I enjoy my Aussie rules football, and I have never enjoyed it more than in recent years. You see, I was a long-suffering Richmond supporter, and until three years ago, my club had not won the AFL Premiership for 37 years.

The Richmond Football Club is one of the oldest and best-supported clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL), with origins dating back to 1855. They are also known as the "Tigers", an appropriate name for a team that dons a Yellow and Black jersey. "There is nothing more tigerish than a Tiger", coach Tommy Hafey once said, and the premiership-winning teams of the 1960s and 70s epitomised that saying.

The AFL is played by eighteen teams competing over twenty-two rounds to decide the best eight teams in the finals. The finals are a series of knockout games that will ultimately leave two teams to fight out the Grand Final, for which the winner gets the Premiership Cup.

The drought on Premiership Cups was long and painful. For many years the Tigers would miss the final eight, often finishing ninth on the ladder. They would sack coach after coach and make poor decisions on player recruitment. In 2016 they had another year of poor performance, and it looked like the coach was gone. However, in an un-Tiger like behaviour, the powers that be stuck with the coach and players.

It proved to be a masterstroke, when in 2017, the Tigers broke the drought and stormed their way to a Premiership Cup, repeating the feat in 2019 and 2020. The roar of "Yellow and Black" has never been louder, and it doesn't get better than that.