The five words I don't want to hear from dogs fans this week...

[westdog54]

We have nothing to lose.

Bollocks. We have everything to lose.

We're 4 solid quarters away from our first grand final in 48 years.

We have a chance to show what this club is made of almost 20 years to the day after we were almost merged out of existence.

We have a player in the number 6 jumper who's played his heart and soul out for almost a decade and a half who I'm sure is sick of disappointment.

We lost this time last year in a game we virtually threw away.

In this game, there's no rep footy, no State of Origin, there's no National team. There's only one pinnacle to reach. The premiership.

The 22 that take the field need to play as though their lives depend on it.

Nothing short of throwing the kitchen sink at StKilda will be a satisfactory effort. Any lapses can and will be severely punished.

Nothing to lose? Bollocks.

[bornadog]

We have nothing to lose.

Bollocks. We have everything to lose.

We're 4 solid quarters away from our first grand final in 48 years.

We have a chance to show what this club is made of almost 20 years to the day after we were almost merged out of existence.

We have a player in the number 6 jumper who's played his heart and soul out for almost a decade and a half who I'm sure is sick of disappointment.

We lost this time last year in a game we virtually threw away.

In this game, there's no rep footy, no State of Origin, there's no National team. There's only one pinnacle to reach. The premiership.

The 22 that take the field need to play as though their lives depend on it.

Nothing short of throwing the kitchen sink at StKilda will be a satisfactory effort. Any lapses can and will be severely punished.

Nothing to lose? Bollocks.

Bloody Hell Nick, rip into it:D

I agree, we want a Grand Final and we must go all out to get one next Friday. We have the players to do it, and we can do it.

[LostDoggy]

I won't be happy with anything less than a grand final berth. I'm sick of going to see us lose preliminary finals. GO THE MIGHTY DOGGIES!!!!!!!! :D

[EasternWest]

We will beat St. Kilda

[LostDoggy]

We will beat St. Kilda


I love those four words!! :)

[AndrewP6]

I love those four words!! :)

My maths says it's five words... "We will beat St (Saint) Kilda"...

[Topdog]

My maths says it's five words... "We will beat St (Saint) Kilda"...

After your efforts with maths last week I'm beginning to think it is four words:D

[AndrewP6]

After your efforts with maths last week I'm beginning to think it is four words:D

:D Good call... never did like maths (and it shows!)

[1eyedog]

Ryan Griffen is terribly underrated


Daniel Cross should be traded

[WestDawg]

Dogs for the premiership! now that sounds good.

[LostDoggy]

We have everything to lose - but I don't want to get my hopes up, it is too hard to live with another disappointment.:(

[bulldogtragic]

Samantha Lane said about Rocket that after the presser the other night he mentioned as soon as he heard Lions players saying they had nothing to lose and all the pressure was on the dogs, he knew immediately that we would win (Quote/Unquote), and that it is a false logic. Her view was that it won't be hapening with the dogs this week.

The punters might not be backing us, but we have a grand final spot to lose, or to win. All i want to hear is the commitment of 22 blokes to commit everything for 4 solid quarters and then back it up. If that occurs, my grand final tickets will be even more valuable.

[Studentlib]

My five words: Twenty two snarling pit bulls!!

[LostDoggy]

These are the 5 words we'll all hear after Friday nights game "Western Bulldogs defeated the Saints". :)

[NoName]

These are the 5 words we'll all hear after Friday nights game "Western Bulldogs defeated the Saints". :)

I hope so.

[LostDoggy]

I heard someone say it walking out of the Bris game last week. "Bring on the Saints, nothing to lose".

"Nothing to lose. Just yet another prelim", I said like a sad sack.

Agree with OP. Everything to lose. Ask Grant, C, West, S, Hawkins, D, etc.

[Mantis]

'There is always next year'

[LostDoggy]

'We prooved you wrong again!'

[Mitcha]

Five words I do want to hear this week.
Grant Thomas, you were wrong.

[westdog54]

12 Months on, and what do you know.

We go into a Prelim against the Saints a massive underdog, having been touched up in a Qualifier 2 weeks earlier.

The chance of victory much lower.

The level of expectation isn't.

All or nothing. Simple as that.

[Mantis]

I was going to start a thread to this very theme this week.

Only been 56 years since we won a flag, 49 years since we made a GF.

Helluva lot to lose the way I see it.

[Scraggers]

I was going to start a thread to this very theme this week.

Only been 56 years since we won a flag, 49 years since we made a GF.

Helluva lot to lose the way I see it.

^^^ Exactly this !!!

[KT31]

Supportors rip up tickets

[SonofScray]

Agree with the OP.

Time and tide waits for no man. You simply have to take your chances when they come, fight tooth and nail to get the win.

We've just broken even, now to make the next step. There's a lot at stake.

[Danny the snakeman]

The headline will read "Saints in the dog house"

[Remi Moses]

Another bloody Ticketek 5$ donation!!
We've got nothing to lose!
Hear that crashing bore talk us up (Lyon)
Riewoldt crucified by the umps!

[Curly5]

The five words I don't want to hear:

Drop Johnno, replace with Everitt.

:mad:

And yes, we have everything to lose, really hate that phrase.

[comrade]

The five words I don't want to hear:

Drop Johnno, replace with Everitt.


Who would say that?

Drop Hahn, replace with whoever is much more likely.

[LostDoggy]

We will beat St. Kilda

Sweet!:D

[BulldogBelle]

5 Words I don't want to hear are:

Daniel Cross suspended for prelim.

[LostDoggy]

5 Words I don't want to hear are:

Daniel Cross suspended for prelim.

Yeah I don't know if we can do it without that guy.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

At some point, we're going to have to defy the odds and actually win a preliminary final to make the big dance. We're probably never going to be favourites heading into a PF partly because of our history alone.

Obviously there is a lot stacked against us this year compared to last, but as I said - sooner or later, we'll have to buck the trend and 'shock' the world so to speak.

I can't wait for it - this is what we play footy for.

[EasternWest]

Sweet!:D

Beat me to it. I was going to drag that one back up again.

We will beat St. Kilda.

[Dancin' Douggy]

The five words I don't want to hear are.

Harbrow accepts Gold Coast offer.

[AndrewP6]

The five words I don't want to hear are.

Harbrow accepts Gold Coast offer.

Like^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Optimistic, but I like it nonetheless.

[LostDoggy]

Last year we were snaked out of a grand final birth by a free kick given for the most straight as a die searching for a boundary line klck I have ever seen. Plus its the first time I'd seen one paid. Oh and a Swan dive from a Saint. I'd expect that from the Sydney Ducks only but we just played and beat them.

That won't be happening again because we'll be waking up Sunday morning with the realisation we have to buy tickets again to attend the MCG the week after. My five are "We probably need Jason Akermanis."

[LostDoggy]

Damn I hope all Dogs fans get to the game. It felt like Sydney had more numbers Saturday night. They are allowing AFL Silver members to buy tickets in the AFL Reserve which probably says they aren't expecting a bumper crowd. Anyone think we will crack 70k?

[MrMahatma]

Barry said it in his post game interview didn't he?

[aker39]

Doctor rules out injured Morris

[chef]

Five words I do want to hear.........

Time to break the curse.

[LostDoggy]

Brian Lake said the same thing on Fox Sports News. "We have everything to lose. We have a spot in a grand final to lose. Anything less than a grand final berth is a failure" or something like that. GO DOGS!!!! :D

[Mantis]

Five words I do want to hear.........

Time to break the curse.

On that theme:

'Hahn dumped for prelim showdown.'

(Nothing against Mitch, but he is in struggle town and we really can't afford to play him)

[The Coon Dog]

'The orange flag, that's heartbreaking'!

[Ghost Dog]

We have nothing to lose.



Any lapses can and will be severely punished.



Severly Punished? Stockade at the western Oval perhaps? Tarred and feathered and dumped at Footscray station?

Nothing to lose doggies! go hard or go home.

[LostDoggy]

Five words I want to hear…

“Bulldogs upset the Saints, Pies” or “Bulldogs upset the Saints, Cats”

“Griffen kicks 5, Barry 9”

“Bulldogs fans attend the parade”

“Dogs show they've got heart”

“BornAScragger eats his negative post”

[LostDoggy]

Severly Punished? Stockade at the western Oval perhaps? Tarred and feathered and dumped at Footscray station?

Nothing to lose doggies! go hard or go home.

*Shudders*

[The Bulldogs Bite]

I want to hear:

"Cooney and Morris shock return!"

[immortalmike]

Five words I want to hear

"Johnson holds up premiership cup"

[AndrewP6]

Wouldn't mind hearing "Riewoldt cited for diving again" (so long as it isn't rewarded with a free!)

[EasternWest]

Five words I want to hear

"Johnson holds up premiership cup"

^^^ This.

[AndrewP6]

Five words I definitely don't want to hear: "Another Dogs player goes down"

[Ghost Dog]

I want to hear:

"Cooney and Morris shock return!"

Well, the glass is half full TBB!

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Well, the glass is half full TBB!

Indeed.

One to go. ;)

[Greystache]

The five sweetest words I can imagine are... "And Riewoldt is in tears"

[cambo]

We have nothing to lose.

Bollocks. We have everything to lose.

We're 4 solid quarters away from our first grand final in 48 years.

We have a chance to show what this club is made of almost 20 years to the day after we were almost merged out of existence.

We have a player in the number 6 jumper who's played his heart and soul out for almost a decade and a half who I'm sure is sick of disappointment.

We lost this time last year in a game we virtually threw away.

In this game, there's no rep footy, no State of Origin, there's no National team. There's only one pinnacle to reach. The premiership.

The 22 that take the field need to play as though their lives depend on it.

Nothing short of throwing the kitchen sink at StKilda will be a satisfactory effort. Any lapses can and will be severely punished.

Nothing to lose? Bollocks.

Fantastic post could not agree any more!! Go Dogs

[Greystache]

Or

"Hayes has been disappointing tonight"

[Murphy'sLore]

Don't want to hear after the game, "Same result as last year..."

[LostDoggy]

I'd like to hear "Saints took Dogs too lightly". :)

[LostDoggy]

I'd like to read the headline " DOGS in the GRAND FINAL ";)

[LostDoggy]

I'd like to read "Saints excuse they had virus".
I don't wish them any harm but a virus would be nice !

[Sedat]

"Dog Day Afternoon For Cats"

It means we've beaten the Saints, the filth have lost the prelim, and we've won the flag. Plus it's a typical lame effort from the sub-editor to use a movie title pun in their heading.

[LostDoggy]

"Dog Day Afternoon For Cats"

It means we've beaten the Saints, the filth have lost the prelim, and we've won the flag. Plus it's a typical lame effort from the sub-editor to use a movie title pun in their heading.


Or after this weekend games: "It's Raining Cats and Dogs". :)

[Dancin' Douggy]

I'd like to read "Saints excuse they had virus".
I don't wish them any harm but a virus would be nice !

I'm afraid I wish them harm.

[Bumper Bulldogs]

What about
"The year of the Dog"

"Dogs do it for Jonno"

"Dogs win in a Landslide"

"PM and Dogs both winners"

Well i just hope the players are feeling this way as anything can happen it you really want it. Come on Dogs!

[Ghost Dog]

*Shudders*

Play without fear of failure then.
There are no Ghosts at the western Oval anymore. Barry scared them off.

[1eyedog]

Dogs do Cats Doggy style

[LostDoggy]

In the best tradition of old Footscray: "Fark the Sainters, Carn Doggies!"

[Mantis]

Things I don't want to hear:

'Geez bloody Eagleton was disappointing'

'If only Hahn could mark'.... run/ tackle/ kick - take your pick. :D

'Did Grant get a touch?'

'When will Minson gain discipline??'

and my personal favourites:

'There is always next year'

'Sir, the bar is closed'..... and you've had too much to drink anyway.

[1eyedog]

Things I don't want to hear:

'Geez bloody Eagleton was disappointing'

'If only Hahn could mark'.... run/ tackle/ kick - take your pick. :D

'Did Grant get a touch?'

'When will Minson gain discipline??'

and my personal favourites:

'There is always next year'

'Sir, the bar is closed'..... and you've had too much to drink anyway.

Do we still hear this? I thought expectations had dropped so far on Eagleton that we came to expect disappointment these days.

[SonofScray]

In the best tradition of old Footscray: "Fark the Sainters, Carna SCRAY!"

;) Slight edit.

A headline I'd love to see:

"Junkyard Dogs do over Jailyard Saints."

[johnnycoop]

Massively agree. Really want to be able to change my footy guernsey number from 54 to 10.

[EasternWest]

Massively agree. Really want to be able to change my footy guernsey number from 54 to 10.

Welcome to WOOF johnnycoop.

Will your guernsey fit the numbers 11, 12 and 13 also? :)

[Desipura]

Massively agree. Really want to be able to change my footy guernsey number from 54 to 10.
I know what you mean, Terry DeKonning has long retired and Eagle is still playing (at least this year)

[westdog54]

I saw someone post up that they didn't want anyone saying we have nothing to lose this week and it reminded me of this from 7 years ago.

[Twodogs]

2009. That was the night we lost the lot. Fluffed a lot of big moments.

[SonofScray]

2009. That was the night we lost the lot. Fluffed a lot of big moments.

Never watched the replay. We fluffed it. I had a fit of agitated depression on the way out and broke a few chairs and bins. Was flat for days. Have been on this upward spiral today but am aware with the absolute highs we experience with every goal tomorrow night that feeling is always just around the corner.

[Twodogs]

Never watched the replay. We fluffed it. I had a fit of agitated depression on the way out and broke a few chairs and bins. Was flat for days. Have been on this upward spiral today but am aware with the absolute highs we experience with every goal tomorrow night that feeling is always just around the corner.


That horrible feeling that comes with losing a final isn't going to worry us this year.

[hujsh]

Personally I think we've acheived our goals for the year (at least what I wanted to see) and think everything from here on is a bonus.

At the start of the year I wanted us to hold ground as teams were aware of our players, how we play and our structures and we'd have a more difficult draw. I believe we did that by winning 1 more game this year.

I wanted to see us be more consistent, not dropping easy games and making up for it with the upset wins (aside from St. Kilda and the dead rubber we were very good at that this year)

I also wanted to see this team win a final to get that monkey off the back. Last week was beyond anything I could have hoped for in that regard.

That we did this with all the injuries we've had this year is a great achievement. Regardless of what happens Friday I'll be happy with our overall season

[bornadog]

The 5 words I don't want to hear are:

THERE IS ALWAYS NEXT YEAR

Sick and tired of hearing that.

[Ozza]

There's no guarantees that we will be better next year.

With the way GWS are building - it might become extremely hard to win a flag in the next few years.

This year is as open as we have ever seen it. There is no exceptional team. This is an opportunity to pinch one.

We have everything to lose.

[whythelongface]

took me a few seconds to realise that this was a thread from 2009 - was thinking the guy in no. 6 has played for a decade and a half - didn't think Dahl was that old :)

THAT WAS AN HONOURABLE LOSS.

I don't want to hear these words. I hate honourable losses as much as I hate vegemite.

Let's win so that we don't have hear this repeated ad nauseam by the media.

[bulldogtragic]

1. Fletcher
2. Roberts
3. For
4. F***
5. Sake

[Ghost Dog]

took me a few seconds to realise that this was a thread from 2009 - was thinking the guy in no. 6 has played for a decade and a half - didn't think Dahl was that old :)

THAT WAS AN HONOURABLE LOSS.

I don't want to hear these words. I hate honourable losses as much as I hate vegemite.

Let's win so that we don't have hear this repeated ad nauseam by the media.

So, you are of the Terry Wallace 'Spew' philosophy? :D
Things I don't want to hear.

1. GWS have been gifted blah blah and blah blah. We can't change that. Get on with it.
2. "Get stuck into them!" Any unnecessary flag flying and I will be ticked off. If any players are reported for idiotic acts, heartbreak.
3. Any pap historical stuff. Who gives a crap. It was a long time ago, prelim losses to blah blah, 54. Now is now.
4. Bagging of our own players
5. Underselling ourselves of any kind. No excuses.

[Greystache]

We'll beat them next time

If I hear that I'll spew up. Now is the time to beat them, now. We may be better next time, they likely will be too. Now is our time.

[Ozza]

5 words I don't want to hear;

IF ONLY WE KICKED STRAIGHT

I know its an obvious one. But I always hark back to before Freo played in the Grand Final a couple of years ago, Ross Lyon was asked if there was any one element of the game he'd like to see his team do well at what would it be - and he said (paraphrasing) "While there are so many areas of the game we need to do well in, you'd like them to kick straight".
It sounds so simple, and obvious. But scoreboard pressure is huge and there is so little room for error in a prelim, that we need to get it right.

If we (god forbid) didn't win the game - I think I would rather it be that the Giants outplayed us around the ground - than play as well as them, but missed goals leaves us with 'if's, buts and maybe's'.

[Ozza]

5 words I don't want to hear;

IF ONLY WE KICKED STRAIGHT

I know its an obvious one. But I always hark back to before Freo played in the Grand Final a couple of years ago, Ross Lyon was asked if there was any one element of the game he'd like to see his team do well at what would it be - and he said (paraphrasing) "While there are so many areas of the game we need to do well in, you'd like them to kick straight".
It sounds so simple, and obvious. But scoreboard pressure is huge and there is so little room for error in a prelim, that we need to get it right.

If we (god forbid) didn't win the game - I think I would rather it be that the Giants outplayed us around the ground - than play as well as them, but missed goals leaves us with 'if's, buts and maybe's'.

[Twodogs]

Beat me to it Ozza. I had Wish We Had Kicked Straighter but it's the same message.

[LostDoggy]

Close Thread? ;)

[bornadog]

At least we made GF

[westdog54]

Close Thread? ;)

Hell no. Still everything to lose.

[1eyedog]

At least we made GF

Yep in years to come just this will be forgotten. A flag waves forever.

[craigsahibee]

"No Way. Out of beer?"

"Out of Carlton Draught. Corona?"

[bornadog]

"No Way. Out of beer?"

"Out of Carlton Draught. Corona?"

That was the prelim:D

[Twodogs]

How did they decide who was going to go out and tell everybody they had run out of beer? That would have been a great job.

[bornadog]

How did they decide who was going to go out and tell everybody they had run out of beer? That would have been a great job.

Pre game we went to two different venues outside the ground and they had run out of beer. That was at least an hour before the game. At the Brewery bar there was a wait of 20 minutes to get to the bar. We gave up and went into the ground and got a drink. While I was getting my shout, my mates saw Mitch Wallis and they had a chat to him.

[KT31]

Pre game we went to two different venues outside the ground and they had run out of beer. That was at least an hour before the game. At the Brewery bar there was a wait of 20 minutes to get to the bar. We gave up and went into the ground and got a drink. While I was getting my shout, my mates saw Mitch Wallis and they had a chat to him.

Went to Pilgrims on the Yarra before the Hawks game, no queues, served pretty quick or table service and nice beer.

[1eyedog]

How did they decide who was going to go out and tell everybody they had run out of beer? That would have been a great job.

I lined up and missed the start of the 4th quarter. After about 2 minutes into the last and more than halfway to the bar some schmo walked down the line and said no more beer. I won't repeat what i said to the poor young fella.

[1eyedog]

I lined up and missed the start of the 4th quarter. After about 2 minutes into the last and more than halfway to the bar some schmo walked down the line and said no more beer. I won't repeat what i said to the poor young fella.

Seriously lucky punters didn't set the place on fire actually.

[Happy Days]

"Buddy Franklin taking the piss"

[LostDoggy]

"Someone Bloody Man Up Franklin!"

[Twodogs]

"Great news, we got Lobbe!"


That's more in a few weeks I guess.