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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs Josh Dunkley
List that PeanutsPeanuts posted of youngest players playing with a premiership. It's incredible list for such a young age.Apologies , edited original post
CorrectiOn 6 players
Josh Dunkley (19y 267d) - 17 games
Zaine Cordy (19y 340d) - 11
Caleb Daniel (20y 87d) - 34
Toby McLean (20y 245d) - 19
Marcus Bontempelli (20y 312d) - 63
Tom Boyd (21y 42d) - 37
Ted Whitten (21y 61d) - 66Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs Josh Dunkley
The 2016 Western Bulldogs premiership team had a combined games experience of 1809 matches.
By contrast, the 2015 Hawthorn premiership team had 3670 games experience.
Let that sink in, we won a flag with half of the experience of the previous premiers.Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs Josh Dunkley
With two less players (20 v 22) the '54 team still has 5 players on that list. Despite that youth that group pretty much disappeared down the pan. It pulled its collective finger out halfway through the '55 season and missed the top 4 by half a game from memory. Made the 1956 fnals won the first week but lost the prelim. One player, EJ, from that team played in our next Grand Final seven years later.They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs Josh Dunkley
Welcome back Josh! To slip straight back in after just one game for Footscray shows how highly we rate him internally."I'll give him a hug before the first bounce and then I'll run into my pack and give them orders to rip him apart."Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs Josh Dunkley
I heard like Tim Emglish he had a minor car accident on the way into Etihad, but missed playing the game tonight. A shame, he's a promising kid.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'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs Josh Dunkley
I felt he had no impact on the game among others. The biggest criticism I have is shoving so many mid paced mids into the side, and then being placed forward where they generally have no impact. Dunkley falls into that category, and at times Davis was taking Wallis and smashing him. Smith hs not fired a shot this year, same with Libba. There's a very good reason why these guys, including Dunkley last night, are having a poor season collectively. But I still maintain that Dunkley and the various other names ('easier targets') I've mentioned in other threads had either poor or ineffectual nights. In fact it's pretty hard to find a good number of players that won their position.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'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs Josh Dunkley
Dunkley may be short of a trot with only one game back but I would have like to see him have a go at Shiel for a bit of the time he was running rings around Libba and Stringer.Don't piss off old people
The older we get the less "LIFE IN PRISON" is a deterrent...Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs Josh Dunkley
Shiel would murder Dunks. We miss Jong.But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.Comment
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Re: Welcome to the Western Bulldogs Josh Dunkley
Second game back is always tougher. We rolled the dice in the same way we did first final last year and it didn't come off with the ins.
And to be fair to Dunks, he still gave us more than Stringer who was (and has been all year, bar a half against the Saints) completely anonymous.Comment
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