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We also had some amazing talent pass through the club in the 1975-1985 period but too often they left early for various reasons including the poor finances of the club. If we could have held the group together we might have had a flag winning side.The 2 dogs versions that rival this group are the plough late 90s group (grant, west, Johnson, smith, Darcy, Romero, Libba, wynd, cameron) and the rocket late 2000s group (Cooney, griffen, Johnson, cross, Boyd, Murphy, lake, Gilbee, aker, hall, ward).
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85 team was amazing with Beasley, Dougie etc. I’m old so I can’t remember them all
‘OMG’
It was an amazing year - every week Beasley and the team would beat some scoring record
An amazing year. You'd have thought that adding Tony McGuinness and Murray Rance to that list in 1986, we would have been set for a sustained tilt at the flag. Instead, it all went a bit pear shaped
I missed the PF that year but I've heard that said many times. My sense of it was that we were just a smidge off being the best side that year ... but then I saw very few games as I had already moved from Melbourne.I was having a look at the 1985 final series and it’s interesting to note that we lost to Hawthorn by 93 points in the QF but only 10 points in the PF.
What a turn around!
I was speaking to a die hard bulldogs supporter who claims we should have beaten Hawthorn in the PF but Leigh Matthews kicked a couple of late goals while on Brad Hardie and that was the difference.
He also said that we would have won the GF as we had beaten Essendon twice during the year.
I was too young then, but is this your recollection?
We went into that finals series with I think just two players who had even played in a final previously, Maylin and Buhagiar. The QF was a massacre because we were like deer in headlights and didn't handle the occasion. The much improved performance in the PF was an "almost" kind of game which we were always thereabouts but didn't in my recollection (I've watched the replay several times) ever seem to have the ascendancy in.I was having a look at the 1985 final series and it’s interesting to note that we lost to Hawthorn by 93 points in the QF but only 10 points in the PF.
What a turn around!
I was speaking to a die hard bulldogs supporter who claims we should have beaten Hawthorn in the PF but Leigh Matthews kicked a couple of late goals while on Brad Hardie and that was the difference.
He also said that we would have won the GF as we had beaten Essendon twice during the year.
I was too young then, but is this your recollection?
We were 1-1 with Essendon in 1985. We may have had their measure but they were rested and thumped the Hawks in the GF. The most likely scenario would have been that we may have been overawed by the occasion if we got through to the GF. It was a great year though. Being in my mid-teens it was the first year I went to the footy confident of winning most matches. The early wins v Carlton, North and Geelong set up our year. There was disappointment after the PF but a confidence that we would improve in 1986 - which didn’t occur unfortunately.I was having a look at the 1985 final series and it’s interesting to note that we lost to Hawthorn by 93 points in the QF but only 10 points in the PF.
What a turn around!
I was speaking to a die hard bulldogs supporter who claims we should have beaten Hawthorn in the PF but Leigh Matthews kicked a couple of late goals while on Brad Hardie and that was the difference.
He also said that we would have won the GF as we had beaten Essendon twice during the year.
I was too young then, but is this your recollection?
We were 1-1 with Essendon in 1985. We may have had their measure but they were rested and thumped the Hawks in the GF. The most likely scenario would have been that we may have been overawed by the occasion if we got through to the GF. It was a great year though. Being in my mid-teens it was the first year I went to the footy confident of winning most matches. The early wins v Carlton, North and Geelong set up our year. There was disappointment after the PF but a confidence that we would improve in 1986 - which didn’t occur unfortunately.
1997/1998 team for mine.
Essendon were relieved we didn’t make it to the GF that year.I missed the PF that year but I've heard that said many times. My sense of it was that we were just a smidge off being the best side that year ... but then I saw very few games as I had already moved from Melbourne.
It's probably similar to the GWS v WB PF in 2016. Whoever wins that wins the flag.
I’m going with 1975, before Neil Sachse’s accident and Peter Welsh’s knee.
Wheeler, Sandilands, Salmon
Dell, Sachse, Power
Stoneham, Featherby, Jennings
Whitten, Quinlan, Morrison
Gallagher, Templeton, Welsh
Dempsey, Abbey, Huppatz
Round, Dunstan, Low, Russmussan
Edit: Have to fit Greg Parke in their somewhere, too
Great team and some great players left out, including 2 Brownlow Medallists in Barry Round and Brian Wilson.We also had some amazing talent pass through the club in the 1975-1985 period but too often they left early for various reasons including the poor finances of the club. If we could have held the group together we might have had a flag winning side.
The team below includes some players at the tail end of the career over that decade and some at the start, so they might not have all been in the same side or in their prime all at once. An impressive list nonetheless.
Templeton, Quinlan, Dempsey, Jennings, Huppatz, Dunstan, Whitten Jr, Stoneham, Sandilands, Beasley, Bamblett, Foster, Hawkins, Kennedy, McLean, Royal, Baker, Purser, Wallis, Edmond. And I'm sure there are many others I've left out. I've had to play some of them slightly out of position and the balance isn't perfect but that's still some line-up (handy forward line!)
Whitten Jr Kennedy Sandilands
Wallis Foster Baker
McLean Dunstan Hawkins
Quinlan Templeton Edmond
Bamblett Beasley Royal
Rucks: Dempsey, Huppatz, Jennings
19-20: Purser Stoneham
Had to be still playing in 1975 or to have debuted by 1983 to make the list. I think they're all qualified.
Wow, you're 10/11 and you've seen a flag and a contender again a few years later. Enjoy!I think it's the best list I've seen in my lifetime (born in 2010). I think it's clearly better than 2016, and 2010 gives it a run for it's money but this team has a lot more weapons.
That's not to say it's the best 'team' as the jury is still out, this is just list wise.
I think I'm in denial of my age here, edited to 1995. Had the year 2010 stuck in my head!Wow, you're 10/11 and you've seen a flag and a contender again a few years later. Enjoy!
I think I'm in denial of my age here, edited to 1995. Had the year 2010 stuck in my head!
I can’t believe I forgot Collins! Definitely in there somewhereNow that's a good side.
The only changes I'd make are Parke in for Welsh, and maybe throw Dennis Collins on to the wing for a very young Geoff Jennings.
Parke was a great mark and pretty quick. I remember Peter Welsh not being able to run down Peter Hudson...