Always liked Mann, even going back to when he was at the dragons. Feel like he's always been underrated. He works very hard, has footy IQ and is tough! Had a few injury setbacks, he's a quality signing and I'm really glad to have him.
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It's not Jammer and Klem, it's the club and the fans he resents for the bottle throwing. It's very obvious he still holds a grudge against us from the way he 'officiates' our matches.
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Despite him having a two digit IQ, you only have to look how bad his conditioning is to know he was going to get his ass kicked. Completely out of shape and only could hope for a lucky haymaker to win.
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Shit rule change, not a fan.
If you played the ball, difficult to be onside unless the defence puts zero pressure on the kicker and he can advance 5m+ before kicking the ball..
Go back to giving them 10m running space if offside.. makes much more sense.
Banking sector also has a quota for 50-55% women in senior leadership roles. My God there are some incompetent women landing some big roles all to tick a 'diversity' box...
Pretty dominant looking cup side.
I've got xerri pushing for a first grade spot, if not round one, early rounds. Ultimately depends who plays fullback.
Assuming kautoga isn't there means you've got him in first grade? Or on your bench? He impressed me tonight.
I'd probably swap Edwards in to...
I rated BBO highly before the injury.
I watched a bit of him in cup when he came back, but he looked well off the pace.
Hopefully that was just getting the rust out and he can realise his potential this year.
Agree that the length of the contract should've been shorter. I assume that the US broadcaster obviously held the balance of power and demanded it. Is it perfect? No, but we're minimum $40m a year better off and gaining exposure over there. It's a step in the right direction.
He was asked a loaded question, he had to respond. Would you have preferred him to say "yeah the season was not great, but I personally played really great footy last year and I'm proud of how I performed. It was the rest of the team who unfortunately dragged us down, despite my stellar...
Not sure how anyone can think this is a bad thing. I'm no Vlandys fan by any means, but this brings in additional revenue with no additional content required and grows the game through exposure to the US domestic market.
There is huge upside potential in this market, with people's attention...
We finished 15th, not 16th in 2023.
Can they even get basic facts right?
Great to see so much dead wood moved on. The losing culture was contagious to new recruits coming in. Had to be done.
No haha, he's a sellout.
He played for Aquinas Colts in menai for almost all of his junior football. He then played a few seasons for Moorebank rams and has changed his 'junior club' to Moorebank after returning from the ban.
Lol. What an embarrassing take.
Rcg and Paulo would be lucky to be in top 10 after last year.
Tigers despite being shit, have top 5 starting props. Dolphins also underrated.
Fletcher baker hasn't been proven as a starting prop..
Putting keppie ahead of tatola.. laughable.
I get that, but most agreed that it's supposed to be hard and agreed with the approach.
It's just an optics thing given its only a few days, but it's just disappointing.
Why the fuck are we one of the last teams who didn't play finals to commence preseason though?
It might only be a few days but it looks bad when you have played so poorly to be one of the last to start training.
That's a very big call.
Chances are if we had signed them both (and let's say we didn't sign Sharon), we would've had to let one of them go anyway.
We were basing those signings off an increased salary cap that didn't eventuate. As much as I would've loved to have them, it would've crippled...
That's what jumped out at me too.
This rule is very flawed.
Lowly placed teams either play well over a players value or front load in order to use up the cap which restricts their ability to jump on an opportunity if it were to arise later in the year. [emoji1751]
Rugby league eye test on Twitter did a far better analysis a while back. It even went in to the detail of when in the game they were awarded and who was leading at the time. The data was far worse for us than this article shows.
So you're saying there's a chance..?
Nah, we don't deserve to play finals even if all that magically happened. That flogging by Newcastle made me physically ill.
This is such a poorly written piece of dribble, it's embarrassing. Sure there's some valid points, but it's nothing new.
The only 'new' parts are just very transparent agenda against Phil.
I personally feel like Tino would be better for us. Not as flash as Haas but more consistent and puts in big minutes.
He is tough, hits hard and leads by example. Big fan
BBO kicked a last minute field goal to level the game. 15-15 at full time.
Disappointing considering the team named but better than losing given we were trailing the whole game until Ryan Sutton scored in 68th minute and Bailey Hayward converted to level the match.
No, he isn't but he plays with more heart.
The suggestion was to drop him down to make him see what he needs to provide to be playing first grade. Pele has the fearless mentality, the commitment and the impact off the bench to show that.
Yep, agree with that but that role wouldn't be suited to Flanagan in my opinion. It suits someone with spark and energy who can cover multiple positions ala Averillo (if he loses his centre spot next year), BBO, Rajab, etc.
I don't see it. He isn't an impact type player. He doesn't bring speed, creativity or spark. I thought he did well today but I don't see how we fit him in.
Rfm isn't making my top 17 on recent form.
I'd be putting Pele in, either starting prop or off the bench for impact like Leniu style.
Edwards/morrin/Oloapu competing for #13.
Rajab/averillo #14
Anyone remember the game against Melbourne where we scored in the dying minutes to bring us 2 points behind. Was a few years ago, I just remember Okonbur running straight over the top of Cameron Smith in either his debut or first few games.
We scored 12m in from the sideline but when we lined...
Everyone is just recycling the same story from some guys tweet that he met Payton at a mythical RSL in Beverley Hills.
Think we will only lose him if club is happy to.
Like what wearing the bulldogs jersey used to be about. Can't imagine baa and Gillespie and gillies etc accepting the soft attitudes of some of these players today. Love what Morrin brings to the field.
Depends what he said to him. If overly aggressive then he needs to cool it but no doubt it was 100% the wrong call by Atkins. He clearly didn't want any attention drawn to the decision he made. If anything, it should've been our penalty.
Calm down people, it isnt that complex.
Davey came here because at the time, Des was the head coach at Manly and he wasnt super keen to play under him.
Ironically, he would have been better of with Seabiscuit as they both have ties to the Cutters in QLD Cup.
He came here for a position in the...