View Full Version : Left the club, but still a Bulldogs person??
Go_Dogs
29-10-2024, 08:54 PM
So we?ve lost a couple of players this off season that I suspect we?ll still consider Bulldogs people even though they may suit up for multiple years with another side. I?m wanting to test the theory.
Who are the players who have left to play with another club during your lifetime that you still consider ?Bulldogs people? and why?
bulldogtragic
29-10-2024, 09:09 PM
Liam Jones.
Go_Dogs
29-10-2024, 09:38 PM
Liam Jones.
Yep. Was thinking he and Monty are good examples. They actually came back though.
bulldogtragic
29-10-2024, 09:46 PM
Yep. Was thinking he and Monty are good examples. They actually came back though.
Changing the rules.
Probably anyone that didn’t really kick on after a good career with us. Maybe Cooney.
mighty_west
29-10-2024, 10:01 PM
Templeton and Hawkins to name a few, both will always be Bulldogs, KT to the Dees when his knees were shot and hardly fired a shot, Dougie was no longer wanted by the club but wanted to continue on, suiting up with Fitzroy.
jazzadogs
29-10-2024, 11:09 PM
Daniel Cross.
jeemak
29-10-2024, 11:40 PM
Roughead.
He's Bullgod through and through. Sure it didn't end as well as it might have, but nobody gets blinded in one eye for a week and then plays a role in a premiership the next weekend and says he belongs to anyone else. He's ours. Always will be.
GVGjr
30-10-2024, 12:13 AM
It's going to be a big list. :)
Kelvin Templeton - Played his best football with us and what a footballer he was.
Leon Cameron - Great player, coached with us. I'd be happy to have him back in some capacity.
Keenan Reynolds - Big mistake for him to leave. Good character
Doug Hawkins - I'm not going to let one season at Fitzroy distract from what he achieved
Daniel Cross - Can't blame him.
Ryan Griffen - I wasn't happy with his leaving but there were a few bad weeks that contributed to it.
Adam Cooney - He's just starting to win me back over. Played his best football with us and won the Brownlow.
Josh Dunkley - He's only been gone two years and perhaps in another year or two he will be a Brisbane player in my opinion.
I haven't forgiven the likes of Dempsey and Brown though
I've left a lot off the list.
The Adelaide Connection
30-10-2024, 01:16 AM
For a long while post-retirement Cooney seemed to not only be Essendon, but actually quite anti-dogs. I have noticed he has softened quite a lot- maybe enough water has gone under the bridge or maybe his son getting involved in the club has helped things to heal over.
Daniel Cross was the one I was going to say. His speech when he left was a tough watch from memory. Absolutely bled for the place. He has done a fair apprenticeship elsewhere- I would love to see him come back one day.
The lists put forward stole most of the names I was thinking of.
At the risk of derailing things a little, a few bigger names that have maybe gone (or will go) the other way-
Stringer
Higgins
Tony McGuinness (he only played 4 more for the Crows than us)
Nathan Brown
Callan Ward
Lipinski
Bailey Smith (too soon?)
In their own category-
Adam Treloar will be the ultimate fence sitter post-career. I think he genuinely loves both clubs and won't play favourites.
azabob
30-10-2024, 06:32 AM
Did Keenan Reynolds leave because of money or something else?
GVGjr
30-10-2024, 06:42 AM
Did Keenan Reynolds leave because of money or something else?
Basically money. North offered him more than we wanted to so he left.
Mofra
30-10-2024, 07:30 AM
Terry Wheeler - as a player and coach
merantau
30-10-2024, 07:52 AM
George Bisset, Laurie Sandilands, Ron Stockman, Douglas Reynolds, Ray Walker, Bob Spargo, Denis Collins, Matthew Hogg, Jon Ballantyne, Greg Epulstun, Kim Koster, Jarrod Harbrow
1eyedog
30-10-2024, 09:04 AM
Ben Hudson
Rocket Science
30-10-2024, 10:21 AM
Zaine is ours. The Saints are just keeping him warm for us.
I'd like to think Magic McLean too, but I'd be curious to hear his take on the matter.
He played more games for us than his other mob but it's not our Hall of Fame he's in.
Mofra
30-10-2024, 10:25 AM
Ben Hudson - the People's Beard
Grantysghost
30-10-2024, 10:31 AM
Moz. Does coaching count?
Craig Ellis was always a doggy.
Axe Man
30-10-2024, 10:33 AM
George Bisset, Laurie Sandilands, Ron Stockman, Douglas Reynolds, Ray Walker, Bob Spargo, Denis Collins, Matthew Hogg, Jon Ballantyne, Greg Epulstun, Kim Koster, Jarrod Harbrow
Your classification of a Bulldogs Person must be quite different to mine. To me it's if a player can only pick one club from his career that he most closely identifies with, it's the Bulldogs.
I'm not sure about the players on your list from before my time but Hogg, Koster and Harbrow all played far more games for their second teams and Hogg and Koster are premiership players. I don't see how they can be classified as Bulldogs people.
Bulldog Joe
30-10-2024, 11:16 AM
Surely Simon Atkins belongs on the list.
Only left because Alan Joyce didn't like him but still managed a Footscray reserves premiership in his last game in our colours.
comrade
30-10-2024, 02:09 PM
Everyone but Adam Cooney thinks Adam Cooney will always be a Bulldog.
mighty_west
30-10-2024, 02:27 PM
Jimmy Edmond, Magic McLean and Brad Hardie will always be Bulldogs.
GVGjr
30-10-2024, 03:54 PM
Everyone but Adam Cooney thinks Adam Cooney will always be a Bulldog.
He appears to changing his tune just a bit.
He appears to changing his tune just a bit.
With his son looking likely he's going to have to hey.
JanLorMill
30-10-2024, 06:38 PM
I haven't forgiven the likes of Dempsey and Brown though
I've left a lot off the list.
Why? The club was a shambles at the time!
Doc26
30-10-2024, 08:06 PM
George Bisset, Laurie Sandilands, Ron Stockman, Douglas Reynolds, Ray Walker, Bob Spargo, Denis Collins, Matthew Hogg, Jon Ballantyne, Greg Epulstun, Kim Koster, Jarrod Harbrow
I’m not aware that Ray Walker left the Bulldogs for any other VFL club.
Bulldog Joe
31-10-2024, 08:39 AM
I’m not aware that Ray Walker left the Bulldogs for any other VFL club.
I believe you are right.
Walker moved to Tasmania as coach of Burnie.
1eyedog
31-10-2024, 09:40 AM
Jimmy Edmond, Magic McLean and Brad Hardie will always be Bulldogs.
Two B&Fs for Magic and induction into their HoF I think suggests otherwise.
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