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Never had a problem with them ,only been to Western Oval once, roughest heads I've ever seen in a crowd.

 

The ones I know are all good people.  The funniest is my nephews Vietnamese partner; been out here 5 years, works in Footiscray, follows the Dogs, and I quote 'The Bont, nah he no good'.

I used to like going to the Dogs games years back, as not being tall, I could easily see over the heads of the crowd.

30 minutes ago, Brownie said:

I made the mistake of watching offsiders on the ABC on Sunday morning.

Kellie Underwood started by calling Geelong the oldest club in the competition (maybe she was talking about the players?)

And then trotted out the grand final match up between the working class Bulldogs and the Melbourne inner city elite.

this fifty year old stereotyping drives me nuts.

I saw that too.

Talk about lazy journalism from Kelly with no feeling for the moment.

I'm (ex) working class and I hate the Doggies when we play them.

 
42 minutes ago, Pates said:

I’ve got quite a few bulldogs friends, all pretty good supporters in that I don’t feel like they gloat a lot. They got a little lippy after their premiership win but never to the arrogance of the cats or hawks. 

I found them to be the same, in general. In the past, in their quieter years, that is, they were very humble supporters not prepared to ruffle feathers or expect/demand the concessions that should have been due to them in the conduct of the former VFL. This most probably stemmed from the rather sad, lousey - no, damn right atrocious - performances that the Footiskry supporters experienced for years, no - an eternity - except for the efforts of Mr Ted Whitten. 

Far more integrity overall than the Filth.


Knew three - 2016 I congratulated them. 
Two since died

Disease riddled filth dragging the whole state into lockdown.

I only know one Bulldogs supporter to be fair, guy from an old workplace. Friendly enough, but an absolute train wreck of a person. Amazed he’s still employed, sent home from work for being drunk at one stage a few years ago. This is an office job too, so legit basket case type stuff. Old work friend sent me a screenshot of a recent post the bloke made on Facebook about covid being a government hoax to take control of us and inject us with tracking beacons etc. He sums up the Bulldogs for me. My most hated team in the league by some way. Disgusting.

my girlfriend is a doggies fan (as her mum is from the western suburbs), but she's more dees these days seeing as though i watch and listen to as much dees stuff as i can. if i had a second team, it'd be the dogs. mind you, after being flogged by them a few times, quite content in flogging them in the GF if we get a chance. due to their lack of success, i feel as though their fanbase has more in common with us than most realise. 

 

I live out West and it's mostly doggies fans out here. My best mate's wife who I despise is a doggies fan has given me irrational hatred of them as well. Apart from that, most seem ok. 

I grew up in Sunshine/Albion: couldn't wait to get the ....out of there. Teddy Whitten once delivered a caged budgie to my house because I won some dumb competition - the winner had to foretell the exact time the 8.30AM from Sydney would land at Essendon. I phoned the airport and asked what time the 8.30 would land, I was told, 8.30 so that's what I wrote. Lucky I wasn't home when Whitten delivered he thought he was Mister Football. I would have argued with him, I would have told him who Mister Football was.

The budgie caused nothing but trouble. Budgies are like ducks and possums, all they do is poo.

Eventually, while cleaning out the bird cage in the back yard, I turned it upside down, the cage door lifted and the budgie flew to Budgie Paradise.

I spoke to two blokes on the weekend who are Bulldog supporters. I went to school with them. One of them was Bugs Dewire, a poet and songwriter for the Coodabeens.

I live in Box Hill now: my local chemist was brought up in Footscray, he's an Australian-born Vietnamese Doggie man. I know that when I get my prescription later in the week, he'll lace them with tranquillizers in case Melbourne win. He is a true gentleman.

And the dude who started Barrique Wine store in Healesville is a Doggie supporter. And, last but not least, I played footy in a Lighting Premiership there in 1960 when I was 10 years old and in Grade seven at Our Ladys. I didn't get a kick.


There’s about a dozen of them here at our workplace in Laverton Nth. Fairly balanced and realistic bunch but today that number has multiplied x3 all of a sudden. People that haven’t spoken to me once about footy in 6 years are covered in Dogs scarves, beanies, caps, you name it.

There were 4 Melbourne supporters here but 3 have left leaving me on my own and that’s the only reason why I wanted Port to win. Would have been a peaceful lead-up to the game with no Port support here.

2 minutes ago, dieter said:

I grew up in Sunshine/Albion: couldn't wait to get the ....out of there. Teddy Whitten once delivered a caged budgie to my house because I won some dumb competition - the winner had to foretell the exact time the 8.30AM from Sydney would land at Essendon. I phoned the airport and asked what time the 8.30 would land, I was told, 8.30 so that's what I wrote. Lucky I wasn't home when Whitten delivered he thought he was Mister Football. I would have argued with him, I would have told him who Mister Football was.

The budgie caused nothing but trouble. Budgies are like ducks and possums, all they do is poo.

Eventually, while cleaning out the bird cage in the back yard, I turned it upside down, the cage door lifted and the budgie flew to Budgie Paradise.

I spoke to two blokes on the weekend who are Bulldog supporters. I went to school with them. One of them was Bugs Dewire, a poet and songwriter for the Coodabeens.

I live in Box Hill now: my local chemist was brought up in Footscray, he's an Australian-born Vietnamese Doggie man. I know that when I get my prescription later in the week, he'll lace them with tranquillizers in case Melbourne win. He is a true gentleman.

And the dude who started Barrique Wine store in Healesville is a Doggie supporter. And, last but not least, I played footy in a Lighting Premiership there in 1960 when I was 10 years old and in Grade seven at Our Ladys. I didn't get a kick.

Growing up in the late-60s, I remember that both Barassi and Whitten were called "Mr Football". I often wondered why they both were given the same nickname as it seemed odd to me then. Nevertheless, two genuine superstars of that or any era, so I can live with it. I'm just glad that with the demise of the formal honorific, we're not hearing today's equivalents being called "footy-bro".

1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

My local bottle shop is run by a Bulldog family. 
Great people, but it may change in 2 weeks! :)

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Is it these guys?

Good people, the ones I know. I think they’ll handle the loss well. 

We played the Dogs at the Western oval in the penultimate round of 1991. The Coode Island fire 5 days earlier had engulfed the whole area in a thick black toxic cloud. Whilst it had cleared by match day I wore a face mask as I walked past the home crowd to the Barkly St goals. It drew quite a few laughs from the locals.

Aside: face masks were rarely worn in them olden days.


I only know three Dogs supporters and one of them is Bob Murphy. Annoyingly, he’s a very lovely chap who makes it difficult to dislike his mob. 

 

 

1 hour ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Don’t we know it! We’ve seen enough pics of him and his six-pack watching Footscray on TV. 
Who watches the footy shirtless?!

Never been so excited you go tops off? 
 

2 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Many of them these days are hipster folk who live in and around Footscray. Gentrification will do that. 

34 minutes ago, AllMyTeamsAreWank said:

I live out West and it's mostly doggies fans out here. My best mate's wife who I despise is a doggies fan has given me irrational hatred of them as well. Apart from that, most seem ok. 

I live in Footscray and I've seen like two in the last year on the streets, but then again I don't leave my house much with that whole stay at home order covid thing. 

I have three friends that are dogs fans around my age and they are ok. Only seen the one flag, got a little lippy but nothing untoward like richmond fans. they got put back in there place pretty quickly. 

2 hours ago, Bimbo said:

There are clearly two households a couple of streets from my house.  They were decked out with scarves and balloons on Saturday.  

I believe it is a permissible breach of curfew laws to sneak around and pop the white balloons.

Time to bring out the dart gun😉

Julia Gillard is a Dogs supporter I think, says it all!

they're not all off their faces on drugs 99% of the time, and compared to a lot of teams that's a good effort. 

if we were playing Port... my goodness.. 


58 minutes ago, dieter said:

I grew up in Sunshine/Albion: couldn't wait to get the ....out of there. Teddy Whitten once delivered a caged budgie to my house because I won some dumb competition - the winner had to foretell the exact time the 8.30AM from Sydney would land at Essendon. I phoned the airport and asked what time the 8.30 would land, I was told, 8.30 so that's what I wrote. Lucky I wasn't home when Whitten delivered he thought he was Mister Football. I would have argued with him, I would have told him who Mister Football was.

The budgie caused nothing but trouble. Budgies are like ducks and possums, all they do is poo.

Eventually, while cleaning out the bird cage in the back yard, I turned it upside down, the cage door lifted and the budgie flew to Budgie Paradise.

I spoke to two blokes on the weekend who are Bulldog supporters. I went to school with them. One of them was Bugs Dewire, a poet and songwriter for the Coodabeens.

I live in Box Hill now: my local chemist was brought up in Footscray, he's an Australian-born Vietnamese Doggie man. I know that when I get my prescription later in the week, he'll lace them with tranquillizers in case Melbourne win. He is a true gentleman.

And the dude who started Barrique Wine store in Healesville is a Doggie supporter. And, last but not least, I played footy in a Lighting Premiership there in 1960 when I was 10 years old and in Grade seven at Our Ladys. I didn't get a kick.

So much to unpack. But I’m most curious about the budgie. When you say he went to “budgie paradise” is that the same as when parents tell their children that their pet dog went to live on “a farm”???

28 minutes ago, FritschyBusiness said:

Never been so excited you go tops off? 

My sons would have me committed. 
PS: I’m not a bloke 😆

My neighbour is a Footscray tragic. He told me he’s only cried twice in his life: 1954 gf and 2016 gf. That’s how much he loves the Doggies. I said, “what about on your wedding day?” He said, “I thought we were just talking about happy tears.” 😆

 

They have a shop in Ballarat, which has a 8 meter bulldog that lights up at night, but out of the back of this they run a huge amount of community programs - mens health etc. Brett Goodes (ex player and Adam's brother) used to operate out of there for the Dogs and was always welcoming and friendly. 

2 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Don’t we know it! We’ve seen enough pics of him and his six-pack watching Footscray on TV. 
Who watches the footy shirtless?!

Until Hemsworth is topless in the snow like this guy does, he is fake Thor.

 

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