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How good is he? Is he a speedster or a bulldozer?

Disappointed there was no Origin all in brawl. Bring back third man Thaiday.

Critta out this week. Injured?

Just goes to show what would the NRL and their media be without the Dogs? As exciting as watching Home and Away

Our attack has been shyte for over a decade and our last top class HB was Noddy in his twilight years. Our wins over the last 2 years has been based on fitness, defence and waiting for errors from the opposition. There is too much dependence on Critta andr Kiraz beating several defenders for a...

As the punter right? Can't see any other position that he could play in the NFL.

in the 17 or reserve grade?

yes and shows ill discipline on our players being offside before the ball is kicked in this age of video refs.

Does he even practice variations of them during training? or is he limited to do just kick a towering floating bomb from halfway once every few games?

i'm surprised that Burton does not execute more variations of his floating bombs and fine tune his accuracy. He rarely does them anymore and if he could do a mini version of it in the red zone to land a few metres from the try line it would be a constant nightmare for their FB and a near 50/50...

The last year that the Dogs were a good attacking side was 2012 with prime Barba, Morris, Kasiano and Graham. Since then it's been mainly clunky tries, bomb on the last and hope for the best and just winning from defence and fitness during our resurgence. With Galvin it's a case of taking 1...

Brisbane are the NRL darlings, they get prime time tv slots almost every week on thu/fri nights and a free pass for most offences. Mam slap on the wrist for pole axing 2 people on the road while DUI is hard evidence.

Raiders, Storm and Brisbane have won their last 4 matches. Dogs are 2-2 so all the momentum is with the other sides.

reflects well on Galvin given he played in a dud team for most of this year.

Raiders are 2 pts clear plus they have 2 byes to come. They have 3 more wins than the Dogs this year. Melbourne have a proven spine that performs under finals pressure and their For and Against is 110+ better than ours. Dogs won't finish in the top 2 before the finals unless those teams collapse...

Agree. If we had NRL quality in the 6 and 7 jerseys that year we win in a canter.

Yes our attack has been a dogs breakfast for over a decade. Only Reed can throw bullet spiral passes in both directions which should bread and butter stuff for a NRL half. The dogs cannot rely just on fitness and defence to win games when the other top teams are improving their fitness and their...

100% spot on

In the sunny outdoors during the day and netflix etc at night. Put some spare change on the other team when the bookies give them a points start against the Dogs so you can get a free meal when the Dogs have a close win or lose.

We are still fitter than other teams but as you noted the gap is narrowing. The dogs have been behind the leading teams in attacking skills for more than a decade. The only player that can consistently throw long, quick spiral passes in both directions is Reed. The passing skills and attacking...

Yes short term pain for long term gain. Give Galvin a few more weeks to settle and not overplay his hand this year. He offers a lot more in attack than any other half at the Dogs. Galvin with a full off season at the club will make the Dogs far more dangerous next year. At the moment the dogs...

its a win win for Reed and the dogs. Reed gets good coin for 2026+ that the Dogs could not afford and replace him with Hayward to stay within the cap. $ for Sexton + Reed ~= Galvin + Hayward and the Dogs get a better spine without the ill discipline.

yes but he asked for permission to shop around as the dogs could not guarantee beyond that.

Spot on about Hayes and Curran. As a newbie Hayes is very well disciplined and has minimal errors. Curran on the other hand...

After the most painful game to watch in years i'm going to boycott watching nrl games....... for a week. as a kid i used to sulk when the dogs lost a game like this and decades later it's no different. However TK serves a purpose when I see fellow Dogs fans fuming worse than me. Sleep well...

When Turpin is one of our better players on the field that is a red flag.

Our team has low footy IQ without our origin players. Pushing passes with fancy tip offs up when up by 3 tries against a tiring opposition is amateur hour.

rd 20 on the nrl site

He had a good 1st half but in the 2nd half the whole team bar a few were complete shyte. A disgraceful game that is hard for fans to get over when they throw away a game after leading 18-0 against a team that is nowhere near as fit.

if Mamm is caught DUI again it's all good by the NRL cause he plays for Brisbane.

Our team without Critta is Dr Hewson 2.0

Tonight also showed Critta is the only leader in our team that leads by example. Without him the team is second rate at best.

Our team mascot must be Dr Hewson.

100% right but he plays for the NRL darlings so he gets a free pass.

Worst loss in a long time. Losing after leading 18-0 against the team I hate the most. There better be a good show on netflix tonight to calm me down.

The game was worse than watching Neigbours and Home and Away.

PATHETIC. Idiotic dropped balls in the 2nd half, Curran's worst ever game for the Dogs. Feel sorry for the fans who paid to watch that shyte.

It's a 6 point handicap for our team

Turpin in the 17? WTH?

Remember Big Mal's career in politics? It lasted less than 30 minutes and he walked out. I wont be surprised if history repeats.

he must have been told the dogs are not supposed to lose every game they play anymore

is tuala any good or is he a rag doll like wilson?

Turpin is worth at least 6 points to the opposition

CC has to take the plunge and put Galvin at 6 for the rest of the year and Burton in the centres, Xerri to wing and Montoya to make way after Origin. I don't think we can win the comp with Burton and Sexton as the halves and 2 lightweight guys on the bench. Burton was a Dally M centre but he...

our halves in the red zone does the same predictable play on repeat - drift sideways and inside pass and run back to the centre of the field to get tackled.

the difference in the end was high footy IQ Cleary vs low footy IQ Burton. Those attributes will not change this year.

yes and I think the transfer fee should also factor in the original salary paid by the incumbent club compared to the salary offered by the new club. This reflects the amount of player development contributed by the incumbent club. If club x develops a junior to become an origin player who then...

The most obvious change should be a transfer fee to reward clubs that develop players only to lose them to other clubs.

what is our win rate with Sutton over the last 10 years? 2 out of 20? odds on the nrl darlings will score off forward passes next week.

You want to drop Hayes?

We had to win that 2004 GF with our bench of SBW, Thurston and Asotasi.

Sitili/Todd out injured until round 20/19 on NRL site.

Sexton Kikau Tracey -100 Turpin - aka Elliot 3.0. Stupid several high tackles and a sin bin that put the bunnies back into the game.

No ref Sutton so Dogs 20 nrl pets 12

SBW for sure. 36-0 at HT from memory

Yes Barba was the superstar but we had a gun centre in prime Jmoz and the best forward pack in the comp. Our weakness that year were the dud halves.

Mann is the man

moses milked a penalty. kikau binned for making contact with moses kicking leg.

Complete fantasy. Mortimer was in the top 2 quickest players in the comp over 5 to 50m and still one of the quickest over 100m. Only Steve Morris was comparable to Turvey in acceleration in that era.

No dogs halves should even be compared to Turvey and Lamb until they lead the team and win at least 3 GF each. Then the discussion can start.

So "immortal" Johns thinks Turbo is a better centre than Critta? The whole footy world knows that Critta is the best centre in the game except for that knob. What a clown.

Andrew Johns is an over rated player and even more over rated commentator. He's been saying Manly would win the comp at the start of each year for the last few years. I'll choose Turvey, Sterlo, Langer, Stuart and Cronk over Johns as a HB to lead a team to win multiple GF every day of the week.

option 2 the most effective and the least risk

as backup for Critta's leg wrapped in ice?

I suggest you get a new spell checker since it is "lawyer" not "laywer". I've used a lawyer once and I got a full payout from the other side. I said Gus talked like a lawyer, not the best lawyer.

Gus wasn't lying, he just spoke like a lawyer. Galvin was not available this year when the news about him not wanting to stay at the Tigers beyond end of 2026 first came out so the Dogs were not chasing him. When his manager advised the Dogs that Galvin obtained an early release and would be...

Steve Mortimer will always be the Rugby League GOAT for me, he was my childhood hero and the reason I switched teams and followed the Dogs since the 70's. Should have been an league immortal the day after he retired.

that is a quality back 5 but Burton would have to ensure he doesn't run on the 2nd last tackle cause we need his big boot on the last. Sexton long kicks aren't that great and i dont know how Galvin kicks.

If he comes over this year I don't think CC will want to change our spine half way through the year. I think he'll be a roaming ball playing lock and be part of the spine next year with after an off season training.

what happens to Xerri? Takes Montoya's spot?

a shocker tonight. 2 knock ons when the game was in the balance and in prime field position that stopped any momentum we had.

Our spine only have one play in the red zone - drift sideways and inside pass to run back where the tackle started.

Not a legit most hated poll without Manly. Manly by far followed by nrl darlings Brisbane

Why is the most hated team Manly not on the list?

I hope so. He is probably the quickest forward in the club and cover as backup in the centres as well in case of mid game injuries.

Tapau and Gronks agree to part ways immediately for publicly approving criticism of the coach's hardcore intensity and work ethic.

i only watch that gravy train hoping for some biff and check if any dogs players get injured. Does anyone actually care who wins by the weekend.

Great for King but our forward stocks are depleted for this week if Mann is selected. Does anyone know if Hughes is back this week or is he still injured?

2 consecutive amazing comebacks against quality teams with similar points deficits. Shades of 1998...

The one and only Steve Mortimer is our greatest ever signing. The Dogs have won 8 premierships in their 90 year history and half of them came under Mortimer's 13 years at the club including our first grand final in 38 years. An absolute match winner, our GOAT and leader Turvey. Mortimer played...

i think it went under the crossbar

we were long odds in this game as 3 of our best forwards are missing - Preston, Curran and Sitili so not surprised

It was that time of month for Tino

i thought TK was taking the piss out of him earlier or is it for real?

another clear conflict of interest was when his brother was the referee's boss and appointed him as GF ref.

at one stage the NRL refs had 3 Suttons which explains the WWE quality of NRL refs.

good summary plus the Haas try off a blatant forward pass. i think Sutton is worth 12 points to the opposition by the way he refs. Enough to alter the outcome of a close game or make a close loss into a wipeout.

yes, Sutton and his art of cherry picking (or rather berry) when he sees Bulldogs jerseys on game day.

I don't know what is worse. A grub for a king or a tampon.

well he did say he wanted to be her tampon....

everything is relative, compared to Queen Camilla she's a good sort

I didn't know until today how much coin these WWE ref clowns, I mean NRL refs are on. 300k a year! That is about what experienced GP's make and about double what a senior engineer with 20+ years experience are on. Why go to uni for 4 to 6 years and get flogged when you can run around the...

Bang on. Classic Sutton. A series of dubious calls like missed forward pass to a gronk try, soft penalties that creates the momentum for the game and then some square up penalties at the end after the outcome is already decided so it looks all fair and square on the summary sheet.

The 20% stat I saw was his career stats on Dogs games, not just part of his career. Sutton has been a NRL ref since 2009. From 2016 to 2024 the Dogs won 1 Sutton ref game out of 15.

Yes, good summary. When I saw who the ref was yesterday I knew the Dogs were long odds to win so I put some on the gronks with their 4 point start at the tab. The Dogs have about a 20% win rate under that clown. Anyone who studied Statistics can do a T-test analysis and know that the difference...

Spot on. You are right, we were crap but he'll penalise us for the most draconian reasons. When I saw who the ref was yesterday I knew the Dogs were long odds to win so I put some on the gronks with their 4 point start at the tab. The Dogs have about 20% win rate under that ref. Anyone who...

u think sutton would sin bin them if those 2 were wearing brisbane jerseys at lang park?

Haas try was off clear forward pass right in front of Sutton. 2 dogs sent to sin bin, expect more in the 2nd half. Yes the dogs are playing crap but Sutton puts his mark on a dogs game as usual.

The dogs playing crap and Sutton strikes again.

our x factor in 95 was Baa and our ball playing forwards Pay, Smith and Dymock. FB Silva had some x factor as well.