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    Famous Sayings or Quotes By Club Figures Over The Decades

    With a certain person from our club saying the same thing each week about managing injuries conservatively and the other cliches getting around at the moment. I was thinking of the many famous or more interesting things that our club figures have said over the journey. Things that have been said, sayings or quotes and have stuck in your memory. From either the president, coach, captain or administrators (trainers or boot students too etc) about a topic, a result or approach to the sport from any generation. You only get one shot at this thread to share it around, so make your nomination count for the rest of us to either remember something or learn something about our people and what they've famously or meaningfully said in representing the red, white and blue.

    I'll burn mine on an easy example for y'all:

    "Stick it right up them!" - EJ Whitten
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    With a certain person from our club saying the same thing each week about managing injuries conservatively and the other cliches getting around at the moment. I was thinking of the many famous or more interesting things that our club figures have said over the journey. Things that have been said, sayings or quotes and have stuck in your memory. From either the president, coach, captain or administrators (trainers or boot students too etc) about a topic, a result or approach to the sport from any generation. You only get one shot at this thread to share it around, so make your nomination count for the rest of us to either remember something or learn something about our people and what they've famously or meaningfully said in representing the red, white and blue.

    I'll burn mine on an easy example for y'all:

    "Stick it right up them!" - EJ Whitten
    It's certainly pleasing your work on WOOF, BT.
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    You have made it difficult BT with your restricted paramaters.

    All the great quotes I know can from outside the footy club.
    Life is to be Enjoyed not Endured

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    Re: Famous Sayings or Quotes By Club Figures Over The Decades

    Shop early and avoid the rush
    Western Bulldogs Football Club "Where it's cool to drool"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog Joe View Post
    You have made it difficult BT with your restricted paramaters.

    All the great quotes I know can from outside the footy club.
    Really? Not necessarily great quotes, but our quotes. There's a few off the top of my head. Charlie... Plough... PG... Danny Southern... Captain G...
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by GVGjr View Post
    Shop early and avoid the rush
    That's the spirit. Others might not know it, but that's our heritage in a short sentence.
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by EasternWest View Post
    It's certainly pleasing your work on WOOF, BT.
    You know me, I'm all about the qualitative sheen in my posts.
    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

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    Re: Famous Sayings or Quotes By Club Figures Over The Decades

    Paraphrasing here

    "We took him bottom age as he would have gone top 10 next year"

    Scott Clayton about Wade Skipper at the 2000 draft. 2001 was the Hodge/Judd superdraft, arguably the best ever.

    "He's the next Andrew McLeod"

    Scott Clayton about Cam Faulkner taken at pick 17 at the 2002 draft

    Should I mention Jarred Grant?
    Listening to Brahm's 3rd Racket

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Doctor View Post
    Paraphrasing here

    "We took him bottom age as he would have gone top 10 next year"

    Scott Clayton about Wade Skipper at the 2000 draft. 2001 was the Hodge/Judd superdraft, arguably the best ever.

    "He's the next Andrew McLeod"

    Scott Clayton about Cam Faulkner taken at pick 17 at the 2002 draft

    Should I mention Jarred Grant?
    Those quotes are more like nightmares.

    When will Scott Clayton do that swim he promised.
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    Re: Famous Sayings or Quotes By Club Figures Over The Decades

    Terry Wallace to ?Brian Royal while walking off the ground after losing to Collingwood in 1996:

    Should I go them hard? I think this time I'm going to go real hard at them because that's unacceptable.

    Then later in the rooms


    If I look around these rooms today and I see one bloke *!*!*!*!ing smiling or another bloke getting a *!*!*!*!ing pat on the back I will fair dinkum spew up. You don't get four points for effort. You don't get four points for getting *!*!*!*!ing close

    That's off the top of my head, I'm happy for anyone to correct it.
    They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.

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    Re: Famous Sayings or Quotes By Club Figures Over The Decades

    Quote Originally Posted by The Doctor View Post
    Paraphrasing here

    "We took him bottom age as he would have gone top 10 next year"

    Scott Clayton about Wade Skipper at the 2000 draft. 2001 was the Hodge/Judd superdraft, arguably the best ever.

    "He's the next Andrew McLeod"

    Scott Clayton about Cam Faulkner taken at pick 17 at the 2002 draft

    Should I mention Jarred Grant?
    Steve Tiller got that too. That’s a famous pattern.
    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

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    When Terry Wheeler addressed the Fightback Rally, he delivered this gem, which has always stuck with me:

    "I believe there's nothing on this earth that we own. All we do is look after it for our children."

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    Re: Famous Sayings or Quotes By Club Figures Over The Decades

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Steve Tiller got that too. That’s a famous pattern.
    Called the "next Andrew Macleod?" I don't see it myself.
    They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.

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    "I'm shit, and I know I'm shit, but so are you, and at least I didn't go pick one"

    - Ben Hudson, to Jack Watts
    - I'm a visionary - Only here to confirm my biases -

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    Redpath - knee 2 - 3 weeks (are they sure he didn't sneak off for another knee reconstruction)

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