Lavington

And injuries slash unavailability hurt them when they lost a couple on the trot.

I remember that game against Lavington at the Lavey Sports Ground when they debuted young.

Sam Lupo is a 15-year-old.

Simon Curtis was away due to a premiership reunion.

The last four Ovens of Murray Premiership sides have all had a star Ruckman.

Ed Damon, Lockie Howe, Chris Knowles in his prime, and Tim Hanna at Lavington across the last four premiership sides in the ovens in Murray.

That's the missing piece of this Bulldogs puzzle.

Injuries, a little bit of bad luck.

Best stat, Gussie.

Third for handballs in the competition, and we spoke heavily about their forward handpass game, their link handpass game.

I remember vividly in that round 14 showdown against Lavington where they put them to the sword.

Their link and carry and run by hand was like the Sydney Swans.

Preferably without having 12 schooners like Sam Comensoli does when he messages us.

Anyway, we're off to Lavington.

We are.

Today, Panda, they finished 6th in 2000 and at 26, a 9-9 year from the teal, black and white.

But I think we've nailed our words.

I've gone with resilient, but...

One of the things that we didn't know, the crystal balls looking into this year, a lot of the things that could have possibly happened for Lavington did, and that's what they've ended up with.

Let's get to the positives straight away.

You know, you look at all the teams like Yarrawonga and so forth, how competitive that was.

Lavington were a similar side as well.

North Aubrey were amongst that realm.

They certainly weren't settled as well, was it? They certainly weren't at the top of the tree.

It's too many.

They had to grab some more wins along the way.

In round one, they were four goals ahead of Lavington on Good Friday.

They ended up losing that game by 21 points.

For me, their best result for the year, you'll touch on a really good one towards the end of the year.

But Lavington at the Lavey Sports Ground around seven, they looked a million bucks that day.

You know, they were home after quarter time.

We thought they were back.

Once again, I'll go with an overview.

You'll look at some individual numbers a little bit more deeper.

So they brought in Ben Patton, James Cousins, Jack Lipscomb, Elliot Powell returns, Caleb Clemson-Cross from Lavington, Connor Newnham, Tom Rake, Ben Kelly from Wagga who left after one game, Anthony Miles and Jed Snelling.

Am I missing anyone? Off the top of your head.

Bunton was the one point? One point, yeah, but they weren't the better side that day.

They should have probably beaten Lavington.

You know, they had the Easter Saturday game against Wodonga in the palm of their hands, and they weren't able to beat them.

So, yes, they did claim a scalp in Yarra off the back of Stephen May playing that game, but they would have liked another couple.

comes back to what Darren Creswell said in the preseason this year.

They were in games but didn't find a way to win.

Lavington, five-point loss.

North Albury, one-point loss.