That’s Marley for you bro. I’ll bet whatever you want if we ever win a GF he’ll be negative about something. He’ll blame the ball boy for giving us the wrong kicking tee or some shit like that.
I had a mate ages ago that used to give it to Pattern when we first bought him from the dragons. As you might know Pattern was a Dragons reject playing in reserve grade. Amos Roberts was playing first grade and Pattern was told they didn’t want him anymore. So we took a punt on him. He was hot and cold back in 2001 when he started playing for us, had a lot of errors in his game(heart attack material) and weak in defense. My mate hated him, always gave it to him, he used to call him “the almost man” as in he never used to make full line breaks, they were always half breaks and always used to get caught. He hated him. After a few years Pattern became a really solid fullback for us, scored many tries and developed a really good back up game and developed a really good cover defense technique and won a GF with us. Let the haters hate and just sit back and watch the rise of the bulldogs!
After watching Dufty play against us, I got a bit turned off by him. But I have no doubt if we sort out our forwards up front, him and the others we’ve bought in our back line will have a field day.