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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Quote Originally Posted by PeanutsPeanuts View Post
    I did notice in one report that Richards recently grew 15 cm in a year. This seems another trait that often pops up in Dal selections.
    In year nine I grew just under an average of a cm every week. I wish Dal was recruiting back then...
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Is Richards a vote of no confidence in Williams?
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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Quote Originally Posted by Dry Rot View Post
    Is Richards a vote of no confidence in Williams?
    I don't think so. It may be that others (JJ or Williams etc) or Richards can play wing or further up. If Richards can hit targets by foot inside 50 I'm happy to see him on the wing.
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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Dash, dare, creativity and an ability to execute.

    I've heard the Heath Shaw comparison but bugger that, he's Rohan Smith mach-2, and he'll be learning from him first hand.
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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Quote Originally Posted by Rocket Science View Post
    Dash, dare, creativity and an ability to execute.

    I've heard the Heath Shaw comparison but bugger that, he's Rohan Smith mach-2, and he'll be learning from him first hand.
    Yep. Refuses to point at team mates and berate them for his mistakes either... So Bubba is more apt.
    Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Yep. Refuses to point at team mates and berate them for his mistakes either... So Bubba is more apt.

    Rohan Smith would make his point if he thought you let him down. Just not in front of 45 000 people, the opposition and 20 teammates.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Richards is a great pickup reading some of the posts and new articles on him.

    Did not realize that he was grandson of Ron richards, who was Lou brother. He has great pedigree from both sides of his parents, good article here.

    http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-new...25-gzssmz.html

    Really rapt with this recruit and hope he can become a 200 game player for us. Even happier that we pinched him from the pies.

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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Quote Originally Posted by Dry Rot View Post
    Is Richards a vote of no confidence in Williams?
    I don't think so they're very different players. Richards will primarily play on the quicker types.
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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Quote Originally Posted by macca View Post
    Richards is a great pickup reading some of the posts and new articles on him.

    Did not realize that he was grandson of Ron richards, who was Lou brother. He has great pedigree from both sides of his parents, good article here.

    http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-new...25-gzssmz.html

    Really rapt with this recruit and hope he can become a 200 game player for us. Even happier that we pinched him from the pies.
    That's interesting. We had a teacher at school called miss Richards (her first name was Sian from memory) and she was Lou's granddaughter. She must be be Ed's Aunty I guess. Or cousin if Ed is Ron's grandson.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    That's interesting. We had a teacher at school called miss Richards (her first name was Sian from memory) and she was Lou's granddaughter. She must be be Ed's Aunty I guess. Or cousin if Ed is Ron's grandson.
    His grandfather Ron was a very good player for Collingwood too.

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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

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    His grandfather Ron was a very good player for Collingwood too.

    I remember Ron. He was Collingwood's assistant coach for years when I was a kid.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    I remember Ron. He was Collingwood's assistant coach for years when I was a kid.
    That's correct. He worked closely with a number of their senior coaches over many years.

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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

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    That's correct. He worked closely with a number of their senior coaches over many years.
    It's interesting. Ed's family tree takes him right back to the Pannams who played in Collingwood's 1896 VFA premiership and in the first years of the VFL. It was Alby Pannam with Dick Condon who took footy from a static game where possession and territory meant everything to a running game like it is now one afternoon in Tasmania when they were bored with the opposition and started chipping the ball just over their heads to each other.

    He has quite a football heritage.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    It's interesting. Ed's family tree takes him right back to the Pannams who played in Collingwood's 1896 VFA premiership and in the first years of the VFL. It was Alby Pannam with Dick Condon who took footy from a static game where possession and territory meant everything to a running game like it is now one afternoon in Tasmania when they were bored with the opposition and started chipping the ball just over their heads to each other.

    He has quite a football heritage.
    Story about his heritage:

    Ed Richards is a Bulldog with Magpie blood running through his veins


    With a crop of red hair like a burning front, Western Bulldogs recruit Ed Richards doesn't exactly resemble his Collingwood premiership-winning grandfather Ron Richards.

    But as soon as Western Bulldogs' recruiting manager Simon Dalrymple laid eyes on Ed's dad Kane when he visited the family home, he knew he was dealing with a clan carrying famous Collingwood blood.



    "Kane is a dead ringer for Ron," Dalrymple said.
    Ron Richards was a lifelong servant of Collingwood, playing 143 games for the Magpies, including the 1953 premiership alongside his more famous brother Lou, who was the skipper.

    Ron lived and breathed Collingwood before and after his playing career ended in 1956, serving as reserves coach, on the match committee, on the board and as a trusted sidekick to a succession of Collingwood coaches including Tom Hafey and Leigh Matthews.

    Quieter than 'Louie the Lip', the late Ron Richards, who died in 2013, earned a reputation as a big game player with many claiming he was best on ground playing off a wing in the 1953 triumph.




    Collingwood flag heroes Ron (left) and Lou Richards. Ron's grandson Ed has joined the Dogs.


    Dalrymple, for his part, had become keen on 18-year-old Ed as he watched the youngster grow from a skinny Carey Grammar student to a tearaway Oakleigh Chargers defender in the space of just 18 months as he roared up the draft charts.

    "His development during the year was really impressive," Dalrymple said.
    But nowhere near as impressive as his football lineage which stretches as far back as 1894.
    That's because Ron and Lou also had a famous footballing grandfather on their mum's side.

    He was Charlie Pannam, who began with Collingwood VFA from 1894-1896 then became a VFL player with the club from 1897-1907, before spending one season as captain-coach at Richmond when the Tigers joined the league in 1908.

    Pannam, who had a Greek heritage but shortened his name from Pannamopoulos, was a footballing pioneer who was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

    Along with a three other family members, another Charlie and two Alberts, the Pannam dynasty yielded 939 games, mostly with the Magpies but also with stints at Richmond and South Melbourne.

    Now Ed has the chance to add to that games tally after the Bulldogs selected him with pick 16 in the national draft.
    While that moment might have caused the hearts of some diehard Magpies to skip a beat, connecting a famous Collingwood name to the Bulldogs is a positive result from an historical perspective.

    After all Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge knows better than most what it is like to have a famous grandfather play for the Pies.
    His grandfather, Jack, played for Collingwood in the quartet of premierships in the late 1930s but Luke played with the Bulldogs, Melbourne and St Kilda before taking the Bulldogs to the drought-breaking 2016 flag.

    The Rose family connection to the Bulldogs has also seen the two clubs compete for the Robert Rose Cup since 2000.
    So the Richards link only charges the current running between the two clubs further.

    Regardless of his football background, it was Ed's pace and class that made the Bulldogs want him.
    "He's composed. He doesn't panic with the ball and he can defend," Dalrymple said.
    Eventually, they think Ed might replace a similarly spindly running defender named Bob Murphy.

    Working alongside the Bulldogs' pick nine, Aaron Naughton, and Lewis Young, who is still 18, Richards will begin to help replenish a defence that for so long relied on the retired Murphy and Matthew Boyd and the evergreen Dale Morris, who will be 35 next season.

    Magpie fans will wish Richards well, taking some solace in the fact the Bulldogs' hierarchy will think of Ron every time Ed's dad turns up.
    But he's a Bulldog now and according to Dalrymple the family couldn't be happier for the latest in a long line of footballers.
    "They were happy to go anywhere," Dalrymple said.

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    Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Story about his heritage:

    Ed Richards is a Bulldog with Magpie blood running through his veins


    With a crop of red hair like a burning front, Western Bulldogs recruit Ed Richards doesn't exactly resemble his Collingwood premiership-winning grandfather Ron Richards.

    But as soon as Western Bulldogs' recruiting manager Simon Dalrymple laid eyes on Ed's dad Kane when he visited the family home, he knew he was dealing with a clan carrying famous Collingwood blood.



    "Kane is a dead ringer for Ron," Dalrymple said.
    Ron Richards was a lifelong servant of Collingwood, playing 143 games for the Magpies, including the 1953 premiership alongside his more famous brother Lou, who was the skipper.

    Ron lived and breathed Collingwood before and after his playing career ended in 1956, serving as reserves coach, on the match committee, on the board and as a trusted sidekick to a succession of Collingwood coaches including Tom Hafey and Leigh Matthews.

    Quieter than 'Louie the Lip', the late Ron Richards, who died in 2013, earned a reputation as a big game player with many claiming he was best on ground playing off a wing in the 1953 triumph.




    Collingwood flag heroes Ron (left) and Lou Richards. Ron's grandson Ed has joined the Dogs.



    Dalrymple, for his part, had become keen on 18-year-old Ed as he watched the youngster grow from a skinny Carey Grammar student to a tearaway Oakleigh Chargers defender in the space of just 18 months as he roared up the draft charts.

    "His development during the year was really impressive," Dalrymple said.
    But nowhere near as impressive as his football lineage which stretches as far back as 1894.
    That's because Ron and Lou also had a famous footballing grandfather on their mum's side.

    He was Charlie Pannam, who began with Collingwood VFA from 1894-1896 then became a VFL player with the club from 1897-1907, before spending one season as captain-coach at Richmond when the Tigers joined the league in 1908.

    Pannam, who had a Greek heritage but shortened his name from Pannamopoulos, was a footballing pioneer who was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

    Along with a three other family members, another Charlie and two Alberts, the Pannam dynasty yielded 939 games, mostly with the Magpies but also with stints at Richmond and South Melbourne.

    Now Ed has the chance to add to that games tally after the Bulldogs selected him with pick 16 in the national draft.
    While that moment might have caused the hearts of some diehard Magpies to skip a beat, connecting a famous Collingwood name to the Bulldogs is a positive result from an historical perspective.

    After all Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge knows better than most what it is like to have a famous grandfather play for the Pies.
    His grandfather, Jack, played for Collingwood in the quartet of premierships in the late 1930s but Luke played with the Bulldogs, Melbourne and St Kilda before taking the Bulldogs to the drought-breaking 2016 flag.

    The Rose family connection to the Bulldogs has also seen the two clubs compete for the Robert Rose Cup since 2000.
    So the Richards link only charges the current running between the two clubs further.

    Regardless of his football background, it was Ed's pace and class that made the Bulldogs want him.
    "He's composed. He doesn't panic with the ball and he can defend," Dalrymple said.
    Eventually, they think Ed might replace a similarly spindly running defender named Bob Murphy.

    Working alongside the Bulldogs' pick nine, Aaron Naughton, and Lewis Young, who is still 18, Richards will begin to help replenish a defence that for so long relied on the retired Murphy and Matthew Boyd and the evergreen Dale Morris, who will be 35 next season.

    Magpie fans will wish Richards well, taking some solace in the fact the Bulldogs' hierarchy will think of Ron every time Ed's dad turns up.
    But he's a Bulldog now and according to Dalrymple the family couldn't be happier for the latest in a long line of footballers.
    "They were happy to go anywhere," Dalrymple said.

    You can tell from the photo that neither Lou nor Ron were real comfortable with the concept of handballing the ball.

    They must have come from the "get ball, have shot at goal" school of football.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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