Wikipedia

Written in 1962 by Jack Malcomson, a cabaret singer, here is the Tiger's club song:

Oh, we're from Tigerland,
A fighting fury, we're from Tigerland,
In any weather you will see us with a grin,
Risking head and shin,
If we're behind then never mind,
We'll fight and fight and win.

For we're from Tigerland,
We'll never weaken 'til the final siren's gone.
Like the Tigers of old,
We're strong and we're bold.
For we're from Tiger yellow and black,
For we're from Tigerland.