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    Re: Bulldogs By the Numbers

    Quote Originally Posted by merantau View Post
    Aaron Naughton will play 250 plus games for us - minimum. You heard it first here!
    Early days but at this stage Brian is the #33
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    Our first #34 of note was Brian Gilmore a 6'4" ruckman/fwd pocket in our 1954 Premiership team. Between '52 and '58 he played 105 games and kicked 61 goals.

    Originally from Yarraville he was tragically killed in a car accident near Wangaratta in November 1959 aged just 26.

    Brian had the ball in his hands when the siren sounded to herald our 1954 triumph.
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    Quote Originally Posted by merantau View Post
    Our first #34 of note was Brian Gilmore a 6'4" ruckman/fwd pocket in our 1954 Premiership team.
    Ball in his hands when the siren sounded in “54.
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    From '83 to '93 Peter Foster played 163 games in the #32 and kicked 56 goals. In 3 seasons at Fitzroy he played just 7 games and kicked 2 goals as a CHF.

    He had played only four games with us when in 1984, after a drubbing by Melbourne, Mick Malthouse decided to try him at centre half-back and h never looked back. He was a swing man too and was sometimes thrown forward: he still knew how to kick a goal

    Foster finished equal 5th in the 1988 Brownlow Medal and won Footscray's best and fairest award in 1990.

    He was a terrific player for us. A great pack mark, strong in the contest and a booming left foot kick. I met him a few years ago in the Fish and Chip shop in Kangaroo Flat and thanked for his efforts over the years - a real good bloke.
    Back in the days of cash transfers we bought a player (huge back pocket) called Chris Hansen from Fitzroy over the summer of 82/83 for $70 000. Shane O Sullivan who did the deal asked if they had a key forward type and the Fitzroy administrator said "if you make it $100 000 (ie $30 000 more) we will through in a young bloke we've got called Peter Foster" One of the best, if not the best, bits of transfer business we've ever done.

    Peter Foster played at CHF and CHB in State of Origin football for Victoria. I am pretty sure that the only other player to play in both positions for Victoria was Laurie Nash, that's pretty good company Fozzie is keeping. His broken leg in 1993 cost us a premiership. He is the best centre half back I've seen play for us.
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    Early days but at this stage Brian is the #33
    I agree. Naughton may go past him but Royal was a superstar. He was a better player than Adam Cooney.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    Back in the days of cash transfers we bought a player (huge back pocket) called Chris Hansen from Fitzroy over the summer of 82/83 for $70 000. Shane O Sullivan who did the deal asked if they had a key forward type and the Fitzroy administrator said "if you make it $100 000 (ie $30 000 more) we will through in a young bloke we've got called Peter Foster" One of the best, if not the best, bits of transfer business we've ever done.

    Peter Foster played at CHF and CHB in State of Origin football for Victoria. I am pretty sure that the only other player to play in both positions for Victoria was Laurie Nash, that's pretty good company Fozzie is keeping. His broken leg in 1993 cost us a premiership. He is the best centre half back I've seen play for us.
    Fossie - they threw him is as the steak knives but he turned out to be the whole canteen of cutlery.

    Great player.
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    His broken leg in 1993 cost us a premiership. He is the best centre half back I've seen play for us.
    1992.

    That was a dirty act by Hawthorn's Dear
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    1992.

    That was a dirty act by Hawthorn's Dear
    You're right it was too. I bought an old AFL yearbook at an op shop couple of weeks ago and even though it says that it is about 1992 all the information in it is about 1991so I'm blaming that.
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    From 1964 to 1966 Algy Vosilaitis played 28 games for us and kicked 14 goals. He played full forward or half forward flank. Not a long career but I'm pretty sure he was the first player of Lithuanian background to play in the VFL. He wore #34.
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    From '79 to '84 Michael McKenna played 80 games for us in the #34 and kicked 45 goals. He was a rover/ midfielder. An in and under type who gave us good service. He went to Richmond for a year and played 22 games with them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by merantau View Post
    From '79 to '84 Michael McKenna played 80 games for us in the #34 and kicked 45 goals. He was a rover/ midfielder. An in and under type who gave us good service. He went to Richmond for a year and played 22 games with them.
    Did he wear a helmet at some point ? I remember him well was part of my first Bulldogs team.

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    Did he wear a helmet at some point ? I remember him well was part of my first Bulldogs team.
    Yes he did
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    Re: Bulldogs By the Numbers

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    Early days but at this stage Brian is the #33
    Not super relevant but one of my early footy jumpers was a #33 match worn guernsey of Ryan Hargrave's, which my mum bought at a charity event. I think I got it around the end of 2001 or 2002, and was so excited to wear it...only for Shaggy to change to the #25 that off season and leave me wandering around in Brad Murphy's number for the next four years. What a disaster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jazzadogs View Post
    Not super relevant but one of my early footy jumpers was a #33 match worn guernsey of Ryan Hargrave's, which my mum bought at a charity event. I think I got it around the end of 2001 or 2002, and was so excited to wear it...only for Shaggy to change to the #25 that off season and leave me wandering around in Brad Murphy's number for the next four years. What a disaster.
    Whatever happened to Brad Murphy? 25 possessions and 2 goals in his first game and then disappeared off the radar a season later.
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    From '91 to '95 Ben Sexton played 39 games and kicked 32 goals in the #34. A good sized KPF he played some good games and looked as if he would forge a long career. He booted 5 on debut. But it didn't eventuate. He went to Carlton for a year, and played 4 games, before he left the AFL and returned to his original club, Sandhurst in the Bendigo League, where he played in a Premiership in 2004.
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