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Article: Carpetbaggers should follow same route as Richmond; the world of rugby.(Column)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 30, 2004
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Byline: PETER JACKSON
AFTER 79 straight wins spanning four promotion seasons, the club shamefully put out of Premiership business five years ago is alive and kicking.
Four more promotions and Richmond could conceivably be back in the big league. While that is not uppermost in their minds given their previous experience, the fact remains that nobody does a more convincing line in resurrection than England's oldest club, which is just as well given their brutal punishment.
In those zany days of the immediate post-professional frenzy, Richmond splashed their money about with the best of them, forking out [pounds sterling]250,000 to buy Scott ...