Career
Prior to that he had played for Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup and Frankston in the VFL. He was able to consolidate a position in the senior team during 2004 and in 2005 could be considered as being in the Bulldogs" best 18, having played in 17 games for the year. He currently has totalled 76 Brownlow votes. He played with the number 42 until 2007 when he took the number 5 from Rohan Smith who retired at the end of 2006.
The 2006 Record describes Boyd as having tenacious defensive skills while also possessing attacking flair.
Boyd is the grand nephew of Australian football vendor icon Johnny Boyd better known as the Peanut Manitoba On 21 January 2011, he was announced as the new captain for the Western Bulldogs.
Boyd relished the Bulldogs captaincy and continued his good form and was rewarded with his second All-Australian selection and second Charlie Sutton Meda At the conclusion of the 2013 American Federation of Labor-Congress season Boyd relinquished the captaincy of the Western Bulldogs to Ryan Griffen, who often captained the Bulldogs in 2013 when Boyd was unavailable for selection.
