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Can't have that. Surely Zeno Tzatzaris is still the man. Lack of football ability well compensated by 3 zeds.

Next week the story will be about how Jake Stringer has learnt to love running, has had the preseason of his life and is ready to tear the competition apart. Then a few second half fade outs, 2nd quarter huffing and puffing and a soft tissue injury in one of the early rounds.

The Essendon 2000 team backed up largely unchanged in 2001 and ran into a superior Lions team who beat them easy on their way to 3 flags, 4 GFs in a row. I'd take those Brissy teams over 2000 Essendon as a stronger outfit. Those teams were hard, skillful and pretty bombproof; Key backs -...

Sam Mitchell was equally good on either foot but reckoned he got more distance on his left. Long term the 20% average will be roughly right. Bob Skilton and Ian Stewart were both lefties who won 6 Brownlows between them in the 60s.

Jacob Hopper - generally regarded as a coup when Richmond paid a first and 2nd rounder for him and gave him a 7 year contract. That's overrated. Very vanilla ball butcher who gets by on an association with the superior Taranto. Christian Salem - top 10 draft pick who couldn't cut it in...

I'd take Ablett Snr. Was an unbeatable winger before his exploits deep forward. Wins nearly every one on one.

If I was picking 2 key forwards for a best 22, from that list I'd take Franklin and Riewoldt.

I'm obviously biased, but Dogs winning 16 games isn't that big a leap. Last year we went 12-11, including wins against 3 of the 4 PF teams. Admittedly, we had some shockers late in the year. Reasons we can improve by a few games this year: - Whole new assistant coaching panel. Our 2022/23...

Two others that deserve to be at the very pointy end of any list; Andrew and Darren Jarman - both excellent natural footballers with multiple All Australians and a pile of achievements Ian and Bruce Nankervis - both played 250 games plus. Absolute Geelong stalwarts for well over a decade

Jackson is a true oddity. He once did a talking tour throughout Australia with two of the most horrendous people of recent history; Mark Chopper Read and Roger Rogerson I happened to see them at a Pub in Yandina on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. They played many similar weirdarse joints...

As a player of the 80s I'm guessing Chasers on a Thursday, The Tunnel on a Saturday, with a smattering of the Metro, Chevron, Redheads and Saloon Bar.

Yep, 12 years or so ago EFC promised us spreadsheets that show how well governed their supplements program was and yet still crickets. Sorry, but it's going to be referred to for years to come, it's just the gift that keeps on giving (unless someone finds them of course).

Bulldogs John Georgiades (father of Port player Mitch) had a 22 possession debut and kicked 8.4. One of the best debuts you'd ever see. Career lasted 15 games.

Lots of guys selling drugs to teenagers mount a similar defence. If I don't sell it to them, they'll just go elsewhere.

My biggest take out from those figures is that EFC spent over $1.5mill on IT expenses last year, but still nobody can retrieve that pesky spreadsheet.

https://images.app.goo.gl/kcC3fWNGK9ftyf6eA Rover Merv Hobbs in the 1961 PF probably the best remembered at the Dogs.

So your example of a guy who did an ACL and got back to playing quickly is actually a guy who did an ACL and never played another game?

In my unpopular opinion, the game would be better with 14 players for each team on the ground. The athletic capacities of the modern player and heavy interchange rotations have made a 36 man game just too many. Get rid of the flankers, all they do is congest. If the game started with the...

I don't like how defence became dee-fence.

Very confident Bont will come second.

There is a certain symmetry to you guys awarding medals to minimally talented very talls whilst setting fire to very smalls.

For the Dogs, James O'Donnell came from nowhere last season as a CatB rookie after minimal footy in recent years and a late VFL preseason. Did remarkably well considering. With a full preseason and (hopefully) a new defensive system to work within, he can cement himself as a quality tall defender.

Our coaching division has been a shambles since 2021, by all reports being addressed over the offseason. No doubt we've got issues, but still won more games than lost in each of the past 5 seasons. Players yet to peak include Naughton, English, Jamarra, Smith, Weightman, Richards, Darcy, West...

As a biased Dogs fan, Caleb Daniel has to be included in the most creative. His kick from the back pocket in the dying seconds of the semi final vs Brisbane in 2021 is the ballsiest kick I've seen.

Press conference on now. Club Chairman Bob East looks like he's on a 3 day bender. Hair everywhere, unshaven. He says 'as a club we need to uphold the highest standards' Ya can't write this sh.t

Caleb Serong

Most underrated was a 21yo Dermott Brereton being sent to full forward in the 1985 GF and kicking 8 goals despite his team getting flogged.

We're Debbie.

Apocalypse Now

Caleb Daniel for the <170cm division.