Dear Tiger supporter,

As we approach the midway mark of the 2011 season, it’s an opportune time to provide you with an update of the Fighting Tiger Fund - the Club’s bold plan to raise $6 million, in order to remove the burden of debt, and invest heavily in our football department at a critical time in the competition’s history.

We launched the Fighting Tiger Fund in March and, since then, have received tremendous support from so many of our members and supporters.  To date, we have been successful in raising nearly $2.5 million towards our ultimate goal, which is a great result although, clearly, we still have an enormous amount of work ahead of us, and we need the continued support of the Richmond faithful to get there.

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Throughout the second half of the year we will be rolling out a number of exciting FTF initiatives.  In the coming weeks, we will provide more information about these activities, and the Club strongly encourages you to consider supporting these as best you can.  

Most importantly, we have targeted our Round 15 clash with traditional rival, Carlton, as ‘The Fighting Tiger Round’, where we will pay tribute to those who have already made such a significant contribution to the FTF, and encourage as many Richmond supporters, as possible, to attend this Blockbuster match.  Our aim is to turn the MCG into a sea of Yellow and Black, and smash the all-time Richmond-Carlton home-and-away round attendance figure of 87,043, which was set in Round 1 of the 2009 season.

All our members will receive information in the coming weeks about how they can support the Round 15 Fighting Tiger Fund campaign. We are looking at Round 15 as a collective effort - to attend the match and support the various FTF fundraising activities. You will have the opportunity to drop your donation envelope off on the MCG concourse before the match.  Details regarding Round 15 activities will also be listed on richmondfc.com.au.

In the meantime, if you haven’t yet become one of the 47,000-plus record Tiger members in 2011, it’s not too late to do so.  The special 3-game membership package is an ideal way for you to commit to the cause for the rest of the season, and with Victorian home games remaining against Melbourne, Carlton, Sydney and North (plus a replacement home game for the away fixture against the Demons), there’s still considerable value in becoming a member before the June 30 cut-off date.

More than 10,000 new members have joined us on our exciting journey in 2011 and to them, along with all those who have again taken out Richmond memberships this year, the Club extends its sincerest thanks.

We look forward to our young team’s continued development over the course of the second half of the season, and your continued support of the Fighting Tiger Fund, which is pivotal to our plans of building the Club’s next era of sustained success.

Yours sincerely,
Brendon Gale, RFC Chief Executive Officer