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Poasa is named in cup so you would think he is not playing If Preston is cleared it will be 12. Preston 13. Salmon 14. Mann 15. Hughes 16. Morrin 17. Taffee Cannot see CC changing the midget bench when we were able to deal with losing Patolo first min last week

Unfortunately it looks like it will be extremely wet. Akin to the Roosters game. I can see CC telling the boys to continue to play expansive which I hope doesn’t backfire

lol

I actually thought the tigers weren’t as bad as the score suggests. If they score first and get momentum it won’t be easy. If api is out we should win easy though.

No try since 1908 not sure what the uproar is about

Wasn't Terry Hill a wife basher or something? There's a rumour floating around re that

While we've shown a lot of positive signs on the surface we've still only beaten an awful Titans, Roosters with a man down and Knights without Ponga for a half so there is a long way to go But man it's been so long that we've legitimately been able to discuss finishing top 8 so I've just...

No Fogarty for the Raiders and we should be seriously looking at winning 6/7 of these including yesterday

https://www.rugbyleagueeyetest.com/2024/04/22/canterburys-commitment-to-defense-emphasises-how-unserious-the-cowboys-are/ I posted an article by this site earlier on in the season analysing Kikau's early involvement which has certainly come to fruition. This article takes a deep dive into how...

99% sure this is what CC picks 1. Tracey 2. Kiraz 3. Crichton 4. Xerri 5. Fox 6. Burton 7. Hutchinson 8. King 9. Mahoney 10. Hughes/Curran 11. Kikau 12. Preston 13. Salmon 14. Mann 15. Hughes/Curran 16. Morrin 17. Taffee

His set up for the Xerri try was fantastic

Lots of great players tonight but Max King is a tough motherfucker giving us 50 quality minutes with 15 runs and only 1 missed tackle when we needed it most & all while coming back early with a broken hand. Could have easily taken the extra 2 weeks off with the bye. fuck I love him

Weren’t people writing this guy off? CC has done well with his mins to ease him in. Bends the line, looks really fit and we don’t lose much in defence when he’s on. Added bonus of being hard to stop near the line as well. has all the makings of being a top prop

Respect for coming back after every injury but it’s over for him I don’t even mind if he kicks on somewhere else but we can’t justify a top 30 spot let alone a top 17 on him going forward with our prop depth

Spoke briefly to the General after the game. Said he was very impressed with the team this year and the improvement. Loves our spacing as a line when coming up and cohesiveness. Said the juniors are thriving. Thinks Ciro is the goods overall. he was also wearing his premiership ring lol

Post Game: https://www.thekennel.net.au/forum/index.php?threads/round-7-post-game-bulldogs-36-12-knights.128420/

Salmon and hutcho shuffling sideways to track ponga is giving me nightmares

Knights are bit more like the Eels who dominated us, big rolling pack. Their right defensive edge is awful though. Anything could happen today

Forward pack match up is very worrying

If you don’t rate them who do you rate? Apart from Penrith with Cleary fit its an even comp again like it was more so 10 years ago

Our biggest game since we blew a top 4 spot in 2016 vs the cowboys at belmore win here and against the Tigers and we are right in it for the 8

Taffee off the bench is insane with our pack

Knight Turpin Kautoga have all been named in cup sexton/Taffee to be 18th man with the other one to be dropped for King hopefully Curran and Hayward to swap gameday

Dragons is an absolute must win Knights x2 without Ponga (if he is also out this week) we should be winning Tigers 60/40 if we play to our potential Raiders will be tough Penrith no chance this puts us at 6 wins (12 + 3 byes = 18pts) with another 11 games to go and would leave us needing 6...

One look at our pack should tell you the answer. its a miracle we are in games with our middle rotation and a big part of that was our back 5. Tracey has to stay at fullback. His ball playing is sub par for sure but id sooner change Hutchinson to sort that out. It really has to be Sexton at 7...

Morrin back next week should be a bit of a boost

Jeez watching the last Storm try back the Kautoga effort was absolutely shocking, to not even throw an arm out at that stage is not good enough.

Hutchinson has SOME good attributes but it’s clear we are trying to play a high tempo game which relies on speed we create half breaks and 20 - 30m gains at ease on the left but lose all momentum going back right If CC can somehow fix our halves and find the right balance we can challenge 8-10th

Our last 10-12 minutes was unbelievably shit all we had to do was kick to the corners Crichton and Kiraz really let us down a few times in defence as well in the second half a lot more positives than negatives of course but it would be nice to not shit the bed when we’re leading for once

Stats link below: https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiership/2024/round-6/storm-v-bulldogs/

Brain explosion

Thanks Sam

Middle and backs bust their ass just for burton to put in a misplaced kick or Hutcho to give critta a hospital ball for a shitty grubber in behind

Our halves have been putrid again Fucking awful end of sets

How many times have we conceded from a stand still because we haven’t wrapped the ball up?

Crichton needs to wake tf up

Critta with 2 pathetic efforts tbh

nah that’s just how Hutchinson runs

are you knocking a winning formula?

especially with Leniu back soon too

yes

No Ponga next week would be incredible luck

Based on the media post today - Critta fullback - Xerri left with Fox, Kiraz Tracey right - Curran right edge (then prop with Kautoga right edge and Hayward lock when Salmon comes off)

No NAS 30pt loss instead of 40

I think we will be violated

Skelton 8-)

this will be your best bet: https://tixel.com/au/sports-tickets/2024/05/17/2024-nrl-magic-round-3-day-pass

The club obviously wrote him off as a half as well so those people were correct

1. Ryan Papenhuyzen 2. William Warbrick 3.Reimis Smith 4. Nick Meaney 5. Xavier Coates 6.Cameron Munster 7. Jahrome Hughes 8. Tui Kamikamica 9. Harry Grant 10. Josh King 11.Shawn Blore 12. Eliesa Katoa 13. Trent Loiero 14.Tyran Wishart 15. Christian Welch 16. Tepai Moeroa 17. Alec MacDonald 18...

Does Brimson like chinese food?

debuting Joash in Melbourne is suicidal and won’t happen Unfortunately Critta will be 1 as he is the only person left that’s actually trained there

King confirmed wrist/hand fracture

Waddell is still good btw

It will 100% be 1. critta 2. Wilson 3. Xerri 4. Kiraz 5. Fox if king kikau and patolo are out next week I don’t even want to try naming our pack 8. Hughes 10. Poasa 11. Curran/Kitione 12. Salmon 13. Hayward? 14. ? 15. Kitione/Curran 16. Knight 17. ?

Our shuffle when someone goes down is awful why did burton play centre? Why critta fullback? Why salmon centre? CC became complacent and it spread through the team

Post game: https://www.thekennel.net.au/forum/index.php?threads/post-game-bulldogs-30-26-roosters.128322/

Stats TBC

I want fucking 60 The job is NOT fucking done yet

He’s 31

Xerri in Curran bench

Bulldogs 16 - 13 Roosters

Taffee > Sailor

when your mate hogs the joint

20 years wow there will be so many tears when we win our next

Not a spine player + let’s be honest, his output has been minimal at best so far

Absolutely nothing has changed at Belmore. Our defence has gotten better because we are able to field 1st graders now but we are still stuck with the same glaring problems no halves No fullback No middles A rookie coach No ability to attract proper top tier, proven performers No proven...

Are you finally turning?? Welcome to the dark side

Their middle rotation will absolutely massacre us this weekend one of our worst benches in a while

yes, he is better than jac

Looks like it will be extremely wet I hope Curran is playing on the right because Kautoga will get slaughtered on the edge

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Where is renowned attacking coach Jason Taylor in all of this?

Taffee had his best game?? can someone spell out what he actually did apart from the kick? I’m not sure how any sane person can still have him at 1 next week

yes we do

not sure how people can watch Tigers play like this and be happy considering where we both have been the last few years and now seeing where they are…

All of those teams would’ve beat us this weekend

Tigers outplayed Cronulla and are matching Parra what is our excuse

Unfortunately I think time will show our win last week was against a really really bad team

Geez if we could play a couple of teams that complete at 50% that would do nicely

We knew this in the preseason and have now wasted 4 weeks going down the wrong road (as predicted)

Don’t care, he’s shit as well

What are you thinking for next week? We’re a bit hamstrung now with Fox out with regards to moving Tracey back to 1. Kiraz back to the wing with Xerri centre and Sexton 7? Idk FFS

5m average per run lol L

100% the right call - obstruction

https://www.nrl.com/watch/matches/telstra-premiership/2024/round-4/bulldogs-round-4/

Absolutely awful again, genuinely useless coming out of our own end and stifles our attack in the red zone. One good kick does not make up for 78 minutes of deficiencies. Tracey to fullback is non negotiable now

Taffee Salmon Hutch Burto are huge problems and we will be bottom 4 if we persist with them unfortunately

Post game: https://www.thekennel.net.au/forum/index.php?threads/post-game-thread-bulldogs-vs-souths.128269/

Game over

TBC

I have no doubt playing Taffee will come back to bite us

Nah Wilson… we have a top 8 backline for the first time in almost a decade and Taffee gets the nod

Kiraz and Wilson vs Souths left edge is definitely a concern

a win today and we may finally be leaving the banter era

https://www.youtube.com/live/RkXJVLPWaV0?si=4Weyk-MaMimFfLsQ

Hughes has been good TBH I do not see why people would be complaining He looks up to it despite his limited mins each week, esp in defence where I thought he’d get found out laterally. We are using him well for 20-30mins a game to give us a boost after HT and we can finally slowly blood a...

Sounding like Cam Murray sat out of Souths captains run today with a knee brace on.

Hopefully there is another iteration of this coming which feeds Burton out the back of the left shape, but it is interesting using him as a first receiver on the long right. its a shame this post has 3 replies but there have been hundreds on who is our ref this Friday

A 5 minute video reviewing some of our shapes from last weekend posted by Rugby League Writers - an independent NRL outlet: https://linktr.ee/rugbyleaguewriters

It’s a very weak pack TBH especially the bench. I think things may change their for them but it’s no where near a Parra/Sharks pack that could blow us away.