Official Round 8 - Bulldogs vs Rabbitohs - Discussion Thread

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NRL - Round 8

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs v South Sydney Rabbitohs

Venue - BankWest Stadium, Parramatta
Time - Kick off 6:30 pm Sunday 5th July
TV Coverage - Foxsports
Tickets - N/A


Bulldogs

1 Dallin Watene-Zelezniak
2 Nick Meaney
3 Reimis Smith
4 Marcelo Montoya
5 Christian Crichton
6 Kieran Foran
7 Brandon Wakeham
8 Aiden Tolman
9 Jeremy Marshall-King
10 Dylan Napa
11 Josh Jackson
12 Raymond Faitala-Mariner
13 Adam Elliott

14 Kerrod Holland
15 Dean Britt
16 Renouf To’omaga
17 Jessie Sue

19 Ofahiki Ogden
20 Jack Cogger
21 Luke Thompson
22 Sione Katoa


Rabbitohs

1 Latrell Mitchell
2 Dane Gagai
3 Campbell Graham
4 James Roberts
5 Alex Johnston
6 Cody Walker
7 Adam Reynolds
8 Tevita Tatola
9 Damien Cook
10 Thomas Burgess
11 Jaydn Su'A
12 Ethan Lowe
13 Cameron Murray

14 Liam Knight
15 Bayley Sironen
16 Hame Sele
17 Braidon Burns

18 Mark Nicholls
19 Patrick Mago
20 Troy Dargan
21 Corey Allan

Referees: Peter Gough;Sideline Officials: Matt Noyen, Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski
Video Referees: Steve Clark, Ben Galea

Bulldogs all-time record v Rabbitohs
175 played 88 wins 80 losses 7 draws

Bulldogs record at BankWest Stadium
7 played 3 wins 4 losses

Last meeting
Round 22, 2019 Bulldogs 14 Rabbitohs 6
 
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If the Tigers can put 36 on us, I'd hate to see what Cook, Murray, Latrell, Reynolds and co will do to us. They'll be looking to bounce back after a bad loss to Penrith.
 

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If the Tigers can put 36 on us, I'd hate to see what Cook, Murray, Latrell, Reynolds and co will do to us. They'll be looking to bounce back after a bad loss to Penrith.
But if we hold the ball and run hard and don’t miss tackles we will win......
 

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Well deserved axing for Holland.

Montoya will go well.
Hate to tell you horse but it’s a 17 man game...Pay actually realised his bench last week was wrong and didn’t have balance.Hence he reinstated Holland as the utility player the club needs.
 

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Surely Harper is better than Montoya.

I don’t mind Holland coming from the bench, he’s actually been alright there, but Montoya at centre, or even worse, on the wing, is horrible.
 

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Hate to tell you horse but it’s a 17 man game...Pay actually realised his bench last week was wrong and didn’t have balance.Hence he reinstated Holland as the utility player the club needs.
So cogger is out then? Is Thompson playing?
 

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Hate to tell you horse but it’s a 17 man game...Pay actually realised his bench last week was wrong and didn’t have balance.Hence he reinstated Holland as the utility player the club needs.
Pity that we didn’t carry the winger/centre on the bench last week as we did in the previous weeks. Hoppa’s injury couldn’t have come on a worse week.
 

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Surely Harper is better than Montoya.

I don’t mind Holland coming from the bench, he’s actually been alright there, but Montoya at centre, or even worse, on the wing, is horrible.
He’ll surprise people.

Definitely a better option than Harper who for the most part fires blanks in attack.
 

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I just want to see Thommo and Burgess run at each other !!!
 

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He’ll surprise people.

Definitely a better option than Harper who for the most part fires blanks in attack.
How will he surprise people? He's an average CCup standard back that hasn't played in close to 12 months coming off a severe knee injury.

He was slow before the injury it will be even worse now.
 
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How will be surprise people? He's an average CCup standard back that hasn't played in close to 12 months coming off a severe knee injury.

He was slow before the injury it will be even worse now.
Same sort of response I got when I backed Elliott when everyone else had written him off.

Let’s wait and see. We’ll revisit this statement in a month or so Spoonman
 

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Pity that we didn’t carry the winger/centre on the bench last week as we did in the previous weeks. Hoppa’s injury couldn’t have come on a worse week.
Yep it was criminal. That re-shuffle was happening no matter who in the back 5 got injured. Everyone keeps saying it happened because Hoppa got injured but it could have been anyone from 1 to 5.

If Smith got injured Holland would have went to the wing and JMK to centre.

To have JMK as our centre option defies belief to be honest. Its lucky Mbye is rubbish these days because a decent centre would have tore him to pieces.

We dont have backrowers who can play in the outside backs so we cant afford not to carry a back on the bench

Huge error from Pay. Realistically as soon as we got an injury in the backs the game was over. That shouldnt happen.
 

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Same sort of response I got when I backed Elliott when everyone else had written him off.

Let’s wait and see. We’ll revisit this statement in a month or so Spoonman
You also creamed yourself over Britt being a great signing too so I wouldn't say your strike rate is that great.

Let's see what happens in a months time.
 

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How will be surprise people? He's an average CCup standard back that hasn't played in close to 12 months coming off a severe knee injury.

He was slow before the injury it will be even worse now.
I think Horse meant for those that thought our backline couldn’t get any worse, prepare to be surprised.
 
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