Character Building - Doggies Supporter

[ReLoad]

I remember the day I made my first 100 in cricket. Took me 10 years, I said to myself it’s tine to retire. At the prime age of my mid 20s

Next week made a duck.

Same same but different.

[Eastdog]

I remember the day I made my first 100 in cricket. Took me 10 years, I said to myself it’s tine to retire. At the prime age of my mid 20s

Next week made a duck.

Same same but different.

Which team was that for ReLoad? Yeah that certainly happens quite a bit.

[Twodogs]

I remember the day I made my first 100 in cricket. Took me 10 years, I said to myself it’s tine to retire. At the prime age of my mid 20s

Next week made a duck.

Same same but different.

When the casino opened we went in on the first morning and I won $50 bucks playing blackjack at the old temporary casino. I haven't been back since, no way am I conceding the fact that I'm fifty in front of the casino. I've been to a few bulldog functions at Crown but haven't gone anywhere near the gaming rooms.

[Remi Moses]

Believe me folks , this is a flesh wound compared to what was served up for most of the 80’s.

[Ozza]

What a dim outlook.

This is a sunny day compared to the dark days the club has gone through in the past.

We won the flag 20 months ago, and are rolling out the youngest side in the league at the moment. This is a broken arm compared to days where we were missing a leg.

[Sedat]

Believe me folks , this is a flesh wound compared to what was served up for most of the 80’s.

Most of the 80's were highly competitive - no less than 10 wins a season from 1983-1988 all inclusive. Just the start and the very end of the decade were woeful.

[Twodogs]

Believe me folks , this is a flesh wound compared to what was served up for most of the 80’s.

Damn straight. I remember waking up a lot of days when there was no guarantee that we'd still have a club at going to bed time.

[EasternWest]

What a dim outlook.

This is a sunny day compared to the dark days the club has gone through in the past.

We won the flag 20 months ago, and are rolling out the youngest side in the league at the moment. This is a broken arm compared to days where we were missing a leg.

Love it. Although I would say a broken arm is still a pretty miserable thing.

[bornadog]

Damn straight. I remember waking up a lot of days when there was no guarantee that we'd still have a club at going to bed time.

How many stories did we hear about being merged, shipped off to Brisbane and finally merged with Fitzroy. Thank god we don't have that on our backs thanks to all the good work by PG and his board.

[The bulldog tragician]

1996 opened with thrashings of 87 and around 131 points...I’ve seen seasons where we only won two games, and a year where we almost ceased to exist, and years where our finals performances made you wish we hadn’t even got there.

My character does not feel remotely stretched by our current plight.

I don’t want to go back to those days and I’m disappointed that we haven’t seemed able to build on 2016 when most of the signs (Chris Grant’s hindsight article notwithstanding) were that our young list could have continued to improve... but we do need to keep perspective. We should have jagged that win against Sydney, we could have snatched a memorable win against the Crows; our list ain’t in great shape; it’s hard to understand where the coaching group are taking us and I’d appreciate some clearer more sincere communication about that direction...but this is not Armageddon!

[GVGjr]

After the failure of Edgewater we badly need a home base or social club. I hope the club has something in mind to address that. Now if you want to meet characters of the club, catching up at a Bulldog Social club would be the ticket to buy.
I fondly remember going along to the selectors night and felt privileged to have met so many different fans of ours.

[Twodogs]

How many stories did we hear about being merged, shipped off to Brisbane and finally merged with Fitzroy. Thank god we don't have that on our backs thanks to all the good work by PG and his board.

We must have come bloody close. There must be times that we don't know that we just missed no longer being a legal entity. PG must have a hell of a biography in him. But even then a lot of those blokes who ran the club in the '80s are gone now, Tony Capes, Ron Palmer, quite a few are gone without having told their stories.

1996 opened with thrashings of 87 and around 131 points...I’ve seen seasons where we only won two games, and a year where we almost ceased to exist, and years where our finals performances made you wish we hadn’t even got there.

My character does not feel remotely stretched by our current plight.

I don’t want to go back to those days and I’m disappointed that we haven’t seemed able to build on 2016 when most of the signs (Chris Grant’s hindsight article notwithstanding) were that our young list could have continued to improve... but we do need to keep perspective. We should have jagged that win against Sydney, we could have snatched a memorable win against the Crows; our list ain’t in great shape; it’s hard to understand where the coaching group are taking us and I’d appreciate some clearer more sincere communication about that direction...but this is not Armageddon!

Yep my character is a bit annoyed at our failure to control the narrative and a pretty ham fisted attempt to revise history but happy with the lack of existential threats.

After the failure of Edgewater we badly need a home base or social club. I hope the club has something in mind to address that. Now if you want to meet characters of the club, catching up at a Bulldog Social club would be the ticket to but.
I fondly remember going along to the selectors night and felt privileged to have met so many different fans of ours.

It must be nearly ten years since the social club had a proper presence. It's something that we could have done with on Grand Final night I thought. Somewhere at Whitten Oval would be best. Sitting in that room they had Selector's Table in with the view of the city and the rest of Melbourne there weren't many better views than that.

[bornadog]

We must have come bloody close. There must be times that we don't know that we just missed no longer being a legal entity. PG must have a hell of a biography in him. But even then a lot of those blokes who ran the club in the '80s are gone now, Tony Capes, Ron Palmer, quite a few are gone without having told their stories.

The Bulldog tragician wrote a good book on the events of that Fightback and merger so that we can remember never to be in that position again.

[Eastdog]

After the failure of Edgewater we badly need a home base or social club. I hope the club has something in mind to address that. Now if you want to meet characters of the club, catching up at a Bulldog Social club would be the ticket to buy.
I fondly remember going along to the selectors night and felt privileged to have met so many different fans of ours.

What was the reason again why Edgewater didn't eventuate?

[GVGjr]

What was the reason again why Edgewater didn't eventuate?

Not related Easty. Edgewater was going to be a home base for us. It would be somewhat of a final piece for the club to have a proper social club in the West to call home.