"Footscray people are incredible people; so humble. I'm just so happy - ecstatic"
North are in the game for Sudanese too, a person I work with also works at north as a Sudanese intergrater, ( that's the best word I could think of) he is Sudanese and I work with a few and they are very nice and relaxed happy race , I would love them to support is despite the medias write ups on the bad ones.
Bring back the biff
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
Really good to hear ledge and Twodogs a greater insight into some of the community work we do and some other clubs do that doesn't often get much coverage.
"Footscray people are incredible people; so humble. I'm just so happy - ecstatic"
I think the suburb that is West of the Melbourne CBD but east of the Maribyrnong river that in my opinion we can claim as Bulldog territory would be West Melbourne despite North Melbounrne Station being in West Melbourne. In the future North Melbourne station will be called West Melbourne station which makes more sense give its actually in West Melbourne after the whole metro rail tunnel development is completed.
"Footscray people are incredible people; so humble. I'm just so happy - ecstatic"
True story. Back in the 1890s Footscray was sick of being called Footscray. The name Footscray was associated with factorys and smells and industry and council wanted to escape the association. So they applied to the state government to change the name to West Footscray.
The State refused the request on the grounds that there already was a suburb called West Melbourne and having two suburbs with the same name was more trouble than it was worth.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
Early to mid 80s, spent our time winning flags and getting booted out of competitions every second year .
Amazing footballers in that team, could have played in the VFL no problem but they had other things they enjoyed that weren't exactly legal.
Awesome blokes to play with but not against, I did both.
Bring back the biff
Wa John Sharp playing for Fleming/Ken back then?
He was a lunatic fast bowler I used to play cricket with. He was a champion footballer who could have played VFL but decided to concentrate on cricket.
So he gets invited to Victorian state practice squad. It had been raining and the practice wickets were in a terrible state and very dangerous to bat on. The team manager asked the quicks not to bowl short and everyone agreed but not everyone's remembered, Sharpie forgot while he was bowling to Bill Lawry not once but twice, and was removed from practice early and never invited bac. That's the legend anyway.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
Crowds over recents at Whitten Oval note not including the VFL games. AFLW and NAB AFL pre season games included.
http://m.austadiums.com/stadium_events.php?id=137
PAST EVENTS
AFLW: Western Bulldogs d Melbourne
Sat 17th March 2018. Crowd: 7,593
AFLW: Western Bulldogs d Carlton
Fri 23rd February 2018. Crowd: 8,987
AFLW: Western Bulldogs d Fremantle
Sun 4th February 2018. Crowd: 8,500
AFLW: Collingwood d Western Bulldogs
Sat 25th February 2017. Crowd: 6,733
AFLW: Melbourne d Western Bulldogs
Sat 18th February 2017. Crowd: 8,000
JLT Series: Melbourne d Western Bulldogs
Sat 18th February 2017. Crowd: 7,581
HIGHEST ATTENDANCES*
AFLW: Western Bulldogs v Fremantle
Sat 4th February 2017. Crowd: 10,100
NAB Challenge: Western Bulldogs v Richmond
Sat 28th February 2015. Crowd: 9,513
AFLW: Western Bulldogs v Carlton
Fri 23rd February 2018. Crowd: 8,987
AFLW: Western Bulldogs v Fremantle
Sun 4th February 2018. Crowd: 8,500
AFLW: Western Bulldogs v Melbourne
Sat 18th February 2017. Crowd: 8,000
AFLW: Western Bulldogs v Adelaide Crows
Fri 10th February 2017. Crowd: 7,669
*CROWD DATA SINCE 2003
"Footscray people are incredible people; so humble. I'm just so happy - ecstatic"
"Footscray people are incredible people; so humble. I'm just so happy - ecstatic"