Dogs hoping club great will Bob up again at the Kennel

[bornadog]

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THE WESTERN Bulldogs have approached club great Bob Murphy to return to the Whitten Oval, following his departure from Fremantle.

Murphy resigned as the Dockers? head of leadership last month after spending three seasons in Perth in a variety of roles under Justin Longmuir.

The 42-year-old has since returned to Melbourne with his family and is exploring opportunities to resume his media career, appearing on Triple M and ABC in September.

Before Murphy moved to Fremantle, the dual All-Australian combined his radio commitments at SEN with multiple roles at his old club, including in the W program, the media department and as a club ambassador.

The Bulldogs would like Murphy to return in a similar capacity around his media commitments in 2025.

Murphy is one of the club?s favourite sons after playing 312 games across 18 seasons in red, white and blue before he retired in 2017.

After widespread change and two different reviews, the Dogs aren?t expected to make many, if any, changes to the football department this off-season.

This time last year they poached Matt Egan from Geelong and promoted him to GM over the pre-season, also adding Daniel Pratt from West Coast, who was voted assistant coach of the year by the AFL Coaches Association earlier this month.

Former St Kilda captain Jarryn Geary joined the club as development and leadership coach and will continue to run the leadership program at the kennel.

Premiership Sydney defender Alex Johnson also returned to clubland as a development coach, where he spent 2024 working closely with the young key position players at the Whitten Oval.

[GVGjr]

So we've announced Murphy is returning to the club but we haven't yet got him linked to a clearly defined role.
Curious timing of the announcement.

[bornadog]

So we've announced Murphy is returning to the club but we haven't yet got him linked to a clearly defined role.
Curious timing of the announcement.

It says hoping, so not yet signed up

[Bumper Bulldogs]

Good news. We?re getting the band back together

[Grantysghost]

Bob be good in the development academy.

[1eyedog]

I'm indifferent to this and kinda feel I'm shooting Bambi but I'm concerned we'll make roles for him out of nostalgic feel good reasons rather than briniging him in to fill a particular and improtant need.

He'd be perfect in the Alex Johnson role but that role is filled. If it's a media / club Ambassador-type role as stated that would work, but it's a bit of a fall from grace for Bob unless his first priority is media work outside the club.