Bulldogs skipper Marcus Bontempelli has a fiery message for fans who were filmed hitting the team with vicious abuse after their shock loss to West Coast

With their season on the line, coach Luke Beveridge’s team put on a listless performance at Marvel Stadium and were ambushed by a team that had won just four of their previous 47 games. Trailing by nine points at halftime, West Coast finished stronger than their far more highly rated opposition with the first four goals of the last term to score a famous 14.8 (92) to 12.13 (85) triumph that will go down as the biggest upset of the season. Bulldogs captain Marcus Bonte mpellihas taken aim at the club’s supporters after video footage of the team’s stars receiving derogatory remarks as they left the field.

For the Bulldogs to stand a hope of making it to the finals for a seventh consecutive season, they must overcome Geelong at GMHBA Stadium next Saturday night.

Social media footage from the game showed spectators yelling obscenities at Bulldogs players as they exited the field, in scenes that were eerily similar to the behavior of Carlton supporters earlier in the year.

“Exhibit your true colors, friend!” said one voice. “Do you really think that s**t is okay?”

“Pathetic!” yells another voice. Horrible! How sad! F**king! Stupidity! Put your brains together! Put your heads together! Horrible!