The Western Bulldogs are stacked with top-end talent, so where are the results to match? A closer look at the list reveals the need for a recruiting rethink.
In recent years, the club’s fan base has ridden arguably the wildest roller coaster in the game, swapping scintillating highs with tough-to-stomach lows on an almost weekly basis.
And trying to crack the code on the Bulldogs’ inconsistencies this year has been harder than winning Powerball.
Football director Chris Grant has already backed-in the coach, Luke Beveridge, adamant he is going nowhere on the back of the most bewildering loss of the season to cellar dwellers West Coast on Sunday.
But what is about to come under the microscope is whether the depth of the list has been overrated – to some degree – and whether the types of players they have targeted needs to evolve.
The Bulldogs have an enormous amount of…