Official Round 15 - Press Conference

[PoundHounds]

Bullshit, winning ugly is still winning.

Go Dogs

Seriously... we won and people are seemingly angry about the way we won it...when nobody expected the win.

 

[KLil]

Today was nothing but PROOF this team can play good footy. A better coach would get so much out of this team.

 

[Novdoggie]

We won by scoring less tries than the sharks. WTF!!

 

[PoundHounds]

lol we only won because Shaun Johnson missed so many conversions. We got 2 points, but I don't see this as a win at all.

So a kickers conversion rate is the mark of who should take the points? Credit where its due mate we played ok and deserved this one

 

[Novdoggie]

Sharks beat them selfs today and fucked every opportunity they had .
Edit: 4 on 1 and they put a gruber bahahahhahahaaha.

Yep, and how do you score more tries than the opposition and still lose? So yes the sharks beat themselves

 

[Papa Emeritus]

So a kickers conversion rate is the mark of who should take the points? Credit where its due mate we played ok and deserved this one

Not always but in this circumstance I reckon it is.

Yes we had some awesome plays and got away to a good lead. Credit there. But they scored 3 times and us only 2. We were clinging on by our teeth for the last 30 mins, and if SJ got just one of those conversions we would have been toast. There is no way we would have nailed a field goal before they did.

We are lucky as hell that the Sharks were off today.

 

[AlzzBulldog]

Lol he went there again

 

[Packstar]

He is right.

They are a young team and the club is rebuilding.

But, Pay isnt the man for the job

 

[Mr Invisible]

We are lucky as hell that the Sharks were off today.

But in fairness Sharks got gifted a try that wasn't one, and two others got marched onto our goal line for them.

Sharks got lucky as hell today with the refs calls otherwise they'd have been 0 at full time.

Try 1: The same reason they called a no try to Xerri, they awarded a try to Feki (Moylan obstructed play).
Try 2: Nikora knocks on after a strip whilst trying to score.
Try 3: Dugan was in front of Moylan.

 

[EB18]

Did he say anything about Foran injury?

 

[The DoggFather]

We won by scoring less tries than the sharks. WTF!!

Happens in real sports too, like NFL and Union.

 

[bulldogfan1]

You could tell in the first 5 mins that the sharks were "not up".

This is what our team relies on to win.

 

[TABOO]

There is merit to all opinions here.
Postives:
- We WON (FMD WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT).
- We copped some dodgy ass calls (But whats new?)
- We scrapped it out to the final buzzer to hold on
- There was actually some line speed and kick chase (Amazing what some energy can do)
- Our line speed for the first time this year did put pressure on play makers and forced errors
- It was almost a full strength sharts team.
- We did it without Foran for ~50 minutes

Negatives:
- The sharks were definitely off today. They look flat and Moylan was terrible (I almost thought he had put some money on the dogs to win at $4)
- We still only scored two tries
- Most teams still would have beaten us
- Had SJ even kicked one of the goals he missed, we likely would have lost.

I am still mind blown over the Nikora try (Although great for supercoach) when he literally did the exact same thing back to CHN and the ref called it a knock on.
There is no clearer example of bias than this.

Anyway, we got one over the peptides and I'm happy about it.

 

[Papa Emeritus]

But in fairness Sharks got gifted a try that wasn't one, and two others got marched onto our goal line for them.

Sharks got lucky as hell today with the refs calls otherwise they'd have been 0 at full time.

Try 1: The same reason they called a no try to Xerri, they awarded a try to Feki (Moylan obstructed play).
Try 2: Nikora knocks on after a strip whilst trying to score.
Try 3: Dugan was in front of Moylan.

Yeah that is true, but bad ref calls are always going to happen. Sometimes they benefit you as well.