What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 4

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It's more likely than not a good sign that most pundits are expecting us to be in the bottom half of the ladder this season.

I'm not getting carried away. Things look different this year. That doesn't guarantee anything of course but history suggests we perform mostly opposite to expectation.
 

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X_box_X said:
It's more likely than not a good sign that most pundits are expecting us to be in the bottom half of the ladder this season.

I'm not getting carried away. Things look different this year. That doesn't guarantee anything of course but history suggests we perform mostly opposite to expectation.
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We are like the BoM forecasts - they tip fire and drought, its cold and flogs down….media tip us to win the flag we struggle
 
Brass Dog said:
Can someone please post this article?

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As our rollout of the ultimate player ratings continues, JON RALPH and GLENN MCFARLANE run their rule over the Bulldogs? list to rate every Western Bulldogs player.

Aaron Naughton is fresh from signing a mind-blowing eight-season deal that will run through until the end of the 2032 season.

As the Bulldogs try to lock Naughton?s fellow key forward Jamarra Ugle-Hagan to his own mega deal with mounting interest from rival clubs, it?s worth raising a pertinent question.

Will Ugle-Hagan give Naughton wind-burn going past him as the Dogs? best key forward in 2024?

We know the two highly-rated Bulldogs play slightly different roles - and complement each other in doing so - but in terms of sheer goal-kicking figures, it wouldn?t surprise if Ugle-Hagan secures his first Bulldogs? goal-kicking award this season.

Criteria: Prediction of their 2024 performance based on their 2023 season, expected improvement and role in their side.















Naughton is the sort of hulking key forward the Dogs have always craved. He is strong overhead and he brings the ball to ground for the smaller forwards.

The 24-year-old has kicked 142 goals across the past three seasons, including 44 last year to secure his second straight club goal-kicking award.

Ugle-Hagan, who turns 22 in April, might have challenged Naughton for the club honours if he had kicked straight.

Therein lies his room for improvement. He kicked 35.35 in 2023, with his accuracy rating judged poor, according to Champion Data.

If JUH can change that this season, he could challenge Naughton, with coach Luke Beveridge likely licking his lips in anticipation at two key forwards who should kick 100 goals between them in 2024.

Ugle-Hagan was unfairly marked in his first few seasons, especially for a young key forward learning his craft. But as he prepares to enter his fourth AFL season, he is ready to take his game to a new level - and Naughton can continue to help him get there.

In our 2024 ratings of the Bulldogs, based on last year?s performances and the anticipation of what is to come this season, we have Naughton marginally ahead of Ugle-Hagan.

But Jamarra is coming at a rate of knots.

The Bulldogs have drawn criticism in recent years for their lack of success, given the top end talent they have at their disposal.

Marcus Bontempelli has been in the conversation as the game?s best player for years now. Tim English is the best ruckman in the game, and Tom Liberatore is still criminally underrated by some, even if he has changed that narrative for many in recent seasons.

But just off the Bulldogs? ?Big Three? sits Naughton and Ugle-Hagan (with an anticipated 2024 spike on his solid performances last season).

Bailey Smith had been hoping to play his way back in the Bulldogs? top five players after a frustrating 2023.

But he will spend the entire season on the sidelines after suffering an ACL injury at the start of this preseason, which reflects his ratings in the Bulldogs? list.

The big question is whether Smith?s comeback will be in red, white and blue or otherwise as he looks at making a big call on his playing future at the end of the season.
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Might have put LJ higher he was great Would be great if JUH Sanders and ODonnell turn it on
 
Is Gallagher gaining cult hero status on here as the newest "recent late pick, next big thing prior to debut" in the mould of Josh Prudden, Matthew Panos and Fergus Greene?
 
How on earth does a kid in Sanders who is yet to play a game get rated higher than Bulldogs legend and premiership player James Harmes?
 
Sentinel said:
Is Gallagher gaining cult hero status on here as the newest "recent late pick, next big thing prior to debut" in the mould of Josh Prudden, Matthew Panos and Fergus Greene?
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I’ve been hearing talk of Gag’s chiseled build this offseason. Where are the pics?
 

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The AFL has released the full list of free agents for 2024, with the Western Bulldogs’ Tim English among the most intriguing stars available.

The 2023 All-Australian has been linked with a move back to Western Australia and is one of three big headaches for the Dogs, given Jamarra Ugle-Hagan and Bailey Smith are also unsigned.
Kane Cornes doesn’t believe it would be too big a deal for the Bulldogs if English departed, given the likely asking price and the depth of capable ruckmen around the competition.











“Once again, it’s not the worst thing if the Western Bulldogs lose Tim English – it’s not,” Cornes told SEN Breakfast.

“Yes, you’d love to keep him, but not at any price.

“Ruckmen are replaceable. You can get a B-grade ruckman from another side, just as Collingwood did, and won a premiership, just as Richmond did with Toby Nankervis.

“Go back through the premiers and look at their rucks. Very rarely are they A-grade ruckmen on big money.

“That’s why I was so critical of Fremantle. They’ve got two of them. You don’t need two of them. You don’t even need one.

“So Western Bulldogs fans, if (English) holds out, you offer him a deal that is fair and reasonable and good, but if he leaves, you take the first-round compensation and then go and get a B-grade ruckmen from somewhere else and use the compensation to bolster the talent on your list.”

Of English, Ugle-Hagan and Smith, who should be the Dogs’ number one re-signing priority?

“Jamarra by a mile,” Cornes added.
 
Bulldogs85 said:
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The AFL has released the full list of free agents for 2024, with the Western Bulldogs’ Tim English among the most intriguing stars available.

The 2023 All-Australian has been linked with a move back to Western Australia and is one of three big headaches for the Dogs, given Jamarra Ugle-Hagan and Bailey Smith are also unsigned.
Kane Cornes doesn’t believe it would be too big a deal for the Bulldogs if English departed, given the likely asking price and the depth of capable ruckmen around the competition.











“Once again, it’s not the worst thing if the Western Bulldogs lose Tim English – it’s not,” Cornes told SEN Breakfast.

“Yes, you’d love to keep him, but not at any price.

“Ruckmen are replaceable. You can get a B-grade ruckman from another side, just as Collingwood did, and won a premiership, just as Richmond did with Toby Nankervis.

“Go back through the premiers and look at their rucks. Very rarely are they A-grade ruckmen on big money.

“That’s why I was so critical of Fremantle. They’ve got two of them. You don’t need two of them. You don’t even need one.

“So Western Bulldogs fans, if (English) holds out, you offer him a deal that is fair and reasonable and good, but if he leaves, you take the first-round compensation and then go and get a B-grade ruckmen from somewhere else and use the compensation to bolster the talent on your list.”

Of English, Ugle-Hagan and Smith, who should be the Dogs’ number one re-signing priority?

“Jamarra by a mile,” Cornes added.
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One of the very few times I agree with Korn
 
Bulldogs85 said:
Sen Article

The AFL has released the full list of free agents for 2024, with the Western Bulldogs’ Tim English among the most intriguing stars available.

The 2023 All-Australian has been linked with a move back to Western Australia and is one of three big headaches for the Dogs, given Jamarra Ugle-Hagan and Bailey Smith are also unsigned.
Kane Cornes doesn’t believe it would be too big a deal for the Bulldogs if English departed, given the likely asking price and the depth of capable ruckmen around the competition.











“Once again, it’s not the worst thing if the Western Bulldogs lose Tim English – it’s not,” Cornes told SEN Breakfast.

“Yes, you’d love to keep him, but not at any price.

“Ruckmen are replaceable. You can get a B-grade ruckman from another side, just as Collingwood did, and won a premiership, just as Richmond did with Toby Nankervis.

“Go back through the premiers and look at their rucks. Very rarely are they A-grade ruckmen on big money.

“That’s why I was so critical of Fremantle. They’ve got two of them. You don’t need two of them. You don’t even need one.

“So Western Bulldogs fans, if (English) holds out, you offer him a deal that is fair and reasonable and good, but if he leaves, you take the first-round compensation and then go and get a B-grade ruckmen from somewhere else and use the compensation to bolster the talent on your list.”

Of English, Ugle-Hagan and Smith, who should be the Dogs’ number one re-signing priority?

“Jamarra by a mile,” Cornes added.
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The Korn actually summed it up perfectly there.
 
Libbaaaa said:
www.afl.com.au

Why this young Bulldog DM'd one of the AFL's toughest mids

Already turning heads at Whitten Oval for his inquisitiveness and work ethic, Ryley Sanders is ready to take the AFL by storm in his debut season
www.afl.com.au www.afl.com.au

Wowsers, epic write up.
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Great write up. Sanders sounds like a great kid. Seeking knowledge from our midfielders in Marcus and Treloar. But the most telling is liberatore is liberatore. Ryley is going to be a star.
How good is Mitch Hannan helping out with accommodating Ryley as well. Geez I love this club.
 
Bulldogs85 said:
Sen Article

The AFL has released the full list of free agents for 2024, with the Western Bulldogs’ Tim English among the most intriguing stars available.

The 2023 All-Australian has been linked with a move back to Western Australia and is one of three big headaches for the Dogs, given Jamarra Ugle-Hagan and Bailey Smith are also unsigned.
Kane Cornes doesn’t believe it would be too big a deal for the Bulldogs if English departed, given the likely asking price and the depth of capable ruckmen around the competition.











“Once again, it’s not the worst thing if the Western Bulldogs lose Tim English – it’s not,” Cornes told SEN Breakfast.

“Yes, you’d love to keep him, but not at any price.

“Ruckmen are replaceable. You can get a B-grade ruckman from another side, just as Collingwood did, and won a premiership, just as Richmond did with Toby Nankervis.

“Go back through the premiers and look at their rucks. Very rarely are they A-grade ruckmen on big money.

“That’s why I was so critical of Fremantle. They’ve got two of them. You don’t need two of them. You don’t even need one.

“So Western Bulldogs fans, if (English) holds out, you offer him a deal that is fair and reasonable and good, but if he leaves, you take the first-round compensation and then go and get a B-grade ruckmen from somewhere else and use the compensation to bolster the talent on your list.”

Of English, Ugle-Hagan and Smith, who should be the Dogs’ number one re-signing priority?

“Jamarra by a mile,” Cornes added.
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It must be a day ending in y.

Korn is like a dog with a predilection for licking his own balls with how often he goes back to this well of insight.

People actually tune in for this shit?
 
Golden_6 said:
The Korn actually summed it up perfectly there.
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Agreed, although I'd give Tim a huge per annum amount just over less years. $4m over 4 years, he's a ruckman, he'll be on somebody's list until his mid 30s at minimum.
 
Sentinel said:
Is Gallagher gaining cult hero status on here as the newest "recent late pick, next big thing prior to debut" in the mould of Josh Prudden, Matthew Panos and Fergus Greene?
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I’ve been a signed up fan since we drafted him. His draft year when they threw him behind the ball was very good.
 
On this forum the bizarre turn on one of our very few All-Australian players in our modern history simply because he has the desire to time his contract extension to use the market to make a bit more money rather than instantly sign for unders is truly weird. If you didn't watch any of the 2023 season and just read the mood from people here you'd go away thinking that he barely deserved to get picked, not was one of the best players in the entirety of league footy last year.
 
dogwatch said:
One memorable Wood sprint in his earlier years was in the wet at the SCG when he ran back to save the game in the "mark this day, Doggy fans!" win over Sydney in the slush.
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A legendary Bulldog moment but that was already well past "running half-back flanker Wood", indeed he was a 2015 All-Australian on his defensive stoppage work, for instance he played two outstanding games, getting three brownlow votes in one of them, to help us get narrow wins in two low-scoring, ugly games in mid 2015 against St Kilda and Carlton.

Wood strained his hamstring in a game in 2012, had to be subbed off, and couldn't get it right at all in 2013, with most of the season ruined by the hamstring. He had played less than 50 of his eventual near 200 games at that stage and was over 10 years ago it's easy to see how that play style is now forgotten. But if we're talking about late-game D50 loose ball moments, Wood was actually involved in several key moments of that nature in both his debut and second game, his only two games of his debut season, in close games toward the end of 2009. I'm not sure if other's memories are as good as mine!
 
I recall Wood winning a crucial one on one late in the 2010 season against Adelaide in the wet. This place was full of praise for him after that moment.
 

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