Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
The shimmy, run, great kick, good overhead mark, takes aggressive options through the corridor, drops back to help defenders and ability to run no carry.
From the clip, I actually see a little bit of Robert Murphy about him. If he grows a couple a cm's and puts on another 7-8kg (from his measurements taken earlier this year), had will be the identical height and weight to Bob too.
Yep, Murph was the first one that I thought of too.
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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Originally Posted by
Axe Man
According to AFL Tables, never! No Cody or Riley either (although John Riley played 1 game in 1984).
Closest was Lou Barker who played 23 games from 1947-1949.
Is there ever a story behind that one game that Riley played for us...
It is set against the background of the Sylvio Foschini court challenge to the (then) VFL recruiting rules. Foschini was tied to the Swans but didn't want to move to Sydney so he challenged the zone based recruiting model that we had back then. Foschini got a stay of proceedings so him and Paul Morwood just turned out for St Kilda without a clearance or a legally based contract. We had been in discussions with an Adelaide club (South Adelaide I think it was) but when this all played out we decided that we didn't need a clearance for Riley and just picked him to play.
This is where the story really starts to get interesting. Apparently as part of the negotiations the club bought Riley a brand new car and after he found out how hard and fast VFL footy was at first hand he hopped in said car, pressed the accelerator and didn't hit the brake again until he was the other side of Bordertown. We never saw Riley or the car ever again.
The other interesting thing about John Riley was he worked as a nuclear physicist-he is probably by far the smartest bloke to ever play for us.
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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Twodogs
I do have an 18 yo but her name is Lucy...
And I know an 18 year old called Lucy Bailey...
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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Originally Posted by
Axe Man
According to AFL Tables, never! No Cody or Riley either (although John Riley played 1 game in 1984).
Closest was Lou Barker who played 23 games from 1947-1949.
Rhylee West has to count for half a mark too.
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
His kicking certainly has some promise (at least from the highlight clips) - might float a bit at times, but I really liked how he kept on kicking to the advantage side of his team-mates. An important skill, and even more important with the way we often like to attack by kicking to small windows of space.
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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bulldogtragic
That's what I'm hoping for too. A wing partner to Hunter who also has elite endurance and good disposal is filling another piece of the puzzle.
When was the last time we had a Louis play for us?
Don't we have Louis Young? Appreciate the spelling is different
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
I agree Fredi andML, homonyn names i.e. sounding same but spelt differently really are the same name. Lewis and Louis (although latter can be pronounced 'Louie'), also Riley and Rhylee.
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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FrediKanoute
Don't we have Louis Young? Appreciate the spelling is different
Yep, and a Lewis Taylor too I think
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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Originally Posted by
Twodogs
I do have an 18 yo but her name is Lucy...
And one of her middle names is Liberatore.
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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Originally Posted by
westdog54
And one of her middle names is Liberatore.
Indeed it is. You have a good memory.
She goes by the name Brian now. I can understand the whole "I'm confused about my gender identity" no problem, I'm your dad and I'm here to help but Brian? Where on earth did Brian come from?
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
Completely forgot about Lewis Young, but Rhylee is a spelling abomination and I refuse to acknowledge it.;)
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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Twodogs
Indeed it is. You have a good memory.
She goes by the name Brian now. I can understand the whole "I'm confused about my gender identity" no problem, I'm your dad and I'm here to help but Brian? Where on earth did Brian come from?
Must have loved our former full back.
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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Dry Rot
Must have loved our former full back.
I think it's to honour the Monty Python film Life of Brian. That's what I can work out anyway.
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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Twodogs
I think it's to honour the Monty Python film Life of Brian. That's what I can work out anyway.
Better than Biggus Dickus I suppose.
Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
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Axe Man
Better than Biggus Dickus I suppose.
And that boys and girls is what we call poking the bear !!!