Caleb Daniel
Lin Jong
Bailey Dale
Jordan Roughead
Bailey Williams
Magic McLean
Dad Collins
Tom Boyd
Josh Dunkley
JJ
Liam Picken
Tim English
Shane Biggs
Lukas Webb
Official: jumpers 2, 5, 8 & 9 are ready for new players.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
Not sure how much better he could be doing seeing as he was pretty much out injured all of last year.
The year before he was a premiership player in his first year, and had a good finals series - including starring v Hawthorn in the first half when we were struggling.
Think Dunks is going very well in the start to his career.
Got some great jumper numbers, with Cloke being pushed:
2 - Bailey Dale
5 - Caleb Daniel
8 - Tim English
9 - Josh Schache
13 - Pick 9
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
Leave Bailey Dale in 31 and play him at CHF!
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
Numbers available: 2, 5, 8, 9, 13, 26, 28, 37, 41, 45
The Dogs have plenty of numbers available at the pointy end of the change room after the retirements of several veterans and the trading of Jake Stringer. Established recruits Jackson Trengove, Hayden Crozier and Josh Schache will all be looking for new numbers, as the ones they wore at their previous clubs are already taken.
Even the numbers they wore in the TAC Cup aren't available. Whoever takes Robert Murphy's No.2 guernsey has a hard act to follow, with the former skipper holding the club record (311 games) for the most appearances in the jumper. He wore No.22 in his debut season but did not don it again.
Did you know? For such a popular number, club great Rohan Smith is the only Bulldog to play over 100 games in the No.5 jumper. Smith wore it 254 times, with the recently retired Matthew Boyd's 86 games the next best out of the 23 Dogs who wore it. – Ryan Davidson
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
37 would stay with Roarke
If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
Formerly gogriff
How old is that article? Bubba retired in 2006, meaning Boyd must have averaged less than 8 games a season for the vast majority of his awesome career for that stat to be right.
I should leave it alone but you're not right
Boyd played 224 games in number 5.
Western Bulldogs: We exist to win premierships
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
It's not even like he got the 42/5 division wrong. It's just a completely random number.
EDIT: Boyd kicked 86 goals in his career. So this "football journalist" a) didn't realise that Boyd played in another number or b) didn't realise that he'd played almost 300 games or c) is just a moron who can't read.
None of the three are particularly complimentary of the author.
I tweeted him his mistake and he liked the tweet and adjusted his post:
Did you know? For such a popular number, recently retired Matthew Boyd is just the second player behind club great Rohan Smith to play more than 100 games in the No.5 jumper. Smith wore it 254 times, with Boyd's 224 games the next best out of the 23 Dogs who have sported it. – Ryan Davidson
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.