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Probably the best fan base outside us imo.  I know a lot of dogs supporters and they are down to earth, funny folks

 
1 hour ago, FritschyBusiness said:

 

 

Never been so excited you go tops off? 
 

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. 

Footscray is basically token Western Suburbs these days given the gentrification. Out here in the boonies, Melton & Bacchus Marsh WB heartland, that's where you'll find toothless/shoeless doggies fans. Doug Hawkins lives just around the corner from me and I see him regularly grabbing a coffee. 

43 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

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”???

Budgie Paradise is the wide blue sky and freedom from that smelly little cage.

 
2 hours ago, radar said:

Knew three - 2016 I congratulated them. 
Two since died

umm, what??

are you taking them out??!!

My great aunt was a long time Bulldogs fan who lived in Yarraville well before the yuppies and hipsters moved in. Incredibly genuine lady who was one of the sweetest people you would meet.

Though I do remember once dropping into the Whitten Oval complex once to inquire about finding a casual basketball team to play with (while mindlessly wearing my MFC members cap). The frostbite I got at reception nearly numbed my extremities to the point of them dropping off. However, I have no one to blame but myself! 😄


14 minutes ago, AllMyTeamsAreWank said:

Footscray is basically token Western Suburbs these days given the gentrification. 

yeah its so much nicer, used to be a [censored].
I just love being a couple stations away from the MCG, thats the best part

3 hours 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.

Don't worry about her.   She's from Geelong and knows nothing about any other teams in the comp. She's complete garbage 

 

Only ever met one and that was through work. Good guy and was very humble following 2016 and had a soft spot for the Dees.

I think they’re pretty tolerable but there are some absolute nuffies on social media I see always posting 🐶🐶🐶 and blindly think they’ll always win because it doesn’t matter who the opposition are, the Dogs can beat anyone on their day with their spirit. Bevo (not Luke Beveridge, but the guy who does the Bev show) is one of the worst.

Oh and Stevo (Mark Stevens) is insufferable. Most one eyed Dogs supporter you’ll see.

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3 hours ago, Lord Travis said:

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.

Gee whizzz! How do you really feel about them? Some are most civil with a social and interpersonal grace. 


6 hours ago, BDA said:

Julia Gillard is the only one i know of

So therefore Bill Shorten as well?

 

2 hours ago, FritschyBusiness said:

Tops off isn't gender specific hahaha

It is in my house! And my three sons will attest to that. 

I once met a Dogs supporter (honestly the only one I've ever met that I'm aware of). It was in the park when I was having a kick in 2004. He told me the Essendon 2000 side should have been a dynasty.

I told him there can only be one dynasty at a time, and it was a pity (not really) the lions existed.

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8 hours ago, Webber said:

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

Webber, a statement of utmost humility and concern. 


Happily married to a longtime Bulldogs fan and member for 26years, but the next 2 weeks will be a unique and very interesting experience !

10 hours 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.

Try some original thinking Kellie (and checking your facts)

18 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

Who are these Bulldogs supporters?

The umpiring fraternity 

9 hours ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

My great aunt was a long time Bulldogs fan who lived in Yarraville well before the yuppies and hipsters moved in. Incredibly genuine lady who was one of the sweetest people you would meet.

Though I do remember once dropping into the Whitten Oval complex once to inquire about finding a casual basketball team to play with (while mindlessly wearing my MFC members cap). The frostbite I got at reception nearly numbed my extremities to the point of them dropping off. However, I have no one to blame but myself! 😄

I played cricket at the Yarraville Ground once. I played for Sunshine. I had a strong arm in those days - it is now, alas, a noodle - and I recall before a game after we had warmed up, I threw a ball towards the grandstand/dressing room and the ball flew over the fence and nearly killed a spectator.

13 hours 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.

Outdated rubbish that twats with a chip on their shoulder trot out to try and get a rise out of Melbourne supporters! 
I work at an iron ore mine in North West Tasmania. Middle of winter, there wouldn’t be a much tougher work place!

No doggy supporters where I work, but there is 1 other Melbourne supporter. 
 


I regret I have to say that the only two Dogs supporters I've known personally are both excellent. Very different, too. One is a properly sophisticated yet unpretentious intellectual who really should be a Demon based on stereotypes. The other was in that brilliant category of 'first in the family to get a degree/office career' and was proudly committed to doing it well at the same time as being equally committed to taking the [censored] out of the entire system.

I can't hate them, but I still want to crush them.

On 9/13/2021 at 1:41 AM, Fanatique Demon said:

I don’t know any Bulldogs supporters.  (I remember a boy in primary school barracking for Footscray. That was in 1957 and I haven’t seen or heard of him since 1962.)
Who are these Bulldogs supporters? And what are they like?

Feel free to exercise all your favourite cliches and biases in an effort to enlighten me.

I was thinking exactly the same thing last week that I have never met a dogs supporter.

I know at least five. A true daughter of the West, brought up in Sunshine, and her father an electrician. A teacher. A psychiatrist. A barrister. They are all good people, but in some cases I wonder if there’s an element of virtue signalling.

At least you know that they’re not one of those tossers who support a traditionally strong team because they want to be a ‘winner’.

 
On 9/13/2021 at 7:49 AM, Thehardtackler said:

Some of them are filth! The first game I ever took my son to at the Etihad/Marvel a Bulldogs supporter king hit a Demons supporter much older than him, over a petty argument that had been started by his drunkenness. I asked him to leave the family area and he refused, in the minutes leading up to his cowardly punch. After their scummy attack on our Demons shrine in their territory, I want to bury the bastards in the Grand Final!

I'm sorry to hear that @Thehardtackler, that's a horrible experience. I hope that's he was a rare rotten apple. Personally I haven't met a bad Bulldogs supporter (yet).

I didn't like what the Dogs did re their membership packages following their last flag. All prices rose and members got less for their money eg home games became 7 Docklands- no MCG and no Ballarat. Two of my mates dropped a tier or two in protest. Tigers did something similar a year later. As did the Cats in 2012. I sincerely hope the MFC doesn't pull such a stunt should we win. I very much doubt it.

Aside: I asked Brian Cook why, in 2012, the Cats removed KPark from my H&A Dees membership. He didn't have an answer.

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