For Richmond it was a matter of life or death (death probably wasn't their first choice) but for Fremantle it was just another box to tick on their path to playing finals. Richmond threw everything they could cobble together in the guise of a football team at Fremantle but the Dockers barely even went through the motions as they destroyed any hope the Tigers had of finishing 9th to win by a sensible 22 points. Matthew Pavlich barely got out of a trot to kick another 3 goals (although he pinched one of those from Ballantyne). Ballantyne still had three of his own. Aaron Sandilands was a late inclusion after Griffin "injured" his "groin" "during the warm up". The Dockers are now in the top 8 with next week's game against the Kangaroos likely to decide the fate of the world.

It was a bold and confrontational statement from Richmond. An exhaustive search, a journey if you will, through the works of history's great thinkers and most passionate philosophers. A mission through time itself to find the answers to mankind's greatest questions. Then, one day, Jack Reiwoldt was hit with an epiphany (and for once he didn't go down grabbing his head). It was so simple - you only live once. His team mates loved the simple elegance of it, so they declared it to the world.

It was a line in the sand moment for Richmond. Their lives would be short and they would make the most of them.  In their audacity they weren't just proclaiming their own belief system, they were issuing a challenge to the beliefs of the billions of people who's lives and humanity is built around a concept of reincarnation and even life everlasting. It was a statement of - this is what we believe in and we will commit our bodies, minds and souls to this ultimate truth....and then they abbreviated it to an easy to an acronym that would be easy for teenage girls to stick on the end of their tweets - YOLO.

It wasn't the first time Richmond had been summed up by four letters.  ...Read More