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Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
https://draftprospects.prod.afl/prospect/1011992
Medium defender who displays excellent use of the ball and decision making out of defence. He has good speed and impressed while representing Vic Metro in the 2019 NAB AFL Under-18Championships. He averaged 18 disposals in all four matches and was prolific with the Sandringham Dragons in the NAB League, averaging 20.6 disposals in eight matches.
Taken with Pick 53.
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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
Welcome to the Dogs Louis!
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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs: Louis Butler
Ryan Hargraves but a better kick.
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BornInDroopSt'54
Ryan Hargraves but a better kick.
Ryan was a beautiful kick and could thump it long, so if he is better than that, great
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bornadog
Ryan was a beautiful kick and could thump it long, so if he is better than that, great
Yeah that’s what I thought - seriously underrated kick the shag
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Ryan was an excellent kick except for the one kick he'd butcher each game!
I liked the look of his video, seems to know where to run to get it and use his leg which is a good sign, and doesn't always take an easy option. It's really hard to tell in the later rounds, but he looks fine and this is where the recruiters make their money.
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Ryan was a good long kick but not always a great decision maker. More a 'give it a roost' type IIRC (as most of our team was going I50 by the end of the Rocket years)
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I imagine we develop him on a wing. Elite endurance going by combine results.
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Mofra
I imagine we develop him on a wing. Elite endurance going by combine results.
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?
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bulldogtragic
When was the last time we had a Louis play for us?
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.
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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.
Breaking new ground! There's another Cody next year and a Jamarra, to add to Louis, Cody & Riley.
Did parents turn quickly on naming ever child the name Bailey about 18 years go?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ka_E284FJs
Last clip a good show of running and endurance
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bulldogtragic
Breaking new ground! There's another Cody next year and a Jamarra, to add to Louis, Cody & Riley.
Did parents turn quickly on naming ever child the name Bailey about 18 years go?
I do have an 18 yo but her name is Lucy...
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The shimmy, run, great kick, good overhead mark, takes aggressive options through the corridor, drops back to help defenders and ability to run and 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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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FrediKanoute
Don't we have Louis Young? Appreciate the spelling is different
Yep, and a Lewis Taylor too I think
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Twodogs
I do have an 18 yo but her name is Lucy...
And one of her middle names is Liberatore.
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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?
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Completely forgot about Lewis Young, but Rhylee is a spelling abomination and I refuse to acknowledge it.;)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Axe Man
Better than Biggus Dickus I suppose.
And that boys and girls is what we call poking the bear !!!
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Axe Man
Better than Biggus Dickus I suppose.
Incontenetia buttocks was her name...
Does anyone else feel like a little giggle when I mention the name of my very gweat fwiend Biggus, Dickus? Centuwian take them away to gwadiator school!
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He's a Wobber!
And a Wapist!
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Nice little snippet in the Garcia article that the Bulldogs see Butler settling on a wing. If he's an elite runner that will be his best position and it's certainly one of need for us.
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Mofra
Nice little snippet in the Garcia article that the Bulldogs see Butler settling on a wing. If he's an elite runner that will be his best position and it's certainly one of need for us.
Was just about to post he could be an exceptional link player on the wing w decent speed and a lovely kick.
Really like what I see of his highlights video, he looks a similar player to Ed Richards
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Gee I love the look of his kicking. Not shy going for a tough kick. I know it’s highlights but I like the way he puts it to advantage. My pet peeve is us not kicking to the advantage side. This makes life so much easier for the next bloke
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Just watched a clip and he is living with Fergus a few nights a week , I can’t help thinking how funny that would be after seeing some of his antics, the locker room dance was hilarious.
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Mofra
Nice little snippet in the Garcia article that the Bulldogs see Butler settling on a wing. If he's an elite runner that will be his best position and it's certainly one of need for us.
From memory I don't think Hunter has lost a 2km time trial in several years. In the spirit healthy competition, it would be great to see a new face bring serious competition to the 2km time trial. It can only result in the top echelon of runners having that healthy competition to keep/take the title.
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bulldogtragic
From memory I don't think Hunter has lost a 2km time trial in several years. In the spirit healthy competition, it would be great to see a new face bring serious competition to the 2km time trial. It can only result in the top echelon of runners having that healthy competition to keep/take the title.
I was watching the news last week and they were talking about how the Collingwood time trial king was knocked off by one of their new draftees. The only problem was I'd never heard of the guy who was Collingwood's time trial king and he'd been on their list for years.