Last night, at a closed function for family, friends and Western Bulldogs football club staff, Tissot Australia brand manager Scott Jungwirth followed the lead of Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge by presenting injured skipper Bob Murphy with a Tissot Premiership Watch to celebrate the team’s first premiership in 62 years. Not only did the Bulldogs break the longest drought in AFL history, they also made history as the first team to win the flag from way down in seventh place. The watch has only ever been given to the coach and 22 players selected to play in the winning team on Grand Final day, but Jungwirth decided that he, like Beveridge he would make an exception and include Murphy, who is regarded the ‘spiritual leader’ of the club, among the recipients. Hours earlier, Beveridge had done something on “the spur of the moment” never seen before by calling Murphy onto the podium at the award ceremony and placing his own medallion around Murphy’s neck, saying “This is yours mate. You deserve it more than anyone.” “It’s unprecedented that we’d present a Premiership watch to someone that didn’t play on the day,” Jungwirth said. “But ‘Murph’ is such an integral part of the…
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