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    Western Bulldogs and their partnership with Ballarat a success

    Hi Prince, that's a good comparison with St. Kilda. I'm going to pay for our seats each year no matter what, so they have got me. I may have missed the email from the club, sometimes goes to junk folder. I called the club when we lost the "two away" games as I think it was a mistake for a few...
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    Western Bulldogs and their partnership with Ballarat a success

    Your really missing the point here. Pre-covid we got two replacements games, essentially an 11 game melbourne membership. I am ground level reserve seat. After covid my 9 game membership stayed the same price (actually small increase) yet I lost 2 away games. It was poor management by the...
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    Sorry Buku Khamis

    I've been one of the most vocal supporters of Khamis on this site for years. Should have played in defence last year. Keep building the fitness and offensive side of being a defender and he will really come on. Always knew is intercepting and effort to make or cause a contest was there.
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    Strategy Aaron Naughton - Key Defender or Key Forward?

    Firstly, to Dogwatch, the club should never be asking where a player wants to play. He should play wherever the coaches fill fit, it's a team game and unless all have the mentality you will never be totally successful. Doggies ftw, you don't know unless you try. I think Jamarra would improve...
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    Strategy Aaron Naughton - Key Defender or Key Forward?

    Reality is, big forwards are not the be all and end all of winning Grand finals anymore. Two competent workhorse who make the most of there opportunities like a Miocheck are good enough. Its a running game and essentially you need 20 athletes running around. If they don't want to move him...
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    Strategy Aaron Naughton - Key Defender or Key Forward?

    I'm not sure where Naughton best position is. What I do know is the its incompetence if they don't at least trial Naughts down back for a portion. Its not like we have been great since 2021. The defence is terrible, 3rd least intercepts for the last 3 years. All the stats show we need an...
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    Autopsy The Good (lol!) The Bad and the Beveridge.

    If I was the coaching panel I would be showing them every half arsed effort and highlight it for all to see. Any chance of a smoother, a hard run down tackle. The lack of desperation was telling, especially the last quarter.
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    Autopsy The Good (lol!) The Bad and the Beveridge.

    Just trawled through 17 pages of review. Can we stop with the we lost because Bevo loves his b grade, lost at selection, this player should never play again blah blah blah. How about that fact that most of our best players did not show up at all. Forget the lesser likes, each team has players...
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    Opinion Dees V Dogs - Sunday MCG 1.00 PM

    Let me counter why the best coaches in the game at the moment are not playing CD as a half forward. The ball hits the deck, gets knocked into space, the running defenders are off, the chain of handballs are off, with each 5 metres, CD drops back a metre, now our defenders are 5 vs 6, easy over...
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    Opinion Dees V Dogs - Sunday MCG 1.00 PM

    Great point Optimistic Dog. The Collingwood Premiership side says they don't even have to be star forwards, just a couple of workhorses. I actually think you only need two forwards, yet considering our depth in this area, I understand why they are going with 3. As long as we don't full into...
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    General Admission MCG

    Against Melbourne you generally get ground level at the Ponsford end or a few bays in the Olympic stand on the ground level as well.
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    Opinion Dees V Dogs - Sunday MCG 1.00 PM

    He’s an AA defender and finished 4th in our BnF as a midfielder last year. He’s obviously got limitations but I don’t think blanket statements like he’s too small to play x position are fair when he’s literally played those positions successfully. His days of AA defender are long gone, the...
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    Training 2024 Pre-season training

    Stats can only tell so much, the rest becomes assumptions based on stats. One would argue that if you turn a clearance into a scoring opportunity at a set % then that the quality of the clearance would be higher than those below that %. Yet the main premise of the article is that you can still...
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    What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 4

    Time waits for no one as Wally found out. At least he stretched another year out as a forward. Not sure Macrae or Daniel can do that.
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    Training 2024 Pre-season training

    Most of us have only seen him twice. Maybe not quick enough for the small zippy players yet the extra heights helps in the 1 on 1. Very hard to tell, will know more as the season progresses, yet both him and Khamis have fitted in nicely.
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    Best 23, Round 1 2024

    How about Sicily had little to no impact because it was a practice match and he totally switched off. yet I do agree, 3 is perfect, even two is enough these days.
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    Training 2024 Pre-season training

    I'm all in for a backline with Coffield and Khamis to back up Jones and O'Donnell (with rotations through the bench). Khamis reading of the ball flight, reaction speed and intercepting was something we have been crying out for, stopping plays at CHB instead of easy goals. I though he was great...
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    has anyone else lost interest in this upcoming season?

    Not at all, always excited at the start of the season. I think we have the potential for a good year. What I don't want to see is the same old same old as we will not progress. The onballers especially need a mix up and its looking like we will get our wish. Same for the defence it can be...
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    Training 2024 Pre-season training

    Mid sized defender with athletic ability is what we need. Khamis and coffield delivered today and if they can play to that ability it can transform our defence. Both should play round 1. Our 1 on 1 defending has been atrocious for 2 years, apart from Jones and Ed. Clark and McNeil exactly what...
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    Opinion Midfield 2024 season Strength

    I play golf with Gallagher's uncle, he is primed this year, one of the strongest at the club for his height. I think he may play round 1, pending the practise match vs Hawthorn.
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    Opinion Midfield 2024 season Strength

    Apart from the Bont our midfield is middle rate at best. We bring and extra to the stoppage (which papers the cracks) and it whilst this looks good in theory, it puts a lot of pressure on the forward line who are outnumbered, and then the backline on the overlap as the onballers don't work back...
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 6 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

    They said that when we lost Griffen and Cooney. I didn't by the way, it was the transition we needed, meant Bont and Macrae went into the middle. Any player leaving can be turned into a positive, keeping in mind we would get a lot back for both Smith and English.
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    Training 2024 Pre-season training

    Yes you are overestimation Harmes. his form dropped at Melbourne from being a regular solid contributor to not getting a game. My mum and brother are Melbourne supporters and vouch for this. Can he turn it around. Yes as you say he is still young and a fresh start can do that. I'm sure he...
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    Training 2024 Pre-season training

    Because it didn't work. Time waits for no one. Its not 2001. Since then we have dropped significantly in the middle which is supposed to be our strength. Rocking up with Bont, Libba and Macrae is too one paced with no explosiveness not just for attack but for defensive, Macrae can't catch...
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    Training 2024 Pre-season training

    Makes absolute sense, Macrae although a great accumulator is left for dead at the stoppages in todays footy. That's the reason he was moved in the first place. Richards has all the tools to be an top onballer and its makes sense to try him there. Like it or not our midfield were beaten a lot...
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    Rumour Future of the club (Bevo, board, assistant coaches, football department)

    Goal kicking is a lot like a golf swing. Everybody does it slightly differently even the best in the world. There is no one size that fits all. Yet what they all do is have a single repeatable motion. (Tory Dickson, Barry Hall). Compare that to our current day. Only Cody Weightman I would...
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    Unleashed

    They all cheat, they know heights important. I met Taylor Duryea up at Cowara, his home town over the holidays, lovely bloke. I'm 180, he is listed at 181. I was taller in the photo and my wife remarked he was a stronger little bugger yet shorter than you! I reckon he would only really be...
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    Training 2024 Pre-season training

    I've been pushing for Richards in the middle for over a year now on big footy. Need to constantly improve the middle and he is the best we have to give it an immediate push.
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    Best 23, Round 1 2024

    B: JJ L. Jones Coffield HB: Richards JOD Dale C: Williams Treloar Poulter HF: Sanders Marra Weightman F: Jones Naughton West R: English Bont Libba I: Macrae Harmes Vandermeer Lobb S: Daniel Coffield gets first chance as the mid sized defender with Khamis waiting in the wings. Given Artie a...
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    Western Bulldogs and their partnership with Ballarat a success

    Really, that's crazy logic quoting 57k population in Footscray. What does that matter? Collingwood population is 22k yet we know how big they are. We don't need to play in Ballarat to represent the greater west. Its like suggesting St Kilda need to play games in Seaford or Carlton and...
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