Dom-inating effort

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SOUTH Mildura senior coach Patrick Irwin says young Bulldogs utility Dom Scullino might still be a teenager but his football is vastly more mature.

Into his third year of senior football after debuting while still in the Under 16s in 2015, Scullino is shaping up as a key cog of the Bulldogs’ side for years to come – but you could be forgiven for thinking he’d been there for years already.

“We joke he’s an 18-year-old body with a 30-year-old footy brain,” Irwin said.

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