Who was the head coach when you started supporting the dogs?

[ibonttobreakfree]

I moved to Melbourne from Qld in 2017 so it always been Bevo for me...

[azabob]

Mick Malthouse - mid 1980’s.

Love him still to this day.

[Hotdog60]

When I first started as a kid in 1967 it was Charlie Sutton but I was just following the team and didn't take much notice of the coaching side of things.

[Sedat]

Royce Hart was the first coach I really remember. I wish I didn't.

[1eyedog]

I was 10 when Bluey Hampshire took over. I don't really remember any coach before that.

[jeemak]

Royce Hart was the first coach I really remember. I wish I didn't.

Twodogs enters the chat and tells the story about how he took a screamer in kick to kick after training, and Royce Hart told him it's the best mark he's ever seen!

[jeemak]

I remember my nanna telling me about Micky Malthouse around 1984-1985, when I was five or six. Also remember going to a couple of finals that year, but unfortunately didn't get out to the Western Oval much at all as we were eastern suburbs kids living a ten minute walk away from VFL Park.

We did get to a game at Victoria Park that I don't really remember. It might have something to do with me walking dead straight into a pole forehead first on Victoria Street after the game. For years later my dad used to point out that very pole if ever we drove past it!

[Grantysghost]

Bluey Hampshire. Captain was Geoff Jennings.

[Bornadog]

In the 60s when I was a kid, we had Sutton some years then Ted then Sutton, then Tedd

[jeemak]

In the 60s when I was a kid, we had Sutton some years then Ted then Sutton, then Tedd

What was the club like in the sixties? I note the changes back and forth in leadership, how destabilising and political was all of that? Was this the decade that put us into shitsville until 1985?

[Uninformed]

Royce Hart was the first coach I really remember. I wish I didn't.

But what a footballer!!!! Loved watching Royce play. Not all greats destined to coach....

[Mofra]

I was born a Bulldog but the first coach I actually remember was Mick Malthouse.

[1eyedog]

I was 10 when Bluey Hampshire took over. I don't really remember any coach before that.

I should premise this by stating the only thing that mattered at the Dogs for me between the ages of 5-10 (78-82) was KT.

My Mum thought Geoff Jennings was cute though.

[Scott2016]

Bluey Hampshire for me

[Bornadog]

What was the club like in the sixties? I note the changes back and forth in leadership, how destabilising and political was all of that? Was this the decade that put us into shitsville until 1985?

Yes it was a crap decade. After the 1961 grandfinal, we didn't play finals till 1974, then 1976 and then 1985.
I can't remember much of the 60s as I was very young - I do remember in the late 60s some of the players.