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    Re: Welcome to the Westernbulldogs Adam Treloar

    Quote Originally Posted by Mofra View Post
    It wasn't from a Bulldogs poster
    Must be true then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    There used to be a radio show on 3aw on Sunday nights hosted by a well known priest (Gerard Somebody from memory, the show might have been called Nightline?) in the 1980s and 90s. People would ring up and talk about their problems. Anyway one night a caller started talking about how the cauliflower in the vegetable crisper in his fridge was telling him to kill people. Dear old Gerry didn't miss a beat "if you'd just like to hold the line while we go to a break I'm sure that we can sort this problem out for you" came back from the ad and didn't mention him ever again!
    Father Gerard Dowling. Listened on occasions. Hilarious radio. Think it was 3UZ.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mofra View Post
    It wasn't from a Bulldogs poster
    The poster might not be, but whoever passing on the details most likely was.
    Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EasternWest View Post
    It's not, but the Adam Morgan one is a bit odd.
    Did Adam have the strained tit at the time?

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    Father Gerard Dowling. Listened on occasions. Hilarious radio. Think it was 3UZ.
    3UZ. You're right it was too.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeemak View Post
    We like to take the piss, but this guy with some luck and continuity could have made a career in footy.
    I know this may sound facetious coming from me, but I wasn't joking. I really did have high hopes for him.

    I bumped into him once at JB hi-fi at Knox when he was injured. It was weird because I'm not really a "speak to the players" type of guy. We basically rounded a corner and before I even realised what I was doing I said "hi Morgs".

    Can confirm, he was a nice guy.
    "It's over. It's all over."

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    Re: Welcome to the Westernbulldogs Adam Treloar

    Looking Good

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    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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    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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    Re: Welcome to the Westernbulldogs Adam Treloar

    WHY WESTERN BULLDOGS PLAYING GROUP WATCHED TRELOAR'S HIGHLIGHTS TOGETHER


    Western Bulldogs young gun Bailey Smith has revealed the entire playing group watched new recruit Adam Treloar’s highlights together as part of an initiation.

    Treloar made the high-profile move from Collingwood to the Dogs in the dying seconds of last year’s trade period, after reported salary cap pressure forced him out of the club.

    Due to COVID-19 restrictions, players in the first week of pre-season were only able to train in groups of 10.

    The change in training conditions meant all of the playing group weren’t able to get together collectively until this week and Smith said he was blown away by what he saw when Treloar’s highlights package was played in front of the entire group on Tuesday.

    “He’s a gun really,” he said on Sportsday.

    “We watched his highlight package on Tuesday for an initiation, we watched all the boys because we haven’t been able to get together because of COVID.

    “We watched it on the green floor, he’s a gun and it’s really exciting to see what he’ll do for the team and he’ll just make everyone go to another level.

    “Whenever a good player comes into a side, everyone wants to get to their level or better and it’ll bring up the standard so it’s very exciting.”

    Despite requesting a trade to Essendon in the off-season, inside midfielder Josh Dunkley ultimately stayed at the Bulldogs after the Bombers were unwilling to part with two first round draft picks to secure a trade for the contracted Dog.

    Smith said the playing group welcomed him back into the fold “with open arms” after the failed trade request.

    “I don’t reckon (the trade request will) need to be addressed (too much),” he said.

    “We just sort of laugh about it with (Dunkley), he’s that sort of character and an amazing person. We welcome him against I suppose with open arms and there certainly isn’t any malice behind it.

    “You take it with a grain of salt, you just give him love again. It isn’t weird, but I suppose it’s so normal these days for players to want to move so you don’t sort of look into it too much.”
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    Re: Welcome to the Westernbulldogs Adam Treloar

    Don't get any ideas that Dunks had Bailey.
    You have a future Captaincy to grow into.
    Don't piss off old people
    The older we get the less "LIFE IN PRISON" is a deterrent...

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    Adam Treloar says being open about his mental health came back to bite him at Collingwood

    Adam Treloar believes his honesty about his mental health struggles came back to bite him as his time at Collingwood came to an end.

    Adam Treloar says being open about his mental health struggles came back to bite him during the shock trade period when he left Collingwood and joined the Western Bulldogs.

    Reflecting on the tough time last year, the midfielder said revealing his issues probably worked against him when it emerged his netball star fiance Kim Ravaillion signed with the Queensland Firebirds.

    The couple were planning to spend time apart while they each pursued their sporting careers, with Ravaillion taking their baby daughter Georgie with her up north.

    “There was probably a little bit of a worry there from people at Collingwood,’’ Treloar tells The Byron Cooke Show podcast.

    “For me I feel like when I did come out and speak about challenges I’ve had in my life and things that I’ve struggled with, I didn’t do it for myself. I did it for I guess to show that there are people who are perceived, and me being a professional athlete and playing for a big powerful club in Collingwood like I was at the time. It’s perceived that you have no issues, you got no worries, you’re going and playing out in front of 90,000 people at the MCG every week, but it was polar opposite.

    “I clearly had a lot going on in my life and I was struggling with quite a bit.

    “I feel like it did come back to I guess bite me a little bit. I think if you were to look into the nitty gritty there’s a lot more other things that went on with me leaving the Collingwood Football Club.

    “I definitely think there was something that might have triggered people at Collingwood that Adam won’t be able to cope with Kim and Georgie being away.”

    He added: “I feel it played a part but I guess one door opens and another door closes. It was all about Kimmy and the family and how we’re going to make it work for each other. It’s been a whirlwind but I wouldn’t change it for anything.”

    Treloar, who played 94 games for the Magpies over five seasons, said he was in a good place and the decision they made as a family didn’t come lightly.

    Collingwood admitted Kim’s move was the catalyst for discussion about Treloar’s future.

    He also revealed to host Byron Cooke, a former member of FOX FM’s breakfast show, that basketballer Joe Ingles had reached out to offer some advice.

    “For a while there (his wife) Renae was in Melbourne and Joe was living in Utah. He actually reached out and gave a lot of support to Kim and I and spoke about how it’s made them stronger and the family — the love and care they have for each other, probably wouldn’t be as strong if it wasn’t for the long distance they had. I know they are together now but it’s something that makes you stronger.”

    Kim, who has played 57 games for Australia and previously played Super Netball with Collingwood, is now in Queensland with the Firebirds for training and says her career was somewhat overlooked.

    “I guess I was left out of the conversation. It was all, ‘we’ll chat to Kimmy’ but I never heard from anyone. Like Adam said one doors closes, another one opens and we’re both in such a good head space at the moment.”

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    Re: Welcome to the Westernbulldogs Adam Treloar

    People should feel comfortable about getting on the front foot for any MH challenges and being able to talk about it to their employer
    I still think this is more about a realisation by Collingwood that they were in a precarious position with their salary cap than anything else and I'm sure we can work with him to handle any challenges

    Once again another example of Collingwood losing its way
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    Re: Welcome to the Westernbulldogs Adam Treloar

    ‘Hard not to take it personally’: Treloar opens up on brutal trade

    Three days out from last year’s trade deadline on November 12, the normally ebullient Adam Treloar was close to inconsolable.

    His mind was racing as he sat with his manager Tim Hazell and contemplated leaving Collingwood.

    After remaining adamant he was staying at the Magpies for a tumultuous month, Treloar knew in his heart (one he wears on his sleeve more than most) that he was going to have to leave because of what had occurred from the time Collingwood had zeroed in on getting rid of him to create salary cap space.

    But as the decision time arrived, it wasn’t the unsavoury way he had been treated during the previous five weeks that was upsetting Treloar most.

    It was the thought of leaving behind the relationships he had built in 94 games at Collingwood.

    “I was moving on from a group of guys that I just love, I love them all. I cherished every moment of playing for that footy club. I loved playing for Collingwood, I loved playing for the fans there and I still thought I was going to be playing there,” Treloar said.

    It was not a position he wanted to be in, nor one he had considered possible when he signed a four-year extension in 2019 to remain at the club until the end of 2025, helping the club kick their salary cap issues down the road to retain other star players.

    That team-oriented act had left Treloar vulnerable through no fault of his own as the club decided at the end of 2020 they had to fix their salary cap bind.

    Now owed $900,000 per year for the next five years, a figure skewed upwards because of the adjustments to his previous income, Treloar became the player who could best thin their bloated salary cap

    Treloar could see as clearly as anyone else that in pure market terms he was not worth $4.5 million over five years if he’d signed a fresh contract heading in to 2021. But he hadn’t. He’d changed his contract several times to push money back and extend his contract to smooth the club’s total player payments. The club had come to him to help with those changes. He hadn’t come to them.

    “I am exactly the same. What I would have been getting paid, [there were] only a certain few players [in the AFL] that would have been entitled to that,” Treloar said.

    “The reason why it was like that was because I had taken so much of a hit that I was owed that money.”

    Collingwood entered the process hoping to get a resolution that suited all parties but in the end they had to adopt a slight variation on Gough Whitlam’s way by adopting a crash and crash through approach.

    Treloar’s head cleared eventually when he met with Western Bulldogs’ coach Luke Beveridge and consulted friends who knew his potential destination and with seconds to go in the trade period, the twinkle-toed midfielder joined his third club.

    “I was really relieved at the end of it because I wanted to go to the Bulldogs. I genuinely wanted to get to the Bulldogs and I am all in. Wherever I am, I am all in,” Treloar said.

    To understand the logic behind some of Treloar’s decisions it’s important to understand he has always been “all in” when it comes to family, football and the friends he made growing up in Dandenong when money did not flow as freely as the love surrounding him.


    Those three things have provide the foundation for him to be who he wants to be, a non-cliched, hard running midfielder who has been nominated for All-Australian selection three times and finished on the podium in three club best and fairests.

    They are also a major reason why he was set on staying in Victoria, having moved back from Sydney five years earlier to be near his mum Darlene, stepfather Ken, and old mates.

    Such openness has endeared him to footy fans but it also increased the potential impact of Collingwood’s shirtfront when it came.

    “I want to show my personality and who I am and how emotionally invested I get in things. I wear my heart on my sleeve and I don’t have a bad thing to say about anybody,” Treloar said.

    However his disappointment with what transpired during the off season has been clear.

    Most insulting to him was the way he was portrayed publicly as hard to coach and given the impression that his teammates wanted him gone, although his senior coach Nathan Buckley said that was not the message he intended to convey in the brutal phone conversation he had with Treloar post-season that forced the issue.

    Buckley has since told AFL Media that Treloar took the business decision personally when it was not one based on personality but hard-headed pragmatism.


    “I guess it was hard not to take it personally ... I did, but it is kind of hard not to. You put anyone in that position; are they going to take it personally? I think they are,” Treloar said.

    “There is a human side to everything. You can’t disregard the human side.”

    The two haven’t spoken since but Treloar accepts they probably will at some time down the track.

    “There will be a time, I have no doubt there will be a time when we eventually connect and chat and talk about things but for now I have clearly got things on my mind and things that I want to focus on and not really worry about that,” Treloar said.

    Those “things” are family and football.

    His partner, star netballer Kim Ravaillion, is living in Queensland as she resumes her sporting career one year after their daughter Georgie was born and Treloar embarks on a new chapter with the Bulldogs.

    That their decision became somehow an impetus for Collingwood considering the trade also disappointed Treloar because it overshadowed the thought the couple had put into what was a brave choice.

    “The best thing about Kim and which is why I love her so much is that she was more than happy to stay in Melbourne and not play for me, to support me and that was the last thing I wanted her to do because I want her to make the most of her career,” Treloar said.

    If that meant a long-distance relationship they decided they would make it work, with Treloar finding the first two days after they left for the Sunshine State the toughest.

    He then started training and his bromance with teammate Josh Dunkley – whose sister Lara is also with the Queensland Firebirds (Tim English’s girlfriend Rudi Ellis plays for the Firebirds too) – flourished, helping Treloar settle into his new circumstances.

    “It works well. I miss them dearly [but] we’re not doing it for nothing. She is up there chasing something that she clearly wants to achieve and that is to play again at the elite level and win a premiership,” Treloar said.

    “I am here doing exactly the same thing at the Western Bulldogs.

    “Don’t get me wrong, I have days where I really struggle. I do, but I have just got such a great support system around me.”

    He Facetimes his family every day with Kim’s mum, Sina, in Queensland also helping out, delighting in the smiles from Georgie. Visits will be regular with the Bulldogs understanding of the situation as Ravaillion tries to make an impact during the one-year deal she signed in early October.

    “One thing [the experience] has done for me, it has really matured me quite a bit. I am 28 but I am still very much a kid at heart. The biggest learning I have got from that whole trade period is that it is a business at the end of the day, that is the biggest learning,” Treloar said.

    “It is a business and I was really, really naive to think that it [wasn’t] when push comes to shove no matter who you are if a club is set on a way [then] they will do anything to move you.”

    On Friday night, assuming he is over a minor calf issue, he will play for the Western Bulldogs, wearing the No.1 jumper at the MCG against his old mob and the “real kick in the guts” he felt at being portrayed in an unfavourable light will disappear as he enjoys a more pleasant kick up the guts towards the Bulldogs’ goals.

    There is plenty for Treloar to look forward to as a new father with a happy partner and the chance to be part of a midfield full of A-graders.

    “My motivation is always the same. I am as driven and as motivated as anyone you will ever meet, whether what happened to me happened to me or not I would be the exact same,” Treloar said.

    “If you are wondering if it is because of everything that happened with Collingwood, it’s not. It’s no different to what it would normally be. It’s just at a new club, a new motivation at a new club, I’m driven and hanging for the season to start.

    “A massive drawcard [in joining the Bulldogs] was because I genuinely believe the group of guys here can be a part of really good success and win a premiership because that is what I want to do.”

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    Re: Welcome to the Westernbulldogs Adam Treloar

    Treloar on AFL360


    Link to a snippet of Adam speaking on AFL360 this week. Hopefully the media circus doesn't have a detrimental affect on his game, and it's all out of the way this week.

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    I'm liking what he is bringing to our club already. Presents really well in the media, he's the right age where we are thin, adds leadership and experience to a group light on and most importantly he seems to be good mates with Dunks. Hopefully this friendship blossoms and helps Dunks look at staying long term.

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