Re: Bulldogs By the Numbers
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Bulldog4life
Charlie Evans for me. I had his number on my jumper as a kid. Terrific back pocket player who represented the Vics but seemed to lose form quickly and went to South.
I think Charlie may have developed eyesight problems which played a role in his early retirement.
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merantau
I think Charlie may have developed eyesight problems which played a role in his early retirement.
Thanks Merantau. He was such a good tackler. He said at the time he always tackled at the hips. Countered a number of players trying to baulk him. I remember he did wear glasses off the field.
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Neil Cordy was a very good player no doubt but for me it has to be Tory Dickson. I will be first to admit that I was singularly unimpressed recruiting a 25? year old who'd been plying his trade uphill and down dale for half a dozen years. How wrong was I? He turned out to be an absolute gun and it was very unfortunate that injuries post-2016 reared their ugly head.
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merantau
Neil Cordy was a very good player no doubt but for me it has to be Tory Dickson. I will be first to admit that I was singularly unimpressed recruiting a 25? year old who'd been plying his trade uphill and down dale for half a dozen years. How wrong was I? He turned out to be an absolute gun and it was very unfortunate that injuries post-2016 reared their ugly head.
Agree - one of the most accurate shots for goal in AFL history.
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#30 is a tricky one. We've got three candidates - Don McKenzie, Ross Abbey and Mathew Robbins. All played a similar number of games. Don coached us. Ross played for Victoria. Hard to pick a stand out for me.
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comrade
Looking forward to 32.
As opposed to Peter Street at 31?
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I will now begin on the numberd 31 - 40 starting tomorrow.
Re: Bulldogs By the Numbers
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merantau
#30 is a tricky one. We've got three candidates - Don McKenzie, Ross Abbey and Mathew Robbins. All played a similar number of games. Don coached us. Ross played for Victoria. Hard to pick a stand out for me.
Matty Robins because he kicked more goals than the other two.
Will you do a summary of 1 to 30 at some stage?
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Our first #31 of note was Barry Smith who played from 1960 to 1965 - 6 years, 78 games. He was a wingman who had heaps of pace and was very elusive. It was easier to tackle dust than get a hand on Barry.
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bornadog
Matty Robins because he kicked more goals than the other two.
Will you do a summary of 1 to 30 at some stage?
So here is a summary of what we have so far. I'll start with #1 thru #10
#1 Andrew Purser, #2 Bob Murphy, #3 Ted Whitten, #4 Marcus Bontempelli, #5 Matthew Boyd, #6 Brad Johnson, #7 Doug Hawkins, #8 Rick Kennedy, #9 Laurie Sandilands , #10 Easton Wood.
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merantau
Our first #31 of note was Barry Smith who played from 1960 to 1965 - 6 years, 78 games. He was a wingman who had heaps of pace and was very elusive. It was easier to tackle dust than get a hand on Barry.
With Alex "the racehorse" Gardiner on the other wing and Bobby Spargo in the centre we certainly had a speedy centre line.
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So its a choice between James Mulligan and Tom Young?
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merantau
Our first #31 of note was Barry Smith who played from 1960 to 1965 - 6 years, 78 games. He was a wingman who had heaps of pace and was very elusive. It was easier to tackle dust than get a hand on Barry.
Probably should just blow the siren and award the honours to KT before TwoDogs sends an invite to the Yarraville nets.
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1eyedog
Probably should just blow the siren and award the honours to KT before TwoDogs sends an invite to the Yarraville nets.
Wasn't he a Melbourne player?
*Ducks*