Recent content by bulldogsmyte

Spot on. I remember our entire forward pack was injured at various times in the first half of that season and when they returned our backline got injured. It was a spooky mirror of our defending premiership side in 81.

yes just like in 86 to stop us winning a three-peat.

Sadly it seems that over the last 2 decades a number of our best and most high profile charismatic players left on bad terms - Big Willie, SBW, Barba. Our current assistant coach was writing new articles back in 2012 that our blocks were illegal as well.

Barba was amazing that year. The top 4 individual years I've seen for the Dogs over 40 years was 1979 Mortimer, 1991 McGrady and Jonathan Davies and 2012 Barba. A shame that Melbourne contained him in the GF.

Agree. 2012 we were the best in the comp withe Barba on fire our attack was near unstoppable. 2014 without Barba our attack was clunky and we were reliant on defense, fighting spirit and field goals to get by a number of games. I felt we underachieved in 2012 and way overachieved in 2014.

2012 was one that got away for sure. The Dogs were the best team that year by far

Yes but in 79 we had the great Steve Mortimer at his peak who ran riot in the months leading into the play offs to get the Dogs into 5th place and then went up another gear in the finals. He scored two brilliant long range solo tries against Cronulla in the knock out semi and then another...

plus uncle nick has a spare ferrari for him off the books

3 - Kikau 2 - Kiraz 1 - Mahoney

>"more players have to be able to play that organising and creative role" Spot on. Our legendary entertainers of the late 70s to early 80s scored the majority of the tries with their backline. The whole team then knew how to support each other and look and pass. We should be focusing on...

Kurt Mann is in our top 17 comfortably

I agree with your comment on forwards like AFB, JFH or Haas and dominating halves being over-priced. We've only got 1 big middle forward in Hughes in our starting 13, King at 105kg is medium size for a prop. I never said the bench has to be 4 forwards and have said previously a utility player...

It gives Taffee a trial run at 7 off the bench and a way out for the coach. If he drops Taffee from first grade then he's admitting he got it wrong at FB in the pre season. If he replaces Hutch from the starting side so quickly he's admitting he got the HB wrong in the pre season.

We finally have a FB in Tracey that has acceleration and passing skills so we can attack early in the set in the opponents half rather than 5 hit ups, bomb on the last and hope for the best.

Halligan is more consistent and accurate and his misses are near misses. From memory he had a lower percentage before he came to the Dogs where he peaked. Hazem's kick has a bigger hook to it which results in more misses from the right touchline.