Richmond back from voyage of discovery

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

A famous old club sets sail from London this week on a south-westerly course towards a coastline long feared by sailors as ‘The Graveyard of Ships.’
For those left to survey the wreckage when their team’s voyage on the high seas of the Premiership hit the rocks, Richmond’s opening Championship fixture on Friday night ought to be awash with memories of a salvage operation like no other.
How fitting that a club synonymous with the biggest English shipwreck of the professional era should kick-off against Cornish Pirates in, of all places, Penzance wher...

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