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I think that’s only half the story. Also Kikau was already signed in June last year

Yeah the mail I get from this fella is usually on the money. Just took a while

Everyone talking about how many injuries Melbourne have. Throw Thommo and TPJ in and out pack can truly dominate

Agree. Sutton was great

Absolutely. I just watched the first half replay we could’ve easily been up 18-6 at ht. If avo passes to flanno and JAC gets a decent bounce we score twice. We never should’ve been scored on as flanno shouldn’t have been sent to the bin

Ciraldo was there when all of these decisions were being made. If Cleary didn’t rate him as a fullback and he was terrible there the first person to know would be CC

Do they just pull these figures out of their arse. Why are our players always inflated but when it comes to the rorters they’re on pennies

It’s the same guy that gave me the heads up about Barrett’s press conference before he stood down. That’s why I’ve posted this in the rumour section because it’s not official as of yet

Backrower I think

Because the tigers don’t actually know yet

Keep an eye on this kid debuting for the tigers off the bench this weekend. Just been told we’ve signed him and Gus has massive wraps on the kid.

With Vaughan going to the UK we are going to struggle next season with our go forward. We get dominated every week. Gus better be looking because Sutton alone isn’t going to cut it

First good thing burtons done all day

Now the poor bloke is knocked out. Worst debut of all time

For sure. If avo can be consistent at fb we have a cheap option who can ball play and also plays a bit of eyes up footy

I hope not. He’s kept the pee in the whistle to this point. Let the game go for fucks sake

agree, now I’ve seen avo at fb, he’s class

I just messaged about re signing him

He’s definitely better than Dufty, still young and plenty of nrl experience. Wouldn’t mind it

Letting in 34 points against a side who has only averaged 16 a game is not improving

Yes agree these errors have contributed to us losing games. But last season we had the best completion rate in the comp and did fuck all with it. That lack of creativity is something that a coach needs to address. Our fitness levels also are a major concern with our coach hasn’t addressed. He’s...

My source is a guy who works for channel 7. I hope he’s right too for all of our sakes

Was just told Gus is fronting the board on Monday and Baz could be gone as early as next week.

Josh Jackson is a must in our side. I do agree with many others on here that he stifles our attack but Barrett doesn’t have to run our attack through him, we just need our halves to play first receiver and leave JJ to do what he does best

Thought Paul Vaughan was excellent tonight. Led our pack with most metres and most post contact metres. Out playing Thompson atm

Still hampers our attack. But credit where it’s due he was massive in defence tonight

One of the worst 2nd half refereeing performances I’ve seen and we get dudded every week

Exactly. Halves don’t peak till 26-27 years of age. Fuck people on here have unrealistic expectations.

Brent Crisp Andrew Emelio

Was interesting hearing Gus on his podcast talk about how much he hates halves that play on different sides of the field and don’t know how to play eyes up footy. Time for Gus to give Baz a coaching 101 lesson

Gus has just announced on twitter some good news coming our way this arvo

I’m not one to usually blame the refs, but today Sutton has clearly changed the game

100% this

A big part of defence is attitude. If we can string some wins and confidence together our attitude will improve. Another big factor is combinations keeping the same guys on the park and them learning to defend together will be a big help

1. Penrith 2. Roosters 3. Parramatta 4. Melbourne 5. Souths 6. Manly 7. Cronulla 8. Canterbury 9. Brisbane 10. Canberra 11. Gold Coast 12. Wests Tigers 13. St George 14. Warriors 15. Nth Qld 16. Newcastle

Unfortunately our new recruit has been subject to racial abuse online and has reported it to Canterbury and the NRL https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/canterbury-bulldogs-josh-addo-carr-racism-social-media-australia-day/2d8f304d-8056-40ac-a052-957adf0584e7

I just heard the same

Munster is in the background

If Barrett can’t get the job done with all this support around him, he’ll never coach first grade again

Exactly. Give the kid a break. Brooks has had year upon year of failure at WT.

It’ll be good to finally be on the receiving end of a sacked player and take advantage for a change.

There’s a reason no other club has signed him. He played one good game for fuck sake settle down. We played him in the halves for years and he is a constant disappointment. Give me the petition so I can wipe my arse with it

Agree. Prefer schoupp then Allen

A full season for Averillo in the halves, even a losing season is still better for our team as a whole for the future. This season is done so it’s about a successful long term build for us. Simply put Averillo has more promise then Flanagan.

So who do we put there instead? Flanagan is the only other option and he’s worse

I don’t remember this kind of behaviour from the media when Thurston signed with the cowboys. If anything they were the exact opposite. Again clearly shows they have a bias towards the dogs

Wakeham can’t defend in the middle mate

I can’t believe people on here are asking for Flanagan to come back. Totally agree we have scored more points in the last two rounds then in the majority of the season. Our attack has looked sharper we just need to hang onto the ball and fucking stop missing tackles. Pretty simple

Haha. Was checking what time the game was and saw that too. Hopefully an omen

Says it all. I can't find the 6 agains against us but I would think we top that list too.

The issue for me is not why we got rid of him because he is average at best. But what did we get from Melbourne in return. Seems like every other club plays hardball with their players except us.

Yeah hopefully Baz can do that. He can't be judged this early into his tenure. Reni also mentions reading comments from a certain forum which I can only assume is tk

Reni's comments on Des are very interesting. His perspective is one of the culture of our club pre Hasler and then coming back during the Des era. It seems Des ripped the real Bulldogs mentality straight out of our great club and we are still paying for it now.

Did we end up getting anything from Melbourne for Remis Smith?

He's the Michael Lichaa of halfbacks

I'll never switch teams.. just switching off

As many have said our biggest issue is our 9. But in saying that can Barrett and co get something more out of JMK. We know he has speed and with that the ability to run out of dummy half and create chances. It doesn't look like we will get a hooker before the season starts but if our coaching...

I actually thought Joey was more biased against us tonight

They're both playing out of position and getting picked one week and not the other.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/news/nrl-news-2020-trade-whispers-brisbane-broncos-canterbury-bulldogs-kieran-foran-injury-update-latest-transfers-rumours/news-story/15f43b8687bd0020f65ce43367fcd19b

Good point Captain. Yeah Melbourne have always been renowned for turning avg players into stars. I think having a capt coach like Cam Smith out on the field really helps with confidence and development in game situations. Not having a reserve grade comp this year hasn't helped someone like a...

Fuck me.. this guy thinks he's TK own Qanon

Is it also a coincidence it's around the same time Benji Marshall is looking for a new club

Exactly.. and Melbourne don't have a habit of releasing good players.

Yeah just had a listen. Great episode. The story about the late train for Terry lambs last game a Belmore.. haha

These figures are crap. It was reported at the time Angus Crichton signed a 2.7 mil over 3 year contract with the rorters. 1 mil 2019 and 850k for 20 and 21.

Hopefully he came cheap.. but a better option than what we have atm.

The only player on that list that other clubs seem interested in is Adam Elliot, our club is too stupid to see that and low balled his offer. Wakeham and RFM have already re signed. Other clubs don't want the dregs that are left and nor should we

What shine Lewis' boots

Agree.. I haven't seen enough of Wakeham, does he have a long kicking game because that's the only reason I can see Pay putting Lewis ahead of him. Also Ogden in for Britt, he played 27 minutes against the dragons and made 16 tackles and missed 6. This guy is a DUD!!!

He's dessys assistant at manly

Again it's about balance, if we had some big mobile attacking back rowers with an offload then JJ is the solid defensive player every team needs. Unfortunately he's a toiler in a pack of toilers

One of our biggest issues is keeping the same halves on the park. We have used something like 20+ halves combos in the past 2-3 years. Foran and Reynolds will be injured half the time, Morris has a year or two at best left in him. Milford is too inconsistent. JMK has had enough time to show us...

Exactly.. forget recruitment, salary cap all these things are limited because of the position the club is in. What Pay can control is who runs out on the field and in what position, and in this he is failing

What they will both benifit from is a fit Keiran Foran to play alongside and gain much needed experience.

I've always like Reynolds as well. He had great passion and was the ultimate team man. Problem is we are trying to rebuild, that game time and experience needs to be given to the likes of Wakeham and Averillo for us to really rebuild.

Reynolds is not a creative half, why do you think Des changed the structure of our attack and used Graham as our ball player.

No to Reynolds, we need creativity. Foran and Wakeham are the best options we have with averillo stepping in when forans busted

What roster is he fucking building he's brought over two unwanted plodders in Stimson and Britt, that money could have been better spent in chasing Curtis Scott or even George Williams

Let's see if Foran can get through a game first before we even worry about a deal for next year. The balls in our court there's not going to be many clubs knocking down the door to sign him

Super league saved us as a stand alone club. The ARL had plans to merge us with western suburbs that's why Bullfrog signed us up straight away and McCracken and the other traitors signed as well, until they realised they could get more signing with the ARL. McCracken was quoted as saying he...

Exactly this

I've been listening to this podcast over the last couple of weeks, it takes a extremely comprehensive look at the Super league war going into massive detail. Chapter 9 - What Bullfrog knew part 1 and 2 are a must listen for any Bulldogs fan. The hosts are pretty funny and very knowledgeable...

Knights are a basket case at the moment so a titans win isn't out of the question.

Credit where credits due. I don't think there's any other coach in the comp that gets our roster in the top 8. The attitude he has instilled in our team over the last month has shown in our defence.

Because we didn't have DCE, tommy turbo and manase fainu

There's plenty bagging pricey for leaving the dogs. We're not sure of the circumstances remember we had massive salary cap issues around that time and simply could not fit everyone in. Maybe he wanted to stay but the cap didn't allow it

Angus Crichton is on 1 mil a season as well.

We tried back in 2002 and look what happened

How the fuck can the NRL let this shit continue. To think that the TPA list came out last year and the roosters apparently only spend 275k on TPA. What a rort

Actually think JMK is having one of his best games running from dummy half, we just need a fullback backing up on the inside

Lichaa and JMK have been given ample opportunity to perform. Although I’m not the greatest fan of Nu Brown he hasn’t been given anywhere near the same opportunity week in week out to show us anything. It couldn’t hurt giving him a couple of games in the top grade

I’ve tried to give Pay a chance. But he can’t keep blaming our young inexperienced roster. Manly and Canberra had poorer more inexperienced rosters when we played them and we were beaten by better game plans by better coaches. Pay is the problem that needs to be fixed.

You can throw all the stats in the world at us but basically he doesn’t bring anything to the side. A decent half will demand the ball and take control, he doesn’t do either. He is the most ineffective halfback in the comp it’s that simple. How about a stat on how many times he actually touches...

Thank god he’s gone. Only thing he knows how to do is kill our momentum.

Charlie Tonga

This is something I really took notice of in the roosters game. Graham Tolman and Klemmer consistently were put to the ground on their backs, tolman is the worst because he goes into the tackle backwards and without an offload he's easy pickings.