The mighty Richmond Football Club congratulate Tony Greenberg on 25 consecutive years working at Tigerland.

‘Greeners’, the popular co-host of “Talking Tigers” (and the No.1 fan of Royce Hart), officially started at the club on January 10, 2000.

I say officially because long before that he was working in a voluntary capacity as contributor and editor for the club’s Fighting Tiger newsletter.

Greeners was the club’s Media Manager during the Danny Frawley/Terry Wallace years, was a selector for the Team for the Century, sat on the History and Traditions Committee, and served as the Editorial and Research Manager during Richmond's recent success.

Renowned for his sharp encyclopaedic recall of everything Richmond from the 1960s until today, and for his hilarious (yes, they are funny) ‘Greeners Gags’, he quite fittingly received a Life Membership in the premiership year of 2017.

Another feather in his cap that is rarely mentioned is that he coined the phrase ‘Dreamtime at the G’ for the yearly match-up recognising the Indigenous contributions of Richmond and Essendon.

During his official tenure at the club, Greeners has seen five coaches come and go, worked under four Presidents, five CEOs, and co-hosted almost 400 episodes of Talking Tigers.

Damien Hardwick regularly relied on Greeners to provide him ideas, concepts, research for coaching messages and themes to the playing group.

Before his days at Tigerland, he worked a two-year journalism cadetship at the Sporting Globe in the late 70s, primarily covering horse-racing under the watchful eye of Rollo Roylance.

He then worked at the classic Inside Football from 1978 to 1998, and was the editor from 1980 onwards (a Tiger premiership year!).

Thankfully, that publication often printed photos with the journo byline, so we bring you this marvellous montage in celebration of Tony Greenberg’s Silver Jubilee at Richmond.