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

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Luke Beveridge should regain a few senior players this weekend with Adam Treloar expected to be available after being a late out against Carlton due to calf tightness. Aaron Naughton and James O'Donnell are both expected to exit concussion protocols in time for the trip to Geelong. Riley Garcia dominated in the VFL after being the unused sub, amassing 34 disposals, 17 tackles, 10 clearances and two goals. Tony Scott finished with 33 disposals and 10 clearances. Caleb Daniel was also busy with 29 touches, nine tackles and seven clearances for Footscray. Alex Keath got through a VFL return after being included in the 26-man squad. - Josh Gabelich

Last week's sub: Riley Garcia (unused)


Tony Scott 😅
 
Doggy said:
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Luke Beveridge should regain a few senior players this weekend with Adam Treloar expected to be available after being a late out against Carlton due to calf tightness. Aaron Naughton and James O'Donnell are both expected to exit concussion protocols in time for the trip to Geelong. Riley Garcia dominated in the VFL after being the unused sub, amassing 34 disposals, 17 tackles, 10 clearances and two goals. Tony Scott finished with 33 disposals and 10 clearances. Caleb Daniel was also busy with 29 touches, nine tackles and seven clearances for Footscray. Alex Keath got through a VFL return after being included in the 26-man squad. - Josh Gabelich

Last week's sub: Riley Garcia (unused)


Tony Scott 😅
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Jod has done a hammy
 

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King Harold said:
Watched some video of our 2016 finals campaign last night, Daniel looked quicker / more nimble back then.
I fear he’s lost a yard , doubt he will ever get back to what he was.
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We don't even have to go back to 2016. He had an excellent 2020 (BnF winner) and 2021 campaigns.

Imo he got his big contract and fell into a bit of complacency. You only have to drop off 5-10% and given his lack fo natural physical abilities he probably has to work harder than most to maintain AFL standard.
 
Angak said:
We don't even have to go back to 2016. He had an excellent 2020 (BnF winner) and 2021 campaigns.

Imo he got his big contract and fell into a bit of complacency. You only have to drop off 5-10% and given his lack fo natural physical abilities he probably has to work harder than most to maintain AFL standard.
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Game has evolved. Same reason that Macrae is no longer an elite AA-quality onballer applies to Daniel too. Raw legspeed and agility with ball in hand and is more important, the ability to read the play and position in transition contests using a natural footy brain is less important, compared to 3-5 years ago. Daniel and Macrae have a bunch of the latter in spades but hardly any of the former. Chad Warner's the best example of a type of player that wouldn't have been as elite 5 years ago even with an identical skillset. Him not really knowing how to run around a contest defensively to mop up across half-back like Daniel and Macrae can but Daniel and Macrae not having the speed to get separation bursting from a pack or ahead of the ball when isolated has cost them more than it would have cost them before.
 

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dogwatch said:
A short essay from Jonathan Horn - seems like a fair summary but doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know. Just a neutral saying what most of us here have said over recent years.

www.theguardian.com

From the Pocket: Western Bulldogs dare to dream as Luke Beveridge manages great expectations

The Dogs have disappointed as much as delighted this season but the path is opening up for a sustained run towards finals
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Thought it was pretty spot on with how he described the supporters emotions. With reference to us being indoor specialists Bevo needs to draw on the Giants win away earlier in the season in trying conditions for inspiration.
 
Bulldog Brent said:
Speaking of articles whatever happened to the Bulldog Tragician? Loved reading those.
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I don’t think there has been much inspiration for her so far this year. Perhaps there’ll be “something” to write about in the next few weeks…
 
dogwatch said:
A short essay from Jonathan Horn - seems like a fair summary but doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know. Just a neutral saying what most of us here have said over recent years.

www.theguardian.com

From the Pocket: Western Bulldogs dare to dream as Luke Beveridge manages great expectations

The Dogs have disappointed as much as delighted this season but the path is opening up for a sustained run towards finals
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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"A few days later, they went out and played like busted arses against Port Adelaide"

It's hard not to be impressed with this line. A proper journalist🤣
 
 

How Treloar is building a compelling case for a maiden All-Aus blazer in 13th year

“I think he'd be a very, very deserved All-Australian for the first time.”
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AFL Media’s Josh Gabelich thinks that Adam Treloar is building a huge case for his first All-Australian blazer in 2024.

The Bulldog was dominant in Saturday night’s 48-95 win over Geelong at GMHBA Stadium picking up 31 disposals to go with three goals and eight tackles just one week after being managed out of the win against Carlton.
The 31-year-old has made the All-Australian squad on three occasions across his 248-game career with GWS, Collingwood and the Dogs but Gabelich thinks that he’s set to take the next step and be recognised as one of the competition’s absolute elite in 2024 with a selection in the final team.

Treloar ranks second for disposals per game at 31.9 and 14th in clearances per game at 6.0 and Gabelich also believes he could be challenging club captain and superstar Marcus Bontempelli for the Charles Sutton Medal this season.

“Adam Treloar I think is building a compelling case for his first All-Australian blazer,” Gabelich said on SEN Crunch Time.

“He’s been in the squad three times during his career but has never got in the final team.

“Right now, he's one of the inform midfielders in the competition and he's done it across the entire season.

“He came back in last night and had 31 touches and three goals in the wet. He's had the best year of his career.

“We had the discussion last week. Could he be challenging Marcus Bontempelli for the Charles Sutton Medal? I think it's going to be very tight come that best and fairest count.

“He’s no longer just an accumulator, he's always found the pill and he's still averaging the most disposals in the competition this year, but he's having much more impact on scoring.

“I just think he'd be a very, very deserved All-Australian for the first time.”
Three-time All-Australian Dan Hannebery couldn’t agree more with Gabelich’s assessment as he thinks Treloar’s inside/outside game is perfectly complementing the mix the Bulldogs currently have on the ball.

“He's certainly getting it done inside the contest, but on the outside, he's that beautiful mix of hybrid mid that you like to see,” Hannebery said.

“He's really complementing what they're doing with Bontempelli on the side with Tom Liberatore then there’s him and Ed Richards (both in and out).

“Last night when the whips were cracking, he was probably their best mid … his 31 touches last night were all class and were certainly better than some of his games in the past where he's had high 30s and low 40s.

“Every possession he was taking ground and giving them really first use.”

Treloar and the Dogs, who now hold a 10-8 record with seven wins from their last 10, face a huge challenge in Sydney at the SCG next Sunday.
 

Cody Weightman on his premiership aspirations, learning to kick for goal from an unlikely source​

Believe it or not, Bulldog Cody Weightman wasn’t always this deadly in front of the big sticks, and it’s all thanks to an unlikely hero. The star Dog chats with Sam Landsberger about his rise.



He goes by the name ‘Ross the Plasterer’.
When Cody Weightman’s radar was askew following his under-18 year it was Ross who scratched out a few flaws in his goalkicking technique.
“I actually missed a lot as a junior to the point where the old man (Rob Weightman) just got one of his mates, Ross who’s a plasterer, to have a kick with me before the draft,” Weightman told the Herald Sun.
“I can’t remember where he played, but he was a full-forward and very good kick back in his day.
“He’s a plasterer and I went, ‘Ah well, I can’t lose much here. It’s not his job, but he can only help, hopefully’ and he’s got a really good eye for it.
“I’d love to get him a job in this because he’s very good and he was able to fix up a few little basic things.”
Weightman is the AFL’s most accurate shot for goal. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Weightman is the AFL’s most accurate shot for goal. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)
Ross the plasterer is Ross Deakin, a goalkicking great at country level who featured on Melbourne’s under-19s list in the early 1980s and went on to boot bags and bags of goals for Keysborough.
Growing up there was a target board – an old wooden board with a hole in the middle and bird netting behind it – to hone the kicking skills.
Weightman kicked 9.9 in eight Coates Leagues games in 2018-19 and a sharper 9.3 from four games for Vic Country in 2019.
Last year Weightman was the No. 1 Western Bulldog for goalkicking accuracy (57.6 per cent) and No. 26 in the AFL. This year he is No. 1 in the AFL with 75 per cent, well ahead of Josh Treacy (Fremantle), teammate Aaron Naughton, Jacob van Rooyen (Melbourne) and Ben King (Gold Coast).
The sharpshooter has kicked 21.5 and two misses in 2024.
“As a small forward it is definitely limited opportunities. I envy ‘Naughts’ and ‘Marra’ (Jamarra Ugle-Hagan) at times with their ability to have so many looks, but I can’t waste any,” he said.
The small forward is also one of the league’s best flyers. Picture: Mark Stewart

The small forward is also one of the league’s best flyers. Picture: Mark Stewart
“It’s nice that this year I’ve been able to kick straight and hopefully that continues.”
While Ross the plasterer was the pre-draft fixer, this season it has been legendary Bulldog Brad Johnson.
“He’s even further been able to help me out and I feel really confident in my basic routine now,” Weightman said.
“Hopefully most of it is automatic and I don’t have to think too much, which is nice. I just go out there and execute my skill.
“A bit random that it was just one of dad’s mate Ross and with a mix of (forwards coach Matt) Spangher and Johnno I’ve had good support around to help me kick straight and it’s working so far.”
Johnson is the club’s games record holder with 364 games and 558 goals. The specialist goalkicking coach/consultant has been big for the Bulldogs’ bullseye king.
“He’s got a presentation he ran us through with certain steps, and there’s a few things he actually went into the detail of giving us all individual tips,” Weightman said.


“So he unpacks the tape really closely and looks for gains in all of us individually. Even experimenting, so early in the year with the blindfolds and all these things, to try and find little gains.
“He talks about committing to the kick and your plant leg and some technical stuff, but also some psychological stuff as well.
“I think that’s a huge part of goalkicking, the ability to compartmentalise what you need to do and execute a skill without considering much other external factors or results-based stuff.
“Just get the process right and the results genuinely should take care of themselves. That’s one big thing he talks about.”

CODY WEIGHTMAN ON …​

RE-SIGNING AFTER NAUGHTON (2032) AND UGLE-HAGAN (2026)
“It’s been a three-year period now where we’ve played together. We really enjoy playing together and feeding on each other’s energy. Again, that’s really exciting that it’s going to be another fair few years of that to come and I suppose it just reiterates the fact that we’re all happy and we’re all enjoying the place we get to go each day and call it work. It doesn’t feel like a workplace sometimes it’s that good. It’s a great thing to have boys signing up and wanting to stay and I think that goes from the top to the bottom of that club, whether it’s the head coach in ‘Bevo’ or it’s the trainers that do those voluntary jobs and give their time.”
THE EXPLOSION OF SAM DARCY
“He was held back by a few really weird injuries. He had an air socket in his lung, an ingrown hair and an ice bath that went wrong. But maybe that’s been a blessing, because he’s been able to get in the weight room and really build up and get himself ready for AFL level. I think he’s really starting to hit his straps early now. Key positions can take a while, but he doesn’t seem to look like he wants to go by that method. He’s jumped on the scene really quickly and having a real impact for us. Hopefully like Naughts and Jamarra and myself, he can stay around at the club for a long time (Darcy is out of contract in 2025) and that forward line can just continue to evolve.”

How did Weightman go blindfolded?
“The first couple were all right and then the rest I shanked them, so I got rid of the blindfold pretty quick,” the 23-year-old said.
With his eyes open, the energiser also ranks high in VFL-AFL history. Weightman’s career return of 120.47 ranks No. 7 of all time among every player to have had at least 50 shots.
Ross the plasterer helped place Weightman on the path to stardom and he was also coached by goalkicking champion Matthew Lloyd at Haileybury.
Drafted at pick No. 15 in 2019, the Pakenham boy packed up and he settled into AFL life on the west side of the city with former teammate Mitch Wallis and his wife Emily.
They formed a special bond and the Wallises became Weightman’s family in the 2020 Gold Coast hub.
These days Weightman resides with teammates Arty Jones and Lachie Smith, where boardgame battles of Sequence and Monopoly Deal help them switch off from football.
“Arty’s actually the owner of Sequence and him and his mum used to play a heap, so he’s a genuine gun,” Weightman said.
The Herald Sun revealed this month that Weightman had re-signed until 2027, taking him through to free agency and the eve of Tasmania’s entry to the AFL.
Weightman still pinches himself when he runs out to play and couldn’t sign quickly enough when the club presented a contract to him 12 months early.
Weightman will play a vital role in the Dogs’ push for finals. (Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

Weightman will play a vital role in the Dogs’ push for finals. (Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images)
“People talk about the highs and lows of footy, but the highs are just so good and I can’t wait for the future highs to come,” he said.
What can he achieve by 2027? Elevation to the club’s leadership group? All-Australian selection?
“I’m super present in this season and invested in this season,” he said.
“The prospect of winning a premiership this year is real and alive so that absorbs most of my future thoughts.
“I’m not really bothered by being an All-Aus or whatever. It would be great I’m sure, but it’s not something I put in my notes and try to shoot towards.
“It’s certainly second to a premiership and it sounds cliché, but that’s all I want our of my career.

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“If I can obtain that then I feel like instantly you’re a successful player. It’s the pinnacle and something we all want but not everyone gets.
“Individual accolades I’m sure they’re great, but they don’t equate to premierships.
“They’re not something I give much thought, but the premiership is something I think of probably too often.”
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Flags_In_The_Bag said:
I've never seen a non indian person driving a Camry, cant imagine Bont driving one.
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Haha.

My previous car was a Toyota Aurion, very similar to a Camry.

When I advertised my Aurion for sale, I was inundated with messages. One message every minute by interested parties. This lasted over an hour. In the end I had to turn my phone on silent so I could get some sleep.

Only two people came for a test driver before one of them purchased it and both of them were European 😉
 
X_box_X said:
Haha.

My previous car was a Toyota Aurion, very similar to a Camry.

When I advertised my Aurion for sale, I was inundated with messages. One message every minute by interested parties. This lasted over an hour. In the end I had to turn my phone on silent so I could get some sleep.

Only two people came for a test driver before one of them purchased it and both of them were European 😉
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Call it stereotyping, but its fact 99% of Camry's are driving by people from India, when on the road take notice and you will agree
 

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