Smorgo - Dogs 'still alive and kicking'
Michael Gleeson - The Age - 10 May
THE Western Bulldogs didn't expect to be here. But they still believe they will get to where they thought they were going.
''I think we can still make the top four,'' club president David Smorgon said yesterday. ''To do that we probably need to win 12 out of our 16 games and I think that is do-able. While it's possible you keep hope alive and I don't think it's a forlorn hope.''
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The Bulldogs are at once comforted and confronted by the fact that after six games last year they had won only one more game than this season. But last year they entered a phase of three straight victories on their way to winning 10 of 13 games.
Consequently the Bulldogs president acknowledges his side confronts a similarly defining period now.
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