Fantastic stuff Rhett, loved Royce, got a signed photo on my lounge wall but it was signed on the glass and the heat we get here in Albury during summer is wearing it off, wish he hadve signed the actually photo.
I too had the number 4 on my back growing up. Thank you Rhett. I struggle to divide the two greatest number 4s as who is better, Royce or Dusty. I don't care TBH, they are both the greatest and I am blessed to have seen them both.
The fans today don't realise how huge Royce was back in the day. You'd go to a game & 90% of supporters who wore a Tigers jumper or duffle coat had the no. 4 on their backs. The opposition fans would never sledge him, they were awed by him as well. He was the player they all wanted in their team. When he took a mark, played on and swung onto his left boot it gave you a great thrill. There were no easy possessions in those days, particularly the way Hafey had the team playing, and Royce was the master at winning the ball in the air or on the ground. Spoiling him in the air was only part of the job for a defender because his ground skills and recovery were premium, he was never beaten, never gave up. It was tragic that arthroscopy wasn't around then as his knee injury curtailed his career by about 100 games. Someone should write his biography, it'd sell really well. Why not you, Rhett? Would he co-operate with an author?
