AFL: hopes and dreams, a snarling tiger and 'always next year'
Without a match ticket, our man does the next best thing – watches the preliminary final with Richmond and Collingwood fans in a pubMark on the 5.05pm train from Preston to Jolimont is wearing a T-shirt showing the 2017 Richmond team, arm in arm before last year’s grand final. His first tattoo, a snarling tiger, stretches from his left wrist to his left elbow. “That’s how much it meant to me,” he says. He’s reminiscing about a beer he shared with legendary Richmond centre half-back Robert ‘Bones’...