Bulldog's History Book

[Twodogs]

Unleashed was treleased ten years ago and so much has happened since. Is it time for a new updated club history?


What would be the topics covered/chapter headings?

For me it would be:



The Smorgon chairmanship
The Wallace years
Leaving the Whitten Oval
The Rose Administration
The Redevelopment
Success and failure on the field

[The Coon Dog]

Gee, you didn't lave anything for anyone else did you!

[Twodogs]

Gee, you didn't lave anything for anyone else did you!

Except imagination Baz.

[craigsahibee]

Maybe a "Where are they now" feature on the Hyde St School Band and the rotund gentleman who used to sell peanuts out of a big sack.

[Twodogs]

Maybe a "Where are they now" feature on the Hyde St School Band and the rotund gentleman who used to sell peanuts out of a big sack.

I know exactly where he is and what he's doing. He's feeding worms six foot under.

[craigsahibee]

Was it the cholestorol that got too him in the end?

[GetDimmaBack]

The Smorgon chairmanship
The Wallace years
Leaving the Whitten Oval
The Rose Administration
The Redevelopment
Success and failure on the field[/QUOTE]

Using my imagination, would have to add the Chris Grant Brownlow fiasco - monumental.

[The Coon Dog]

The Smorgon chairmanship
The Wallace years
Leaving the Whitten Oval
The Rose Administration
The Redevelopment
Success and failure on the field

Using my imagination, would have to add the Chris Grant Brownlow fiasco - monumental.[/QUOTE]


That was 12 years ago.

[GetDimmaBack]

Using my imagination, would have to add the Chris Grant Brownlow fiasco - monumental.

That was 12 years ago.[/QUOTE]

Unleashed finishes at the end of 1996 (unless there's another edition I'm not aware of).
If we don't include 97, then it is lost from the Dogs' history...

[ledge]

Remember the AFL tried to boot him out, but their was such an uproar they didnt in the end.

[LostDoggy]

[QUOTE=Twodogs;68678]Unleashed was treleased ten years ago and so much has happened since. Is it time for a new updated club history?

Yeah, what a ripping book, I still haven't put it down. Let's hope there is an update.

[Dry Rot]

Unleashed was treleased ten years ago and so much has happened since. Is it time for a new updated club history?


What would be the topics covered/chapter headings?

For me it would be:



The Smorgon chairmanship
The Wallace years
Leaving the Whitten Oval
The Rose Administration
The Redevelopment
Success and failure on the field

Harbrow's goal and the 2009 Premiership

No-one predicted the terrible injuries which cut down the previous year's grand finalists and saw them bomb out in the first week of the finals, and no-one predicted Adelaide's incredible run of 12 straight wins to make the finals from nowhere and then fight their way to the Grand Final.

The Western Bulldogs finished minor premiers after a relatively good run with injuries and maintained their form from 2008, losing only 4 games. They were the obvious grand finalist, but nobody thought the Crows could get there from seventh place yet they won their 3 finals by an average of 6 goals.

The Crows specialised in excellent starts, the Bulldogs flying finishes from the best fitness in the AFL. And that was how the 2009 Grand Final was played out. But even Dogs coach Rodney Eade thought that an 8 goal deficit was simply too much ground to catch up in the last quarter.

But Eade and the Crows didn't reckon on newly crowned Brownlow winner Ryen Griffen who after keeping the Dogs in the game in the first half stepped up and made the last quarter his own. But Griffen could only get the Dogs within 5 points of the Crows in the dying seconds of the game when Jarrod Harbrow snapped an ugly spiralling kick goalwards.

All the Crows fans behind the goals swore it was a point and replays showed that they might be right, but the goal umpire signalled goal and the Bulldogs won their second premiership by a point with 2 seconds to spare.....

[The Coon Dog]

Harbrow's goal and the 2009 Premiership

No-one predicted the terrible injuries which cut down the previous year's grand finalists and saw them bomb out in the first week of the finals, and no-one predicted Adelaide's incredible run of 12 straight wins to make the finals from nowhere and then fight their way to the Grand Final.

The Western Bulldogs finished minor premiers after a relatively good run with injuries and maintained their form from 2008, losing only 4 games. They were the obvious grand finalist, but nobody thought the Crows could get there from seventh place yet they won their 3 finals by an average of 6 goals.

The Crows specialised in excellent starts, the Bulldogs flying finishes from the best fitness in the AFL. And that was how the 2009 Grand Final was played out. But even Dogs coach Rodney Eade thought that an 8 goal deficit was simply too much ground to catch up in the last quarter.

But Eade and the Crows didn't reckon on newly crowned Brownlow winner Ryen Griffen who after keeping the Dogs in the game in the first half stepped up and made the last quarter his own. But Griffen could only get the Dogs within 5 points of the Crows in the dying seconds of the game when Jarrod Harbrow snapped an ugly spiralling kick goalwards.

All the Crows fans behind the goals swore it was a point and replays showed that they might be right, but the goal umpire signalled goal and the Bulldogs won their second premiership by a point with 2 seconds to spare.....

Karma. Gave me a warm glow reading that.

[Twodogs]

I used to watch the doggies on the Saturday and Port on a Sunday and he would frequently turn up at Port games also. I reckon it was the mid 70's when I first saw him. 20 cents for a bag of peanuts. No one in the crowd ever gave him any stick either. It was all about respect. Just a battler trying to earn a little extra cash. RIP Mr Peanut.

He was probably a millionaire!

I remember a rumour that he was, of all things, a porn king.


He owned a bunch of those adult book shops back in the day.

[bornadog]

One of the oldest photos of the Footscray Team - taken around 1883