News Bulldogs to build NRL team on good defense

bradyk

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This aged well :P
 

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Meaney at fullback for me. More ball less mistakes, go doggies
 

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Have you watched us play over the last 2 years?

Attack wont improve this year magically. We have shown no improvement over 2 years. We had the chance to bring Croft and Api in, we should have chased em harder. But no, we are still fielding a reserve grade spine, Wakeham excluded.

Dud #2.

Next.

Edit: Should add that defence is useless if we cant make us of the opportunities given to us by such a defence. Parra gave us at least 20 last week and we botched every single one.
I was replying to what you said initially
 

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Our D last night was below average. Cows didn’t throw that much at us. As for Lewis, his first 5 mins he was on fire, then he played like he thought he was Benji Marshal in attack and forgot how to defend. I’m not sure why Pay keeps playing players out of position but it is not working. #sackpay
 

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Do you think the injuries at the back end of last season and again in the rep game at the start of the season is what has DWZ second-guessing himself when going up to contest a bomb? he hasn't been the same player since he got those injuries and maybe that's why he isn't catching a lot of the kicks that have been directed his way.
 

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When I rewatched the game today one thing that stood out was our lack of line speed

Literally Taumalolo was gifted 10-12m before contact no wonder he didn’t break a sweat to 345m

Line speed lack thereof was disgusting
 

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So, when are they going to start building? Lol
 

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When I rewatched the game today one thing that stood out was our lack of line speed

Literally Taumalolo was gifted 10-12m before contact no wonder he didn’t break a sweat to 345m

Line speed lack thereof was disgusting
Line speed is our salary caps fault
 

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When I rewatched the game today one thing that stood out was our lack of line speed

Literally Taumalolo was gifted 10-12m before contact no wonder he didn’t break a sweat to 345m

Line speed lack thereof was disgusting
And by comparison, our guys got smashed asap they caught the ball off the dummy half. Just got picked off one by one trudling to the line.

Were Cowboys that far off side? Poor.
 

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Do you think the injuries at the back end of last season and again in the rep game at the start of the season is what has DWZ second-guessing himself when going up to contest a bomb? he hasn't been the same player since he got those injuries and maybe that's why he isn't catching a lot of the kicks that have been directed his way.
No. Because he done the exact same thing at Penrith.
 

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When I rewatched the game today one thing that stood out was our lack of line speed

Literally Taumalolo was gifted 10-12m before contact no wonder he didn’t break a sweat to 345m

Line speed lack thereof was disgusting
Line speed been an issue for a while.We do move up as one which is the main aim so as not to leave gaps in the line but we are slow. If we are building on defence for 2020 we still have a ways to go. Some of the reads in defence were poor and although at times on our line we scrambled well we can't put in the effort for the full 80 minutes which we need to do to counteract our pedestrian attack. So far i am seeing the same things from the past two years. Once again our hooker is the backbone of defence for the team meaning that even if he could organise from dummy half he is probably worn out by all the tackling. In saying that though the top three tacklers in the game at the moment are all hookers, the other two being Koroisau and Cook who can organise....

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...f/news-story/bd99fd532a471ae40b2de9e3bf67569c

The Tongan beast finished the game with a whopping 318 metres according to verified stats on Friday, beating his previous record of 301m, which he set in March last year.
 

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When I rewatched the game today one thing that stood out was our lack of line speed

Literally Taumalolo was gifted 10-12m before contact no wonder he didn’t break a sweat to 345m

Line speed lack thereof was disgusting
We've been working on it for years to if you believe what they tell us lol... Grimaldi and alot of the mainstay staff need abit of a shake up
 
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