Bulldogs By the Numbers

[merantau]

True Confessions didn't go down well with Yabby, it seems.

[merantau]

And so on to #4. Bob Ware, son of Brownlow Medalist Norm, had five seasons with us from '59 to '63. He played 65 games and booted 40 goals. A big, solid player he played second rucķ to John Schultz. He started in the back pocket in our '61 GF team. He sometimes played forward too and bagged 5 goals on one occasion.

[merantau]

Peter Welsh had an 11 year career from 1968 to 1978 playing 165 games and kicking 92 goals. He played in the ruck, in defence and up forward. A very versatile player.

[merantau]

1985 saw the arrival of big name player Brad Hardie from South Fremantle. He won the Brownlow in his first season with us. The way he played was a revelation. Very attacking out of defence he loved to snag a goal and booted 28 in his 45 games with us spread over two seasons. My mate was very dirty on him as in the '85 Prelim Leigh Mathews came on in the last quarter and booted two goals when Hardie was supposed to be on him.
Hardie went to Brisbane in '87 and won the goal kicking there. He later played for Collingwood. Famous incident with Mick Malthouse.

[Twodogs]

True Confessions didn't go down well with Yabby, it seems.

Alan Jeans would have been the last bloke I'd say something like that to. Especially if I was wanting to play in the second half.

1985 saw the arrival of big name player Brad Hardie from South Fremantle. He won the Brownlow in his first season with us. The way he played was a revelation. Very attacking out of defence he loved to snag a goal and booted 28 in his 45 games with us spread over two seasons. My mate was very dirty on him as in the '85 Prelim Leigh Mathews came on in the last quarter and booted two goals when Hardie was supposed to be on him.
Hardie went to Brisbane in '87 and won the goal kicking there. He later played for Collingwood. Famous incident with Mick Malthouse.

When he went to Collingwood he was originally going to return to us. The AFL discovered that we had payed him an illegal inducement outside the salary cap (from memory we were paying his partner to work as a receptionist but she wasn't doing any work) and they barred him from playing with us for 5 years.

[merantau]

Here's a link to some famous coach/player fallouts beginning with Malthouse/Hardie.

I recommend you check out the spray Barass dishes out to North players. Pretty intense. "Why not say what you mean, Ron?"

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...er-coach-feuds

[merantau]

Speaking of intense - don't know who, don't know when or where or what club - this bloke knows how to amp it up. Stumbled upon him while searching "Hardie/Malthouse".

https://youtu.be/VjptiDnFy7A
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[merantau]

Our next #4 of note was Nigel Kellett who had a 9 year career with us, played 101 games and booted 41 goals. He came to us from Hopper's Crossing FC in 1989 and stayed until 1997. He wore #48 in his first two seasons.
Used mainly as a wingman he had a ton of pace and kicked the ball well.

[merantau]

Season 1998 saw the arrival of our next significant #4 Simom Garlick. Simon began at Sydney in '94 and played 44 games in four seasons with them booting 27 majors.
He arrived at the Bulldogs in '98 and was with us for seven seasons playing 137 games and booting 114 goals as a small pressure forward. An excellent pick up for us.
Simon served as our CEO for four years beginning in 2010. He is now CEO at the Dockers.

https://youtu.be/sZG79xCRQrE

[merantau]

Season 2002 saw the arrival of Daniel Cross, selected at pick 56 in the draft. It took him some three years to establish himself in the team but thereafter he carved out a great career winning the B&F in 2008 and appearing in the B&F Top Ten on 10 occasions.

All up he played 210 games for us and 39 at Melbourne where he spent his last two years. We should not have let him go in the opinion of many.
I can do no better to refer you to the Wickipedia write up on Daniel and thank those who did the research. He was a tremendously brave player and this was recognised by his peers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani...s_(footballer)

https://youtu.be/mzGSJsCHxb4

[merantau]

And now we come to our current #4, our champion skipper who since debuting in 2014 has racked up 145 games.
His career to date has been one of the highest quality. He is a quality person too and it would be totally fitting for him to become our next Premiership Captain. Go Dogs!

https://youtu.be/deQxASfn1MU

[bornadog]

Thanks merantau, loving reading these.

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

And so on to #4. Bob Ware, son of Brownlow Medalist Norm, had five seasons with us from '59 to '63. He played 65 games and booted 40 goals. A big, solid player he played second rucķ to John Schultz. He started in the back pocket in our '61 GF team. He sometimes played forward too and bagged 5 goals on one occasion.

Bob Ware was in fact the nephew of Norman Ware. Bob’s father was Walter Ware who was Norm’s brother who played 63 games with Hawthorn.

[merantau]

Bob Ware was in fact the nephew of Norman Ware. Bob’s father was Walter Ware who was Norm’s brother who played 63 games with Hawthorn.

Thanks for that correction. I have been labouring under that misapprehension for 60 years! I do remember he got four weeks for striking in '60 or '61but have no idea about the circumstances. I think he was the first Bulldog player I can recall being suspended.

[merantau]

And so on to #5. Peter Box, educated at Wesley College, came to us via the Cheltenham FC in 1951. Standing 180cm and weighing 79kg he developed into a brilliant centreman after missing the entire '52 season due to injury suffered in a car accident.

He played CHF in our '54 Flag win, won the B&F in '55 and the Brownlow in '56 but I think Don Ross won our B&F that year.
In 1958 Peter left to Captain Camberwell in the VFA. He won the B&F and then retired from football at age 26.

I heard from a friend of mine, and another source, that Peter became a recluse later in life. My friend met him down in the Inverleigh area when he was shearing. Peter was in the sheds but he kept to himself. I understand he had little to do with the Club once his playing days were done. Seems a strange combination- Wesley College, Brownlow Medalist, shearer.
Peter played 107 games for us and will always be remembered as a champion of the Club. He passed away in 2018, aged 86.