For Bulldogs, flag is just the beginning
Winning the premiership gives the Bulldogs the financial clout for sustained success.
Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.
Winning the premiership gives the Bulldogs the financial clout for sustained success.
Dale Morris played it down. Everyone plays with the injuries he said modestly to the thousands in the crowd below him.
Jason Johannssen's mind was a whirl. He felt numb. He was a Norm Smith Medallist.
This is the flag of the millionaire recruit. Bulldog or Swan it does not matter, both have chased the big-dollar recruit and won.
Former GWS football boss Graeme Allan told a staff member to delete an email from Lachie Whitfield's girlfriend raising alarms about the player's alleged drug use and behaviour.
Hawthorn football director Chris Fagan has been interviewed for the Brisbane Lions coaching job.
Jackson Macrae didn't think of Isaac Smith. He didn't think of missing, or what was riding on his boot.
To win the grand final the Bulldogs must defeat cliche not just Sydney.
Sydney scratched back the wallpaper from Geelong's patchy team and revealed it as a good team but one reliant on too few to be great. A good team but too thin in the midfield to match one of depth and class.
Tom Liberatore was trying to leave his Nonna's house last Thursday night after dinner but she wouldn't let him go. She was worried about the Hawks the next night.
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