There are some people in the football media who endorse and promote the view of how much we have come along since changing our name from Footscray to Western Bulldogs? Well in what way? It certainly isn’t on the field. A few more isolated finals wins- but still not two consecutive finals victories in the same campaign since the Footscray team that was leading at half time of the 1961 Grand Final.

Back in 1994 the then Victorian State Government amalgamated local councils across Victoria and this technically came into being late in that year. The result was that councils became bigger in their physical size but also nearly all had their names changed. So those who lived in Werribee are no longer receiving their services or paying their rates to the City of Werribee. From late 1994 their rates were now collected for the City Of Wyndham. That was just one of the name changes.