What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 4

[Libbaaaa]

The footy world in general is too precious with alternate kits, especially Collingwood. Doggies could wear a hot pink kit and I wouldn’t care.Act like these jumpers and colours were forged with Moses when he got given the 10 commandments.

 

[hutchy31]

Clash kits are also a decent money spinner, lots of fans are completist.

The big soccer teams worked this out decades ago - Man United are red, but at their peak were rolling out a black away kit, a white one, a blue one, a grey one etc. I’m not someone who wears a guernsey but wouldn’t mind seeing an alternative, my kids would likely be interested.

 

[dogwatch]

The footy world in general is too precious with alternate kits, especially Collingwood. Doggies could wear a hot pink kit and I wouldn’t care.Act like these jumpers and colours were forged with Moses when he got given the 10 commandments.

 

[Fossie 32]

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[Mr. Walker]

Regarding North wearing the strip they wore 100 years ago, does anyone know what strip we wore in 1925? Was it the red white and blue hoops? I know our original strip was blue and white but I think that was pre 1900.

 

[Scott Tracy]

Our 1925 gurnsey

Regarding North wearing the strip they wore 100 years ago, does anyone know what strip we wore in 1925? Was it the red white and blue hoops? I know our original strip was blue and white but I think that was pre 1900.

 

[Mr. Walker]

Our 1925 gurnsey
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Thanks

 

[Lindsay_Gilbee]

Pride in the club's tradition. That's why Collingwood don't like to change theirs I gather. The suggestion of an alternative selling through the roof could well be right but points to part of the motive in using alternate designs - making cash rather than maintaining tradition.

Tradition is the most overrated word in footy. Clubs playing each other should have to wear two contrasting kits.

 

[Lindsay_Gilbee]

Clash kits are also a decent money spinner, lots of fans are completist.

The big soccer teams worked this out decades ago - Man United are red, but at their peak were rolling out a black away kit, a white one, a blue one, a grey one etc. I’m not someone who wears a guernsey but wouldn’t mind seeing an alternative, my kids would likely be interested.

If Barcelona or Chelsea can wear an alternative kit in a champions league finals I’m sure afl teams could wear one in round 10.

It’s not like it has to be completely different anyway. Could be a rehashed 90’s kit.

 

[CarnTheScray]

Tradition is the most overrated word in footy. Clubs playing each other should have to wear two contrasting kits.

AFL is all for tradition: traditional jumpers, “traditional” match ups and favourable fixtures to put those games in, unless it comes to Port Adelaide.

 

[Fossie 32]

Tradition is the most overrated word in footy. Clubs playing each other should have to wear two contrasting kits.

One of the best things about it to me but whatever

 

[Lindsay_Gilbee]

One of the best things about it to me but whatever

Where does the jumper we wear rank in tradition? If we wear a different top twice a season so we can actually tell the difference between the teams does that really matter?

 

[Fossie 32]

Where does the jumper we wear rank in tradition? If we wear a different top twice a season so we can actually tell the difference between the teams does that really matter?

I think it ranks highly in tradition. It matters a bit to me as I prefer the traditional colours but doesn't matter as much as other things about the game ??

 

[stevieg1969]

Regarding North wearing the strip they wore 100 years ago, does anyone know what strip we wore in 1925? Was it the red white and blue hoops? I know our original strip was blue and white but I think that was pre 1900.

Here you go. One of the best AFL sites ever

Club by Club Jumpers

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www.footyjumpers.com

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Pride in the club's tradition. That's why Collingwood don't like to change theirs I gather. The suggestion of an alternative selling through the roof could well be right but points to part of the motive in using alternate designs - making cash rather than maintaining tradition.

Collingwood claim exclusive ownership of the bars and don’t want to give Port any glimmer of a chance to wear their bars by ever wearing something different themselves

 

[my plums]

To me, the Pies refusal to wear anything else is a bit jarring when you look at the rest of the club. Progressive, cutting edge, friendly atmosphere etc. Seems a bit strange to me.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

To me, the Pies refusal to wear anything else is a bit jarring when you look at the rest of the club. Progressive, cutting edge, friendly atmosphere etc. Seems a bit strange to me.

It was Eddie’s pledge, iirc. Dating back to when Port joined the AFL.

 

[my plums]

It was Eddie’s pledge, iirc. Dating back to when Port joined the AFL.

They can move on now surely.

 

[GetDimmaBack]

It was Eddie’s pledge, iirc. Dating back to when Port joined the AFL.

I wonder if Eddie knows that Collingwood originally wore red, white and blue...

Changed to black and white because Footscray were already wearing those colours.

 

[X_box_X]

This is cool. I had no idea.


Most people have no idea about the absolutely unhinged connection between [PLAYERCARD]Scott West[/PLAYERCARD] and Cam Rayner.

It all started when [PLAYERCARD]Scott West[/PLAYERCARD], then 42 years old and already a living legend with the Western Bulldogs, caught wind of a teenage phenomenon playing representative school football for Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School: Cam Rayner, who had just shattered all of West's long-standing high school records.

West took it personally.

According to sources, West stormed out of his Sunbury home after reading a local Moonee Valley Leader headline:
“NEW PRIDE OF PEGS? CAM RAYNER ERASES WEST FROM THE BOOKS.”
The now retired AFL champion was a man on a mission.

In the winter of 2017, at the age of 42, [PLAYERCARD]Scott West[/PLAYERCARD] quietly re-enrolled at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School, and demanded to rejoin the football team as a “super senior.”

“We thought he was just here to inspire the boys,” said PEGS coach Rob Kerr.

“Then he pulled out a 47-page scouting report he’d handwritten on our record breaking star midfielder and said, and I quote, ‘I can cook this boy with my ageing hamstrings with no training."

And so began the most dominant, and disturbing, season in PEGS football history.

Wearing number 7, West averaged 57.6 disposals and 16.2 clearances per game across the winter school carnival. He led the carnival in disposals, clearances, inside 50s and hard ball gets. Uncharacteristically he also averaged 4.6 goal assists, all hand passes to himself off the faces of opposition defenders and teammates.

West even attended classes, joined the drama club (starring as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire), and escorted a 60-year-old woman to her Debutante Ball... That woman was later confirmed to be Cam Rayner's Aunt Hilda.

That season, West not only reclaimed all his high school records, he obliterated them. During a match against Haileybury College, West went head-to-head with [PLAYERCARD]Andrew Brayshaw[/PLAYERCARD] where he amassed a Victorian record 71 disposals. West's 22 disposals and three goals in the final quarter single-handedly inspired a come from behind upset victory. If it weren't for the hundreds of spectators and recruiters in attendance, no one would have believed it. After the match, West sent Brayshaw a Blu-ray DVD recording of the match, labeled only: “Daddy Returns.”

In West's penultimate match of the winter carnival, he lined up on star midfielder [PLAYERCARD]Ed Richards[/PLAYERCARD]. In the opening play of the match, West produced the fan's favourite Play of the Carnival where he took possession from the opposition ruckman while simultaneously sending Richards flat on his ass with a ferocious 'Don't Argue'. West danced left, then right, then left again, weaving in and out of heavy traffic to show his much younger opponents who Daddy really is. West then rocketed a handball 30 metres towards goal, before running onto his own hand pass, collecting the footy with one hand, hurdling over an opposition player before kicking the ball post height through the goals while attempting a midair backflip. West returned to the centre square, collected [PLAYERCARD]Ed Richards[/PLAYERCARD] from the ground and whispered to the teenager in vivid, unsettling detail about having a one-night-stand with Scott McLaren's 18-year-old daughter Hannah as revenge for not winning the 2000 Brownlow Medal.

In West's final game for PEGS as a super senior, he hired a professional heckling crew from the Melbourne CBD to torment [PLAYERCARD]Jaidyn Stephenson[/PLAYERCARD] as he led his team to a 131-point victory against St. Joseph's college. In a twisted turn of events, West would leave the match half way through the second quarter with leather poisoning before being transported to the Austin Hospital via Ambulance. West still finished with a match high 37 disposals. Aunt Hilda was captured looking on anxiously as her Scott was stretchered off the ground. She was wearing a custom made jumper which combined the PEGS colours with the Western Bulldogs' Robodog emblem.

To this day, Cam Rayner refuses to talk about his Aunty's romance with the legendary Bulldog who shattered all of his high school records. As West's hardcore fans can attest, if you listen closely to the special effects on match replays, every time West and Rayner line up together in the middle of the ground, West mouths the same thing every time:
“Don't forget. I'm your Uncle Scott now.”

 

[SonOfScray]

Did we ever win a game in this?

Don't believe so.

 

[goondog]

Alternate jumpers will eventually become 'traditional' though.

A lot of soccer clubs have a traditional alternate kit.

One of Arsenal's is often, though not always, blue and yellow.

Fans of the club value those colours just as much as they do their traditional colours of red and white.

If we don't give something new an opportunity it will never become traditional.

The 97/98 away kit lives rent free in my head.

 

[weltschmerz]

We've learned that a list of the 25 greatest Bulldogs of the last 100 years is being prepared, and will be released on July 21 at a club event. The top 5 will be ranked and the rest unranked, and we know that Ellie Blackburn and Bob Murphy are on the list.

Top five has to be Whitten, Bontempelli, Dempsey, Sutton, Hawkins (in no particular order)? Think they squeeze Grant or Johnson in there?

 

[dogwatch]

We've learned that a list of the 25 greatest Bulldogs of the last 100 years is being prepared, and will be released on July 21 at a club event. The top 5 will be ranked and the rest unranked, and we know that Ellie Blackburn and Bob Murphy are on the list.

Top five has to be Whitten, Bontempelli, Dempsey, Sutton, Hawkins (in no particular order)? Think they squeeze Grant or Johnson in there?

Hopkins might be a chance.

 

[TiAn_]

Sutton, Whitten, Hawkins, Grant, Bontempelli