Due accolades

[brilliantgriffen]

Is anyone else frustrated with the disregard the media is treating our great start to the season? It appears we are not rated by anyone! I know it can be better to sneak "under the radar" and it puts less pressure on us, but I think we have to prove we can perform under close scrutiny and great expectation, if we are to challenge for a flag- or develop into a side that will.

Last week all of the headlines where about St Kilda- how they are in trouble, how their "structure" wont work with three talls and the audacity of Aker to accuse the untouchable Robert Harvey of grabbing his testicles (although firm contact with that area is quite apparent). There was next to nothing on how, on the night, St Kilda where torn apart by a hungrier, better football side.

Today I awake to headlines in the Herald Sun "Brave Bombers run out of troops" "Bombers game plan torn apart" "speedy plan takes its toll". I thought Essendon where fantastic last night, however I think we deserve our share of credit. Does anyone else share my sentiment?

Brilliant start to the season by the guys- lets hope the injury gods begin to be kind to us and our 8,000 odd unsigned members get on board immediately!

[Dancin' Douggy]

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Who cares? Let them ignore us as long as they possibly can. If we keep quietly notching up wins, that's the best possible case scenario.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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The crap about Essendon was always going to come though given they were 'exciting' prior to their injuries. I knew by three quarter time - either way the match went - the papers would be all over how good Essendon looked. To some length you can perhaps understand that, although we do deserve more credit than given for. Number of key players were well down yet we grinded out a victory. I suppose we can only keep winning.

The headlines etc. of last week were annoying though, we completely out-played St. Kilda and out-muscled them but all I read was how 'poor' they were and how their list is in trouble. Obviously the media is hesitant to give credit to The Dogs because of last years dramatic downfall, but the point is we're winning games of football and look impressive.

As another post said though, we shouldn't care - that's out of our hands. What we need to focus on is playing four quarters of football a week and getting wins on the board.

[ledge]

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Very good point, when they keep printing how the opposition are in strife everytime we beat them it probably doesnt help our membership base.
In saying that you can only keep beating what is presented to you,I dont think Adelaide, St Kilda or Melbourne had too many injuries to be written up as a reason for losses, and we have beaten them all so far.
Interesting point is how many sides have we beaten that have been pointed out as top 8 material? 3 i believe, so take that into account and worse possible scenario is we will end up 5th!
Can we name 4 sides better than us? These are maybes of course, Geelong?, Hawthorn? and seriously at the moment thats all i can see.

[Bulldog Revolution]

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We lost our right to great PR at the end of last year

Hopefully internally we are more focused on substance rather than the spin in 2008 - I am sure that will be one of the outcomes of the work with the leading teams group.

If we keep persisting with what we are doing then the respect will return, and its only round 4. We'd be better to focus on continuing to improve.

[The Coon Dog]

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We lost our right to great PR at the end of last year

Can't agree there BR. Do you think if Collingwood, Essendon & let's look at Calrlton's last few seasons & the run they got in the media off season, finished like we did last season, they wouldn't be hailed as champions after a 4-0 start? Of course they would.

Ok, it was a decent write up after round 1, particularly with Johnno. Round 2 was all about how poor Melbourne were. Round 3 was all about how St.Kilda aren't as good as everybody (the media) thought they were. Round 4 was all about Essendon's injuries!!!

If we win next week it will be all about Wallace's limited tenure.

Some clubs just don't get the automatic good run others seem to get, bit like the AFL fixture in that regard!

[Topdog]

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Am I one of the only people who thinks that Essendon weren't actually that great?

Sure they looked "exciting" but most of what they did came from either our poor mistakes of free kicks that left me wondering if I was at netball or football?

Our field kicks our handballs were much more polished in the first quarter and we smashed them. I don't believe we were undone by their pace, just a lack on concentration on our behalf.

As much as their injuries hurt them it was our pressure that undid them.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Happy to stay "underrated" for the rest of the year.

But it has been annoying to hear all the bombers supporters sooking about their players injuries - some teams "might have beens" get much more of a run than we usually do, but whatever.

I'd be perfectly happy to listen to all the other teams whinge about how we shouldn't have won the 2008 premiership.

[LostDoggy]

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We lost our right to great PR at the end of last year

Hopefully internally we are more focused on substance rather than the spin in 2008 - I am sure that will be one of the outcomes of the work with the leading teams group.

If we keep persisting with what we are doing then the respect will return, and its only round 4. We'd be better to focus on continuing to improve.

Spot on. We were disgraceful and the media deserved to focus on other clubs in Victoria. Collingwood and North overachieved with the list they had and the only reason why Carlton has been in the news is the high profile recruit and the outstanding membership drive they have rallied. We deserved to be ignored much like the Tigers and Demons. Thankfully we have got some runs on the board and some credits in the bank and we are now getting our fair share of recognition.

[ledge]

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Sockeye i will take that too

[The Coon Dog]

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Spot on. We were disgraceful and the media deserved to focus on other clubs in Victoria.

Fair enough over the the pre season, but when the real stuff starts, don't we all start equal? Or are some just more equal than others?

[LostDoggy]

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Fair enough over the the pre season, but when the real stuff starts, don't we all start equal? Or are some just more equal than others?

No we dont especially with our lackluster effort in the preseason competition. We were on the nose both on the field and off and we needed to get up some credits.
We pinched the Adelaide game so of course the media focused on Johnson 300th.
Melbourne was hardly a test and the focus was the fact that they had also been thrashed the week before as well. We gained a lot of coverage for our inspired effort against the Saints and we will win over a few more after last nights effort even though most are focusing on Lloyd, Lucas and the injuries they suffered.
The Prez also wrecked a lot of the positive coverage that we should have got against the Saints because of the membership fiasco. The win became somewhat secondary.
Sorry but we create our own excitement and media coverage by getting things right on and of the field and I think the media is cautious with heaping too much praise on us because we stunk it up at the end of 2007.

[hujsh]

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I think the Dermie artitle was pretty positive and pretty long.

If we win, the praise will come.

If we beat Sydney, they will be climbing all over eachother to write about our 'amazing turnaround'.

[ledge]

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4-0 only 2 clubs are in that positon at the moment, dont think the media has done much about Geelong considering , but i think theirs is the opposite, its expected.
Hawthorn and us seem to be the 2 teams they could have zoomed in on and i think they chose Hawthorn because of "Buddy" and his superstar status, a bit like Johnathon Brown at Brisbane over the last few years.
Whats got them on the hop now is we are popping up with Hill and Griffen and co, so they are hoping they will go away and Buddy is the man.
And Hawthorn did end last year looking like the next up and coming team.
4-0 no one can do any better than that, the media are waiting to see who drops off first and its only common sense says it will be us out of the 3 of us.(this is presuming Hawthorn wins of course)

[1eyedog]

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4-0 only 2 clubs are in that positon at the moment, dont think the media has done much about Geelong considering , but i think theirs is the opposite, its expected.
Hawthorn and us seem to be the 2 teams they could have zoomed in on and i think they chose Hawthorn because of "Buddy" and his superstar status, a bit like Johnathon Brown at Brisbane over the last few years.
Whats got them on the hop now is we are popping up with Hill and Griffen and co, so they are hoping they will go away and Buddy is the man.
And Hawthorn did end last year looking like the next up and coming team.
4-0 no one can do any better than that, the media are waiting to see who drops off first and its only common sense says it will be us out of the 3 of us.(this is presuming Hawthorn wins of course)

It would be great to make in 5-0. Especially against Richmond. Interesting to see if the Bulldogs, Hawthorn and Geelong go 5-0.