David, a cheer squad cheer leader, and occasional pastry chef, and seller of watches, and all-round good guy, in his sartorial splendour at last year’s Elimination Final.
| Where born? | Ferntree Gully |
| Age: | 50 |
| Where do you live: | Somerville. It’s down past Frankston, in between Baxter and Tyabb. |
| How did you come to barrack for Richmond: | Because of the colours. The black and yellow. I guess I would have been about six or seven when I first started barracking. At school at Boronia Primary our home colours for Ward house were black and yellow, too, so maybe it was meant to be. |
| Favourite all-time player? | Probably David Cloke. He was just a great team player. If he couldn’t get the ball himself he’d make sure he could feed it off to a rover, a smaller bloke like Weightman or Bartlett. |
| Favourite current player? | Trent Cotchin. Just because of his consistency. And he’s the captain, and he’s always shown great leadership. |
| What do you most like about Richmond? | The passion. The passion of the supporters. It’s been 32 years or so since we were in a Grand Final, and there are some groups of people I’ve been watching the football with all that time. It’s the passion we’ve got for the club. |
| Do you have a match-day superstition? | Not really. I usually arrive about four or five hours before a game and help get all the cheer squad equipment out of the container at Punt Road, and into the van that we bring over here. And then I help set up. This morning I left home at about 7.30 to get to the ground and get everything ready, and it’ll probably be about 7 tonight by the time we take everything back and put it away. There’s a band of us that do it week in, week out. |
| When will we next win a premiership? | [TTBB: I interviewed David at the Fremantle game. Like the rest of us, his views may have changed in the past few weeks] I think we might be ready for a new five year plan. Hopefully it’s sooner rather than later. The important thing is that we’ll be here week in, week out, showing the same passion. There’s a group of us who’ve been here since our last premiership. We’ve never given up on the club, on the players. We’ve been here 34 years and we’re not going anywhere. |
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