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In 10 weeks time some players will definitely be due a week off - CT, Xerri, Critta, Burton, Toby, King, Mahoney etc. if we are already locked into top 4 or even better top 2, we can afford to sit out a few players rather than risk injuries in the last couple of rounds.

The wahs for and against is basically a 4 point gap for us. They’ve won a lot of close games this year. If anything this is great for us especially if they make the top 4. For mine they are more beatable than the Storm etc. when it comes to the crunch

Fk imagine if Ronaldo Mulitalo played for the dogs?? Nobody says anything about him but he is way more of a pest than Mahoney is

They also had a bye last week lol. We’ve played 2 games since they had last played.

It honestly depends a lot on if we win a comp this year and how we finish the season off..it is going to be difficult with Perth coming into the comp. For mine kiks is a downgrade to 600k or so and if he wants to take the money elsewhere then he can - we have proven we can win without him but he...

The main thing is we are 6 points clear of 3rd, and we have a good for and against gap on teams outside of the top 4. Top 2 would be ideal but as long as we are in the top 4 we are right in this. Home semi wk 1 and a win is a home prelim. I can’t wait till we get our full strength team on the...

Worst case scenario we lose 5 to origin - Critta, Mann, King, Burton, Kiraz. We get Curran back and maybe Hughes. Assuming the very worst scenario: 1. Tracey 2. Montoya 3. Xerri 4. Sua 5. Wilson 6. Hayward 7. Sexton 8. Hughes 9. Mahoney 10. Morrin 11. Kikau 12. Hayes 13. Curran 14. Hopoi 15...

There is also a chance Max King gets picked for nsw. Sounds like Laurie has gone off T.May and Saifiti got injured. Kingy definitely deserves it, but we would need Hughes to come back in urgently lol

What I like most is we are 8 points clear of 5th on the same number of games played. Don’t want to get ahead of ourselves but we can probably afford to rest 8-10 players in the last few rounds and remain in the top 4

3. King - 6 injuries / suspensions to our forwards and an early HIA, he carried the pack against a roosters pack with 4 origin forwards (Leniu, Crichton, Collins & Watson). Beast 2. Burton - excellent 2nd half with the boot got us back into the game and a great try to seal the win. 1. Hayward -...

I was sitting here at half time thinking a couple of things… If we come back and make the score respectable then yeah fair enough, we have excuses up against a big pack with players out and things against us…. If we don’t come back, we are pretenders just picking on shit teams… Neither of them...

He saved a couple of tries in the first half and was great in support in the 2nd half. He is actually becoming quite a crucial part of our team especially defensively. Hopefully it’s not too bad we can’t afford to lose another forward

Delete this thread. You could have Joey Johns and Wally Lewis and they aren’t gonna do much with 30% possession

I was questioning the continual selection of Hayward late last year but boy I was wrong and Ciro was right. I agree, Ciro could become a very long term coach for us

Burton was actually excellent in the second half besides the early drop on the last. I think he just needs some game time this year

3. Critta - his best game in a dogs jersey 2. Kiraz 1. King Kikau a notable mention. I also think Salmon saved a couple of tries in the first half and backed up really well to grab a try of his own. I’m speechless

I’m not kidding. That was absolute perfection. I don’t know what Ciro said at half time but omg. Crichton is worth $1m and I don’t think centres are worth over 800k

Just getting rolled over up the middle and allowing far too much second phase play. The halves equally as trash with the chances we’ve had. Simply turning it over each time without a repeat set or even trying to build some pressure. Ciro needs to blow them up at half time

3. Kiraz 2. CT 1. Critta

The comedown from winning 32-0 in front of 65k. Think we were getting ahead of ourselves. Conditions don’t suit us at all and Reynolds is having a 10/10 game. That on top of 2 bins and losing Burton for 15 mins.

6. King The best game of his career. He would not look out of place in a sky blue jumper

Gonna be some interesting calls to make re: selection with these guys coming back.

Dogs 28 Knights 12 MOM Sexton Crowd 28,524

Great problem to have. Tbh salmon has been outstanding this year. Not the most flashy player but he gets through a lot of the dirty work.

the first 10 mins I felt like the sharks were rolling us in the forwards a bit but they couldn’t convert. Then we scored as soon as we had a chance. On top of that, the only reason they were rolling up in the forwards was because of a bullshit penalty count and we kept holding them out. We lost...

Fuck Bailey was good tonight. I thought at best he could be a solid fill in but tonight he was easily in our top 3 for mine. He is growing in confidence too, it’s gonna be a blessing to have him in the 17 later in the season

What pleased me the most was the last 5-10 mins. We could have easily clocked off and let in some cheap tries but we didn’t fkn budge. We are the real deal this year. I’m a bit shocked at how well we are playing. Every game is tough but if we can get past the knights next week in front of 30k...

Don’t want to lose Preston for a few weeks over origin but the experience gained could be crucial for us going into the finals. We want as much big game XP into our players as possible. Will be wrapped if Preston gets the call up this year, he deserves it

Agreed. I also thought he would just be a solid enough backup but he has been outstanding this year. We aren’t missing fox at all. Would like to extend this to Hayward too, who I thought was just another solid squad player. Fuck he was good tonight. Deserves his place in the 17 and growing in...

3. Preston 2. Hayward 1. Xerri Everyone deserves a mention. Our wingers were outstanding, Salmon cleaned the fuck up out of anything. King and Hayes were enormous against a bigger pack. I’m so fkn proud right now

One of our best tonight. All the coaches on here can eat some humble pie. Ciro knows what he is doing

5-2 penalties and 3-0 set restarts. We are playing against 14 here with 3 of our best out.

Burton nails both of them. Case closed as to who our full time kicker should be

I think it’s a great chance to debut Joseph O’Neill without shuffling too much around. With Burton being out 4-6 weeks it’s a great opportunity to give the kid some consistent time in the top grade. You never know when it could come in valuable later on in the season

3. Sexton 2. King 1. Kikau Salmon, Montoya & Mahoney also had very good games

Dogs 34 Titans 16 Burton MOM

3. Sitili 2. Preston 1. King / CT

Dogs 22 Dragons 18 MOM - Crichton

Depends if they want a comp or a pay cheque. If we picked up paps and Thompson I would be thrilled. Not sold on may with his attitude and the family history. With paps and Thompson I genuinely seeing us being a proper contender for the next 5 years

Scrap the bunker Force Gerard Sutton into retirement Having some big boppers coming off the bench would also help. As will the year playing together. Was thinking about it on the way home and manly have had some of those key players around for almost a decade. And they haven’t won shit. This is...

If he doesn’t wanna accept it, goodbye fox. Players association doesn’t even need to be involved here. If he wants what is best for himself personally and career wise, it would be the smart decision to take it. Otherwise I’m sure we have enough grounds to terminate his contract on the spot...

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We’ve got 2 options really. Sack him, he gets picked up by Souths/parra/someone else and ends up carving us up, like all other ex players have done in the past. 2nd option is he gets no off season. Send him to counselling, rehab, education etc. massive fine, he is already suspended for the...

We have our differences re: Burton but at least we can agree on this lmao

This would work very well against manly. We need to shut down DCE. More worried about him than turbo. We shut down Cherry and we win

Dogs 22 Manly 12 Mom - Critta Crowd - 48k

Will give him the benefit of the doubt here. He was killing it earlier this year, especially kick chases

Agree here it wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Only issue is now we’ve put ourselves on the side of the finals draw that would likely have to beat Panthers/Roosters wk2 if results go to favourites (if we beat manly)

Let’s not forget Turbo is busted and Saab is out. Manly still have to play tomorrow too and anything can happen (injuries or suspensions). They’ve also got a shorter turnaround than us. It will definitely help being full strength -Mann. We really need Sharks to win so it’s at home for us and...

The only positive I can take out of tonight is no further injuries that we know of, and Burton, Xerri and Fox have had a week to freshen up. If we had of won last week I probably would have given all 3 of them and a few others a week off to rest for finals with nothing to lose as we would have...

Kikau was killing it earlier in the year, I really don’t think he is 100% fit atm. There were a couple of half breaks tonight that earlier in the year he was straight through

Love your enthusiasm but I think the crowd will be tamed by our last 2 performances. Wouldn’t even surprise me if we got less than the 6pm Friday manly game, with members having to pay for tickets. In saying that I’ll be there and hoping for 40k plus if sharks win tomorrow. Surely the nrl will...

What annoyed me the most is we were trying to attack to the left as if Burto, Xerri and Fox were there. Our right side has been very good this year (broncos and Parra games stand out), and we had all the regulars with CT, Critta and Kiraz. I guess we’d already knocked on before getting a chance...

Very disappointing that 68k fans have turned up over the past 2 weeks and have been dished up the worst 2 performances of the year. Our left edge defence was obviously lacking with our 3 regular starters out but there was a lot up the middle as well. Hutch had an absolute shocker. So...

Fuming even more about the loss now. Manly have a good record against the sharks too. FMD.

To think if that Hayward try against cowboys earlier this year was given we would already have a home semi wrapped up…

Nah that’s only for cat 1. Cat 2 he just has to pass concussion protocols through the week.

Disappointing but could almost feel that one coming. We didn’t defend that well against Warriors first half last week and we’ve had a lot of travel. Understandable we were a bit flat especially with Critta and Mann out. Manly tore apart our edges, a lot of which will be fixed with Critta. I...

Bulldogs 28 Manly 18 MOM: Tracey Crowd: 41,768

3. Burton 2. Hughes 1. Hayes We missed Curran badly tonight

Depending on results, if we can’t make the top 4 and we get a win against manly we effectively lock up 5th spot going into the last round. If that happens I can see Ciro resting a bunch of players for the cows game. Especially those who’ve played most of the year I.e. Burto, Critta, Xerri...

3. Critta 2. Xerri 1. Preston

Agree here. He has been great the last few weeks. Despite his lack of size he more than makes up for in effort. He was punching holes in the line today and then some. Definitely deserves a wrap

Legit this was the most evenly refereed game we’ve had all year. I sat next to Atkins on a flight back from Perth after Origin a few years back. Not a bad bloke and one of the best refs in the game him and Adam Gee

Oh ciro will be drilling it in all week we lost to the fuckers in magic round. Belmore is gonna be packed to the rafters and then some, and then some more. The boys will be fired up for this one. I doubt Critta will be back but if Fox comes back in unfortunately for me it’s Wilson who needs to...

I’ve said it a few times but this was our best win in years. I can’t think of anything in the last 5-6 years that tops this. We were starting to get written off in the media this week that we had a good run but we are done now and the slide was starting this week (before Critta got ruled out)...

I was saying last season when he was at the sharks that fuck I’d love to sign him… and we did. I can’t believe sharks let him go tbh. He is so versatile and seems to have everything to his game, we’ve honestly got a steal here. He plays the modern fullback game to a tee. We could always fork out...

How much do you think Burto is getting paid? I can assure you it’s not $1m a season nor is it anywhere near what other clubs would pay for luxury of having someone like Burton in their team. Let’s just go back to when we had Mbye in our halves hey? I’m sure we were getting value for money then...

How many times has Luke Brooks guided his team into a finals berth. Now he has DCE to take the pressure off and it’s still not certain. Reserve judgement on the others. Your stupidity is growing by the minute. Go support the tigers, they have a great half in Galvin?

Burton will be next

Would love to see you kick a drop kick. Probably no better than the one that you are.

I was very worried after the flukey try just before half time, but thinking about it again it may have been a blessing in disguise. We were never gonna win that game on the back of defense against a team with the strike power of broncos. We came out in the 2nd half and kept throwing the ball...

Go for another team if you can’t support your own. We are 5th and Matt Burton is a massive part of why we are there. Take him out we lose both golden point games, round 5 against roosters and 1-2 others too.

Agree re: sexton - game of his career, I can’t believe he was held up by hutch for so long Disagree re: Burto: every player is different and Burto might not be your classic ball playing 5/8th. The only reason we beat sharks a few weeks ago was through his kicking game. Every game this year it’s...

There is a lot of room for improvement for Burto, sky is the limit tbh. Earning his pay comment is uncalled for though. He isn’t on $1m+ he isn’t even in the top 2 players by salary at the club (Critta and Kikau). His general kicking game is invaluable to us and is a major strength to his game...

I didn’t think we were a chance today based on our last 3 games (2 close wins). I thought broncos had way too much class and as good as our defence has been I thought they would beat us in a close one. Almost had tears in my eyes the last 10 mins tbh, after the last 8 years and all the rubbish...

Very tough one. Xerri was also very good today and only getting better. It’s great for once to have the luxury of depth. If fox comes back next week I would definitely keep Skelton over Wilson, not that Wilson has done anything to be dropped, I’ve actually been quite happy with him in Fox absence

Hughes as well unlucky to miss out from everyone’s picks here. He was up against Payne Haas, played pretty much 30 minutes up front and did a great job. He was actually bending the line

3. Sexton (best game of his career) 2. Tracey 1. Skelton Unlucky to miss out - our entire team. This is the most proud I’ve been in a very long time. We were massively under strength against the broncos who were full strength and nearly won the grand final last year, at home!!! What an...

He has done a job for us this year and we’ll miss him. Thank god presto is back next week, I am loving this depth we have atm

Last time they rested all their origin players backing up. I don’t think they will be resting them next time with a 4 day turnaround but it is a big game for us. We might have presto and fox back. We’ve not played well backing up from a bye this year but after 2 golden point games I think we...

3. King - he has been unreal the last couple of weeks and is very underrated here 2. Curran 1. Mahoney

CC is coach of the year for mine. What a turnaround especially defensively. It’s because we are shutting teams out so often that we end up scoring points. Yes, our attack needs some polish, but who seen us in this position after round 17. I’m looking at the ladder right now. Most of the teams on...

Wouldn’t be rushing Fox back before the bye. We can win this one without him and we need him 100% towards the end of the year. He has already had several injuries this year.

3. Burton - someone tell me again he is a centre lmao. His kicking and running game kept us in the game in the 2nd half, and ultimately won us the game. Nearly nailed a 46m field goal too. 2. Mahoney - scored a try, everywhere in defence as usual 1. King - 1 costly error but he made very good...

Dogs 24 Parra 16 MOM - Burton Crowd - 46,278

It’s a loss for us because of his ability to come up with tries that nobody else can, but not as big of a loss as it used to be. Skelton I’m sure will get his opportunity in the next few weeks and Wilson has always done a solid job for us and has plenty of ticker.

This is a HUGE game for our finals chances. If we win it’s 3 on the trot going into the bye. Kikau will be getting closer to a return etc. we need to win this one. I’m sure ciro will have the boys up for this. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is 40k plus at Accor, let’s put on a show boys!

We signed Curran for 2 years meaning he is free to negotiate with other clubs from November 1. I’m sure it’s already in the works, but sign him up and upgrade him now!!!! He doesn’t seem to have a problem with his bench role and the impact he has for us is enormous. In this day and age I reckon...

Any Ciraldo haters around? He has turned this club around.

3. Kiraz 2. Mahoney 1. Preston Everyone deserves points. What a great team performance. Our defence is absolutely incredible at the moment

Our most impressive win of the season. Arguably our 3 best players out, 2 sin bins, losing fox, ref against us away from home to keep the knights tryless. Just wow. I’m proud to be a bulldog tonight.

He seems to be scared to dive after latrell knocked him out. Bombed like 3 tries at least putting a foot into touch instead of diving in. Hopefully he gets that confidence back soon

Kiraz is fast becoming one of my favourite players. 3rd in running metres this year. He takes the hard runs, has a nice offload and his attitude epitomises what it means to be a bulldog. He is so underrated, wouldn’t look out of place in a blues jersey but I doubt it will happen.

Panthers and Sharks are the only 2 teams with a better defensive record than us this year… we averaged close to 40 points a week against at the back half of last season. The turnaround is miraculous tbh.

If it makes anyone feel better my best mate who is a parra fan wants to steal ciro off us lol. We have the players coming through the grades and I think we’ve got the coach who can turn us back into a force again as these kids come through. He also has a good read on the game to recruit a team...

We could easily be 8-3 tbh. From where we have been the last few years to where we are now, ciro deserves a lot of credit. He is a young coach and isn’t going to get everything right, but he is getting most things right and that’s all we can really ask for. We have like 15 odd new players in the...

Really doubt fox makes it. I said it last night at the game but he seems scared to dive for the line after being taken out by latrell. He has probably cost himself 3 tries putting a foot into touch since then. I think Burton and Crichton will be out for sure. Wouldn’t be surprised if O’Neill...

How many tries do you think we should have scored in the 5 or so minutes that they were down to 11? Ten? We went from 0-12 to 20-12 in the space of about 15 minutes. I don’t think we could have done much better in that time, it was the first and last 20 minutes we need to be more concerned...

Depends really. The bye didn’t really help us I think we were a bit off the pace against the tigers when we had been building up despite a few injuries. It definitely helped the raiders tonight. Wouldn’t complain too much about scheduling so far we’ve almost exclusively had the Friday 6pm game...