Who will be our leading goal kicker in 2023?

[bornadog]

Thanks doc love these.

23 wow that's so young!

So many retired young when doing a knee back then.

[The Doctor]

Has everyone calmed down yet? Ive been thinking that the Bulldogs need more bad ass. So! The Round 23 goal kicking award honours Big Bad Barry Hall

Big Bad Baz (BBB) joined us in 2010 although Rocket Eade did try hard to get him for the 2009 season. BBB gave us 2 terrific seasons and topped the goal kicking in both year's in the twighlight of his career. He played 39 games for us and slotted 135 goals. He was a very accurate shot at goal with a 70% accuracy rating in his time with us. We should get him down to the kennel to help some of our guys! 21 times he kicked 4 or more goals in a game for us including his last 8 games. Thats quite a strike rate. Pity he didn't play another year with the way he finished in 2011. His best game came in the infamous clash with lolNorf in R18, 2010 when he kicked 7 opposed to Scott Thompson in a 71 point drubbing.

Here is BBB being a bad ass. Even Scott Thompson's mum went on radio and said her son was stupid, lol!

https://www.google.com/search?q=barr...id:CFPCqWnV3ks


Goalkickers for Round 23 v The Wiggles

Lobb 3, West, Weightman, Ugle-Hagan, Treloar, Scott, Naughton, English, Bontempelli, Baker

The BBB medal is awarded to The Lobbster.


The Buster Beazer Leaderboard after Round 23

41. Naughton
34. Jamarra
32. Weightman
21. Lobb
19. Bont
14. English
12. Scott
11. Williams, Treloar
10. Daniel
7. Macrae, Libba, West
6. Baker
5. JJ
4. Arty, B.Smith
3. Hannan
2. McNeil, Poulter, Dale
1. Garcia, McComb, Gardner, Richards, O'Donnell, Vandermeer

The Lobbster continues his fine late season form and now is outright 4th. He is having his 3rd best goalkicking season and the season isn't over, yet! I don't know why Bevo and the MC aren't listening to me. I'll say it again. When Bont kicks 25+ in a season we make the GF. SO PUT BONT AT FULL FORWARD! he'll kick 6 and we will be on our way. Rhylee West is also in good scoring form with at least 1 goal in his past 5 games. So to beat the Handbaggers our full forward line should read; F: Lobb, Bont, West and at CHF we should bring back BBB. We can't lose!

Did you know in 2010 when BBB kicked 80.41 for that year it was his equal highest tally in a season? He also kicked 80.41 for the Swans in their premiership year 2005. But statistically his 2010 year was better because he achieved the feat in 2 less games.

Who on our list could be a bad ass like BBB? How about these BBB's?

Big Bad Bont?
Big Bad Bazlenka?
Big Bad Bailey?
Big Bad Buku?
Big Bad Baker Boy (BBBB)?
Big Bad OBrien (B-BOB)?

any takers?

[EasternWest]

Doc, another masterful performance.

[Grantysghost]

Big Bad Buku ha love it.

Big bad Bevo?

[The Doctor]

Big bad Bevo?

Lol good one GG

[The Doctor]

Time to wrap it up folks. The Round 24 and final goal kicking award for 2023 honours sharp shooting medium forward Paul Hudson.

Hudson, joined the Bulldogs via the pre season draft. He played 108 games for us between 1997-2001 and booted 214 goals. Twice he topped our goal kicking with 61 in 98 and made All Australian, then backed it up in 99 with 51. His best game came in R4, 2001 when he slammed home 8 in our 53 point smacking of eventual premier, Brisbane Lions. He was a beautiful kick of the footy and superb reader of the ball in flight. He knew when to mark or when to peel off and crumb. Flea watch his video's if you're reading this. I’d have Paul in my top 5 kicks for goal at our club.


Goalkickers for Round 24 v The Handbaggers

Lobb 3, Naughton 3, English 2, Treloar 2, Weightman 2, Poulter, Vandermeer, Liberatore, Ugle-Hagan


The Paul Hudson medal is shared by The Lobbster & Astro.


The Buster Beazer Leaderboard after Round 24

44. Naughton
35. Jamarra
34. Weightman
24. Lobb
19. Bont
16. English
13. Treloar
12. Scott
11. Williams
10. Daniel,
8. Libba
7. Macrae, West
6. Baker
5. JJ
4. Arty, B.Smith
3. Hannan, Poulter
2. McNeil, Dale, Vandermeer
1. Garcia, McComb, Gardner, Richards, O'Donnell,

Congratulations to Astro Naughton for taking out the 2023 Buster Beazer medal with 44 goals for the year. This is the 2nd time he has won the goalkicking. Congrats also to Jamarra on his stellar rise to take out 2nd place. Watch out for him in 2024. In 3rd place is Flea Weightman who did so well after missing those early games.

Also well done to these players for having their best goalkicking season (ist year players not included)

Bailey Williams, Oscar Baker, Jamarra, Anthony Scott, Caleb Poulter,


So back in Round 6 I had a slight dig at Peter Hudson because he claimed the title of best, ever Tasmanian goal kicker from its’ rightful owner, North Hobart and Footscray legend Alan Rait. Well now I’m going to have a serious dig.

Did you know Paul’s dad, Peter Hudson, was the owner/manager of the Granada Tavern in Hobart? The Granada was the epitome of Australian kitsch in the mid 70’s. With its’ ‘Spanish themes and archways interspersed with hideous purple and orange swirls in the carpet and the monstrous red velvet floor to ceiling curtains. The Granada stood peerless as a beacon of Tasmanian schlock. But the Hobart housewives loved it. None more so than my mother who I’m sure was so influenced by the Granada’s decor she schlocked our house with it along with a few illuminous yellow lava lamps.

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[The Doctor]

The Granada however was also about the only venue in pre casino Hobart that could hold about 500 in a cabaret style setting. It was the entertainment mecca of Hobart in the mid 70’s. Liberace would play there if he ever came to town. He would have fitted right in.

Problem was, hardly any A list entertainers came to Hobart in those days and certainly no headline international acts. If you wanted to see John Denver or Nana Mouskouri you had to leave on a jet plane and go to Melbourne or Sydney to see them. If any A list Aussie entertainers came it was huge news. Norman Gunston appeared at the Granada and it was splashed in the social pages of The Mockery (Mercury Newspaper) forever afterwards.

I mean for evening entertainment in Hobart the only major attractions I ever saw as a kid was the World Championship Wrestling, when King Curtis beat Bulldog Brower in a cage match, or seeing The Irish Rovers at the Theatre Royal with Hobart’s blue rinse set. We all happily sang ‘What Shall We do With A Drunken Sailor’ all the way home. Otherwise, it was the Scottish Military Tattoo at North Hobart Oval or the Tasmanian Youth Brass Band at the Salamanca markets on a Saturday afternoon. That’s about it folks.

Still, The Granada attracted the Hobart glitterati and B grade celebrities. Men would dress in their safari suits with a brown tie or brown suits with wide shirt collars with the top button undone and a tuft of chest hair sprouting out at the top. While the Women still wearing their beehive hairdos from the 60’s would wear their lovely evening gowns of bright orange or yellow or some lilac thing. All of them heavily laden with as much jewellery as their heads and arms could support. It was like all the Mum’s had just come from a Cash Converters sale. Some women wore outfits with the same colours that blended in perfectly with the Granada’s decor. They would have been perfectly camouflaged if it wasn’t for their heads, beehive hairdo’s & jewellery seemingly floating in thin air giving them away. The heavy stench of after shave and perfume mixed made the air inside the Granada so thick your soft drink could almost float on it.

One late afternoon my Mum came up to my sister and I and excitedly declared “Kids, we’re going out tonight, hurry up and get dressed in your best.” Wow this was weird. This never happened. It would take something monumental to drag my Dad away from the Saturday night spaghetti western on Channel 6. The only times I can recall going out on a Saturday night was either to a function at my Dad’s soccer club or to Uncle Sid’s house. But why did we have to dress up in our best? Were we going to church?

“Where are we going” my sister and I asked in unison with reciprocated excitement?

“It’s a big surprise! We’re going to see a show” she proudly announced with her face beaming.

“A show?” My sister and I in perfect synchronicity replied with voices several semitones and decibels higher in raised levels of anticipation

“Who, who, who??????” we spat out in rapid succession. We must have sounded like owls on heat.

“Is it AC-DC mum? Skyhooks? What about the Sweet?” I asked hopefully. I would have settled for Bay city Rollers, but definitely not, The Osmonds.

“We’re not going to see those long-haired louts” responded my still beaming mother.

“Abba?” enquired my sister with equal optimism. I whispered to her they were also long-haired louts.

“Ok enough, It’s a big surprise, now go on get ready” With that Mum fled to get ready herself before us kids could interrogate her any further.

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[The Doctor]

My first thought was we heading to to my Dad’s soccer club to see one of his mates singing Eastern European folk songs we had never heard of while squeezing the life out of a piano accordion. Mum’s excitement suggested it was going to be better than that. Really? So, who could it be?

The Sherlock in me decided that Mum would have instigated this. It would be someone she liked but also my Dad would have had to approve. My immediate thought was it was Elvis. But we would have heard all about it if Elvis was coming? Mum would have drilled this news into us with monotonous regularity.

Then I thought of Billy Vaughan and his Orchestra. Mum used to play the song ‘La Paloma’ every Saturday when doing the domestics. I swear Benny and Bjorn from Abba used the sax riff in it for I do I do I do. The album cover had a lovely white dove on it with a blue sky background. Very lovely. I had doubts it would be them.

Then I thought of Engelbert Humperdinck because he sang ‘Spanish Eyes” which my Mum must have played to us about 10,000 times. My Dad however loved the song “Una Paloma Blanca” because he thought it was a song dedicated to the freedom fighters who stood up against communism in Eastern Europe. Whoever that band was, it could be them. I was now totally convinced it had to be someone with Spanish connotations or who could appease my parents’ obsession with white doves.

We arrived at the Granada and once I had my first look inside I was convinced that this was exactly the kind of place Engelbert Humperdinck would appear at. I overheard someone say the entertainment “should be funny” I now thought it was going to be Benny Hill. I hoped he would sing the song about Ernie, who drove the fastest milk cart in the west!

Suddenly there was a hush and the great man arrived, standing proudly at the stage door entrance was Peter Hudson himself. As the spotlight focussed on him the lights dimmed. He was like a God to the men and a movie star to the Hobart ladies. He was there in his tux with a giant bow tie of a hideous mossy green colour that looked as though some alien moth had latched onto his throat. Huddo seemed very pleased with himself.

The moment arrived and the excitement levels at the Granada were about to lift the roof off the place. Who was about to come out of that stage door? Elvis? No! Billy Vaughan? No! Englebert? Nope! The Una Paloma Blanca band? Nup! Bounding out of that stage as though he was driving the fastest milk cart in the west came none other than ERNIE SIGLEY.

We spent the evening with Ernie Sigley (well 45 minutes of it) he told us a couple of lame jokes. Sang Hound Dog which fired up my Mum and that was about it. He didn’t even bring Ding Dong with him. Well at least he was a Footscray supporter I consoled myself with.

So Peter Hudson, entrepreneur and mover and shaker in the Hobart entertainment industry gave us Ernie when I really wanted AC DC. I won’t forgive him for that. I still stand by that Alan Rait of North Hobart & Footscray is the greatest Tasmanian goal kicker of all time and that our full forwards of the 70’s, Mel Arnold, Fuzzy Manson and our own BBB, Big Bad Bob Smith were also much better and I won’t be convinced otherwise.

Many years later after we had moved away to the mainland I returned, as a long haired lout, and stopped by the Granada for a nostalgic moment. It had retained all its’ kitsch and I couldn’t help but have a chuckle. Was that a young Paul Hudson I saw hanging about? I do admit being grateful to Peter for giving us Paul.

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[The Doctor]

P.S. For your listening and viewing pleasure



The Irish Rovers – What Shall we do with a Drunken Sailor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk2y_j-XrIM


Billy Vaughan and La Paloma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmsUi1_0FeI


Englebert Humperdinck and Spanish Eyes

https://www.google.com/search?q=engl...id:-X0U9ssKvRs


Benny Hill and Ernie (The Fastest Milk Cart in the West)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI


And the best for last. The greatest film clip ever made. You can thank my Dad for this. Una Paloma Blanca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoQLowFKgpQ


See you next year, Goodbye. The End

[bulldogtragic]

Love it, awesome, brilliant. That could be the story of 2023 ‘wanted AC/DC, got Ernie Sigley’.

I love woof!

[JanLorMill]

And the best for last. The greatest film clip ever made. You can thank my Dad for this. Una Paloma Blanca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoQLowFKgpQ


See you next year, Goodbye. The End

Sorry I had to stop it once I saw the silver flared one piece tackle mashers.
I thought the George Baker selection version was bad

[bornadog]

Thanks Doc for this thread this year, I have really enjoyed reading it each week.

[josie]

P.S. For your listening and viewing pleasure



The Irish Rovers ? What Shall we do with a Drunken Sailor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk2y_j-XrIM


Billy Vaughan and La Paloma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmsUi1_0FeI


Englebert Humperdinck and Spanish Eyes

https://www.google.com/search?q=engl...id:-X0U9ssKvRs


Benny Hill and Ernie (The Fastest Milk Cart in the West)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI


And the best for last. The greatest film clip ever made. You can thank my Dad for this. Una Paloma Blanca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoQLowFKgpQ


See you next year, Goodbye. The End

Great list. Thanks Doc.

How about Tony Orlando?s ?Tie a Yellow Ribbon??

[The Doctor]

Great list. Thanks Doc.

How about Tony Orlando?s ?Tie a Yellow Ribbon??

Don't get me started Josie!

I'll raise you Knock 3 times

https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp...id:uw2eitx9Ly0

[josie]

Ahh-drum roll Benny Hill music, regarding songs about knockers, I’ll trump Tony Orlando with our very own home grown Liv Maessen:

“Knock Knock, Who’s There….”.

And as I show myself out, my all time fave Lynne Randell (who ended up as Molly Meldrum’s personal secretary):

“Ciao Baby”.