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The Western Bulldogs upset grand final win against Sydney Swans on Saturday was a victory for not just their patient legion of fans and past players, but for hope itself.A so-called small club was not supposed to break the longest drought of any major Australian competition less than two years after losing its captain, coach and several key veterans during a tumultuous off-season.Turn the clock back a couple of decades and the Bulldogs, then called Footscray, were in even greater strife, on the edge of extinction and facing a possible merger with Fitzroy.This club has never been handed anything on a silver platter and before Saturday it had just a solitary premiership cup (won back in 1954) in its threadbare trophy cabinet.Against such significant odds, they are now at the top of the AFL mountain with veteran defender Dale Morris saying after their groundbreaking 22-point victory that hed always believed in fairytales.Now its time for other clubs to do the same.The Dogs flag came almost five months to the day after another recent sporting fairytale: Leicesters incredible rags-to-riches English Premier League title.One scribe wrote of trying to explain the unlikeliness of Leicester winning the EPL as someone winning the Kentucky Derby riding a cat, not a thoroughbred. The Dogs win is probably then the equivalent of someone atop a Llama winning the most exciting two minutes in sports, as the great US horse race is termed.The two unlikely title victories show just about anything is possible in sport if all the essential elements line up at the same time.In a sporting world where money and power all-too-often counts the most, smaller clubs across all codes should now start dreaming and scheming.As the Bulldogs showed on Saturday, if you develop the right culture, dream big, and all pull in the right direction, anything is possible.They also took significant risks. Most notably their targeting of former No. 1 draft pick Tom Boyd from GWS once former captain Ryan Griffen made clear his intentions of joining the AFLs newest franchise.?The Dogs sent pick No. 6 to GWS along with their disgruntled midfielder -- even paying some of Griffens wage -- and offered Boyd an eyewatering seven-year contract in the vicinity of $Aus7 million. At 5.30pm on Saturday, everyone associated with the Dogs would have been smiling after the ruck/forwards coming-of-age performance in the decider.The Dogs have also nailed their recent drafting, including early picks in Marcus Bontempelli, Jack Macrae and Jake Stringer, but they also unearthed gems in the rookie draft, such as Norm Smith medallist Jason Johannisen and Luke Dahlhaus.After the drought-breaking win, midfield dynamo Dahlhaus said the result was significant considering the clubs difficult past.It does [give hope to the smaller clubs], Dahlhaus told ESPN, grinning ear-to-ear in the Bulldogs changerooms with a premiership medallion hanging from his neck.Look how quickly we did it - we turned things around so quickly [since the tumultuous off-season in 2014] and put so much hard work in, and credit to every individual in the club putting the hard work in, everyone deserves it.Morris, himself also a former rookie, agreed with his diminutive teammate.Where weve come from - you look years back, with possible mergers, our debt, with everything that happened a couple of years ago, to be here now is just incredible, he said post-match.Ive always believed [in fairytales].After more than a decade of dominance from three clubs -- Sydney, Geelong and Hawthorn - the Dogs premiership was a refreshing result for the have-nots.Its now up to others in the same boat to dream big, make bold calls and ask themselves the same question the Bulldogs pondered throughout their perfect finals campaign: Why not us? 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Fake Nike Shoes . -- Most satisfying to Russ Smith about No. She is still only 21.So ask PV Sindhu, who is back home after clinching her first Superseries title in China and following that up by reaching the final of another Superseries event in Hong Kong, what this phase on the road was like, and you get the response of a chirpy, sprightly young person relishing her time in the sun.She describes the two weeks as extremely wonderful, the victory in China as a great achievement and a tremendous experience. She winds down her sentence by saying reaching back-to-back finals made her incredibly happy.So, was the defeat in the final in Hong Kong to Tai Tzu Ying, an opponent she had beaten comfortably on her way to silver in Rio, at all disheartening?Nah. Sindhus default setting is upbeat.My opponent was extraordinarily brilliant on the court on that day, she concedes. And a few foul shots cost me the match.These have been a heady few months. Since that historic run to the podium in Rio, Sindhu has taken pride of place among Indias most prominent sportspersons. Her first two tournaments on returning to competitive play after a couple of months of manic celebrations and felicitations ended in early defeats in Denmark and France.Many wondered if the year would end in a whimper. But not Sindhu. In China, she battled through a string of long matches and backed it up in Hong Kong with four sparkling performances, demolishing the field in her wake, before going down in the summit clash.For coach Pullela Gopichand, who did not travel with Sindhu for these tournaments, the biggest takeaway from the last two tournaments has been watching her evolution as a player. Strokes they would practice on the training court were unleashed in match situations on unsuspecting opponents. To finish her semifinal in Hong Kong against local girl Cheung Ngan Yi , Sindhu jumped to play a reverse drop that caught her opponent completely off-guard because Gopi says nobody had seen her play that stroke ever.From her backhand lane, Sindhu was retrieving and hitting the shuttle cross-court, another addition to her arsenal. Nine-time national champion Aparna Popat likens that shot to Steffi Grafs single-handed, top-spin backhand. She believes Sindhus display of a wider array of shots is a reflection of a much higher level of confidence after Rio.As you grow as a player, against different opponents you find yourself in different situations, Aparna explains. You know you have to hit a particular stroke but you are not so confident to execute it. Thats when you go back to practice and practice very specific strokes under specific situations. For example that bbackhand cross, maybe 75% of the match you will play straight, but say at 16-all or 17-all you pull out one of those strokes.dddddddddddd.As you go along these strokes will keep getting added, one by one. The confidence to use the stroke is something that cant be practiced and cannot be taught. It is when you are so confident in general and when you practice it so much that you will dare to do something like that in a match.Aparna reckons Sindhu is a lot more settled with her own game these days. From being unsure at the start of the year whether she could even qualify for the Olympics, having been laid low by injuries and patchy form, to clinching silver has, in Aparnas estimation, relaxed Sindhu mentally.Gopi agrees increased confidence has led to a spurt in the strokes she feels comfortable employing even in closely contested matches. Sindhu is well aware that on an extremely competitive circuit with the top players in the world bunched together in ranking points, continuing to develop an all-round game is essential.Competition has always been there be it a small stage or big, Sindhu says. Meeting the challenges and winning them are the crowning glories that the titles carry. I feel more confident and also I have been working on all my strokes.Sindhus immediate challenge will be the Superseries finals in Dubai from December 14 where an elite field of eight players participate in a round robin and knockout format.For Sindhu to have accumulated enough points to even qualify for the event was a major surprise as she had missed a few Superseries tournaments at the start of the year. She says shes elated to have made the cut even as Gopi chuckles that he is now cancelling other engagements planned for the time to prepare for the event. As to whether she starts as among the favourites for the title on current form, Gopi offers a more cautious perspective.It is a very open event, he says. You cant rule out the Carolina Marins, Tai Tzu Ying and Sung Ji Hyuns of the world. Many of Sindhus wins and losses have been close matches, we have to remember that.Aparna agrees that the tournament is too hard to call. In her view, after the successes of 2016, Sindhu must target a swift rise up the rankings as her primary ambition next season.I think she should get into the top-5 now, it is high time, Aparna says. She has been hovering around the 9-10 level for a long time. That can only happen if she gets consistent success in Superseries events. ' ' '