00:03It's Thursday night training, and the Dennington Dogs are up and about.
00:07Well, those that have turned up are at least.
00:10The Dogs have endured a disastrous start to the season,
00:13losing three matches on end by an average margin of 266 points.
00:18But they're putting on a brave face.
00:20It's always challenging at the moment, the way we've been going,
00:22but Tuesday night was a good training session.
00:25I think everyone's sort of bit up and about,
00:26so the weather's good, so that helps things too.
00:28In 2015, the proud club won the last of its four flags.
00:33But now, instead of wins, Dennington's eyeing survival.
00:36The working class town that's already lost its pub and general store
00:40is refusing to lose its football club too.
00:43Oh, no, we'll definitely fight.
00:45We won't lie down.
00:46We're not just going to shut the door and go,
00:49well, we're finished.
00:50That meant scraping together a side
00:51to face premiership fancies Russell's Creek in round four.
00:55With injuries mounting, almost everyone was under consideration.
00:58I wish I was ten years younger who could run around and help me out,
01:01but I'll probably last a quarter at the moment.
01:04I'm not fit enough, so, yeah.
01:06The match started with energy, but things got ugly fast.
01:10The quarter time margin was 79 points, prompting some magnet shuffling.
01:15So, Geordie through the middle, Hawksy, Dowdy, Nick, Tristan,
01:18you'll go through there, so you boys rotate there.
01:20In the end, the dogs lost by 312 points.
01:25It's a bit deflating, to put it short.
01:28The Bulldogs will sit out this weekend,
01:30forfeiting the seniors while they regroup the rest of the season.
01:33If anyone has any ideas, just be open, listen to everyone.
01:36There's no bad ideas at this point.
01:39Taking it one week at a time.
01:41The Bulldogs are too low.
01:41When there's no doubt and it's too low and it's too low,
01:41I'm happy to try again.
01:43It's 2-0.
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