Western Bulldogs rookie Luke Dahlhaus happy to start his AFL career as a sub
Sam Landsberger - Herald Sun - 12 June
FANS hate it, but Western Bulldogs debutant Luke Dahlhaus has a message for AFL coaches: Give first-gamers the substitute vest.
Dahlhaus admitted that when he arrived at Etihad Stadium for Friday night's match against St Kilda and saw his name on the whiteboard as the sub, he believed it was "a bad idea", but he thought differently after the match.
"Everyone would like to start on the ground, but probably in your first game it's good to have two quarters to run by," he said.
"It's a big buzz watching the boys run around, you want to get on straight away. But just watching it, you sort of get used to it.
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