Stand Alone Bulldogs VFL Team in 2014

[Eastdog]

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It makes sense especially since they want to play some games away from WO

True as EJ Smith said from the article.

[Go_Dogs]

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Great news.

Without knowing the finer details of the financial aspect of this move it's hard to comment on that, but from a development point of view this is a great outcome for the club.

[Bornadog]

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Great news.

Without knowing the finer details of the financial aspect of this move it's hard to comment on that, but from a development point of view this is a great outcome for the club.

I would say they have a year to get sponsorships to try and cover the financials.

[Mofra]

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GVGjr had a good point earlier in the year. The big risk is that the VFL team pulls crowds away from our AFL team. I for one will enjoyed going to Willy games and following players, sometimes more so than the AFL team. If it's called Footscray, will that be a risk? It could be an issue, because I for one am really looking forward to following a WB VFL team.

We'd win from that scenario IIRC?

We are a guaranteed payment from Etihad regardless of crowd size, yet I'd expect attracting more people at WO would have a better ROI.

[Go_Dogs]

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I would say they have a year to get sponsorships to try and cover the financials.

Yep, spot on - will have a year to tie everything up. Now the announcement has been made, we have to follow through so will be interesting to see the details as they emerge.

Any ideas on who we may target as a sponsor?

[boydogs]

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Fantastic announcement. Well done Dogs.

[LongWait]

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I would say they have a year to get sponsorships to try and cover the financials.

I agree that this would be part of their thinking - twelve months now to try to offset as much of the financial cost as possible and to build the financial plan to ensure we can sustain a VFL team into the future.

[Dancin' Douggy]

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Yep, spot on - will have a year to tie everything up. Now the announcement has been made, we have to follow through so will be interesting to see the details as they emerge.

Any ideas on who we may target as a sponsor?

I think they should target Mack trucks.
Bulldog Logo.
Tough.
Working class.

[Greystache]

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Great news for the club, the only way to develop young players to their best potential is to have full control over them.

As much as I enjoyed going out to watch Williamstown play it will be nice not to have so many games ruined by horrible weather conditions.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Great news for the club, the only way to develop young players to their best potential is to have full control over them.

As much as I enjoyed going out to watch Williamstown play it will be nice not to have so many games ruined by horrible weather conditions.

Yeah, cos it never got wet or windy at WO

[Mofra]

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Yeah, cos it never got wet or windy at WO

We get some protection there though - and the old dears at the tuck shop in Willy used to always run out of rolls at 1/4 time as they'd tell me.

Clearly the concept of "making more" never entered their consideration.

I'd just be happy to see football at WO again. It may drag out some of the old fans who don't like the new iteration of AFL football to watch the occasional game.

[LostDoggy]

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Great news.
Imagine if the GF was played as a curtain raiser to the AFL GF? Then imagine playing the U18s GF to start the day? It would be an awesome full day of footy to finish off the season........
I guess I can dream.

[Bornadog]

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Yeah, cos it never got wet or windy at WO

Better check with the old fisherman to see which way the wind will be blowing in the last

[chef]

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Great news, hopefully they're called the Western Bulldogs.

[GVGjr]

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I'm not yet convinced this is great news for the club. It's terrifically symbolic but will it really be that much an improvement on what we already had in place?

This is a significant cost and I will be interested to hear how they will cover it.
Coaches, top up players and an upgrade to the WO to make it VFL ready is just some of challenges that need to be met.

If we can't fund things like enough GPS vests now then our finances will be stretched that much further in 2014.

I get why so many see it as a positive but we need to be sure that they club can get this right and have an understanding that just putting the younger VFL guys into a red, white and blue playing jumper won't necessarily make it a success. There is a lot more to it than that.

Personally I would prefer that we don't play home games at the WO and I would recommend that we don't call the VFL side Footscray.