Charlie Sutton

In 1954, they win the premiership.

Charlie Sutton is the captain coach.

You've got local products like Ted Whitten, who we all know the legend of Ted Whitten.

Jack Collins, Arthur Edwards, Wally Donald, and they get some other guys from elsewhere in Melbourne, Peter Box and Herb Henderson.

No, we are going to.

When Charlie Sutton was the short-term president, we had Charlie's Angels, a very poor and distant Bluebirds comparison.

Brian from Mernda.

See,

And, um, uh, that was, uh, in '54, uh, before they, uh...

I'm talking a little bit before they won the premiership where Charlie Sutton coached them.

Oh, yeah.

And just, uh, for those listeners of yours, uh, Charlie Sutton took over from Arthur Oliver.

He was a big ruckman in those days, and they called him Lolly Legs.

And he left, uh, Footscray.

He, and then he had the Royal...

They built a Royal Hotel in Essendon where the, the trains viaduct there, and, uh, he ran that when they opened it.

So I, I inherited Choco Royals, and then the club came to, came to me the year after that, and six became available.

And the history of number six at the Bulldogs with Charlie Sutton, and I wore number six at the Western Jets.

Okay.

So that's why I was super keen to-

That's right.

Charlie Sutton medal was last night.

Best and fairest last night.

Bont 7.

Two Bulldogs are on there.

One, I reckon you can guess.

Charlie Sutton.

No, no. Ted Witten.

and he'd already done it? Well, a second ago he hadn't.

Western Bulldogs captain Marcus Bontempele has drawn level with champion midfielder Scott West after winning an equal... club best and fairest record he's done it seven times the Charlie Sutton medal that was at Crown Palladium on Wednesday night so Scotty West was an absolute superstar and when he won seven I thought no one will get near that and of course Marco Spontanpelli did that last night

For me, it's always been about lead first through my football so that I can continue to ask others to do the same.

And I think you're always looking for the opportunity in guys who can basically take more of the reins going forward.