The Bulldogs demise

[dukedog]

Demise. Exodus. Last stand. Exit. Passing. Finished.
Dimma dimma dimma. Article on AFL.com.au. choose your words carefully. ...this can only fuel fire in the boys for 2018. I'm not sure Richmond has what it takes for multiple flags. I could be wrong. Thoughts?

[Bornadog]

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Dimma needs to choose his words carefully.

Bookmark it - Tigers lucky to make the 8 in 2018

[Missing Dog]

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I agree I think Tigers will miss the eight they will have the mother of all hangovers

[Rocco Jones]

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I think his intentions came from Richmond side of things rather than attacking us. His selection of words is very poor though.

[ledge]

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Can the article be posted please ?

[Twodogs]

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Dimma is an imbecile:

But there are some things that will hold us in good stead.

"Our leadership group is probably a little bit more mature than the Bulldogs had at that stage.

"We've got Trent (Cotchin), Jack (Riewoldt) and Alex (Rance) who are seasoned campaigners ... they'll crack the whip pretty strong.

We had Bob Murphy, Matthew Boyd and Dale Morris cracking the whip. I know who I'd listen to.

Hardwick also pointed to the strength of the Tigers' VFL side who made it to the Grand Final, but suffered a nail-biting loss to Port Melbourne.

"(I could say) 'You know what boys? If you want to take it easy, I've got replacements ready to go'," the coach said.



"Competition for spots is incredibly important in a successful year.

One problem with your reasoning there Dimma. Our VFL team went one better and won the flag themselves the year we win the flag. On the Dimma scale if "she'll be right" we went one better so should have been in a better position not to have a demise.

Dimma wants to learn to engage his brain before he shoots his mouth off.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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Did a ladder predictor weeks ago and had tigers missing the 8. They’ve got Bulldogs 2017 written all over them.

His reasoning is poor. But we weren’t much different. We said lots about not repeating hawthorns 2009 campaign. At the end of the day it’s out of their hands. It’s all psychological and not knowing what it’s like means you can’t 100% defeat it. No doubt they’ll struggle next year. Like us they won the flag on intensity. Recreating that intensity after reaching the summit is bloody hard to do as we know all too well

[ledge]

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For some reason I think the Tigers will be ok they will take a lot out of the way we went this year.
Personally I think they copied us and the flag was extremely similar.
It was all about belief and drive no matter what anyone else thought.
Football tends to have roundabouts and the last two years were built on smalls due to necessity and the list:
You win flags playing the style that suits your list not trying to make your list Change to a gameplan it isn't capable of.
Luke Beveridge is building a tall list to go the opposite of other teams.
Luke is a leader not a follower, he will invent and change things . He is a different coach, he thinks outside the box.
Hardwick to me is a follower coach.

[josie]

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Bravo BAD!! Love Alan Partridge. Never thought anyone would post anything about the great Norwich morning matters DJ on Woof. Back on topic-I think we will make the 8 and surprise a few. Who knows what will happen in finals but hey, here’s an inverse Bollo for any woofers who are mighty boosh fans “I’ve got a good feelin’ about ‘dis”.

[Twodogs]

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Did a ladder predictor weeks ago and had tigers missing the 8. They’ve got Bulldogs 2017 written all over them.

His reasoning is poor. But we weren’t much different. We said lots about not repeating hawthorns 2009 campaign. At the end of the day it’s out of their hands. It’s all psychological and not knowing what it’s like means you can’t 100% defeat it. No doubt they’ll struggle next year. Like us they won the flag on intensity. Recreating that intensity after reaching the summit is bloody hard to do as we know all too well

That's a good point about Hawthorn. We did talk a bit about them last preseason.

Bravo BAD!! Love Alan Partridge. Never thought anyone would post anything about the great Norwich morning matters DJ on Woof. Back on topic-I think we will make the 8 and surprise a few. Who knows what will happen in finals but hey, here’s an inverse Bollo for any woofers who are mighty boosh fans “I’ve got a good feelin’ about ‘dis”.

I think we talked a bit about Alpha Papa when it came out.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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I think the only thing the tigers have that we didn’t is more experience. Both ourselves and hawthorn were less experienced and won premature. But I still think they are immature from a success point of view and will certainly find the going tough at stages next year

[Dry Rot]

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Can someone please post a link so that some us can know what this thread is about?

[jeemak]

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It also comes down to how many "legend party lads" Richmond have on their list. Hawthorn had plenty as did we, and we each paid a price in the year following the premiership.

If Richmond can control its fat dickhead quotient it will probably do better than we did defending, I guess Hardwick can't say that.

[jeemak]

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Can someone please post a link so that some us can know what this thread is about?

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-12-12/we-will-learn-from-the-dogs-demise-hardwick

[FrediKanoute]

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I think what's often overlooked about our campaign last year is the number of guys who had majorly interrupted pre-seasons because of surgery. By the time we won the flag we had Libba, Wood, Morris etc all booked in to see a surgeon. Then losing guys in the pre-season period - we just never got going.