What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 3

[Mr. Walker]

Got to love BF - reading through the preceding conversation and my banner ads are for someone called Anne Webster, who's running for the Nationals in Mallee.....

Safest National Party seat in the Nation. Safe to say that however much money the Federal government gives the Bulldogs , or Labor when they are in power, the outcome in that seat will not change.

 

[chez_ferret]

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[Libbaaaa]

Finally a bit of fixture luck, home game v. the Cats on a Friday night in round 12 and home game v. the Hawks Friday night round 15. Sandwiched with a Saturday night game at Spotless on channel 7 in round 14.

 

[BEaston]

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Get Norm De Guerre in there with his photoshop skills.

 

[Virgin Dog]

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Play with the pay range filters on Seek. As soon as you filter for $100k+, the listing disappears, so the hidden salary on offer is somewhere in the range of $80k-$100k.

University qualification required, leading a team, extensive experience required, and living in a high cost of living city, and they're not even offering six figures. Good luck to the club in finding anyone half decent who isn't just doing it because they're a hardcore Dogs fan willing to sacrifice the $$

 

[Roogal]

Genuine question regarding the funding - is this an election promise (i.e. we only get it if the Libs stay in power), is this one of those cases like the $2bn Bushfire Recovery fund (never existed in the first place), or is it guaranteed that this funding is coming?

I just want to know whether this is something to be excited about.

Obviously conditional on being elected. They are in caretaker mode and effectively cannot give a guarantee to anything from the day the election is called through to winning power back on election night. If they lose all bets are off.

 

[Oliver G]

Obviously conditional on being elected. They are in caretaker mode and effectively cannot give a guarantee to anything from the day the election is called through to winning power back on election night. If they lose all bets are off.

I am by no means an expert but isn't caretaker mode only from when the election is called (Aprll 10th)? This bout of funding was included in the 2022-23 Federal Budget and officially announced on March 30th by the club.

Bulldogs welcome Federal Government funding commitment

The Western Bulldogs have today welcomed the Federal Government’s budget commitment of $15 million to enable the Club to deliver its full vision for the redevelopment of its Victoria University Whitten Oval home.

www.westernbulldogs.com.au

 

[Optimistic Dog]

Why is the bulldogs football media thread getting inundated with political posts.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Why is the bulldogs football media thread getting inundated with political posts.

They should be happy the kennel is going to be upgraded, for our benefit and that of our community. People prefer to be miserable for some reason.

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Get Norm De Guerre in there with his photoshop skills.

The club has suffered enough.

 

[Unorth]

My mind goes back to that nonsensical PR statement we put out a little while ago. Which seemed to allude to the club wanting to abandon its ‘underdog’ roots to become something of a higher regard. Which felt a bit gross at the time. A few here commented as such.

This is followed up with a photoshoot starring Frydenberg, one of the govt poster boys for the elite, from the party that despises the “working class” (and that’s putting it lightly) that the Bulldogs will forever be tied to, whether they want to or not.

Understanding that the club would be stupid to turn down money to play politics, I do think in general the identity of this club is kind of blurring? And quite deliberately so.

This may seem silly, but I think axing Danny Mcginlay’s* banners was the start of this stuff. I don’t see anything wrong with being associated with the working class, or the poor, and using that as motivation to fight our way through the comp. I think we can grow our membership numbers without getting clean and Disney-fied.

In isolation I don’t think the Frydenberg stuff is a big deal, happens to sports clubs of all levels all the time. Adding it up with some of our other branding/identity choices, though, is when I start to feel off about it all.

Blood and boots, not focus groups. Feels like the club kind of wants to forget that bit.

 

[TheBont]

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is rubbing shoulders with frydenberg being a rich private school kid from the eastside.

Keep these liberal grubs away from whitten oval. They don't represent our community and culture.

 

[Mantis Toboggan]

Finally a bit of fixture luck, home game v. the Cats on a Friday night in round 12 and home game v. the Hawks Friday night round 15. Sandwiched with a Saturday night game at Spotless on channel 7 in round 14.

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. Up until round 15 we will have had only one weekend home game at Marvel. I think that’s an appalling result for members, particularly those with young kids.

Edit: Just for comparison, in the same time Richmond will have 5 home weekend games plus 2 away games at the MCG.

 

[Roogal]

I am by no means an expert but isn't caretaker mode only from when the election is called (Aprll 10th)? This bout of funding was included in the 2022-23 Federal Budget and officially announced on March 30th by the club.

Bulldogs welcome Federal Government funding commitment

The Western Bulldogs have today welcomed the Federal Government’s budget commitment of $15 million to enable the Club to deliver its full vision for the redevelopment of its Victoria University Whitten Oval home.

www.westernbulldogs.com.au

As long as it's been passed in Federal Budget it's safe. I'm not aware of anything that was blocked. Just that Labor announced that they would deliver their own budget if elected. But I imagine that their budget would be focussed at targeting some of the tax cuts due to come into effect for later this year and at funding some of their bigger election promises.

 

[Libbaaaa]

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. Up until round 15 we will have had only one weekend home game at Marvel. I think that’s an appalling result for members, particularly those with young kids.

Edit: Just for comparison, in the same time Richmond will have 5 home weekend games plus 2 away games at the MCG.

I mean purely from an exposure/prime time perspective. Feels like all our Friday night/Thursday games in recent times have been against interstate opposition or we have been the away team.

 

[Fossie 32]

My mind goes back to that nonsensical PR statement we put out a little while ago. Which seemed to allude to the club wanting to abandon its ‘underdog’ roots to become something of a higher regard. Which felt a bit gross at the time. A few here commented as such.

This is followed up with a photoshoot starring Frydenberg, one of the govt poster boys for the elite, from the party that despises the “working class” (and that’s putting it lightly) that the Bulldogs will forever be tied to, whether they want to or not.

Understanding that the club would be stupid to turn down money to play politics, I do think in general the identity of this club is kind of blurring? And quite deliberately so.

This may seem silly, but I think axing Will Andersons banners was the start of this stuff. I don’t see anything wrong with being associated with the working class, or the poor, and using that as motivation to fight our way through the comp. I think we can grow our membership numbers without getting clean and Disney-fied.

In isolation I don’t think the Frydenberg stuff is a big deal, happens to sports clubs of all levels all the time. Adding it up with some of our other branding/identity choices, though, is when I start to feel off about it all.

Blood and boots, not focus groups. Feels like the club kind of wants to forget that bit.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/teams/western-bulldogs/western-bulldogs-bannerman-danny-mcginlay-coming-to-adelaide-for-standup-shows-at-rhino-room-and-marion-hotel/news-story/79ed46881adbf6365d8fb6265dbcccb6

 

[Sentinel]

I mean purely from an exposure/prime time perspective. Feels like all our Friday night/Thursday games in recent times have been against interstate opposition or we have been the away team.

I had posted in agreeance but on further thought it's about right. For rounds 1-15 this year we have 8 games, of which 3 are home vs VIC teams. In 2021 we had 7 games total with 1 being home vs a VIC club. That makes 4 from 15.

50% of games are away games and 44% are vs interstate sides (8 teams out of 18), so on average we should only get 3-4 games from 15 which meet that criteria.

15 games in those slots over 37 rounds is also probably above average given roughly 2/3 of games are usually played on Saturday or Sunday, so we're doing ok here.

 

[dogwatch]

Why is the bulldogs football media thread getting inundated with political posts.

Could it be because the football media have featured shots of a very senior politician in full election mode at our home ground?

 

[_Mike_]

Off topic, no existing player tag thread for Budgie however I stumbled across this old interview for anyone interested

 

[Mitcha]

This is the big reason why I always like Brendon Goddard, despite him being fairly unliked by fans. The dude was ultra competitive, even if he did take it over the edge at times.

Cannot agree with this at all. Goddard told the world he was ultra competitive but it was the greatest bluff in the history of the AFL. Set up behind the ball as the spare but never at any stage helped out his back six instead padded his stats with uncontested footy. Did a lot of pointing and remonstrating with team mates but was a complete fraud not to mention an arrogant flog of the highest order.

 

[_Mike_]

Did a lot of pointing and remonstrating with team mates

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[ttomred17]

This may seem silly, but I think axing Danny Mcginlay’s* banners was the start of this stuff. I don’t see anything wrong with being associated with the working class, or the poor, and using that as motivation to fight our way through the comp. I think we can grow our membership numbers without getting clean and Disney-fied.

Danny told me a couple of years ago that Bains made that decision. He didn't have nice things to say about him.

From the outside looking in it seems Bains is doing an OK job, but I always found this interesting for some reason. His banners were light-hearted fun.

 

[immortalmike]

Danny told me a couple of years ago that Bains made that decesion. He didn't have nice things to say about him.

From the outside looking in it seems Bains is doing an OK job, but I always found this interesting for some reason. His banners were light-hearted fun.

Overtly corporate claptrap.
We're a niche club with heart and substance. That is our strength. People like Bains and Watson-Wheeler don't seem to get it.
I miss Gordon more every day. He wasn't perfect but he got our club.

 

[NBates]

Finally a bit of fixture luck, home game v. the Cats on a Friday night in round 12 and home game v. the Hawks Friday night round 15. Sandwiched with a Saturday night game at Spotless on channel 7 in round 14.

Danny told me a couple of years ago that Bains made that decesion. He didn't have nice things to say about him.

From the outside looking in it seems Bains is doing an OK job, but I always found this interesting for some reason. His banners were light-hearted fun.

Danny has said a number of times on his podcast that it was Bevo who didn't like it. Found them too arrogant or words to that effect.

 

[ScragCity]

Danny has said a number of times on his podcast that it was Bevo who didn't like it. Found them too arrogant or words to that effect.

From memory this isn't quite accurate. It was more that Danny's banners were so good, that they would get the opposition riled up. According to Bevo, footy teams tend to play better when they are angry (that could go a long way to explaining how we played so well in the first three finals last year). So we went back to the harmless, boring banners.