Round 1 - Western Bulldogs V North Melbourne - Sat 15/3/25 Marvel Stadium 7:35PM AEDT

[Mofra]

That makes me so excited for Sammy Davidson - sounds like he's just plugged away, has never been the most talented guy but refused to let the AFL dream die and now he's playing for his family club. He must be an incredibly driven person

Ditto. I can't imagine just how excited his Bulldogs-mad family will be of the manages to kick his first goal tonight.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

I expect North to fancy themselves. On paper their mids and forwards look good enough to win, given our extensive outs.

Excited to see how we respond to the challenge. In truth, North cant be so poor forever and there's no excuse for them anymore. If they can't start to beat teams, particularly when they are far from full strength, they should be condemned to 4.40pm Sunday timeslots.

Good chance for some of our second tier players, and indeed the young crop, to stake their claim.

Let's see how we go.

Dogs by 8
BOG Darcy
First goal McNeil

[Aidan7557]

Very excited for today as I'm sure all of you are! Always good to see a couple young players get their chance especially in the midfield and I am curious to see how the forward line functions with the airways clear for Darcy and Naughton. Hard to pick a winner like most games.

[HOSE B ROMERO]

Round 1 is always such an unpredictable beast. Just hoping we can produce the best 4 qtr effort.

Dogs by 6

McNeil first goal

Libba bog

Crowd between 31000 and 31002

[Jeanette54]

Not at all confident but:
Bulldogs by 5
Naughton first goal
English BOG

Between the GP and the Doggies my couch will be getting a fair workout this weekend.

[Happy Days]

Very confident. You all must’ve forgot 3 games ago (!!!) when we beat them by 96 points (!!!!!), and their biggest off season move was to add a guy we didn’t want.

Dogs by 60
BOG Darcy
First goal Darcy

[Jeanette54]

, and their biggest off season move was to add a guy we didn’t want.

And (like Jack with St Kilda) I am sure we all wish them well for their careers with their new clubs.

[jazzadogs]

Very confident. You all must’ve forgot 3 games ago (!!!) when we beat them by 96 points (!!!!!), and their biggest off season move was to add a guy we didn’t want.

Dogs by 60
BOG Darcy
First goal Darcy

Hey hey hey they also added a guy the Eagles didn't want and a guy that Swans pretended they still wanted.

[Bornadog]

Not at all confident but:
Bulldogs by 5
Naughton first goal
English BOG

Between the GP and the Doggies my couch will be getting a fair workout this weekend.

not going tonight?

[Eastdog]

Woofers can add the prediction for our first goal scorer to their predictions as well as our top goal kicker.

I am nervous and excited for tonight. North are a big chance with our injuries to key players including our special one in Captain Bont but I'm just hoping we still have enough to just get it done. I'm not worried how much we win by just get the points.

[Grantysghost]

Only one premiership player tonight.

Libba

Strangely the saints have two this week.

Cordy and Macrae !

[DOG GOD]

This will definitely come back to haunt me but Darling on paper is a solid foil, Darling in real
life should have probably retired at the end of last year. He was absolutely awful, at least whenever I watched him.
Larkey however scares the shit out of me.

and players like darling (who most would see now as a hack who’s passed it), tend you have their best game of the year against us. Larkey and Darling could easily get the better of Lobb and O’Donnell.

NM (unlike us) has a knack of having those unbelievable goal scoring conversion games…we don’t want them being 10.1 at HT.

[JackCJohnston2000]

Interesting and funny that Fridge is as tall as Darling (191cm).

Also, do we know who their 2nd ruck is? They don't seem to have a backup ruckman playing, like Teakle, so I'm wondering if it's Larkey up forward or Comben down back? I don't watch enough North games to know.

[kruder]

Going out for dinner, I hate missing round 1 even without the Bont! Good luck woofers we really need this one.

[Jeanette54]

not going tonight?

No, early start for tennis training in the morning, but will certainly be watching on TV.