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I was too young to see Reg as well but he was a famous old boy from my high school.

I think he'll be a top 5 centre in the comp and probably the fastest by the end of the year if he maintains motivation and stays injury free.

Which Gasnier? Mark or his immortal uncle? Xerri has more explosive acceleration than Mark

It's a global phenomenon. Those in power never want to admit they were wrong so they'll just double down aka "sunk cost fallacy". Just ask Netanyahu or comedian president Z.

Yes. The penny has finally dropped with CC. Blake to replace Hutch at 7 when CC realises there is next to no creativity there and the other side has been softened up.

No Sutton so we have a chance. Plus Tracy at FB and Taaffe on the banch like I hoped for. Maybe the penny has dropped for the coach and Taaffe comes on for Hutch.

Taffe can be a "utility" off the bench covering HB, 5/8 or FB

Starting Taafe at HB would be the better choice but most coaches if not all don't want to admit they got it wrong even though it was clear after a couple of games that Hutch wasn't up to it. So I think putting Taafe on the bench is an each way bet for the coach.

Tracey at FB The coach won't drop Hutch so Taaffe on the bench. When our attack stalls he can put Taaffe on to replace Hutch. If Taaffe outperforms Hutch as expected the coach can declare he's a genius and drop Hutch the next game.

Xerri is our best attacking centre by a mile

Tracey at FB and Taffe at HB

Kikau + Xerri + Fox. What a combination. If only we had NRL standard halves to consistently give them quality ball. If Xerri can kick on from where he left off he'll be our best attacking centre in a decade.

a big difference is Xerri is as quick as Howland but much bigger

Any idea why our supercoach put Xerri in reserve grade for the first few weeks when it was clear that he was the fastest centre in the club?

Taaffe is a better HB than Hutch.

yes we finally have a 7 that can run and pass. Plus keep Xerri in the centres and move Kiraz to the wing.

>"won both half of 40 min" explain how we won the 2nd half when they outscored us 26-4

The one that lost the election coz he couldn't explain what parts of a cake included his GST. Funny that a PhD in Economics got outsmarted by a school leaver in Keating.

Yep. The one that lost the unlosable election to Keating.

The dogs are the Dr Hewson of the NRL

He's never had explosive acceleration and top speed. I think his biggest strengths are his footy brain in reading the opposition that enables him to come up with big moments in big games, his positioning and his will to win.

coz our team is very shhhhiiiittee

Chooks scored 4 tries down a man and another try down 2 men. Disgrace.

Dr Hewson warming up his infamous trophy for the dogs

they could if it was against 11 women... but only just

the dogs to do a dr hewson

another year and our team is still shite. A 12 man team scores 20 unanswered point against us in 20 minutes. disgrace

You're right that Flanno is shite as I've been saying that before he came to the Dogs. However Burton has been given plenty of chances and he still hasn't aimed up. Last week against Souths he had plenty of chances in the red zone and came up with nothing. Sure we still don't have a good HB but...

This may be the only chance our halves have to score. If you can't score in Vegas.....

He should but most likely he'll last the full 5 seasons at this club unless Gus is willing to have egg on his face and sack him early and the club pays him out millions of $.

No. We need at least 2 big bopper props

True but the difference is our club have been paying those players to score or set up the points

Buzz is stating the obvious. Our attack in the red zone is crap. All of our halves options would struggle to score in a brothel.

Yes I think Tracey at FB, Taffe at HB. Hutch is far too slow does not have the creativity to setup the try Taffe did against Souths. Surely Xerri has to come in at centre and Kiraz switch to Tracey's wing spot.

NRL refs go the some training school as the WWE

>" Taaffe can also pass to a player, not throw the ball behind them" Spot on about the passing. Our team still cannot regularly throw clean spiral passes that land just in front of the player's chest.

The problem with our attack is the overuse of these predictable block plays which rarely works because our passing is so crap and slow. The best sides have clean spiral passes which land in front of the receiver while ours are wobbly, slow passes that prevents our receivers from catching them at...

I'm over this long overused block play decoy inside shoulder outside shoulder crap. The defence should haven't to put with decoy runners obscuring their vision and running into them. In every game I've seen players getting the ball on the inside shoulder behind the decoy and the ref does nothing...

They have the two dirtiest players in the comp - Fattrel and Cody Wanker

He rearranged Manu's face a few seasons ago in a similar way

Fattrel is a protected species - politically incorrect to send him off for foul play

What do these guys practice at training?

We've had the worst attack in the comp for over a decade. Nothing changes

Our attack in the red zone sucks

Sutton souths best player as usual

Typical dirty souths players

Tons of forward passes from dummy half and short forward passes are missed by the ref and the tv commentators each round. Mahoney threw one a metre forward in the play before he scored from dummy half in our last match - one of the very few times a blind ref call went our way.

Harry Grant learnt this from the master of them - Cameron Smith.

Sutton to win the bunnies man of the match award.

Titans have mastered desball already

If Sutton is the ref the real world odds for souths is 1.01

I don't think Johnson is as fast as what they say he is. I remember the game when he had a flying start and kicked the ball ahead of our FB BMoz who had to turn around and chase and he beat Johnson to the ball comfortably.

No you have missed the point of my OP. Wilson's "higher ceiling" you refer to is not a statement of fact but your opinion. The fact is no NRL club would choose Wilson over Fox on current ability and form and any other tangible measure. Fox if he returns from injury and remains healthy would be...

You are ignoring the reality of the situation. Fox and Wilson are on the current payroll and so it's obvious out of them who should be in the team first.

Fox at his current level is still far superior to Wilson. You want to debate that? Put it the test - if both were on the open market how many clubs would choose Wilson over Fox and offer him the same salary as Fox? The answer is obvious.

Higher ceiling than Fox? yeah right. He's a reserve grader.

Wilson is a reserve grader and has butter fingers. Kiraz breaks tackles and makes more yardage than our forwards.

You dropped Kiraz?

Nothing has changed for about 10 years. Our passes were crap back then and still are.

we'll be at the bottom of the ladder after 10 rounds

I've posted this previously on TK but who was the last big name player we signed from another club who improved while at the Dogs? Burton has flopped, Kikau when he's been on the field hasn't done much, Mahoney has gone backwards, Thompson flopped, Cotric flopped, JAC was better all round at...

1980 1st followed by 1995 1980 was our first GF win in 40 years and with our legendary "Entertainers" side and our GOAT Turvey. 1995 was the miracle win with our internal problems and a great win over the most hated team in the comp.

The one and only Steve Mortimer

I said after the trials that he was far too slow for centre. His future is in the forwards.

Jmoz, Vagana, Tonga, Darren Smith and Matt Ryan

Which journo wrote this tripe? Ridiculous comparison

Looks like the claytons meeting turned into an Arab Israeli geopolitics bumfight.. or has TK gone down that rabbit hole on this thread?

Hoppa is a mormon. The JW doorknock rather than the 2 year mission.

Agree. I think Rex Mossop was the best tv footy commentator - much better than Ray Warren and the neville that is calling the game on 9 these days.

The waste of space aka Nasheed has in the past declared he can do on the field everything that Turvey did.

who could forget Turvey's magical solo try in the 79 GF qualifier that put the Dogs in the lead over Parra.

The reality is he is not up to NRL standard HB. More then 70 first grade games and he still doesn't have the fundamentals.

Are you sure it's a "he"? It could be a "she".

I've been saying this for a while on TK - today's players are man babies compared to the players of the 70's and 80's. Most of today's players can't hold down a proper job during the week and too lazy to put in the hard work. The same applies to today's education system where the hard subjects...

What process? I've seen this process many times before. It's called 52 pickup.

I'm pretty sure Turvey was chosen more than times than Sterlo for Origin during their rivalry. Turvey retired from rep footy after that Origin win.

No surprise. The current team is full of p%ssies.

After only a few games for us and he's already our most creative and threatening HB since Noddy.

Today's players are nothing more than man babies. Most players in the 70's and 80's had proper jobs during the week and played the game with far more natural ability and passion on the weekend.

He's a deadset doppelganger of that Crying Game actor.

They have no high standards. It's all huff and puff and no substance. You buy into their nonsense because you're a legend in your own mind.

>"We set high standards here" That shows how crap the team is. How bad would their defence would be if they set low standards?

this team should be sponsored by the local sewer treatment plant

flanno zero threat as usual

he's far worse than knockonbur

topine screws up again

Shite defence. Topine as useful as Flanno.

Darren and Jason were the best brother players at the Dogs since the Mortimers.

That's because an old Datsun 120 still has value unlike Flanno.

why the hell is flanno on the field?

too many numptys in this team.

Finally we have a 7 who can run to the line and put pressure on the defence.

This year is Barrett 2.0 and next year is rinse and repeat with another riff player coming in pretending to be a FB. The clown show continues.

The Dogs have become the transit lounge of the NRL.

If he's that shite he's a perfect fit for this current mob. That's how bad the dogs are.

We're now recruiting house invaders. How low can the club sink?

The only upside to watching this shite on TV is saving cost of petrol and tickets

Nothing has changed. Dogs are still shite.

The sad reality is that even the big name players we recruit from other clubs don't play anywhere near their peak level at the Dogs. Burton, TPJ, Mahoney, Thompson etc and even Fox. The only conclusion is that there is too much dead weight at the club for them to carry. We've become the new...

Clone Turvey.