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100% agree with you here. Also the Addo Carr fiasco was understated. Not only a distraction, but as much as I like Skelton as a raw talent, his defensive reads cost us big also.

Thats great and all - He wants to say that because the club took a chance on him, but we have to be real, he is a Sharts junior.Its like Mulitalo claiming he is a QLDr, when he isnt.

Do you just choose to read the parts that suit your narrative? He played a handful of seasons at Moorebank. He grew up playing for Aquinas Colts and plays Matts, SG Ball, Flegg and NSW Cup for Sharts.

I'm not saying it isnt the case, by then why arent we playing him at 9? (Before the Burto injury). I am not sold on Reed being his best as an 80 minute player, so why not bring Hayward in at 9 for 20 minutes per game and give Reed a rest? If he is earmarked as the future #9, he needs some time...

Xerri is not. He played in Sharks comp growing up, moved to Moorebank late in his Junior rugby league park footry years before coming through Sharks pathways.

Well don't start any time soon!

Love to hear good things like that. Glad things have really turned a corner for you and your family. Dogs winning is a massive Xerri on top!

Even if he were fit, there is no way Woods was being picked this week or this early in the season.

Watch the NRL.... do absolutely nothing.

Kiks definitely appeared a bit underdone yesterday other than the 2 nice offloads for tries. However, I think similar to Mann, Sitili is better suited off the bench. Comes on full of energy and speed, finds weak spots in tiring opponents.. I like how he was used.

dropping the ball on the first set after points is a deal breaker for me. Lead to their penalty 'try'

The match officiating was completely biased against us from the kick off. Couldn't believe my eyes some of the completely inexplicable calls, it makes me want to turn the TV off, honestly. I didnt agree with the Cricton call, but could say maybew 50/50.. the Preston one is INSANE. Very ironic...

I agree, and I would hope he is open to changing the pack depending on who we are playing and in what conditions. Titans have a big pack - RCG and Fotuaika up front with Fifita, Fermor and Tino in the back row. I would like to have a dominant alpha forward on our side to stand up to those guys...

Very underrated in our team. Plays above his weight every week and adds another dimension in attack.

you think they didnt plan this?

Wish I could say I was surprised. Dont think he has the fitness or work ethic to fit our current culture. Hopefully not on much $$. Cant recall contract length; 2 years?

Some very impressive stats there for the most part, though NP <10% of total revenue.. Is the NRL still carrying a lot of unnecessary operational costs? How much goes to grassroots and game development?

Very sad if thsi is true for Karl; a lot of promise and seemed to have a good attitude. Wish him the best.

The Rugby League Eye Test (I think is the name) does a great analysis on this. I havent looked for a year or two, but it was very dim viewing for Bulldogs when I last looked. A lot of penalties and set restarts against us, late in the count and early in the match. Difficult to overcome the...

The effort is there, he's just too slow. He gets burned for speed often.

Always liked Mann, even going back to when he was at the dragons. Feel like he's always been underrated. He works very hard, has footy IQ and is tough! Had a few injury setbacks, he's a quality signing and I'm really glad to have him. Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk

A garbage man. Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk

It's not Jammer and Klem, it's the club and the fans he resents for the bottle throwing. It's very obvious he still holds a grudge against us from the way he 'officiates' our matches. Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk

Not a lot from the look of it [emoji848] Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk

Despite him having a two digit IQ, you only have to look how bad his conditioning is to know he was going to get his ass kicked. Completely out of shape and only could hope for a lucky haymaker to win. Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk

Good riddance to them. Clearing all the deadwood with shit attitudes and losing mentality is what we needed.

Who wrote this trash? This is worse than rothfield dribble [emoji23]

Shit rule change, not a fan. If you played the ball, difficult to be onside unless the defence puts zero pressure on the kicker and he can advance 5m+ before kicking the ball.. Go back to giving them 10m running space if offside.. makes much more sense.

We really needed Tracey available tonight to show what he can do at fullback. Taaffe isn't it.

He made an error or two, but he was pretty good to be honest. Not sure how he had a bad game.

Banking sector also has a quota for 50-55% women in senior leadership roles. My God there are some incompetent women landing some big roles all to tick a 'diversity' box...

To virtue signal.

Pretty dominant looking cup side. I've got xerri pushing for a first grade spot, if not round one, early rounds. Ultimately depends who plays fullback. Assuming kautoga isn't there means you've got him in first grade? Or on your bench? He impressed me tonight. I'd probably swap Edwards in to...

Forgot about Harrison Edwards. He could be the 17 with versatility to play middle or lock and push Curran/salmon to edge.

1. Tracey 2. Kiraz 3. Xerri 4. critta 5. JAC 6. Burton 7. Sexton 8. King 9. Mahoney 10. Hughes 11. Kikau 12. Preston 13. Salmon 14. Mann 15. Curran 16. Poasa 17. Kautoga/Morrin/ Patolo(?) 18. Hutchison Was impressed with Skelton. Disappointed with knight, taafe and Burton. I'm hoping that...

No doubt. It's not a knock against Nigel, he was bloody awesome!

Yep, tried to count to 5 on his fingers as a post try celebration, forgetting that he had two fingers taped together, so it didn't work [emoji23]

No

He has the potential, just needs to knuckle down, train hard and keep learning. He has a lot of raw talent, footwork, silky skills etc

I rated BBO highly before the injury. I watched a bit of him in cup when he came back, but he looked well off the pace. Hopefully that was just getting the rust out and he can realise his potential this year.

All televised this year right?

Show me where he says "I regret coming to the bulldogs"..

Robbed is an understatement. It was one of the most blatant occurrences of biased officiating I've seen.

Agree that the length of the contract should've been shorter. I assume that the US broadcaster obviously held the balance of power and demanded it. Is it perfect? No, but we're minimum $40m a year better off and gaining exposure over there. It's a step in the right direction.

He carried the tigers? To what... a wooden spoon?

Agreed, he looks in much better shape than last year. As does Burton and a few others. Glad not to have Ferris around anymore!

He was asked a loaded question, he had to respond. Would you have preferred him to say "yeah the season was not great, but I personally played really great footy last year and I'm proud of how I performed. It was the rest of the team who unfortunately dragged us down, despite my stellar...

Love to see this 'proof'

Not sure how anyone can think this is a bad thing. I'm no Vlandys fan by any means, but this brings in additional revenue with no additional content required and grows the game through exposure to the US domestic market. There is huge upside potential in this market, with people's attention...

Are these matches being streamed anywhere people?

Yeah, interesting! I thought we signed him for a few seasons.. quiet exit back to Brisbane!

Didn't realise that that we let go of Quai-Ward already! Also, Ryan Gray to souths.. not upset about either, just must have missed the announcements.

For sure they check here.. ahemm Michael Chee Kam...

We finished 15th, not 16th in 2023. Can they even get basic facts right? Great to see so much dead wood moved on. The losing culture was contagious to new recruits coming in. Had to be done.

No haha, he's a sellout. He played for Aquinas Colts in menai for almost all of his junior football. He then played a few seasons for Moorebank rams and has changed his 'junior club' to Moorebank after returning from the ban.

Lol. What an embarrassing take. Rcg and Paulo would be lucky to be in top 10 after last year. Tigers despite being shit, have top 5 starting props. Dolphins also underrated. Fletcher baker hasn't been proven as a starting prop.. Putting keppie ahead of tatola.. laughable.

1-17 of utilities. Specialist position players are overrated.

Lol

I get that, but most agreed that it's supposed to be hard and agreed with the approach. It's just an optics thing given its only a few days, but it's just disappointing.

Why the fuck are we one of the last teams who didn't play finals to commence preseason though? It might only be a few days but it looks bad when you have played so poorly to be one of the last to start training.

Can't start ripping in to them soon enough! Need to put the last 8 years behind us and it starts in pre-season!

[emoji28][emoji28][emoji28] That's the deal sweetener. Effectively free money, just like so many other freeloaders have milked us before.

Coming back to dogs, Josh Reynolds style. You heard it here first.

Don't disagree on the value they would've added, I just don't think it was realistic.

'Resigned'

That's a very big call. Chances are if we had signed them both (and let's say we didn't sign Sharon), we would've had to let one of them go anyway. We were basing those signings off an increased salary cap that didn't eventuate. As much as I would've loved to have them, it would've crippled...

Would you ever recover if grimace fucked you?

Who is it?

That's what jumped out at me too. This rule is very flawed. Lowly placed teams either play well over a players value or front load in order to use up the cap which restricts their ability to jump on an opportunity if it were to arise later in the year. [emoji1751]

It looks like duplicate copies of the same document... could well be..

Brown has been gone for a while. Started at hooker for the knights last week.

Does anyone proof read their articles? Some very elementary issues here.

Rugby league eye test on Twitter did a far better analysis a while back. It even went in to the detail of when in the game they were awarded and who was leading at the time. The data was far worse for us than this article shows.

So you're saying there's a chance..? Nah, we don't deserve to play finals even if all that magically happened. That flogging by Newcastle made me physically ill.

This is such a poorly written piece of dribble, it's embarrassing. Sure there's some valid points, but it's nothing new. The only 'new' parts are just very transparent agenda against Phil.

Just what we need.. more centres!

I personally feel like Tino would be better for us. Not as flash as Haas but more consistent and puts in big minutes. He is tough, hits hard and leads by example. Big fan

[emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787] Thought you'd like that one!

Damien cook

Ah, I was gonna say I'd pay 350 for it if you're keen but might be below market.

Probably to play #14. Since Averillo went above what we wanted to pay for him, it's a low cost back up. Don't love it, don't hate it. He plays hard.

I love the way he plays. Competes so hard from kick off to full time. Leads by example and plays hard and tough. Exactly what we need.

He's a better chance of winning a grand final at the dogs than titans. Big call? Yeah, but I don't see titans winning any time soon.

Lomax on $800k?!

Is he really? Didn't know by he was a dogs junior... don't rate him by the way.

So what you're saying is that you got ripped off?

Are you sure? Not having a go, the nrl app could very well be wrong.

Love to unearth another one of those.

BBO kicked a last minute field goal to level the game. 15-15 at full time. Disappointing considering the team named but better than losing given we were trailing the whole game until Ryan Sutton scored in 68th minute and Bailey Hayward converted to level the match.

Can't believe they are losing to a no name west's team...

So good that you posted it twice! Strong side. Hope they dominate.

Gus has shut down any chance of Brooks coming.

No, he isn't but he plays with more heart. The suggestion was to drop him down to make him see what he needs to provide to be playing first grade. Pele has the fearless mentality, the commitment and the impact off the bench to show that.

Yep, agree with that but that role wouldn't be suited to Flanagan in my opinion. It suits someone with spark and energy who can cover multiple positions ala Averillo (if he loses his centre spot next year), BBO, Rajab, etc.

I don't see it. He isn't an impact type player. He doesn't bring speed, creativity or spark. I thought he did well today but I don't see how we fit him in.

Pele tore up NSW Cup today. Similar style, aggressive, shorter minutes just on there to punch out impact work. Kitione also looked decent.

Rfm isn't making my top 17 on recent form. I'd be putting Pele in, either starting prop or off the bench for impact like Leniu style. Edwards/morrin/Oloapu competing for #13. Rajab/averillo #14

Anyone remember the game against Melbourne where we scored in the dying minutes to bring us 2 points behind. Was a few years ago, I just remember Okonbur running straight over the top of Cameron Smith in either his debut or first few games. We scored 12m in from the sideline but when we lined...