My dilemma

[1eyedog]

Re: My dilemma

If he went to 1997 prelim the answer is obvious. What is the point of this post?

That people over the age of 18 shouldn't wear jumpers.

[Doc26]

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Are you over 18 years old?

A prouder Bulldog you will not find, Bob doesn't seem to have a problem with it

[Twodogs]

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That people over the age of 18 shouldn't wear jumpers.

Why not? I'm 52 and I cant remember the last time I didn't wear a footy jumper to a game. In fact I cant remember the last time i didn't wear a footy jumper at least 3 or 4 times through the week. Granted I aint your normal sized average looking 52 yo-I look a lot younger and I'm not 15-20 stone, but even if I wasn't the magnificent specimen I am I would still proudly wear my jumper(s)-(at last count I had 25 or so Footscray/bulldog jumpers).

[Topdog]

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Why not? I'm 52 and I cant remember the last time I didn't wear a footy jumper to a game. In fact I cant remember the last time i didn't wear a footy jumper at least 3 or 4 times through the week. Granted I aint your normal sized average looking 52 yo-I look a lot younger and I'm not 15-20 stone, but even if I wasn't the magnificent specimen I am I would still proudly wear my jumper(s)-(at last count I had 25 or so Footscray/bulldog jumpers).

Yep why not indeed. Fortunately people don't subscribe to this much otherwise our jumper sales would be terrible.

[1eyedog]

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Why not? I'm 52 and I cant remember the last time I didn't wear a footy jumper to a game. In fact I cant remember the last time i didn't wear a footy jumper at least 3 or 4 times through the week. Granted I aint your normal sized average looking 52 yo-I look a lot younger and I'm not 15-20 stone, but even if I wasn't the magnificent specimen I am I would still proudly wear my jumper(s)-(at last count I had 25 or so Footscray/bulldog jumpers).

I don't have a problem with it I've got 4 of them now.

[Eastdog]

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Why not? I'm 52 and I cant remember the last time I didn't wear a footy jumper to a game. In fact I cant remember the last time i didn't wear a footy jumper at least 3 or 4 times through the week. Granted I aint your normal sized average looking 52 yo-I look a lot younger and I'm not 15-20 stone, but even if I wasn't the magnificent specimen I am I would still proudly wear my jumper(s)-(at last count I had 25 or so Footscray/bulldog jumpers).

Each to their own I say. Im in my late 20s and I wear my Bulldogs jumper. Most of the time I have my coat on and my jumper is underneath and have my Bulldog scarf visibly showing. I have the current jumper design but not the most updated one and the old robodog jumper which has a few signatures on it.

[Twodogs]

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Apart from anything else they are warm.

[Hotdog60]

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I say wear it because if things go pear shape we'll know who to blame....

[comrade]

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I might dust off my signed Jarrod Boumann training top.

[SonofScray]

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Dust it off - I am. Check this out, knitted by my Nana for my Uncle in 1979. I drove down to Colac yesterday to get it so I can wear it to Sydney. This way a little bit of my Nan who passed away in 2014 can be at the game too.

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Man, reading that busted me up. Good on you 1ED. I carry my Nan's memory with me every time the Scraggers run out, the last thing she said to me was that she would crawl on her hands and knees if she had to, to see her boys one more time. So many people, dogged in their pursuit of a Flag that Wags have come and gone since The Day. It makes me very emotional come finals time, I haven't had a day where I haven't cried thinking about Footscray since the Elimination Final.

To finally turn our fortunes, I think we need to unleash all of it, all the passion, the regret, the hope, the heartache, the desire. It has to be turned into a public display unlike anything footy has seen when we Occupy Spotless. We've realised there is a strength and size in our combined support that has been under stated in the past on the back of the March, now we must ratchet it up a notch by flying the colours and presenting a unified look and voice in enemy territory. It should be a performance in the stands that people remember forever. Scenes that will be burned into the narrative of the Club, in a similar vein to the Fightback.

Wear your colours. Wave your flags. Rally around this team in this moment so that come the following week, a flag may wag.

[josie]

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Stirring, rallying words SonsOfScray and agree we should do all we can to show our support.

1EyeDog - great post, I too teared up when reading your post. Also think the jumper looks great, so much work, a real labour of love. Better than the store jumpers by a country mile.

The photo and article about Betty on doggie website, 83 yo at WO in wheelchair to pickup her ticket to the prelim, also captures how loyal our supporters are.

[Missing Dog]

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Love your jumper 1ED I voted buy a new one save your old one for the GF then rotire it with the grace and dignity it deserves. I hate not showing my colours and wear them each and every week but I have something in mind for the biggest of days.

[1eyedog]

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I might dust off my signed Jarrod Boumann training top.

For the Salvos?

[westdog54]

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I think you need to wear it.

Because we need to shake any thoughts of curses, superstitions and bad luck out of our heads.

Put it on and believe.

[Mantis]

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So I've made my decision... The vote is split evenly between wear it or wait until the GF, but I need to forget about the past and get with the program.

New team, new era, new *!*!*!*!ing jumper!! Will be heading to the Bulldogs shop later today to get an updated one and will wear it with pride at that shithole stadium the AFL have built for the plastics.

The rule about middle aged men wearing a jumper can GAGF... Up the Dogs!!!