Ian Wilson, former Richmond Tigers president, dies
In an interview dated 1974 Forerunner Before the big final of that season, Wilson said:
Orum I feel that many people bring Richmond in a very brutal way to where they are today – especially the way we take players from other clubs.
“But I like to think of it as a determination to reward the incredibly loyal supporters who have been standing at the bottom of the stairs.
“We are not ashamed of fighting in a single-minded way for success-this is our job.”
Richmond continued to earn 41 points.
Wilson’s daughter, Caroline Wilson, was the first woman to report about the game full-time, and between 1999-2017, Masthead’s chief football writer.
In 2017, he wrote that his father advised his father to fill AFL in the Grand Final Week Club and wear the appropriate Jumpers – in a movement that reminiscent of the old tigers, and they had to wear a yellow guernsey and pay the fine later.
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Caroline, “What could Afl realistically do,” the father, the father, the team ran to McG’ye after the head office of the head office, Car Caroline wrote.
He also remembered the market celebrations at Wilson House after a Premiership, “Especially with Whale Roberts, Robbie McGhie, and later with the rogues gallery governed by the enthusiastic Peter Welsh, who ended the growling 1980 party”.
