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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 8:17 am
BY STEPHEN BAKER
KANE Cornes says he is keen to put a sledging row behind him.
The Port Adelaide star says he has accepted an apology from both the Western Bulldogs and Wil Minson over comments made to him during Saturday night’s clash in Darwin.
“There’s been a lot written and said about it, probably too much from my point of view,” he said.
“I’ve been really happy with the way both club’s have handled it and I’ve accepted Wil’s apology. I’m just looking forward to moving on and putting it all behind me,” said Cornes.
The AFL also confirmed that it was likely that no action would be taken against the Bulldogs, or Minson.
League spokesman, Patrick Keane said that they could only act if a complaint was lodged over the incident, but confirmed that the league was yet to hear from Cornes, or the Power.
“Basically, it’s in the hands of (Cornes) to make a complaint to the AFL, he has that option (and) there has not been one at this point,” he said.
FOOTYHEADS: Did Wil Minson go too far?
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 am
BY STEPHEN BAKER
WESTERN Bulldogs star Jason Akermanis has revealed his anger at members of the team’s leadership group who attempted to chastise him for last Saturday night’s post-match victory handstand at TIO Stadium in Darwin.
The Bulldogs defeated Port Adelaide by 54 points in stifling conditions.
The 31 year-old Akermanis, arguably in career best form and a $14 chance in this year’s Brownlow medal betting with Sportsbet, revealed last night on Melbourne radio that the handstand was part of a personal tribute to a family member.
“I said to my wife’s grandfather who passed away on the Wednesday that I’d give him a handstand this year, and I was hoping that it would be at the end of the year, but he didn’t make it, so I figured I could do it on the week that he passed away,” said a disappointed Akermains.
“I did that and I was pretty upset and I must admit, I was close to punching a couple of those blokes out because I was that disappointed,” he said.
The three-time premiership player and 2001 Brownlow medalist had been banned from doing his signature victory celebration by the Bulldog’s leadership group earlier this season.
“I did the handstand and a few of my team mates saw it and a few of them came over and said ‘that’s not what we stand for, that’s not what we do,’ and that was their reference to that being an individual thing and not a team thing” said Akermanis.
“I said to them look, I’m sorry, I’m sorry for not asking you, but I’m certainly not sorry for doing it,” he said.
FOOTYHEADS: Should the leadership group discipline Aker for breaking team rules?
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
BY FRANK IENCO
Western Bulldogs captain Brad Johnson says this year’s current crop of players can be better than side which reached the preliminary finals in the late 1990s.
With the Bulldogs lying in third at the mid-way point of the season with just one loss of the board, Johnson says this year’s team is one of the best he’s played in.
“It would be right up there without a doubt,” he told sportal.com.au.
But he believes the side which has produced the Dogs best start to a season in 62 years will only improve.
“We had some good sides in the late 1990’s but we have a lot younger side now so the future is very bright,” Johnson said.
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 10:33 am
BY BRAD KLIBANSKY
WESTERN Bulldogs president David Smorgon has admitted his club, Melbourne and North Melbourne would not survive if the league stopped the annual special distribution (ASD) fund.
A report in today’s Australian suggested Adelaide chairman Bill Sanders, a long with other club bosses, believe all AFL aid to vulnerable clubs must be stopped at the end of the 2009 season.
Speaking on SEN, Smorgon said: “I would say we would not be able to survive if that $1.7m from the ASD is removed at the end of the 2009.”
The three clubs this year received a total of $4.1million in AFL assistance.
FOOTYHEADS, should the AFL commission drop the ASD for struggling clubs?
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Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
BY FRANK IENCO
Sydney midfielder Adam Goodes will avoid suspension if he pleads guilty for a high bump on West Coast’s Adam Selwood during the Swans win at Subiaco on Saturday night.
Goodes was charged by the match review panel with a level one offence for rough conduct for the incident, totalling 125 demerit points, but this can be reduced to 93.75 points with an early guilty plea meaning Goodes will be available to face St. Kilda this weekend.
Selwood himself was charged with a level two striking offence on Amon Buchanan, but will also beat a suspension with an early guilty plea.
In other news coming from the match review panel, Western Bulldogs ruckman Ben Hudson will also avoid a suspension for striking St. Kilda’s Leigh Montana with an early plea.
But Fremantle’s Heath Black was not so fortunate, with the match review panel placing a possible three match ban for striking Brisbane’s Troy Selwood, or two matches with an early plea.
Black, Troy Selwood, Geelong’s Paul Chapman and North Melbourne’s Michael Firrito were all fined for wrestling incidents from the weekend’s matches.
Any incidents from today’s Melbourne-Collingwood match will be announced by the match review panel tomorrow.
FootyHeads, what do you make of the match review panel’s assessment from this weekend’s matches?
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
BY STEPHEN BAKER
THE AFL’s working paper on list creation for teams on the Gold Coast and in western Sydney could mean an extended stay in the lower regions of the AFL ladder for some teams, according to Bulldogs’ president, David Smorgon.
“I don’t know about the bottom (of the ladder) for a long time but its going to be very hard to rebuild your team quickly, he said.
In what could be seen as a possible swipe at Fremantle and Essendon, Smorgon said he believed that under the proposed draft concessions for a seventeenth and eighteenth team, there would be no quick fixes for clubs forced to rebuild after relying on recycling older players.
“Clearly with the concessions, in whichever form they’re going to be finalised, it’s going to be very difficult for clubs - particularly those with an ageing list that are now having to look at getting rid of a lot of those older players - to come and bring talent into their club and think that they can get to the top very quickly.”
FOOTYHEADS: Will rebuilding clubs struggle under the AFL’s list creation proposal for the Gold Coast and western Sydney teams?
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 am
BY STEPHEN BAKER
Western Bulldogs president, David Smorgon has welcomed a League review of the Annual Special Distribution fund.
He said that while the Bulldogs had drawn heavily on the fund in the past, he wasn’t alarmed that a number of wealthier AFL clubs have successfully lobbied the AFL to bring forward its review of the Annual Special Distribution scheme.
“It’s not alarming news at all because we knew back in 2005 when the deal was put in for the next four years that it was always going to have a time where it was going to be reviewed - as it should be reviewed,” he said on SEN radio today.
Smorgon said that he didn’t view the ASD scheme as a handout.
“The reason for the ASD fund is to try and equalise what is a very unequal competition,” he said.
“We don’t regard it as a handout, the AFL don’t regard it as a handout, we regard it as an entitlement to offset a lot of the inequalities of the competition and the two basic reasons why the ASD is there is to balance up stadium returns and low membership from a historical perspective.”
“They’re the two major factors that account for the dollars that are given to the special distribution fund every year and we support the fact that there’s going to be a review on it,” he said.
Smorgon said that receiving ASD funds had forced his club to be more disciplined with its finances and was delivering returns on the field as well.
“We have to sit with the AFL and go through our finances, we have to go through our business plan we are under a very strict criteria,” he said.
“Frankly, its led to a much better Western Bulldogs footy club, having to comply with these policies and these requirements - and we’re better off for it and we think its been a very helpful and essential part of the resurrection of the Western Bulldogs footy club.
FOOTYHEADS: Should the Annual Special Distribution fund stay in place or should the AFL stop propping up financially stricken clubs?
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 am
BY STEPHEN BAKER
OUTSPOKEN Western Bulldogs president, David Smorgon has slammed Jeff Kennett’s call for Melbourne to relocate to the Gold Coast at a charity fundraiser last night.
“I told the panel members to fire up and give our paying audience something, but I didn’t expect the explosion we got from Jeffrey Kennett,” he said today.
Speaking on SEN radio, Mr Smorgon said that he believes that the club’s future remains in Melbourne.
He also said that he was yet to see proof that Victoria cannot support ten teams.
“I took issue with Jeff last night when (he) said that Melbourne should become the Gold Coast Demons,” he said.
“I took issue with him because I, like many people, have heard for the last thirty years, twenty years, the last ten years and again last night, how Melbourne can’t sustain ten AFL clubs,” he said.
“Some of the smaller clubs that are based in Melbourne have, by example, shown those critics and those skeptics that things can turn.”
Smorgon said that although Melbourne have struggled on and off the field for longer than most clubs, the right leadership can make a difference.
“It was only 12 years ago the Geelong footy club had a debt of $9m and they were talking about moving the Geelong footy club away from Geelong,” he said.
“I reminded Jeff that it wasn’t that long ago that Hawthorn had to seek a merger with Melbourne becasue they were that far out and desperate. Have a look at the league ladder now, have a look at the Bulldogs’ situation,” he said.
“Things can turn around and that’s where you need new enthusiasm, a new business plan.”
“That’s where Andrew Demetriou last night to his credit said look; Paul MacNamee is the new CEO at Melbourne, we’ve got to give him some time to put his plan into place and thats where things just need to be put in perspective - as compared to the doomsayers saying Melbourne can’t sustain ten clubs.”
Smorgon agreed that while most observers saw relocation of a Victorian team as inevitable no one wanted it to happen to their club.
“Everyone thinks that everyone else should do it and that was what Jeff alluded to last night.”
FOOTYHEADS: Can Victoria continue to support ten AFL clubs? Should the Demons think about relocating to the Gold Coast?
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
BY FRANK IENCO
WESTERN Bulldogs ruckman Ben Hudson says one of the pleasing aspects of joining the club this season has been the reduction in interstate travel.
Hudson was recruited from Adelaide at the end of last season and has played every game this year for his new club.
“Certainly, from going back to Adelaide where you’re travelling every second week can take a toll on your body,” Hudson said. ”Initially we haven’t had too much travel, but towards the end of the year I think we travel a bit.”
“It’s hard to say (what effect the minimal travel has had). I’m probably feeling better because there’s no loss on the board.”
Hudson says he has been working with former Essendon premiership ruckman John Barnes on improving his positioning on the field and taking contested marks.
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 am
BY STEPHEN BAKER
WESTERN BULLDOGS assistant coach, Wayne Campbell, has foreshadowed a raft of changes when the club looks to keep their unbeaten record intact against North Melbourne on Sunday.
Campbell said that despite their thrilling win against Fremantle on Sunday, some players would need to convince the match committee that they deserved to stay in the senior line-up.
“we played some reasonable footy on the weekend, we obviously got the points, but didn’t play up to the standard we would have wanted to,” he said.
“There might be a change or two and so Farren Ray might come into the mix.”
FOOTYHEADS: Do the Bulldogs need to add fresh legs to the side? Who should be given a run in the VFL and who should come in?
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Friday, May 16th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
BY STEPHEN BAKER
THE Western Bulldogs will join Richmond in trialling cutting edge technology in a bid to speed up player recovery after traveling to Perth.
Following their match against Fremantle this weekend, Bulldogs players will use “Bodyflow” technology which uses electrodes to speed up recovery from muscle soreness, sprains and inflammation.
Bulldogs Fitness boss, Cameron Falloon said that if the players pulled up well from the flight, the club was keeping an open mind on the technology.
“We are trying to minimise some of the negatives of interstate travel,” he said.
“If this proves successful, then it may be something we look to use again in the future.”
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
BY FRANK IENCO
WESTERN Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade says paying close attention on opposition players is not a new part of the game.
Eade was responding to criticism from the West Coast Eagles, who claim midfielder Daniel Kerr was aggravated by the scrutiny from his opponents before the headbutt on Scott West which earnt him a three week suspension.
“It (the criticism) was … a bit surprising, but anyway, that’s a part of the game” Eade said.
“I think it’s more about highlighting the protection of their own players and I think all coaches do it. We did it last year with Scott West.”
Eade said forwards have had to put up with close-checking during matches “for a long time”.
“They’ve had defenders sitting on them the whole time, so I don’t think it’s anything new,” he said.
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 6:40 am
BY STEPHEN BAKER
TONY Liberatore’s ‘triple crown’ of medals have become the centre of a bitter marriage settlement dispute.
The former Bulldogs champion is currently the only player to win the Brownlow Medal, as well as the Gardiner and Morrish medals for the best and fairest in the VFL reserves and under 19’s competitions, respectively.
The legal team of Liberatore’s estranged wife is understood to want the medals cashed in to guarantee their children’s education costs.
Responding to the claim, Liberatore told the Herald Sun; “They won’t be sold, I’m not selling them.”
“I would never ever sell them, even if it was the last thing I did just before I died,” he said.
The value of the medals is estimated to be around $200,000, however an anonymous valuer who spoke to the newspaper believes that negative publicity surrounding Liberatore could wipe up to $100,000 off the triple crown’s market value.
“He’s had a lot of bad press and that has a very dampening effect on value,” the source said.
FOOTYHEADS: What value would you place on ‘Libba’s’ medal collection? What would you estimate the value of a Brownlow medal alone, to be?
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
BY BRAD KLIBANSKY
GUN midfielder Daniel Cross says the Western Bulldogs are going to miss Scott West’s experience and class over the next couple of weeks.
West, had minor knee surgery earlier this week, and is expected to miss the next two weeks.
Speaking from training today, Cross said it was up to him and the Bulldogs’ other youngsters to fill the void left by West.
“Obviously West has been our main midfielder over the past 15 years, so its going to be extremely tough,” said Cross.
“He is our best ball winner and it’s going to be up to myself, with Griff (Ryan Griffen), Coons (Adam Cooney)and Boydy(Matthew Boyd) to pick up the slack.”
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Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 10:22 am
BY STEVE BAKER
BROWNLOW Medalist and controversial Western Bulldog midfielder, Jason Akermains has said labelled his post match handstand as “dead”.
Speaking on “The Fooy Show” last night, Akermanis said that a Bulldogs peer-review, similar to the kind undertaken by Geelong last season, revealed that teammates were uncomfortable with the victory celebration he made famous in his time at Brisbane.
“One of the things that came up from a few - not all, but just a few - is that they thought that the handstand was a bit ‘individual’, so the handstand is dead; it’s no more,” he said.
Akermanis said that he was grateful for the feedback from teammates but labelled the review process as “brutal”.
“It’s brutal, absolutely brutal for those who haven’t done it, but it’s the first time I really got good feedback and to be honest I needed it for my own knowledge,” he said.
FOOTYHEADS: Will you miss Aker’s ‘victory-stand’?
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
BY FRANK IENCO
WESTERN Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade says he can sympathise with new Melbourne counterpart Dean Bailey, whose side was thrashed by 104 points by Hawthorn last Sunday.
Speaking ahead of his own side’s match against the Demons this Saturday, Eade reflected on his own first match as senior coach, when the Sydney Swans were humiliated by the Adelaide Crows to the tune of 90 points in 1996.
“I’ve been through it and there’s quite a few people who’ve been through it,” he said. “It brought back some memories for myself, there’s no doubt.”
“If Melbourne weren’t playing us (on Saturday), I would have phoned Dean, to be honest, but I didn’t think it was appropriate because we’re playing each other.”
Eade added that clubs can turn around their form slide quickly, given his 1996 Swans heavily lost their first two matches of the season before going on to make that year’s Grand Final.
FootyHeads, how quickly will Dean Bailey be able to change the fortunes of the Demons?
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at 11:38 am
BY BRAD KLIBANSKY
THE Western Bulldogs say they will not take Melbourne lightly this Saturday, and are ready for a different Demon outfit.
Speaking from training this morning, Bulldogs midfielder Adam Cooney said he expected the Demons to come out hard and fast, after they were thrashed at the hands of Hawthorn by 104 points last Sunday.
“Obviously you don’t take any team lightly, but last week’s gone now, we’ve had a good win and that’s gone and I suppose they’ve had a disappointing loss which is gone as well - it’s a new week in footy,” said Cooney.
FOOTYHEADS, can the Demons put last week behind them and upset the Bulldogs on Saturday?
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 11:20 am
BY BRAD KLIBANSKY
WESTERN Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade has rated Brad Johnson as one of the best players he has coached.
Speaking this morning from Whitten Oval, Eade said Johnson’s ability to play in a range of positions has made him a champion player.
“He is probably one of the best players I have ever coached,” Eade said.
“He is as good as anyone going around. Most players dominant one spot, but he has been able to play forward, wing and midfield and I think his last two years have been his best seasons.
“He would be in the top three players I have coached.”
Johnson will play his 300th match against Adelaide at the Telstra Dome on Sunday and joins Ted Whitten, Doug Hawkins, Chris Grant, Scott West and Rohan Smith to achieve the milestone at the club.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 6:53 am
BY STEVE BAKER
WESTERN Bulldogs legend, Brad Johnson, is set to join the AFL’s elite “300 Club” when he takes the field against Adelaide on Sunday.
Speaking on 1116 SEN this morning, the 31 year-old veteran said that he was looking forward to reaching the milestone.
Johnson, who made his debut back in round eleven, 1993, credited past Bulldog champions Rohan Smith, Chris Grant and Scott West with having the greatest influence over his career.
“I’ve been at the club for fourteen or fifteen years, spent half my life there and they’ve basically helped model me into the person I am today, to be honest,” he said
“Certainly in regard to my football, I followed them around for so many years to watch what they did and learnt from them and I think that was one of the best things that I was able to do.”
“I had three great players just a little bit older than me that I could relate to very well and certainly learn from along the way,” he said.
Johnson and the Western Bulldogs will be holding a media conference to later today. The Bulldogs meet Adelaide at the Telstra Dome on Easter Sunday.
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at 5:47 am
BY STEVE BAKER
WESTERN BULLDOGS defender, Tom Williams, has broken down with injury once again.
Williams injured his thigh tendon once again at training on Tuesday and is expected to miss between four and six weeks.
The loss of Williams leaves the Bulldogs with plenty of defensive headaches leading into round one.
Other key defenders, including last year’s club best and fairest winner, Brian Lake and promising youngster Andrejs Everitt are also likely to miss beyond round one.
Ryan Hargrave, Dale Morris and the relatively inexperienced former Geelong defender Tim Callan will now attempt to hold the Dogs’ defense together.
The loss of Williams could offer a career lifeline to Andrew McDougall. The 197 centimetre former West Coast Eagle spent almost all of last season with Werribee, but his height should bring him back into contention.
Williams has managed only thirteen games for the Bulldogs since being drafted in 2004.
FOOTYHEADS: Are the Doggies in trouble or will ‘Rocket’ Eade have them firing in round one and beyond?
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