They’re a team renowned for their hilarious AFL banners, and so everyone was expecting the Western Bulldogs to deliver once again on the sport’s biggest game of the year.
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But in a surprise move, the club’s banner-makers played this one with a pretty straight bat.
The flipside wasn’t anything special either, merely a message about their sponsor, Mission.
People watching, obviously in hope of another pearler from the Dogs, weren’t too impressed.
Obviously been told to dial down the smart arse on the banner. Boring message #AFLGF
— Matt (@Mattys123) October 1, 2016
What's Mission's mission statement? #AFLGF
— Tony Tea (@AfterGrogBlog) October 1, 2016
That banner sucks #AFLGF
— Isaac Williams (@isaac21williams) October 1, 2016
For a club which has endured such a long grand final drought (and an even longer premiership one), it’s perhaps understandable that the Dogs wanted to make their banner on this occasion a meaningful one rather than a funny one.
But still, it would have been nice to have one last laugh for the year courtesy of the Bulldogs’ banner-making team.
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