Western Bulldogs Biggest Fan?

[LostDoggy]

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Forgot to mention in my previous post. At my daughter's wedding - I lined up with my daughters (the other was a bridesmaid) - and my friends screamed with laughter. You see my daughter's bridesmaid dress was red, the bride of course, was white and I had deliberately bought a beautiful blue outfit.
The bride hadn't noticed until then! The response was "OHHHH Mum!, how could you?"

ahha that sounds brilliant - got any pictures u can post?

[Twodogs]

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Forgot to mention in my previous post. At my daughter's wedding - I lined up with my daughters (the other was a bridesmaid) - and my friends screamed with laughter. You see my daughter's bridesmaid dress was red, the bride of course, was white and I had deliberately bought a beautiful blue outfit.
The bride hadn't noticed until then! The response was "OHHHH Mum!, how could you?"

I bow to you. When little libba, I mean Lucy, walks down the ailse I plan to be right alongside her wearing a sleeveless, collared, button up tricolour jumper instead of a vest under my morning suit. I explained it all to her when she was just a baby. She didnt seem to have any objections.

I've had a kick to kick with Chris Grant, just thought I'd share that. We kicked the ball down at Williamstown in the reserve near Warmies boat ramp, we played a game where we kicked the ball to each between 20 metres apart and we couldn't let the ball hit the ground. We got to 30 odd before I put one over his head. He signed the inside roof of my car and threw salivary balls for my dog.

Chris Grant is a class act. When was my son was only a few months old and he still had the shop at Highpoint I took the little fella in to say hello to The Great Man. He fussed over the baby-I think his partner was pregnant at the time-and talked footy with me for 15 minutes or so then me and the boy wandered of.


Fast forward around eight months. I'm walking out of the ticketing agency they used to have at Whitten Oval with finals tickets-it's the first week of the 1999 finals series. Chris walks out of the players rooms, spots us walks over and says "Hows little Harvey going". I dont know how he did it. I meet maybe one new person a year and I cant remember their name!

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Our Biggest Fan? Would have to be David Porter but I think he has lost some.
Scooter would be right up there too.
If we win a premiership I don't give a stuff, I'll be drinking and stacking it on too.

There's a few here who've got me covered.

Barry has forgotten more about the Dogs than I ever knew.

No, that's bullshit. Barry has never forgotten anything about the Dogs, ever.


Twodogs has wiped out some brain cells, he's probably forgotten a lot.


They'd both have me covered and then some.

[Twodogs]

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There's a few here who've got me covered.

Barry has forgotten more about the Dogs than I ever knew.

No, that's bullshit. Barry has never forgotten anything about the Dogs, ever.


Twodogs has wiped out some brain cells, he's probably forgotten a lot.


They'd both have me covered and then some.

My best savant days have long since passed. As you say my 'lifestyle choices' have severly impacted on the amount of RAM available to store important footy info available to me.


If I need to remember anything these days I just ring Barry.

[LostDoggy]

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Gold, I love it! Didn't name him Christopher by chance?

I named my son after the great man! OK this is probably too much information for everyone but I know 100% fact that my son was conceived on the same day that it was announced Chris Grant would be staying with the Bulldogs (back in September 1996) so when he was born the following June there was only 1 choice as far as name choosing goes. My son Christopher was at the football when he was 13 days old and has only missed a handful of games since (and all these are interstate matches). His bedroom is beautifully decorated with lots of Bulldogs memorabilia eg. Last Game at the Whitten Oval, framed Ted Whitten photo, a photo of me sitting next to Ted Whitten and Doug Hawkins at the Selectors Table back in 1994 the Thursday night before Doug broke his record, Tony Liberatore caricature from his testimonial, Team of the Century signed cards absolutely beautifully framed - it's priceless, a David Darcy signed and framed Scanlons card, Chris Grant stuff, blow up Woofer, Western Bulldogs clock, Bulldogs mat, Western Bulldogs football jumpers, Western Bulldogs doona cover. And he's not brainwashed! My daughter is named after Laurie Sandilands - no not really, I'm only joking but her name is Lauren but would have been named Brian after Brian Royal if she was a boy!

[alwaysadog]

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I would like to nominate a couple of friends. Maybe this is the wrong thread should probably be tone entitled The strangest places to assert your Bulldog insanity. Here’s why:

#1: Retired from the Vic Education Dept after a long and illustrious career and a formal farewell evening to mark the event was held at one of the university colleges. Over 100 people attended and proceedings went as such things do until the guest of honour called for all the Bulldog supporters present to join him out front for a rendition of Sons of the West, which we did with gusto.

Then he moved on to work for the NSW Ed Dept. Last of his Bulldog passion I thought, but no, he was selling tickets at the RSL club for the after match function almost as soon as he hit Sydney. I tried to introduce him to DR but of course they already knew each other.

#2: My physio wanted to mark his 50th by doing something he had always yearned to do and climb some European mountain, can’t remember if it was The Matterhorn or Mont Blanc.

Anyway off he goes and comes back in one piece all jubilant. Emails me some snaps. There he is atop the mountain wearing his Bulldog jumper. Photo made the pages of the small paper I think.

[Bulldog4life]

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I remember being at the family day way back in '83 i think it was when the 54 Premiership side played against the 61 Grand Final side. The 54 guys ran out on to the ground and did their lap of the centre square led by EJ, but they didn't have a footy to warm up with. I was standing there after having a bit of kick to kick with my cousin, when EJ ran towards us calling for the ball. I casually hit him on the chest with a perfect pass. Afterwards I took the time to think about it and thought how big a moment for me that was. EJ was my Dad's hero and he was pretty pumped to see his son just kick the footy to EJ.

That would have been an awesome day. Can't ever remember that happening although I certainly believe you. I'm jealous.

[Twodogs]

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I remember being at the family day way back in '83 i think it was when the 54 Premiership side played against the 61 Grand Final side. The 54 guys ran out on to the ground and did their lap of the centre square led by EJ, but they didn't have a footy to warm up with. I was standing there after having a bit of kick to kick with my cousin, when EJ ran towards us calling for the ball. I casually hit him on the chest with a perfect pass. Afterwards I took the time to think about it and thought how big a moment for me that was. EJ was my Dad's hero and he was pretty pumped to see his son just kick the footy to EJ.

I ws at training when I was 14 or 15 having a kick with my mates on the terraces in front og the John Gent stand. Teddy and Charlie Sutton were standing 40-50 metres away looking at a clipboard with a lisy of player names on it. My mate kicked the ball way over my head and it bounced towards the two great men. I turned around and took a couple of steps and then called out "Can we have the ball please?" Without looking from the clipboard Ted struck the bouncing footy with his right foot and the bloody thing came at me like a tracer bullet. I was a good 40 metres away and the velocity of the ball knocked me off my feet.


As I picked myself up the two of them were having a good laugh and I heard Sutton say "Oh Teddy-you've still got it son". Almost anyone else and I would have gone over and remonstrated, but EJ had just hit me on the chest with a pass!

[bulldog]

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i am a bulldog tragic i get all framed jumpers pics online auctions i have known former players all good guys

[LostDoggy]

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I'm obsessed, but I can't compare to some of the other fans here! My room is full of Bulldogs stuff, I have 2 framed jumpers- Dale Morris warm up top 2005 and 2007 and some framed cards, framed stamp things, a signed Libba poster from his last game, 2 big boards of signed photos of me and a player or ones I've taken at training, my wardrobe doors are covered in cut outs from the Bulldogs magazines from about 2005 and some of 2006 (I've decided its better to keep them in tact though...so I've stopped doing that) and I have 38 AFL books (8 Bulldogs ones). People walk into my room and sigh at me...they're just jealous though.

My best memories are when Rodney Eade saw me at training after pretty much every player had left the ground, and asked me if there was any player that I'd wanted to see, and I said I wanted to see if Leon Cameron (who was packing up the tackle stuff) could please sign my photo and showed him the one of me when I was six with him when he was a player at one of the family days, and yeah, he went and got Leon and we were talking for a while- that was really nice, I really liked Leon Cameron when he was playing for us, so that was pretty special. Also, last year when I went to the Bulldogs footy show, Dale Morris and Will Minson were there, and I had my number 38 jumper on and so after the show Dale came up to me and talked to me for a while, that really made my night...week. I'm so jealous of some of the previous posters, it's great that the club is so easy going and the players are friendly, it can seal the deal for a young kid supporting the club when things like that happen.

[The Coon Dog]

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Great Post

Still reckon she's a stalker!

[LostDoggy]

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I don't think I can compete with the rest of you, but when my Mum told my Dad she was pregnant (with me), she told me he replied, 'great the world needs another bulldog supporter". So I can say I've been supporting the bulldogs since I was negative 9 months.

[LostDoggy]

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Speaking of stalking, i stood at the fence on Saturday at quarter time, and creepily watched him from a distance doing his interview with Christie Malthouse, hah.

Oh, and coming back with an armfull of pies, noticed a VERY tall skinny bloke walking in front... turns around, well HELLO Peter Street! So i unintentionally stalked Guy O'Keefe, Street and a few others back to my seat. Whoops.
All i could do was laugh with my armfull of pies!

[LostDoggy]

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ahha that sounds brilliant - got any pictures u can post?

Sorry! My daughters don't want to see their pic on the internet. I don't think the bride has ever quite forgiven me.

[Max469]

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Originally Posted by craigsahibee View Post
I remember being at the family day way back in '83 i think it was when the 54 Premiership side played against the 61 Grand Final side. The 54 guys ran out on to the ground and did their lap of the centre square led by EJ, but they didn't have a footy to warm up with. I was standing there after having a bit of kick to kick with my cousin, when EJ ran towards us calling for the ball. I casually hit him on the chest with a perfect pass. Afterwards I took the time to think about it and thought how big a moment for me that was. EJ was my Dad's hero and he was pretty pumped to see his son just kick the footy to EJ.

That would have been an awesome day. Can't ever remember that happening although I certainly believe you. I'm jealous.


I was there that day - amazing.

We all have special memories - just a couple of mine are:

Meeting the great EJ at the above family day.

A pic of me and Dougie and his best and fairest cup, when he won it in '85

Having a celebratory drink with Brad Hardie the same night as above - as he had won the brownlow that year and years later meeting up with him when I was stalking the Doggies team of century dinner - and he remembered me.

Pics with Chris Grant, Monty, Murphy, Neil Cordy, Geoff Jennings, Will Minson.

Road trip to Ballarat with Murphy, Harbrow, Stack, Lynch & Hill -- to assist on a Supporter Group day.