Richie Vandenberg sees a line in the vines

Richie Vandenberg sees a line in the vines

IN 2005, Richard Vandenberg was appointed captain of a Hawthorn football team that had spent almost a decade in the wilderness. At the time, it was slowly emerging from an era of turmoil that stretched all the way back to a now inconceivable merger with perennial cellar dwellers Melbourne in 1996. Not blessed with freakish talent, “Richie” had something that appealed to a club that had such a horror stretch the previous year it sacked its coach mid-season.

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