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Re: Your Footscray / Western Bulldogs Team Of Your Time
This is such a hard thing to do for so many reasons. Changing style of the game and changing size of the players. Teddy Whitten, CHB in our club team of the century was 184 cm tall, he wouldn't play there today even if he was in his prime. The same applies to 191 cm John Shultz., Plus there is the challenge of fading memories and the skewed perspective of childhood memories.
I started going to games as a young child in the 60's and my heroes were Ian Bryant, John Jillard, George Bisset and David Thorpe, so they are all automatic selections
I also put consistency ahead of shooting stars.
B: Bryant - Lake - Purser
HB: Jillard - Foster - Murphy
C: Hawkins - West - Thorpe
HF: Edmond - Templeton - Grant
F: Bisset - Beasley - Johnson
R: Dempsey - Cooney - Royal
Interchange: Liberatore, Quinlan, Wallis, Cameron
Apologies to oh so many.The Angels have the phone box. [SIZE="2"]Don't blink![/SIZE]Comment
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Re: Your Footscray / Western Bulldogs Team Of Your Time
Looks like we are from a similar era. I like John Jillard being in there. Wasn't David Thorpe fantastic on the wing, the way he used to be able to dodge around the opposition and then scoot away.This is such a hard thing to do for so many reasons. Changing style of the game and changing size of the players. Teddy Whitten, CHB in our club team of the century was 184 cm tall, he wouldn't play there today even if he was in his prime. The same applies to 191 cm John Shultz., Plus there is the challenge of fading memories and the skewed perspective of childhood memories.
I started going to games as a young child in the 60's and my heroes were Ian Bryant, John Jillard, George Bisset and David Thorpe, so they are all automatic selections
I also put consistency ahead of shooting stars.
B: Bryant - Lake - Purser
HB: Jillard - Foster - Murphy
C: Hawkins - West - Thorpe
HF: Edmond - Templeton - Grant
F: Bisset - Beasley - Johnson
R: Dempsey - Cooney - Royal
Interchange: Liberatore, Quinlan, Wallis, Cameron
Apologies to oh so many.
I originally had Ian Bryant in the back pocket but changed over to Brad Hardie, close one that. Bryant I remember was originally a centreman and moved to the back pocket for some reason, where he became a star. I always wondered why he was moved to the back pocket, he seemed to do well in the centre.
I thought that Dave Darcy and Gordon Casey were our best back-pocket/full-back combination. I left Jim Edmond out, close again with Nathan Brown.
We both left out John Schultz. Great player of course and really knew how to read the play but I was always frustrated by the number of marks he used to drop.
Its enjoyable reading of all of these older players and how well they were regarded.Comment
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Re: Your Footscray / Western Bulldogs Team Of Your Time
B: Lake, Kennedy, Wallis
HB: Murphy, Foster, Smith
C: Hawkins, West, Cooney
HF: Quinlan, Templeton, Grant
F: Edmond, Beasley, Johnson
R: Dempsey,Liberatore Snr, Royal
IC:Cameron, Wynd, Boyd
Emg: Edmond, Purser, McGuinness, S McPherson, Griffen
Once you get past the self selections the others were quite challenging.Last edited by KT31; 30-01-2012, 06:54 PM.It's better to die on our feet than live on our knees.Comment
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Re: Your Footscray / Western Bulldogs Team Of Your Time
B : Wheeler Lake Morris
HB : Gilbee Foster Murphy
C : Hawkins West Cameron
HF : Grant Templeton Whitten (jnr)
F : Johnson Beasley Royal
Rucks : Wynd Cooney Liberatore
Inter : Dempsey Griffen Wallis Kolyniuk
Side is based on players from mid 70's on.
Dempsey was a fantastic Ruckman but Big Scotty shades him as I think he is the best Captain we have had in the last 40 years so he has to start.
Apologies to Matty Boyd. Westy and Libba can do the grunt work. There is plenty of silk around those 2 to polish off their good work.
Loved EJ jnr when I was a kid, and I just reckon his footskills at half forward with a forward line including marking/leading options such as KT, Beasley and the Great One makes us unbeatable.
Majority of players from the 90's onwards which reflects on our more somewhat successful periods.
Great topic.Comment
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Re: Your Footscray / Western Bulldogs Team Of Your Time
Surprised to see Daryl Griffin getting a run some sides. Apparently his 18 games made quite an impression on some!
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Re: Your Footscray / Western Bulldogs Team Of Your Time
I can't add much more to the sides already put up, so I'll just suggest that an inverse of this thread would also be fun to put together -- ie. a team of the WORST Dogs you've ever seen. I'm sure it would be a lot funnier and provoke a lot more debate than a 'best of' team, which I think has a lot more clear consensus picks.
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Re: Your Footscray / Western Bulldogs Team Of Your Time
This would be my favourite team of my time - not the best team.
B: Hardie - Croft - Morris
HB: Cameron - Southern - R. Murphy
C: Hawkins - S. West - Griffen
HF: Johnson - C. Grant - Del Re
F: Robbins - Beasley - Royal
R: Purser - Libba snr - Atkins
Int: Darcy -Lake - Curley - Cooney
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Re: Your Footscray / Western Bulldogs Team Of Your Time
I see that you have Danny Del Re in the team. Nice choice for that era. He was our top goal scorer for two years in a row and kicked 8 goals in a final once. Kicked 70 goals one year. Just by the looks of him he seemed to be an unlikely footballer to me, but there you go, he was our best forward for many a year.Comment
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