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Nasheed here,
Can you define at what point the Dogs lost their soul?
Or do you believe it was a gradual degradation. Death be a thousand cuts, so to speak?
For me, it was the appointment of Raelene Castle. At this point, the board switched excellence and knowledge for the optics of political correct left wing politics.
it simply went downhill from there.
I’m sure I don’t have to explain the ****st*rm that followed her appointment, and the knock on repercussions we still feel today, but if someone does want that pointed out, hit the like button and ask me in the comments. But to me, that’s when we stopped being the ever successful good operators, like the Storm, to the Tigers, ups and down but more down.
a lot of people talked about the gang rapes in 2003, but to be honest the rape just brought us closer together. It alienated some potential néw fans, but I think to be honest that is more the demographic of the area than that instance.
the salary cap cheating was a hit but again, I think that brought us together through siege mentality and actually worked in our favour because then it’s stuck together and we won the year after.
Toddberg came in and he handled things in house and was an excellent operator at club level for us. When he left, we were finalists and grand finalists still.
I can’t blame castle. In some ways she’s just taking advantage of virtue politics. Good on her. We are the fools for putting the clown there. We have poisoned ourselves and I’ll be honest, I don’t know if we will ever recover,
I mean, we will have some success still, but I think the days of SUSTAINED success are over. We are more Manly and Tigers now than Melbourne and Souths.
As the biggest fan of the Bulldogs here, it hurts my heart.
Can you define at what point the Dogs lost their soul?
Or do you believe it was a gradual degradation. Death be a thousand cuts, so to speak?
For me, it was the appointment of Raelene Castle. At this point, the board switched excellence and knowledge for the optics of political correct left wing politics.
it simply went downhill from there.
I’m sure I don’t have to explain the ****st*rm that followed her appointment, and the knock on repercussions we still feel today, but if someone does want that pointed out, hit the like button and ask me in the comments. But to me, that’s when we stopped being the ever successful good operators, like the Storm, to the Tigers, ups and down but more down.
a lot of people talked about the gang rapes in 2003, but to be honest the rape just brought us closer together. It alienated some potential néw fans, but I think to be honest that is more the demographic of the area than that instance.
the salary cap cheating was a hit but again, I think that brought us together through siege mentality and actually worked in our favour because then it’s stuck together and we won the year after.
Toddberg came in and he handled things in house and was an excellent operator at club level for us. When he left, we were finalists and grand finalists still.
I can’t blame castle. In some ways she’s just taking advantage of virtue politics. Good on her. We are the fools for putting the clown there. We have poisoned ourselves and I’ll be honest, I don’t know if we will ever recover,
I mean, we will have some success still, but I think the days of SUSTAINED success are over. We are more Manly and Tigers now than Melbourne and Souths.
As the biggest fan of the Bulldogs here, it hurts my heart.