I’m a Luke Beveridge guy.  We’re tight.  If I had a brand new Sherrin footy, I would let him have a kick of it.  On the bitumen.  That’s how tight.

But I’ve got an issue with the coach at the moment.  There is only one real moonwalker and it ain’t, I repeat, it ain’t Dan Hartman!

In the post-match press conference, coach Beveridge spoke about keeping the forward momentum going before reaching for the moonwalk analogy. 

Inexplicably, Bevo crowned Hartman as the king of the moonwalk.  Cop that Michael Jackson!

Moonwalks aside, it looked like the coach had the familiar sparkle back in his eyes after the nail-biting win on Friday night.

Last week’s effort against the Kangaroos was overshadowed by the disappointing last two minutes and for a few nervous moments, it looked like it might happen again against the Cats.

But the football Gods were smiling on us and Harry Taylor’s set shot slid across the face of goals.

Pandemonium ensued, the unbridled excitement amongst the players on the mark is already one of the most memorable images of the season.

I’m wondering, a few days after the dramatic finish, if we are witnessing the emergence of the Luke Beveridge Western Bulldogs 2.0.

There has been a lot of commentary around the Bulldogs since the 2016 premiership.  The Dogs team has been a hard one to get a read on for a little while, if you look purely at the win/loss ratio, but as I’m sat here I feel a warming clarity around where this team is headed.

It’s a new team.  Close losses, like the one against the Kangaroos, can sting, but you learn a lot from them.  Close wins, like the one against the Cats, can feed the soul of a young team.

With eight games to go in the home and away season, the Dogs have much to play.  I’m watching games from here on with a heightened sense of excitement and expectation.

On the back of one of the best games of the season, the Bulldogs 2.0 could be a rollicking ride.

Watching those young boys (and a few oldies) play on at every opportunity, got us all dancing, but let’s leave the moonwalking to the king of pop, shall we?