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27-09-2019, 07:20 PM
#346
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
The only reasons I could withstand a GWS GF win is because of Leon Cameron and Sam Reid.
I'll be hoping for a Tigers win but good luck to our former players
Reid, yes.
Cameron? He's left a very sour taste over the last couple of years.
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27-09-2019, 07:28 PM
#347
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
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.
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28-09-2019, 01:18 AM
#348
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Originally Posted by
westdog54
Reid, yes.
Cameron? He's left a very sour taste over the last couple of years.
Agreed. Cameron is well and truly one of them.
[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Our club was born in blood and boots, not in AFL focus groups.[/COLOR][/B]
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28-09-2019, 08:11 AM
#349
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
The curse is dead.
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28-09-2019, 08:12 AM
#350
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
I still love Cameron and I'll always remember him as a Bulldog gun.
The curse is dead.
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28-09-2019, 09:03 AM
#351
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Originally Posted by
chef
I still love Cameron and I'll always remember him as a Bulldog gun.
Same here. He's spent a lot of years at our club.
Western Bulldogs Football Club "Where it's cool to drool"
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28-09-2019, 09:27 AM
#352
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Comments on Leon Cameron are very very harsh, in my opinion. In summary:
He came to us as a kid. An exciting talent - which was important at the time as he and Chris Grant embodied the spirit and renewal of our club at the time immediately post Fightback. He played damn good footy for us and was a pleasure to watch for many years. He was a fan favourite and was popular amongst teammates. Terry Wallace made a surprising decision to trade him off to Richmond. It was widely considered a disappointing one by fans. It was also generally accepted that Cameron had not wanted to leave.
Cameron then came back to us as an assistant coach under Rodney Eade before moving to Hawthorn as an assistant. When Eade’s time came to an end, Cameron was favoured to get the Dogs, coaching job. Surprisingly, the selection committee went for Brendan McCartney - leaving a disappointed Cameron to go to GWS.
Despite all of that, when the Dogs surprisingly defeated the Cameron-coached, premiership favourite, GWS, in the 2016 Prelim, Leon was completely dignified and magnanimous. I thought he spoke brilliantly after that game - despite the result doing his career no good at all (as the “Ferrari driver.”)
Three years on, with many in the media calling for Leon’s head, he leads his club into the finals and cultivates a hard, ruthless commitment and attitude from his players.
I say good luck to him. I’ll be chuffed for him if he wins today.
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28-09-2019, 09:52 AM
#353
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Thanks for the outstanding contribution Webby. It just reinforces that we should be looking at the bigger picture
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28-09-2019, 10:04 AM
#354
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Well said Webby.
Cameron was a rolls royce for us. Hard for some to see the big picture.
The curse is dead.
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28-09-2019, 10:14 AM
#355
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
I've got nothing against Leon and he was one of my favourites when wearing the colours. In fact I hold no ill will against any of our former players I either still admire them or they don't enter my thoughts one way or another.
But I can't stand GWS and on that I hope the Tigers flog them.
Don't piss off old people
The older we get the less "LIFE IN PRISON" is a deterrent...
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28-09-2019, 11:36 AM
#356
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Originally Posted by
chef
I still love Cameron and I'll always remember him as a Bulldog gun.
He's dead to me. Scum! Along with that group he coaches.
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28-09-2019, 11:43 AM
#357
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
The only reasons I could withstand a GWS GF win is because of Leon Cameron and Sam Reid.
I'll be hoping for a Tigers win but good luck to our former players
Sam Reid's story is a brilliant and underrated one - it is the only tiny saving grace to the unpalatable thought of a dirty GWS victory.
It also means the no 50 will be saluting today either way. When was the last time a premiership player wore such a high number?
"Look at me mate. Look at me. I'm flyin'"
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28-09-2019, 11:50 AM
#358
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Originally Posted by
Sedat
Sam Reid's story is a brilliant and underrated one - it is the only tiny saving grace to the unpalatable thought of a dirty GWS victory.
It also means the no 50 will be saluting today either way. When was the last time a premiership player wore such a high number?
Absolutely. I really liked what I saw of him when he was with us but just had horrible luck. Felt real bad for him when he popped his shoulder twice in a final (I think) Memory is no good nowdays.
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28-09-2019, 12:18 PM
#359
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Originally Posted by
G-Mo77
He's dead to me. Scum! Along with that group he coaches.
I find that weird, but each to their own
The curse is dead.
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28-09-2019, 02:17 PM
#360
Re: 2019 AFL Finals Series
Originally Posted by
chef
I find that weird, but each to their own
No problem with him wrapping his arms around a player who just eye gouged one of our own and defending his actions? Leon was a club great but he's chosen his side. That's the bed he wants to lay down in down in so he gets to wear the fleas as well. The moment he defended that little grub in the over the top manner then he was dead to me too.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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