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Must be April 1 .. he’s 35 .. soft .. can’t tackle .. just finished a court case .. say no more, no thanks

Negatives: Wet ground .. humidity .. new combinations .. high error rate .. weakness needs to be addressed - short a Prop & our no 7’s are inconsistent .. Kikau needs to step up .. Mahoney don’t run or kick! Positives: competition for positions has increased the intensity, kept Sharks to 6...

Taafe until Tracey is ready Kiraz Xerri Crichton Fox Burton more running than kicking Sexton Preston Kikau needs to pull his finger out Salmon Hughes Mahoney don’t run just pass King Mann Curran could easily start Faamasili until we find a prop Morrin

Out of last night .. much improved D .. Kikau looks the least interested .. or needs to be used better in attack .. Curran will be a big asset .. will play big minutes round 1 .. Sexton wins on points over Hutch for Rd 1 .. Tracey needs some game time before he takes the fullback spot .. Kiraz...

I don’t mind this signing for experience .. still confused why Gus didn’t pursue someone like Keppie .. high work rate, still only young by Prop age

Druisi is a self made multi - millionaire .. very smart businessman, success breeds success .. this is only a positive move

We saw tonight Curran’s versatility, tackled everything that moved, and capable of some strong runs, both he & Preston’s high work rate, will allow Kikau to focus more on his running game

They’re both Dogs at heart .. both want to see the Dogs back winning premierships ..

How’s this a Bulldogs Rumour .. we don’t give a s@&t where he plays! .. will end up playing in Reggie’s most of the year

Signing Taylan May would likely mean the fox is moved on. Pay $18O-200K a season for May & we get a genuine Prop as a package or keep paying $500K for fox .. one aged 22 .. who can find the line as good as the fox .. unfortunately fox will be turning 30 in 2025. Gus has the future all planned out ..

He got crap service last year from our centres .. and was up against 2- 3 defenders every time he touched the ball. He knows how to get across the tryline .. will only getter better this season, teams will need to worry about Crichton, Xerri and Taafe linking from the back .. which means more 1...

Cannot go with Sutton and RFM .. that’s what we are lacking at the moment. I’m not ruling out Gus will find a decent prop before the trial matches next year .. 1-2 decent props will certainly put us fighting for the 8 .. we have plenty of speed and class out wide ..

Close the thread mate.

Only young .. will recover in no time .. will be back in 6 months

Shows how little is available on the market right now, if Twal is heading the media headlines .. no disrespect to Alex! ..

Good depth signing .. nothing spectacular .. waiting for 2/3 marquee signing for 2025

Gus mentioned on Twit he has meetings planned for Gold Coast, Brisbane and NZ .. I’m assuming to meet up with off contract players .. hopefully some decent cattle.

Can’t see him going to South’s never going to move Johnston, who will probably end up being alltime leading try scorer from the left wing .. JAC is not as effective on the right wing .. best to just close this thread

He would be leading the try scorer in any top 4 team .. useless centres & half don’t know how to use his speed or set him up .. had to do it all himself on Sunday .. Crichton & Taffe are both good at setting up their wingers .. expect Josh to be running in a lot more tries in 2024

Can see Burton moved out to the centres until Xerri gets back into the pace of the game. hutch will either be in the 6 or 7 jersey.

Will do well only if we sign middles that can play long minutes, go forward all game.

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Gus has obviously been busy hasn’t been spotted at his secret meetings for a while.. somehow I think he now does everything well out of public view ..

How’s this a rumour?

Amazing how many on here have never played 1 game of footy in their lives but quick to throw the Coach under the bus .. this happens in most professional sports .. either you keep to the team high standards or simply fuck off!

PASS ..

No! .. this is definitely the worst era for the club since going back to the 60’s .. Like any organisation, it starts at the top, Board, CEO, Coach .. the club has made some huge mistakes recruiting the wrong people for these roles past 10 years.

Hearing Ben Hunt might be back on Gus’s radar

Overall, we forget team performance expectation is set by the CEO, we don’t see or hear from this bloke, except in glossy club magazines, which is a bit odd, given he has moved into the role from the marketing department, tells me Gus has him wrapped around his finger. Will he and the Board make...

TPJ, Mahoney, Thompson, Kikau, Burton, JAC, Kiraz .. more than half our starting team, have all played rep footy. Inexcusable, the rubbish there producing on the field, either they are not putting in or Ciraldo is not giving them a game plan each week. Ciraldo needs to also stop being best...

Explains why Gus is publicly not rating him as a $1M player, must have been notified weeks ago ..

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Unfortunately he has been very inconsistent over the years

The development paths are in place for our under 16 -18’s we won’t see the cream rise for another 2-3 years that why Gus is signing NRL experience players for only 2-3 year contracts .. there is also no guarantee some of these kids will be up to NRL standard. Gus’s strategy is the right one...

Hopefully it’s just another Gus smokescreen for secretly signing someone else.

Quick coaster count, Gus has started cleaning the decks in our top 30, I believe there will be roughly 10 of the 30 squad let go, so expecting at least another 4-5 signings for next year. Forward marquee x 2 potentially in 2025.

No reason Salmon cannot play full game at lock .. Kikau Preston second row Watson 14

Good signing .. runs hard, from a winning culture and can actually tackle .. opposite to some of the pedestrian forwards we have right now

Good signing .. at least we have a Proactive GM trying everything to help the coach succeed

I think he had a couple of injuries this year that set him back .. another off season he should be bigger & stronger .. only 22

Excellent resign .. played NSW reps .. is only young .. will be good for us as he gets more game time

Crichton won’t be our fullback .. Taafe has what it takes to play fullback.. backs are not the issue

Put him in ..Drop RFM to reserve grade

Clean out has been happening year on year for 7 years now .. besides Mahoney & Kikau and finding Preston .. the forwards that have come to the club have been pedestrians .. keep Topine, Morrin, Hughes, all will keep improving.. definitely need a Haas. Tino and the workload toughness of a Kobe...

At least Knight won’t cop any shit ..Sam Hughes is only young, plenty of upside in his development as a Prop

Good pickup , to good for reserve grade.. at least he has a go .. can sniff a try .. can play a number of positions

Why was Mahoney on the bench??

As the article notes it’s pure speculation .. he would add plenty of value to our attack once our forwards are bolstered

Don’t understand why we let Schoup leave, Alamoti was not ready for NRL, Schoup had passion and pride in the blue & white .. looks like a fish out of water at the tits.. he might be one we should lure back

Both were average the other night .. Gus is grooming for their next contract .. would probably like to see if they have what it takes for NRL

Only needs 2 - 3 high work rate forwards Ruben Cotter and Jackson Ford prove that .. we almost signed Brendon Piukera from the Broncs 2 years ago, starting to show why we chased him, if we also pip Haas or Tino, happy days!

This doesn’t make sense, his manager would have to be in on any negotiations ..

Gus needs to explain how we let Averillo go??

No excuses .. Broncs missing plenty this round

Place the article in the top draw until Nov .. nothing doing here until then .. imo, don’t think his mate TPJ will even be at Belmore after his contract expires .. inconsistent & lazy .. not the Dogs DNA

Next man up ..

Gus caught [emoji23].. so what? .. he isn’t allowed now to meet with potential players off contract .. what the fuck is wrong with the media! .. fantastic we have a proactive GM doing his job, why don’t we see photos of other clubs meeting with players .. ffs media should just fuck off and leave...

Legend of Belmore, all the best in retirement.

Sexton Burton Wilson Skelton .. all ‘on’ tonight! .. win is a win, nobody felt sorry for us when we had all the injuries early in the season .. fuck the [emoji235]

Blind Freddy can see Topine is not a centre .. let’s hope CC is just foxing to protect any new debutant from the spotlight until game day.. i.e Skelton or Ethan

Nothing new here .. you live by the sword, you die by the sword

Replacing Potter from the top job is another fuckup we have seen in the past 6 years .. our attack is rudderless, rely too much on Burtons kicking game to score points .. let’s not go into the paper thin defence in the middle .. TPJ, Sutton, Okunbar, RFM, Patalo should hang their heads in shame...

FFS Cirraldo! .. Kiraz to centre Skelton to wing

Definite NO to Sexton. Better option would be Tanah Boyd, if he looses half spot to Hunt ..

JT absolutely ripped reserve grade teams apart in his day before debuting, no comparison to KO .. KO will probably end up at lock once he finishes growing

What a stupid suggestion .. can we close this thread.

What a mess! .. all the backs are playing out of position. Burns Kiraz are centre’s, Averillo should be at fullback, Fox & Wilson on the wing, Flanno is not an NRL half, Cirro knows this already, both the young guys Alamoti & KO are not ready for NRL. Forwards are not playing together, again...

The backline should be Averillo Wilson Kiraz Burns Skelton Burton Rajab Forwards King Mahoney Pele Preston Edwards TPJ Res Brown/Flanno Morrin/Kautago Patalo/Hughes Okubar/Topine

We should be looking at a loan scenario with Blake Taafe from South’s, NRL experience, genuine 7, has speed, would create a lot around the ruck which we desperately need

Cirro needs to buy the bullet pretty soon on Flanagan, doesn’t offer anything, drop him now give Karl added NRL experience for the rest of the year, will be better for it when Crichton, Xerri arrive next year

If he pinned his ears back in the first half after shrugging off Brooks he would have scored, rather than passing, will learn from this and get better each game .. he will be a gun!

Is Oloapu named in any of the teams this week?

Rajab is a better option..in fact, anyone that can pass and kick would be a better option

Question is.. will Hunt strengthen our team? Absolutely

The acid test is firing 2 weeks in a row, if “Harry” Potter can get the best out of our team again v’s the tigs, then it proves his tactics and strategy is working and respected by the players..and other teams will start to worry when they play us next..

Definite NO!

Some background on Flanno..played his junior days for Bankstown Sports..Canterbury junior..would definitely bring back the Dogs DNA back..

Team of soft cocks!..I don’t see the players playing for the coach..Burton & Fox..the rest can fuck off..Adam Reynolds wanted to stay in Sydney? Go figure

The question is who are we buying to help him next year, tbh we need an attacking quality half, centre, another winger and possibly fullback..good thing we have a quality hooker 1 backrower coming next year..we need another attacking backrower and ball playing lock..Gus better be having a lot of...

Cook needs to given a chance at hooker, bring up some of the reserve graders now, need some backrowers that hole run..Burton put away your kicking game and more running..Jackson enough said as a ball player..

We need to find a genuine kicking no 7 before June 30..Burton should forget his kicking game go back to running the ball, start giving some of the reserve graders a go..we need back rowers that can run holes..keep Schoup & Kiraz as centre pairing..Flanno besides goal kicking gives us nothing..

Fox needs to worry about his own game, should back his speed as he did at Storm..too timid at the moment..Waddell gutsy game but fuckin pass the ball when 3 on 2..Okunbar like a lost sheep on the wing..Jackson trying to play like Yeo..hasn’t got the balls skills..forwards were great...

Lazy fat ****!..no thanks

Seriously, some have NFI on here, comparing Kikau to T Rex? Kikau would be on the shopping list of 15 other clubs..Gus scoops the others and people still fuckin whinge..go fucken support table tennis you couch potato idiots!

Flanagan Wakeham will be offloaded between now and next season..

Gus will show him the door..didn’t learn from the Lichaa incident, complete dickhead..

Thought Pearce might have been a good option, but seeing him yesterday when he picked up the loose ball and had open space, he looked liked an old man running on the spot..

Don’t look at TPJ right now, he looks underdone on match fitness, with an off season behind him, we should see the best of him..

He looks good..

Play him at 7..natural position

No, we wouldn’t be interested, he has been a complete failure at Newcastle. Gus & Barrett will not even consider this happening, which Dickhead wrote this garbage?

BBO is a representative 7, he will be leading the team with Burton in a year or 2..also supposedly a very good goal kicker..

Stupid NFI comment, Jacko is a tacking machine…Close this thread

3 year contract on big $$..let’s hope he attracts marquee players..

Cheating dog..6 again was a disgrace..

Could we stop giving this guy any acknowledgment, the forum is for contributing to team news, not someone’s NFI views..

No way! Another NFI suggestion..please delete this thread..

Should have kept this announcement in house, embarrassing!..when are we actually going to hear about new signings, cupboard is getting dry, likely we now have missed out on Smith & Hodgson..only reserve graders hookers left on the shelf, either we are behind the neg game or players simply don’t...

Don’t see this as a key appointment, Ward has been around the club for years, more like a job for the boys..we’re looking like real amateurs with every day that goes by..

The problem is even the rumours of players linking to the Dogs is dry of late. Does our recruitment strategy include the Super League, surely Thommo would be a great ambassador to attract the best players from the UK. Who’s watching Schoolboy rep games? are we at least picking up the 2-3 a...