Alan79
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The El Masri try to win the 04 grand final. I remember watching the game at the home of the bloke who put me onto the kennel. I was already pretty drunk at the time and a few Roosters fans were also there and getting cocky (no pun intended). El Masri scored the try and every Bulldogs fan there went nuts. I was about 650 ml down in a 700ml bottle of scotch at that stage. I rang my dad on the mobile and just let out a Massive WOOOOOOOOH down the line and had a chat I don't remember very well. A few minutes later I sculled the rest of the scotch and went into town to do a pub crawl. I don't remember much after the walk into town. I woke up the next day with almost everything i went out in missing abrring my dogs jersey and the pants i was wearing. I found my Jumper, keys, wallet and phone the next afternoon spread out between three pubs. Luckily one of the crew i went out with had kept track of where we went. Good times.
The other great memory was of the whole 1998 finals series. I saw a replay of the comeback vs Parra, but had left a little early after it looked like we weren't progressing any further. I was living with my aunt and cousin at the time. My cousin Linda and I had decided to jump on the bus to the local RSL in the latter stages when it seemed we were done and dusted despite my reluctant insistence that it wasn't over. As we got on the bus someone was in the process of narrowing our deficit. By the time we got to the campbeltown RSL we had completed the most epic of comebacks I can recall. Over the following rounds of the finals we kept fighting back through regular time and winning in extra time which made me one very proud young Bulldog fan. unfortunately the class of the Broncos (which was close to the Qld origin side) was too much to overcome in the GF. But that finals series was a source of inspiration to me for a long time afterwards and it's probably responsible for the fact that if a dogs game is an important one, I will never stop watching until the final whistle has blown. That never say die attitude is something I'd love to see return to the dogs spirit and it's probably the thing I admired most about Josh Reynolds over the years.
The other great memory was of the whole 1998 finals series. I saw a replay of the comeback vs Parra, but had left a little early after it looked like we weren't progressing any further. I was living with my aunt and cousin at the time. My cousin Linda and I had decided to jump on the bus to the local RSL in the latter stages when it seemed we were done and dusted despite my reluctant insistence that it wasn't over. As we got on the bus someone was in the process of narrowing our deficit. By the time we got to the campbeltown RSL we had completed the most epic of comebacks I can recall. Over the following rounds of the finals we kept fighting back through regular time and winning in extra time which made me one very proud young Bulldog fan. unfortunately the class of the Broncos (which was close to the Qld origin side) was too much to overcome in the GF. But that finals series was a source of inspiration to me for a long time afterwards and it's probably responsible for the fact that if a dogs game is an important one, I will never stop watching until the final whistle has blown. That never say die attitude is something I'd love to see return to the dogs spirit and it's probably the thing I admired most about Josh Reynolds over the years.
