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DOGS ARE DOWN
The Canterbury Bulldogs are on the verge of imploding.
The team’s winless start to the year, no major sponsor, no home ground, uncertainty over the future of coach Dean Pay, the standing down of club legend Steve Price and unexplained return of Chris Anderson in an unofficial recruitment role has upset long-time fans.
Anderson was forced to stand stood down from the Bulldogs board last year when The Sunday Telegraph revealed his recruitment business had gone into liquidation, owing millions. He was replaced on the club retention committee by his wife Lynne Anderson, but player agents have revealed he’s still unofficially involved behind the scenes — although the club denies this.
Meanwhile. Pay feels he’s being sidelined from roster planning.
The Dogs have a $3 million war chest to spend on new players for 2021. There is one major problem … potential recruits want to know who will be coaching the team.
This will force the club into making an early call on Pay, possibly even next week.
The other big issue concerns football club general manager Price who was stood down when COVID-19 shutdown the premiership, but has yet to return from Queensland.
The club surprisingly left him out of their 50-person bubble.
Many blame the fact club legend Terry Lamb got caught at training last week shaking hands with players and breaking bio-security protocols on the fact Price wasn’t around to police the rules.
SHOOSH
Which assistant coach at a struggling NRL club has rung both St George-Illawarra and the Canterbury Bulldogs to inquire about their head coaching roles.
SHOOSH
Which NRL club is quietly checking out the position of Gold Coast Titans coach Justin Holbrook, despite the fact he’s under contract until the end of 2021.
NEW DOG KENNEL
There’s now talk of the NRL pushing the state government for a boutique stadium at Liverpool on the site owned by Canterbury. It could be used for Bulldogs and Wests Tigers games. The Dogs’ Belmore HQ is unlikely to get funding and their deal is up at ANZ Stadium.
The Canterbury Bulldogs are on the verge of imploding.
The team’s winless start to the year, no major sponsor, no home ground, uncertainty over the future of coach Dean Pay, the standing down of club legend Steve Price and unexplained return of Chris Anderson in an unofficial recruitment role has upset long-time fans.
Anderson was forced to stand stood down from the Bulldogs board last year when The Sunday Telegraph revealed his recruitment business had gone into liquidation, owing millions. He was replaced on the club retention committee by his wife Lynne Anderson, but player agents have revealed he’s still unofficially involved behind the scenes — although the club denies this.
Meanwhile. Pay feels he’s being sidelined from roster planning.
The Dogs have a $3 million war chest to spend on new players for 2021. There is one major problem … potential recruits want to know who will be coaching the team.
This will force the club into making an early call on Pay, possibly even next week.
The other big issue concerns football club general manager Price who was stood down when COVID-19 shutdown the premiership, but has yet to return from Queensland.
The club surprisingly left him out of their 50-person bubble.
Many blame the fact club legend Terry Lamb got caught at training last week shaking hands with players and breaking bio-security protocols on the fact Price wasn’t around to police the rules.
SHOOSH
Which assistant coach at a struggling NRL club has rung both St George-Illawarra and the Canterbury Bulldogs to inquire about their head coaching roles.
SHOOSH
Which NRL club is quietly checking out the position of Gold Coast Titans coach Justin Holbrook, despite the fact he’s under contract until the end of 2021.
NEW DOG KENNEL
There’s now talk of the NRL pushing the state government for a boutique stadium at Liverpool on the site owned by Canterbury. It could be used for Bulldogs and Wests Tigers games. The Dogs’ Belmore HQ is unlikely to get funding and their deal is up at ANZ Stadium.
