Any news on what we are calling this team ? Footscray?
Any news on what we are calling this team ? Footscray?
Bring back the biff
Yeah, aside from list changes your side seems pretty right. The draftees from next year will be able to be slotted straight into the VFL seniors in place of whoever we get rid of, which will be good.
The interesting bits are the name, jumper, sponsors & home ground, which you didn't want to discuss
If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
Formerly gogriff
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
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.
I would love to see it called Footscray as it is our history and 90% of the museum is about Footscray and the reserves hopefully will be playing at the Whitten oval
Bring back the biff
Romance vs. a cohesive brand for the football club.
Don't get me wrong, I grew up loving Footscray. I live in West Footscray. It hurt me as much as anybody else when we gave up our name. But it's done, it's a part of our history, just as much as the '89 fightback, and we need to stop wishing for a return to the past and embrace our future as the Western Bulldogs.
That's why I can't see us naming the VFL team Footscray. It would cause more angst than it would warm traditional hearts.
If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
Formerly gogriff
Yep I agree. Naming the team Footscray also means that wE could build substantial rivalries with Willy and Werribee. Especially Willy-it'd be great to reignite a local derby after all these years with a club we had such a huge rivalry with before we joined the VFL. And Port Melbourne and Essendon.
If we play it right we could have our cake and eat it too.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
For mine it's about the positioning of the entire club, and how it's viewed across the broader AFL community rather than how it's viewed by a football community, whilst important to the fabric of the game, isn't necessarily a greater means to our end.
There's also a fair contradiction in trying to represent the greater West with our AFL brand, whilst trying our best to segregate certain suburbs of the West and create rivalries within the region through how we manage our feeder team's brand.