Tigers, Blues: dreams fulfilled and shattered

By Greg Baum
Updated March 24 2017 - 10:03am, first published 9:18am

On night one of the new season, it doesn't really matter who is playing, only that after the long phoney war, someone is. Richmond and Carlton it has become, because they are notionally grand rivals. But they haven't really been contemporaneous contenders since Kevin Bartlett's heyday, and he is now 70 and newly cast in bronze at the MCG. Nonetheless, more than 73,000 came for their fix.
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