![]() He departed as a Richmond great – its longest serving coach – and as significant a figure as Hafey, as Hart, or as Bartlett. He wanted to leave the club, and the game, on good terms. “I’ve pushed every button I can.” There would be no farewell game. “It’s been an incredible ride,” he said on Tuesday. His teams would grind the opposition to dust, and then pick up their rubbish afterwards. He found the perfect balance of risk and reward, of the analytical and the animal. He took Richmond from a laughing stock to a colossus. His impact can be seen at other clubs – the entire psychology and method of Collingwood right now screams Richmond in 2017. The dogs bark, and the caravan moves on.īut the Hardwick era will endure. This week former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger celebrates his 100th birthday. Fox Footy paid a stunned tribute, and then quickly moved on to speculation over the coaching future of Adam Simpson. On Monday night, in a sign of the times, most of the focus was on whether Tom Morris had the right to break the story. One of his best friends had stepped down from the North Melbourne job a few days earlier. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.įor 15 minutes against West Coast and for four quarters against Geelong in recent weeks, there were signs of life and hope. For more information see our Privacy Policy. In 1979, the ride closed for approximately ten months to remove excessive negative g-forces. Colossus underwent a number of changes over the years. It was the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, as well as the first to feature two drops over. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. At a final cost of 7 million, Colossus opened to the public on June 29, 1978. They could have won all four if a Texan who slept diagonally on his bed wasn’t waiting with a baseball bat on preliminary final night in 2018. “Their beauty was in the grind – the knowledge that wherever the ball was, whatever the state of play, they were always just a little bit harder than the opposition, and a little bit smarter.” It netted three of the next four premierships. “Every game was an arm-wrestle that they always held a slight but undeniable advantage in,” Jay Croucher wrote for The Roar. We’d had the brutal simplicity of Leigh Matthews’ Brisbane, the free-flowing purity of Mark Thompson’s Geelong, and the Swiss precision of Alistair Clarkson’s Hawthorn. It was wave upon wave of power-endurance runners. Their opponent was GWS, a crack side that year. He was at intervention stage for a while there. Richmond had taken him to places no footy supporter should go. He’d been saying that since Richard Lounder. “Trust me mate, we’re ready to pop,” he said. I’d been dragged to the MCG by a Richmond supporting friend. I’ll always remember the game where they finally convinced me. Indeed, in every sentence written about the Hardwick era, it should be mandatory to tack on at the end “… and he had Dusty”. It helped that Dustin Martin had one of the greatest years a footballer has ever had. ![]() His team played like kids – for fun and without fear. The cranky coach of 2016 was suddenly replete with homilies and dad jokes. ![]() During planning and construction, Colossus was known as Project Odyssey. The music for the ride and surrounding area was composed by Ian Habgood. The ride's rough theme is the ruins of a recently unearthed Atlantean civilization. Resembling undertakers, rebel board candidates were determined to raze the place and start again.īut the club held its nerve. The ride is formed of a vertical loop, a cobra roll, two corkscrews and five heartline rolls. By the end of that year, he’d won 74 of 157 matches. He lost three elimination finals in a row – the kind of games that would have broken a lot of a coaches, and a lot of clubs. In his first year, smart arse bookmakers paid out on them finishing last halfway through the season. The work, many people are suspecting will be taking place during ‘closed season’ much like The Big One at Blackpool, which will ensure that the ride can still operate during the ‘open season’ and will rather focus on replacing parts of the track in sections, unlike the big project taking place over at Alton Towers for Nemisis.It was always going to take time. Recently, Thorpe Park shared on their TikTok a video of Colossus missing some track, but they haven’t shared any further details about this, however in Jack’s video and in Jack’s picture you can see below, some of the track has been removed which appears to be part of a ‘re-track’ project which they have been keeping secret! In a recent video update of the closed season at Thorpe Park, Jack Silkstone has shared a ‘behind the scenes video and pictures from his very special visit! Thorpe Park Colossus Colossus Retrack Project ![]()
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