Lou Richards
Australian rules football playerWikipedia
99
MENTIONS
39
EPISODES
7
PODCASTS
Search complete. 99 mentions across 39 episodes found for "Lou Richards".
Oct 20, 2026
Gerard WhateleyHOST
So that's going to be next week.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
We are going to live today in 1981, courtesy of Paul McDermott, who sent us an email suggesting that this week we go back to round 20, 1981, 36,681 fans at Princess Park, the height of suburban Saturday afternoon football, Sevens big league with Lou Richards and Peter Landy, and the Neil Danaher game.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
It was a day for heart attacks.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
All right.
7 MINS LATER
Shannon GillGUEST
He just goes ahead and does it.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
The reviews center around Neil Danaher.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
So we've got Jeff Slattery and Lou Richards.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
I'll do Jeff.
Shannon GillGUEST
I bloody will.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Player of the day, Lou Richards and Peter Landy.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
We're all going back to the 80s on Saturday.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Essendon and Hawthorne are taking us there, and that's the best of 84.
Shannon GillGUEST
That Lou Richards commentary, I think, is the best Lou Richards commentary there is.
Shannon GillGUEST
Those things,
Gerard WhateleyHOST
those goals in that last quarter of that 1984 grand final,
Shannon GillGUEST
that's the best of Lou Richards.
Shannon GillGUEST
And at that point there was, they only, they would cover three games.
Shannon GillGUEST
So you had, and I'm talking from an eighties and perspective here, Peter Landy and Lou Richards would do the best game and Bob Skilton and Sandy Roberts would do the second game and then Peter McKenna and Jack Edwards would do the third game.
Shannon GillGUEST
The third game was only one camera.
Shannon GillGUEST
One camera and that's it.
7 MINS LATER
TonyAUDIENCE
Yeah, g'day, gents.
TonyAUDIENCE
I've just got five unbelievable, really quick ones.
TonyAUDIENCE
On a Thursday night, there used to be Lou Richards and Peter Landy, actually, on a Thursday night on 3DB.
TonyAUDIENCE
I used to read out the team.
Shannon GillGUEST
which is quite incredible.
Shannon GillGUEST
And I love this from Lou Richards, the next day on World of Sport, puts this to Robert Walls on World of Sport.
Lou RichardsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Robert, can I ask you this question? Are you that good?
Robert WallsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, we did it, and there's no denying that.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
A world in which Carlton and Collingwood was the main fare.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
And it was all narrated by Peter Landy and Lou Richards.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Oh, what a time in our lives.
Shannon GillGUEST
Shannon Gill, welcome.
Shannon GillGUEST
And lots of the greats of the game.
Shannon GillGUEST
We've got Ron Barassi and Ted Whitten and Polly Farmer and these types with, with some pen picks written by Lou Richards on the back, which are, which are pretty cool.
Shannon GillGUEST
So this is what's going on in that early period, you know, in up, up until the sixties, basically that, and it continues beyond that too, with, Licensing, I think, you know, I think Kraft had footy stickers.
Shannon GillGUEST
Ross was talking about Sunny Crust having cards.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Can I, I've got a couple of questions.
Shannon GillGUEST
Who called the game? It was, it was the A team of Lou Richards, Peter Landy and Bob Skilton on special comments.
Shannon GillGUEST
Uh, we've got a question.
Shannon GillGUEST
Was it a red ball or a yellow ball? I'm pretty sure it was a yellow ball.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
Nigel can still remember when in the U.S. as an 11-year-old in 1986 on a six-month trip with family at the hotel at Disneyland.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
We put on the TV and the first Australian voice we hear is Lou Richards calling the game.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
I saw a few VFL shows in the US when I was visiting family.
Gerard WhateleyHOST
I recall watching a game from Surface Paradise.
Shannon GillGUEST
So in the first All-Australian team in 1947, the Australian rules team, I don't know who made the soccer team.
Shannon GillGUEST
Lou Richards is in it from the VFL move McIntosh from the waffle and Bob Hank from the sample.
Shannon GillGUEST
So there was good representation across the, across the lines.
Shannon GillGUEST
Okay.
Shannon GillGUEST
Well, that's the funny thing, is when you watch a lot of these games, there is an umpire from Victoria, an umpire from South Australia or WA, and in a lot of them there's also the commentary.
Shannon GillGUEST
There's blended commentary teams where you have maybe Lou Richards and then a South Australian guy.
Shannon GillGUEST
So there's this constant battle... on the field, and then there's a little niggly battle off the field as well happening.
Shannon GillGUEST
Fantastic.
29 more episodes mention Lou Richards.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.