-
Bulldogs Finals preparation
Round 22 - Launceston v Hawks
Ill prepared, we fly to Launceston, get dicked around with testing and what not - very little time left to get to ground, change and get ready.
Round 23 v Port in Melbourne
SA Gov insist that if Port is to fly to Melbourne, they quarantine 72 hours, but we have to spend the week in Quarantine. Players either went to a hotel so not to disturb people they live with - or stay home but anyone living there not allowed to go out.
Elimination Final v Essendon Launceston
More restrictions - can't do much eg play Golf next door, confined to hotel grounds, but can train
Semi Final v Brisbane, Gabba
Confined to hotel and train
Prelim v Port in Adelaide via Perth
Fly Brisbane to Perth. Confined to hotel, but can train
Fly Friday to Adelaide
Confined to hotel and can't train
Has been a pretty horrendous 5 weeks
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.
-
Post Thanks / Like - 0 Thanks, 3 Likes
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Your forgetting some stuff.
After our EF in Launceston, we didn't have any access to rehab or gym/training equipment until about the Tuesday after the game.
In Brisbane after the game the Hotel the boys were staying in ran out of food halfway through the dinner service, and due to covid restrictions, no ubereats / menulog was allowed, so a bunch of players and staff went to be hungry before they flew out to Perth.
"Its always good to win the Ashes test match'' - Libba, AFL Grand Final, 2016
-
Post Thanks / Like - 3 Thanks, 3 Likes
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Originally Posted by
Vred
Your forgetting some stuff.
After our EF in Launceston, we didn't have any access to rehab or gym/training equipment until about the Tuesday after the game.
In Brisbane after the game the Hotel the boys were staying in ran out of food halfway through the dinner service, and due to covid restrictions, no ubereats / menulog was allowed, so a bunch of players and staff went to be hungry before they flew out to Perth.
Thanks, I didn't know that. Appalling
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.
-
Post Thanks / Like - 0 Thanks, 2 Likes
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
A complete joke at this stage ... sub-standard.
-
Post Thanks / Like - 0 Thanks, 2 Likes
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Originally Posted by
Vred
Your forgetting some stuff.
After our EF in Launceston, we didn't have any access to rehab or gym/training equipment until about the Tuesday after the game.
In Brisbane after the game the Hotel the boys were staying in ran out of food halfway through the dinner service, and due to covid restrictions, no ubereats / menulog was allowed, so a bunch of players and staff went to be hungry before they flew out to Perth.
How is that even possible?
And why was Uber Eats not allowed? No one in Bris has COVID so if the food is dropped at reception, what’s the difference?
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Originally Posted by
MrMahatma
How is that even possible?
And why was Uber Eats not allowed? No one in Bris has COVID so if the food is dropped at reception, what’s the difference?
Government restrictions mate, the team COULD have Covid and they could accidentally maybe possibly pass it onto a UberEats driver.. or, some Government backwards logic. Makes zero sense to me but this is what the team has been dealing with.
"Its always good to win the Ashes test match'' - Libba, AFL Grand Final, 2016
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Originally Posted by
Vred
Government restrictions mate, the team COULD have Covid and they could accidentally maybe possibly pass it onto a UberEats driver.. or, some Government backwards logic. Makes zero sense to me but this is what the team has been dealing with.
Bureaucracy has its way of dealing with things and it is called process.
The process does not require logic because it is the process and only the process matters.
Bureaucracy will embrace stupidity if stupidity is part of the process and mostly it is.
Logic cannot beat stupidity because stupidity has no logic.
...
Life is to be Enjoyed not Endured
-
Post Thanks / Like - 0 Thanks, 1 Likes
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
additionally
If the process can be justified by logic, then the process needs to be desimplified.
Life is to be Enjoyed not Endured
-
Post Thanks / Like - 0 Thanks, 1 Likes
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
I’ll obviously be gutted if we lose tomorrow night, but given what this team has had to endure I hope we all keep some perspective on it. Massively proud of what they’ve achieved this season whichever way it goes.
Still, I hope we tear them apart.
-
Post Thanks / Like - 0 Thanks, 4 Likes
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Maybe the next two games of ours is to remind everybody of its greatness as a sport. That we’ve done it, in spite of the lack of sportsmanship and compassion. A miracle of the Footy Gods that show everyone how to triumph against the times we find ourselves in.
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
-
Post Thanks / Like - 0 Thanks, 1 Likes
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
Maybe the next two games of ours is to remind everybody of its greatness as a sport. That we’ve done it, in spite of the lack of sportsmanship and compassion. A miracle of the Footy Gods that show everyone how to triumph against the times we find ourselves in.
It would be exactly as you say, though it will only serve to amplify the vitriol and bile further.
Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Just in
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.
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Originally Posted by
Vred
Your forgetting some stuff.
After our EF in Launceston, we didn't have any access to rehab or gym/training equipment until about the Tuesday after the game.
In Brisbane after the game the Hotel the boys were staying in ran out of food halfway through the dinner service, and due to covid restrictions, no ubereats / menulog was allowed, so a bunch of players and staff went to be hungry before they flew out to Perth.
Wasn't the pre game lunch also fairly sub standard? Cold eggs or somthing along those lines. Sammy Landsberger wrote an article on the the Monday or Tuesday but it is behind a paywall.
More of an In Bruges guy?
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Originally Posted by
bornadog
Just in
I am waiting for her to tell all South Aussies to avoid touching the Sherrin at all costs, and Kenny and the boys from Alberton take this to heart.
Just read that Kochie has been denied entry to SA and is therefore banned from attending the game too.
Not too late to move the game to Perth, Gil.
Footscray member since 1980.
-
Re: Bulldogs Finals preparation
Originally Posted by
azabob
Wasn't the pre game lunch also fairly sub standard? Cold eggs or somthing along those lines. Sammy Landsberger wrote an article on the the Monday or Tuesday but it is behind a paywall.
Correct. By the time we got situated at the hotel the lunch was stone cold.
"Its always good to win the Ashes test match'' - Libba, AFL Grand Final, 2016