Round 1 Bulldogs V Knights - Team Lists and Discussion Thread

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Mounties Round 1 side with no hooker for some reason!
1. Declan Casey
2. Watson Heleta
3. Falakiko Manu
4. Aaton Schoupp
5. Tui Katoa
6. Lachlan Lewis
7. Brandon Wakeham
8. Ava Seumanufagai
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10. Dean Britt
11. Reuben Porter
12. Matt Doorey
13. Joe Stimson

14. James Roumanos
15. Ben Seufale
16. Jack Miller
17. Rhys Davies

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I just got that off the mounties page topine at hooker is interesting considering he played mostly backrower coming though the ranks of the club
 

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So much for Tui Katoa starting over Meaney
 

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Being a teacher and being educated might have something to do with that champ
I'm not sure, plenty of dumb teachers around. I remember sneaking into Roxy when I was still in school and me a a few mates saw our teacher being a massive slut lol. I will end the story there for reasons.
 

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I'm not sure, plenty of dumb teachers around. I remember sneaking into Roxy when I was still in school and me a a few mates saw our teacher being a massive slut lol. I will end the story there for reasons.
Maybe in public schools, but private Catholic schools don't hire muppets..
 

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Mounties Round 1 side with no hooker for some reason!
1. Declan Casey
2. Watson Heleta
3. Falakiko Manu
4. Aaton Schoupp
5. Tui Katoa
6. Lachlan Lewis
7. Brandon Wakeham
8. Ava Seumanufagai
9.
10. Dean Britt
11. Reuben Porter
12. Matt Doorey
13. Joe Stimson

14. James Roumanos
15. Ben Seufale
16. Jack Miller
17. Rhys Davies

So short at hooker weve got a 26yr old teacher in FG and nothing named for reserves lol
 

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‘I’ve been waiting a long while’: 26yo schoolteacher earns dream debut for Bulldogs
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George Clarke

  • March 9, 2021 5:34pm
  • GEORGE CLARKE
  • Source: FOX SPORTS
Bradley Deitz playing for North Sydney Bears. Photo Steve Little www.redandblackzone.com.
Bradley Deitz playing for North Sydney Bears. Photo Steve Little www.redandblackzone.com.Source: Supplied

It’s not uncommon for a school principal to get a knock on the door to be told by someone they won’t be coming back because they’ve gone to pursue their dream of playing NRL.
Usually it’s a pupil - the next big thing, the teenage whiz kid who is ready to play top-grade before they’ve started shaving.
But Brad Deitz was a teacher.
And after entering the principal’s office - at Sydney’s Our Lady of The Sacred Heart College – he told his new boss he was quitting because he had a training opportunity with the Bulldogs.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/match-centre/NRL20210101
Fast forward two months and Mr Deitz, who turned 26 on Tuesday, was handed the best birthday present he could hope for when Trent Barrett told him: ‘you’re in’ for Canterbury’s Round 1 clash with Newcastle.

“I told the principal it was too much of a good opportunity to turn down,” Deitz, who teaches maths and PE, told Foxsports.com.au.
“They were all happy for me, but needed me to fulfil my notice until they found a replacement.
“I told Baz and he was supportive of me and they were happy for me to do my time teaching and then come back full-time.
“I was training with Mounties (Bulldogs’ reserve team) and I must have gone all right (in an opposed session) because Baz asked me to come back.
“I came in every day during the school holiday and Baz asked me to stick around, it was such a good opportunity I’d have been stupid not to.”


It’s an ethos that has paid dividends. Deitz was named in the No. 14 jumper on Tuesday afternoon and has - despite being on a training contract - been given an exemption to play due to the fact regular Dogs hooker Jeremy Marshall-King went down for the Maori All Stars.
Deitz’s story is one of perseverance. He was part of an Australian Schoolboys side that included Jai Arrow, Mitchell Moses and Luke Brooks.
But the cards just never fell in his favour. He went to North Sydney, who were at the time a South Sydney feeder club. There, he was stuck behind Damien Cook and Robbie Farah.

When the Roosters linked with the Bears, Sam Verills pipped him to a call-up and there was a time he thought first-grade chance might never come.
Now, though, he joins the likes of Cody Walker, Jamal Fogarty and Andrew Davey in being handed a second chance later down the track after scoring a try and impressing with his quick feet in the Dogs’ trial win over Cronulla.
“I definitely had times in the last couple of years where NRL clubs would just be looking for the next thing coming through (and I thought my time might not come),” Deitz, who will wear the No.14 jumper, said..
“I still had that love of footy, whether it was NSW Cup – or when that was cancelled in the President’s Cup.


“We had a field session on Monday and just as that finished Baz told me there and then one-on-one. He shook my hand and congratulated me, he knows I’ve been waiting a long while to get the call.”

Deitz turned up at his parents’ with wife, Laura, and delivered the news over a birthday dinner.
Mum and dad didn’t quite believe him when he told them of his conversation with Barrett, but now around 15 family members are expected to make the trip up to Newcastle on Friday.
Asked what he’d say to those who were on the wrong side of 21 and had yet to crack first-grade, Deitz said: “As long as you’re still loving your game, play some good games, stick at it, and hopefully you can get noticed.”
From a teacher, that’s probably a lesson worth heeding.
 
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