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The below article is in retaliation to Gordon Tallis' post in The Courier Mail. This article can be found here.
Gordon Tallis - “IF I were boss for a day..”
When I read his column this morning, I couldn’t stop but laugh at some of the things he had said about my beloved club the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in ‘The Courier Mail’.
Gordie starts off saying that “Canterbury is the "family club", they've turned a lot of things around off the field, and they're a popular club” and the follows up with this statement “West Sydney is a key battleground for the game, but it’s well covered with the Tigers, Parramatta and Penrith, so the Dogs could be the team to go elsewhere”. What a ridiculous statement to make considering the Bulldogs have been one of the most successful clubs over the last 30 years with a proud history.
Where has this man been over the last few years? Has he not seen the club identity change we undertook (from ‘Bulldogs’ to ‘Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs’? Has he not witnessed our record home crowd averages? Or our membership numbers? Or even our increase in merchandiser sales? I guess not as he assumes that re-locating the Canterbury-Bankstown team called the Bulldogs would work because we have “played a number of games across the Tasman recently”.
So let’s stop for a minute and look at some stats released by the club on the 24th March 2011 on figures up to the end of the 2010 financial year...
For more of this article, you can find it here.
Gordon Tallis - “IF I were boss for a day..”
When I read his column this morning, I couldn’t stop but laugh at some of the things he had said about my beloved club the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in ‘The Courier Mail’.
Gordie starts off saying that “Canterbury is the "family club", they've turned a lot of things around off the field, and they're a popular club” and the follows up with this statement “West Sydney is a key battleground for the game, but it’s well covered with the Tigers, Parramatta and Penrith, so the Dogs could be the team to go elsewhere”. What a ridiculous statement to make considering the Bulldogs have been one of the most successful clubs over the last 30 years with a proud history.
Where has this man been over the last few years? Has he not seen the club identity change we undertook (from ‘Bulldogs’ to ‘Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs’? Has he not witnessed our record home crowd averages? Or our membership numbers? Or even our increase in merchandiser sales? I guess not as he assumes that re-locating the Canterbury-Bankstown team called the Bulldogs would work because we have “played a number of games across the Tasman recently”.
So let’s stop for a minute and look at some stats released by the club on the 24th March 2011 on figures up to the end of the 2010 financial year...
For more of this article, you can find it here.
