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You sound like Laurie Daley lolIt was a good effort by the boys, if we'd scored more points than the storm, i reckon we could have won! But the effort was fantastic....
You sound like Laurie Daley lolIt was a good effort by the boys, if we'd scored more points than the storm, i reckon we could have won! But the effort was fantastic....
Hopefully not many, pretty much need to replace the whole 17.Question. Does anyone know who we currently have signed for 2021.
I can think of Napa and Jackson.
Thats not as bad as I thought.Going zero tackle
Okunbor
Napa
Ogden
CHN
Meaney
Chrichton
Pay doesnt deserve shit. We are regressing rapidly. Article says it all. The game plan or lack thereof was plain insanity. We have already wasted a year and half with this muppett. Lets not waste anymore time and sack him immediately.I don't think any coach can coach the current team to success, however Pay deserves to be given a chance to recruit. If he doesn't succeed in recruiting IN 2020 FOR 2021, then I say don't re--sign him.
Pay doesn't know how to improve a team, all he's doing is being obstructiveI don't think any coach can coach the current team to success, however Pay deserves to be given a chance to recruit. If he doesn't succeed in recruiting IN 2020 FOR 2021, then I say don't re--sign him.
I don't think Pay, can coach under 6s TBHBulldogs didn’t get flogged but there was plenty of self-flaggelation
May 26, 2019 TheLanDownUnder 0 Comments
The saying goes you can’t teach an old dog new tricks — well after Sunday’s game between the Canterbury Bulldogs and Melbourne Storm it appears you could extend that maxim to the use of tactics too.
Coach Dean Pay and his Bulldogs were always underdogs (sorry to labour the pun) up against it on Sunday playing the clinical Storm.
But Pay’s stubborn refusal to alter the game plan — or his team’s inability to improvise — gave the Bulldogs almost no hope of winning.
Bulldogs head coach Dean Pay.
Melbourne are a very very good team, but they do have a weakness and it is their right side defence.
The left edge has barely been beaten all season with Cameron Munster, Will Chambers and Josh Addo-Carr working together beautifully.R
The centre is stout thanks to Cam Smith marshalling his brigade of WWE enforcers with aplomb.
The right side however, that’s where you want to attack, as that is the side filled by Brodie Croft, a rotating cast of centres and Suliasi Vunivalu, a winger with almost as many inexplicable errors in his game as he does moments of supreme athleticism — and four times as many missed tackles as Addo-Carr.
Most teams try to limit Josh Addo-Carr’s access to the ball, Canterbury were feeding him.
You might think attacking the Storm right side would work for the Bulldogs too as Canterbury’s left is controlled by veteran playmaker Kieran Foran, the same Foran who cut the Titans to shreds just last week with three try assists.
Running off Foran’s shoulder is 2019 recruit and offload maniac Corey Harawira-Naera. Give them the ball and let them attack!
But no; Dean Pay’s playbook instead saw the Bulldogs play right again, and again and again — with Jack Cogger having almost twice the number of ball receipts as Foran.
Canterbury’s last tackle options consisted of Jack Cogger on the right putting up a kick not quite high enough to be a bomb and not quite deep enough to pin the Storm back. The kick was inevitably fielded comfortably by either Storm fullback Jahrome Hughes or winger Addo-Carr.
The play was so predictable that by the second half Hughes was able to set up camp down in the right corner well ahead of the fifth tackle.
And who could blame him, because from his camp he had the best seat in the house to watch Addo-Carr torch the Bulldogs via kick returns.
You may have heard of Addo-Carr, he’s pretty quick, and has a decent step. The Bulldogs certainly know it now because kicking to him so often allowed the speedster to run for 207 metres and score a solo 70 metre try.
Take a knee Kieran — we won’t be using you this week … Picture: AAP Image/Steve Christo
Hamstrung by salary cap woes not of his making, Pay is on somewhat of a hiding to nothing at the Bulldogs.
hhowever, when your game plan boils down to keeping the ball out of the hands of your best attacking player and trying your hardest to put the ball in the hands of the opposition’s best attacking player, the hiding is very much a matter of self-flagellation.
http://theland-downunder.com/2019/0...ed-but-there-was-plenty-of-self-flaggelation/
THIS is what I have been seeing. Finally a journo who actually knows football
Spot on maybe his been reading TK as yesterdays comments on here are exact to his comments. Either way his spot on and our tactics yesterday were not to nrl standard, park football stuff. Teams must be licking their lips waiting to play us.Bulldogs didn’t get flogged but there was plenty of self-flaggelation
May 26, 2019 TheLanDownUnder 0 Comments
The saying goes you can’t teach an old dog new tricks — well after Sunday’s game between the Canterbury Bulldogs and Melbourne Storm it appears you could extend that maxim to the use of tactics too.
Coach Dean Pay and his Bulldogs were always underdogs (sorry to labour the pun) up against it on Sunday playing the clinical Storm.
But Pay’s stubborn refusal to alter the game plan — or his team’s inability to improvise — gave the Bulldogs almost no hope of winning.
Bulldogs head coach Dean Pay.
Melbourne are a very very good team, but they do have a weakness and it is their right side defence.
The left edge has barely been beaten all season with Cameron Munster, Will Chambers and Josh Addo-Carr working together beautifully.R
The centre is stout thanks to Cam Smith marshalling his brigade of WWE enforcers with aplomb.
The right side however, that’s where you want to attack, as that is the side filled by Brodie Croft, a rotating cast of centres and Suliasi Vunivalu, a winger with almost as many inexplicable errors in his game as he does moments of supreme athleticism — and four times as many missed tackles as Addo-Carr.
Most teams try to limit Josh Addo-Carr’s access to the ball, Canterbury were feeding him.
You might think attacking the Storm right side would work for the Bulldogs too as Canterbury’s left is controlled by veteran playmaker Kieran Foran, the same Foran who cut the Titans to shreds just last week with three try assists.
Running off Foran’s shoulder is 2019 recruit and offload maniac Corey Harawira-Naera. Give them the ball and let them attack!
But no; Dean Pay’s playbook instead saw the Bulldogs play right again, and again and again — with Jack Cogger having almost twice the number of ball receipts as Foran.
Canterbury’s last tackle options consisted of Jack Cogger on the right putting up a kick not quite high enough to be a bomb and not quite deep enough to pin the Storm back. The kick was inevitably fielded comfortably by either Storm fullback Jahrome Hughes or winger Addo-Carr.
The play was so predictable that by the second half Hughes was able to set up camp down in the right corner well ahead of the fifth tackle.
And who could blame him, because from his camp he had the best seat in the house to watch Addo-Carr torch the Bulldogs via kick returns.
You may have heard of Addo-Carr, he’s pretty quick, and has a decent step. The Bulldogs certainly know it now because kicking to him so often allowed the speedster to run for 207 metres and score a solo 70 metre try.
Take a knee Kieran — we won’t be using you this week … Picture: AAP Image/Steve Christo
Hamstrung by salary cap woes not of his making, Pay is on somewhat of a hiding to nothing at the Bulldogs.
hhowever, when your game plan boils down to keeping the ball out of the hands of your best attacking player and trying your hardest to put the ball in the hands of the opposition’s best attacking player, the hiding is very much a matter of self-flagellation.
http://theland-downunder.com/2019/0...ed-but-there-was-plenty-of-self-flaggelation/
THIS is what I have been seeing. Finally a journo who actually knows football
Yeah but pay says the boys are learning. Hopefully they may learn pay cant coach yet i dare say they already knowNah it’s all good Pay was happy with the effort and if we just fixed the errors we would be in the top 4.
I just wish someone could guide us to learn how to win, maybe string a few wins together so we could all just " Have'A'Ball".With Des we had Desball and with Pay we have Moneyball
Mate they haven’t been learning if they had been they would be improving. The fact they are getting worse is very disheartening because all Pay will do is make mass changes in a few weeks and it will just be this same cycle until the end of the season.Yeah but pay says the boys are learning. Hopefully they may learn pay cant coach yet i dare say they already know
Who else did we have? Plus when he re-signed him, Lichaa wasn't playing desball and was killing it.P
Pay re sighned lichaa. Enough said.
And what hooker are we plucking out of the sky? We have been saying that for 5 years at least now and it hasn’t happened.On 550k plus a year when he doesn't deserve to make the team on form? Especially when we already have props to do the job better or the same as he does and still desperately need backs, a half and a hooker. The Roosters let him go for a reason. He has three good games a year.
He had 8 runs for 60 metres, had 22 tackles and missed 4 in 45 minutes of lazy, sloppy footy in his supposed origin audition.
Yes as why i say all they have learnt is pay cannot coach. For me when he makes changes now his saying players are not performing. And yeah they do make mistakes but his coaching is now the issue not the players. I think the players relise they will spend the season either in nrl or reserves dropping them has become a normMate they haven’t been learning if they had been they would be improving. The fact they are getting worse is very disheartening because all Pay will do is make mass changes in a few weeks and it will just be this same cycle until the end of the season.
Lol i believe you every team knows pays plan of attackUp to you if you want to believe me but a friend of mine who is a player in the team gave me Pay's attack plan that we used against the Storm and pretty much every other team, can't say the players name but here is the plan of attack
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