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And if they're smart they'll build a well balanced roster like the dolphins have. Spending 1.5m on a front rower like the media claim would get them into a hole from the get go

I dont think papalii is going to be their long term 6 anyway so they may as well see what they can achieve next year with a better player

I feel like people like this and the 04 logo because of the history they represent. The actual designs themselves aren't that impressive...

You wouldn't think we had the best defensive record in the comp the way you're talking about our backs lol

Probably because he was too busy leading averillo in a more meaningful stat - try assists. Of which he was the highest for a non-spine player...

I don't see the benefit in bringing in a kid with 18 nrl games for one season

I know people expect him to be this elite strike weapon but I thought he had another good year. Defends well, takes a lot of tough carries, rarely dominated in contact. Burton having so few assist and the fact we never use our fullback on the left doesn't help him offensively.

Maybe not the absolute highest but gasnier (2010) and lyon (2011) would have come close

He essentially confirmed it himself on a podcast he just featured in. Mentioned his career highlight so far was playing in front of the dogs fans at allianz so I like him already

He doesnt play direct enough to be effective at lock. I struggle to remember a time where he's put someone through a gap with a short ball by playing direct.

I never want to see these clown organisations pretend to care about mental health again. It's going on three months of daily articles taking aim at a 20 year old. It's a disgrace at this point.

"At the start of next year he'll get a chance" were his words

Gus mentioned on 100% footy tonight that woods is a near guarantee to debut early next season.

100%. In the alternate reality, the headline today reads "did ciraldo cost the dogs a premiership by not selecting galvin"

If they take slightly less in year 1 it could work. We have a number of guys like Mann, kikau, montoya, burton (if we let him negotiate with perth) off contract for 2027 who will likely be replaced by young guys on smaller contracts e.g. rinakama, finau, Woods

1. Burton 6. Galvin 7. Woods If this doesn't work put Tracey back at fb. Playing burton over xerri at centre would be terrible for our cap and I think xerri is a better centre anyway for what it's worth.

I wish they didn't have to confirm the side before kickoff. Imagine the scenes if wolfmother dropped and they cut to critta leading the boys in the tunnel.

What's even the logic of this story? Toby played and we still lost...If Galvin wasn't there i guarantee the narrative would have instead been that Toby doesn't have what it takes to win us the big games.

Fuck cronulla, only legitimate try they've scored

That try shouldve been called back. Have watched it multiple times and trindall runs behind Wilton and takes advantage...

He was offside and engaged him which should've really been a penalty. Held walker back on the chase as well.

Was that not a shepherd?

Looks great on paper but one of burton/Crichton has to play in the spine. Disastrous for our cap to have two centres on that much coin.

Salary cap is working but the competition still rewards well run clubs which is a good thing. It'd be equally shit if you earned success but were then guaranteed not to see it again for years.

He stole fox's phone charger and sold it to lachlan Lewis

I think its a bit premature to be questioning ciraldos position. We've finished third with the best defensive record in the comp despite everyone highlighting our various deficiencies. One committed performance next Friday and the conversation will shift.

There's literally no one else. No chance someone like sua or tia get called up having not played all year. We better not mess around and play Burton at centre.

Tuala i reckon plays centre with rinakama and Wilson coming in

If critta doesn't steam roll mulitalo at some point i want my money back

I dont get the Turpin hate. He was outstanding defensively in his last outing vs Brisbane.

The system is a farce. They have to pay a fine and then potentially get suspended for the incident anyway. You shouldn't miss finals games for incidents below a certain grading...

young tonumaipea is the only one that springs to mind who played a bit of first grade

"Melbourne have built a dynasty by producing Victorian juniors" is also questionable

Last week was a better barometer of what the team is capable of. We opened Melbourne up a number of times so I'm not too concerned with last night's opposed session.

This is why the nrl need to schedule a week off prior to the finals to avoid mass resting of players. Warriors may be playing a desperate manly in the last round whilst Brisbane could be up against the storms cup side.

I get it but can you imagine the emotion they'll play with if they sneak in an early try. I can't fully trust this team in these type of situations since the roosters nearly ran us down with 12 men last year.

We better come to play. This side they've named train and play together every week and a lot of them are competent first graders.

Cowboys right edge hasn't got a clue...

1. I'd argue our performances against manly and warriors have been our most clinical all year. 2. That's a media and tigers fan beat up. They've won only 4/10 since he left them.

We are in all sorts if that pack steamrolls us...

Thats literally the point I'm making, losses happen. I'm just not inclined to blame Galvin for it when we conceded three tries from kicks and errors and only earned about two sets in their 20 all night.

Why is everyone pretending we didn't have shit performances e.g. Brisbane, NQ when sexton was in the side? Our hb is well down the list in terms of why we lost the other night.

I'm rooting for the titans but my god they do some amateur shit

I get hes always a talking point but I didn't think he was that bad tonight considering our limited chances

Galvin is the least of our worries when we're conceding nonsense tries off errors and kicks and barely giving ourself a chance down in their 20.

Result aside, why is the major betting partner of the nrl posting shit like this?

1. We give away too many errors and penalties when things aren't going our way 2. We need a giant winger to kick and hope for off the back of shit sets

It worries me that all our losses are characterised by uncharacteristic penalties and errors. Outside of the last try the Roosters didn't earn a single try off decent football, it was either kick and hope to a 6'10 winger and Currans dropped ball

Nah we'll defend them easily and they'll just kick to their 6'10 winger and collect their own bullshit tries

I hate losing to these scumbag fucks. Why are our losses all implosions? That's the only decent try they've scored all night

I wouldnt be shocked if Turpin comes in for reed. Seems too coincidental that he hasn't been on the extended list for weeks until now.

Probably a good idea to have guys like him with first grade experience helping some of the young guys coming through cup. Handy backup to have through origin as well

The way I see it is Sundays game meant far more to the tigers players and fans than it did for our club. However the stupidity of those tigers players and the carry on by their fans has guaranteed them an absolute hiding next time we play them.

Either way they'll manufacture bullshit stats to discredit us. This tigers beating more top 8 teams stat doing the rounds is the dumbest shit I've heard and wouldn't exist if we didn't knock manly out which allowed the dolphins in.

Are they normally named in both squads? The rest of the extended squad aren't named in Cup either

Us, Canberra and Melbourne should put our differences aside and do a combined wet weather session. It's a bad look for all involved having lost to st george and tigers in such conditions this year.

I believe it was 13 errors to 8. Interesting context is the fact we beat them in a lot of key statistics including field position, post contact metres, linebreaks etc. Missed tackles were about even.

This. I dont think the tigers played that much better in the conditions. A forward pass and a runaway try against the run of play was what split the teams.

I know everyone's in doom and gloom mode but melbourne and now canberra have lost to st George this year in those same conditions. Games become a 50/50 when you're trying to handle a bar of soap.

Pack of losers, hope they enjoy their early break in September

Deadset just cancel games in these bullshit conditions

Our cheap government needs to build a stadium with a roof im sick of wet weather bringing these shit teams into games

Three nonsense tries, unbelievable...

Is there a world where he's been playing a bunch of FB in opposed sessions whilst taafe has been out?

Anyone know how long taafe is out? Can't find it online