Shifty' Sherwin returns to Bulldogs to mentor halves

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Great he’s back

But if he has designs on one day coaching he best not listen to Pay
 

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Finally 5hey are listening to the kennel we have been calling for 5his for the past few years
 

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Like to see him there at training for a few more days than a Monday. A great start tho.
 

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Sherwin...

Oh how the 'Dogs have missed someone of his calibre....

Absolutely godlike on his day
 

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Shifty these days will still be better than most halfbacks running around NRL level..
 

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Shit yeah!!! Shifty was a legend! Sounds like they are trying to get "the band" back together.

I wonder why Halligan and not El Masri is helping with kicking??

Either way this is encouraging news. Now get Corey Hughes back to work with our hookers, and Mason to work with the props and get Nick Meaney agro. Oh and get Luke Patten working with Meaney.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Shifty the last bloke to do the "kick from the scrum or 20m line on a restart, and regather it if it went dead". It was some really obscure rule that wasn't used much.
 

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There's something about Cogger, his attitude towards learning and just generally being a sponge for knowledge. He really is improving every week and you can tell he's trying to learn as much as possible.

I don't know how long Sherwin's already been there, but I know Cogger will learn as much as he can off him.
He is starting to develop a good running game isn’t he?
 

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Saw Shifty on The Fan with Vossy a few weeks back. He drives trucks now - has a trucking business. I think egos have a lot to do with why a coach like Pay wouldnt bring a master half like Shifty back into the fold earlier. It was painfully obvious last season that our halves needed help in managing a game. But for some reason it takes another year and untold losses before Shifty offer of help is taken up. Like Pay the bloke bleeds blue and white and Im sure he could organise an employee to do his runs so he could devote more time with the team. It isnt just halves either. Its critical in todays game given the pace of the game thst the hooker/dummy half can kick. Shifty needs to instill confidence in our hooker be it Liccha JK or whoever how to pick opportunities and execute in the helta skelter of the moment. Maybe they lack confidence. Shifty can help them to read defensive numbers and in developing the various kicking skills the best dummy halves possess. We have pushed the reset button after moving Hasler on, Pay was a prop, his strength was defence but finally ego has given way to common sense to ring the skills of Shifty back to Belmore. May these and future Dogs halves continue to benefit from the wisdom and knowledge of the true bulldogs legend that is Brent Sherwin.
 

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Kick to the sideline from a 20m tap. As long as the ball bouncers in the field of play you get the scrum feed from where it went out. Still a rule now.
Shit yeah!!! Shifty was a legend! Sounds like they are trying to get "the band" back together.

I wonder why Halligan and not El Masri is helping with kicking??

Either way this is encouraging news. Now get Corey Hughes back to work with our hookers, and Mason to work with the props and get Nick Meaney agro. Oh and get Luke Patten working with Meaney.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Shifty the last bloke to do the "kick from the scrum or 20m line on a restart, and regather it if it went dead". It was some really obscure rule that wasn't used much.
 

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Kick to the sideline from a 20m tap. As long as the ball bouncers in the field of play you get the scrum feed from where it went out. Still a rule now.
That was the one!!! Cheers.

Suprised not many teams make use of that, as if a teams right on your line attacking, grubber and it goes dead, a good kicker could get into the line, belt it over the sideline catching wingers out, and score valuable metres.

Sure you'd negate 1 tackle from a 7th tackle set, but you'd gain far more metres than a 10m hitup.
 

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Shifty was the cronk of the nrl before cronk was cronk. His pin point kicking and ability to time in with that spark in attack. Shifty should be in the top 5 of 7s for that decade. Nice to hear he call pay and offered, I'm guessing this didn't start in the pre season.
 

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That was the one!!! Cheers.

Suprised not many teams make use of that, as if a teams right on your line attacking, grubber and it goes dead, a good kicker could get into the line, belt it over the sideline catching wingers out, and score valuable metres.

Sure you'd negate 1 tackle from a 7th tackle set, but you'd gain far more metres than a 10m hitup.
A 20m tap is 7 tackles now, so I guess there's no point.
 

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3 words: “short kicking game”

We need to learn how again
Shifty's grubbers usually went out, we need to weight them better and preferably on an angle in the in goal and turn the ball sideways so it don't bounce up, Joey tip.
 
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