Forget the rockstar fullback the bulldogs need to find their identify again. The playing style is boring. Boys not playing for each other. Boys look emotionless out there . Basically no highlights this year to be proud of . A broken club. A cursed club . For the first time ever I actually feel...

Defence is atrocious this year. Not following the defensive system at all. Attitude , playing players in different positions and injured have exposed our defensive system. Also, Mahoney was the key defender . Up in opposition faces . Driving back players. Hayward isn’t as strong in the middle...

Even braidn burns from cowboys has more ball playing ability than xerri at centre

The positional changes I would make to suit the modern game: Kiraz becaue he can offload. We are missing his offloads big time. The only reason why our attack was semi decent last year was because he was offloading like 4 times a game. Xerri doesn’t offload. But still has decent speed ...

Critta has to go fullback. We have no other option.

I’m genuinely happy for Galvin that his former team played shocking today when they were so high on confidence. He would have been having second thoughts (maybe?) about his move

It’s really not that hard. There is some potential . We have seen the doggies do well. But for some reason thanks to our wonderful recruiting, we have ended up with a team that just isn’t working at the moment . We may have an outlier game here and there but the reality is that this team won’t...

We just played well with him . We are absolutely clueless . But what has Burton done in the last 5 years he has been here . Zip

It’s so frustrating . Recruitment has failed big time . The mighty chased up bulldogs thought they could progress this year without any decent signings SO SAD.

This is the absolute best post on here. Thanks for posting it mate. Can you please send this to the club. Please

Attitude is one thing. But we are genuinely crap. Like very crap. We look clueless in attack like we haven’t trained all year. We play the most boring style ever.

Nah we haven’t been good since manly loss 2024. Last year we jagged a couple wins but never played wowww

Looollll

You can only laugh hahaha

Ciraldo open your eyes and learn. We need speed. Pull your finger out

Wowwwwwww

Catch the bloody ball

Why are we sooooooo baddddd

Like why does Tracey even try to catch that ffs dumbest iq team

Simple draw and pass ffs

We have no energy. No passion . Do we even want to win wtf

Can someone offload the fucking ball !!! Ffs

I don’t want to exaggerate but this is rock bottom for this club apparently in a “premiership window”. We all sensed the team unity would be affected after sexton and Mahoney Gone. It fact now . As much as I like Lachlan, he plays a very different style to what we were playing under sexy and...

Nah disagree Tuala is a finisher. Prob best finisher at the club. Any sweep play and Tuala will score. Major upgrade on Monty

I think a lot of us are forgetting that no1 wanted to come to the dogs a couple years ago which resulted in us buying a bunch of unwanted players like salmon, xerri , Curran , salmon, Tracey. These players performed well in 2024. Just because we did well, the club seems to have completely...

Have we scored a length of the field try since jac and averillo have left ?

is there any winger available to join us mid season? Like anyone

Where is Kade dykesss? More disappointing than Montoya for me, is Tracey. He needs to be better as a fullback . Such a crucial Position

Lessons have not been learnt. We were absolutely average against the dragons. We lose against Newcastle when we should have clearly won. Then bunnies. Then the eels. And now the broncos. Hahaha seriously Ciraldo. Nothing is changing .

Wayne Bennett type coach. Exactly what this club needs. Not structure .

Every post in this thread is true and spot on. Every single fan can see the issues . Ciraldo can’t see it. 1. We have a fullback who is averageeee. This year he has been dog shit in attack. 2. We have wingers who are so slow. Why aren’t we buying players mid season? Not only are we slow, edge...

We actually tried so hard . Like so so hard that second half. And we only scored two tries lol hahahahahahahahahahhahaahahahahahah . Seriously this is going to be a long .Season . And yes. Our defence is dog shit this year

Yes please our team has no clue

Montoya again in no man’s land

Looooolllll we are clueless

Xerri the hog

Montoya lollllll

This club hasn’t been the same since the loss to manly 2024

What baffles me is we are chasing points. Zero offloads. Like literally zero offloads at all. We can’t even play unstructured when the game is gone. We are so so structured

Ciraldo has lost the dressing room . It’s simple. He is asking Galvin to kick now . It’s so obvious what’s going on

What will happen is Ciraldo and Gus will change the team again, and then when things still don’t change they will say the boys haven’t had time to gel yet. The cycle will repeat for another 5 years . This club ain’t winning shit anytime soon

Wth is up with this coach. The only reason why Burton is even in this team is because of his kicking . If he isn’t kicking he can fuck off

Ciraldo has lost the dressing room

Serves Ciraldo right

Even dwz! Killing it at warriors

We need a mid season signing big time. Or maybe we chuck in cooper toy. What do we have to lose

The competition is clearly open for any team this year. Melbourne struggling. We have proven Penrith can be beaten. Hope the dogs can really make the most of storm being out of form

Why are the tickets 50-75? Wth

what an opportunity this is to end Penrith’s run and get the competition talking about the dogs. I wonder what preparation Ciraldo has in store this week. The players are disconnected, injured and losing. What will he do to get the boys to step the f up and take this opportunity with both hands

Turpin needs to come in to this side. We def need aggression, which is something Turpin can deliver. I don’t agree with your other changes

When cooper toy gets picked ahead of him!

My observations this week: 1. We still have the worst 5th tackle options. Not 1 contested bomb. Not 1 repeat set. It baffles me that our coaches don’t teach the players to build pressure. We try to score off each play rather than building pressure and scoring off the back of pressure . 2. We...

King needs to on. Average

I didn’t even see him

Yes Kiraz has been very disappointing and he is my fave player in the team . Wouldn’t be surprised if Ciraldo said cut the offloads . He has lost his tackle breaking ability too. No longer a threat under the ball, looks way too slow. I thought he was training with fabri?

Two weeks in a row he has to change positions mid game for what?

I still believe in the team .i still believe we can turn it around because besides Penrith other teams haven’t been that great. I believe because we have been horrible since round but somehow found a way to win first two. We were horriblle today and Last week but managed to maintain composure...

I must add. We also got rid of players like Jeral Skelton and alamoti who seem to be going better than the players we replaced them with

Best post I have read on here tonight. Why did we even think we were in a premiership window when we got rid of the fastest three players at the club (fox, Wilson and averillo). We downgraded our 9 (I’m sorry Haywood but reed just had more presence on the field. He was a bulldog. We are starting...

we have so many issues I don’t know where to start. 1. We have no forwards. We have had this issue for so many years yet Ciraldo and Gus both choose to ignore the issue. Hopoi, Hughes, and king aren’t going to scare any opposition. You lose the middle , it makes everything so much harder. 2. We...

We almost need a mid season signing to inject some life into this attack. Nothing is working

We haven’t had decent attack since mick potter interim head coach

I’m scratching my head like everyone else. Critta hasn’t scored a try in ages. Kiraz is significantly average this year . Montoya can’t finish a try all of a sudden. King has no impact anymore. Burton has been good but he is an individual brilliance type of player rather than a team player. Mann...

Nah out attach has been shit since for a while now. We just can’t seem to score in the red zone. Since ado Carr left our long range tries have disappeared as well

Yea but the way they played . The way they attack gives their supported all the hope they need. We can’t organise our attack at all. We are slow. We kill momentum , we have the lowest iq. Like seriously did Burton make a break and throw the ball the opposition ? How dumb

The players disrespected their opponent today. They came out thinking they would win comfortable. We seem to play better against tougher opposition. Why did we look significantly better after half time?? What changed ? Why couldn’t we start the game like that. Are we being over coached...

He is becoming Frawley with his stupid shitty show and go that doesn’t fool anyone

Weren’t the knights 4.30 to win this game. Hmmmm match fixed

I know right we are losing! Try something different

We have noooooo clue in attack. And we are being run over in defence

I just want us to win and to score at least 30

IMO Tracey is a solid fullback and I rate him above most fullbacks in the nrl. but he is far from perfect. A couple times against the dragons he threw the wrong pass. In one play he threw it to bronson on 5th tackle instead of throwing a bridge pass to Montoya which would have resulted in a try...

Am i the only one that thinks Kurt Mann has been average for a while and playing nowhere near his best . His best is when he is offloading and playing like a half back. Is he carrying an injury or is Cameron limiting his role ?

I feel like Galvin is getting on with things as well

Am I the only one that thinks kiraz’s aerial threat is done since they introduced the new rule regarding contesting kicks . Kiraz loved a good old fashioned bat back

Our forwards have been bog average so far this season. I wouldn’t mind seeing a new player debut just to change things up. Haywood and Galvin have been playing well. They look professional . I think they have done a good job of not buying into outside pressure.

Adam OB plays his old club who are missing their marquee players. We are currently last in attack . Hopefully we can get some tries against the knights

I know people say Galvin is a running half but from what I have seen he has more half like traits than a running half. Burton on the other hand is just a running half. He can’t organise at all

Hahahaha I know right

Serious wth

This is so bad. How hard is it to just crash over ?

He can’t even run wth

So whatever Ciraldo saw in the off season in tuala I haven’t seen this game so far . In attack at least

Where was Tracey after Burton made that break ? Seriously . We can never convert line breaks . We need a new full back

How the heck !!!

How bad is the attack seriously ?

Haagahga

He needs to know when to throw it. Tracey was running out the back

He has been our best player so far this season .

Can we tackle these idiots

One of ciraldo’s best conferences to date . A player shouldn’t react that way just because he is getting dropped. It’s as simple as that. Should be interesting to see if the players perform well. If they do , Ciraldo def has his grasp on this team. If they don’t , then maybe Ciraldo needs to...

I just watched ciraldo’s press conference. Ciraldo is pissed! You can tell from his face and responses to questions that he’s pissed with xerri. Ciraldo did not dodge any questions . Basically he wanted to see enari get a go and xerri reacted in a poor way by leaking his reaction to the media...

Brandon wakeham?

How many players have left since Ciraldo has come to the doggies? He wants players that can be coached. He isnt blind either. He sees the things that we see as well. Xerri has been solid but not great for some time . In saying that he does give players plenty of opportunities. But when he has...

Fox had the worst attitude . I highly doubt xerri is being dropped because of attitude . Staff think Tuala can add more and that’s it. This is credit to tuala training the house down. Just like Hayward took over reed’s spot. Let’s see what tuala does. Other than that shocking game against Tupou...

As much as I like xerri and would be upset seeing him leave, In my respectful opinion, we are a much better/ stacked side with Burton at centre and sos coming in at 7. I see this team going very far. With the current squad including xerri in and no changes, I don’t see how we improve on last year

IMO having the bye in the second round is a very positive thing. We have started the season with 4 points. We are fresh. We are Fit. We also haven’t showed much but we are on 4 points. We are also a bit under the radar who cos a good thing . We should beat the raiders

There’s definitely a mole at the club. If reports are true and Ciro tells xerri that he will be playing reserve grade to improve in a few areas , someone from inside must have made a story out of this scenario.

Perhaps we are going after ponga or bula ? Maybe paps is coming back?

Yea didn’t they re-sign him recently and he came out saying he had no intention of looking elsewhere because he wanted to repay the faith from gus