Year of the Dogs

So this is, this is in 1996 and we were just talking about it off air.

We may do a free, a full rewatchables on this docker year of the dogs.

It's, it's, it's amazing.

I would highly recommend looking at it because.

Now, at the time...

The face of this is a guy called Rick Kennedy, who played fullback for Footscray and retired not that long before that.

So this is how, in the film Year of the Dogs, this is how it's presented this change.

And the thing that's striking, which you obviously can't get from the audio, is that Footscray is this club where...

The modern genre of choice is the sports documentary, be it Drive to Survive or what's happening behind the scenes with Amazon and AFL clubs right now.

They all owe a debt of gratitude to the 1996 documentary Year of the Dogs, which might be the peak of the genre.

Today's Know Your History... is with a rewatchables nod we borrow from Bill Simmons' categories to assess a movie, a film that is ahead of its time and could never be done again.

Now, out come the Bulldogs.

They get jumped hopelessly early and they find back heroically late.

And this is, in the film, it sometimes looks as if this is Terry Wallace's first game as coach.

It's actually not, but the magic of the documentary gives it a little bit of that

feel as well, which is interesting.