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Hi folks hope this pic loaded. Cleaning out my late mother's stuff yesterday and found this 1978 team photo. Interesting group of players given current Board election and Hughes family history. Of other note, Ted Glossop's jumper... and Bill Noonan's face. Creepy. Two years later most of this...

We have a bad track record on buying readymade 'old' half back solutions. Older members will remember when we made the GF in 1998 in Folkes' first year as coach with a no name team. The halves were considered the real weakness (Corey Hughes was 5/8). So we bought an ageing rep half back in...

No offence, but I don't think Steve Price has the experience and credentials to step straight into a CEO role. Paul Dunn is a rumour and he has a lot more experience in administration as well as training in finance. Of course, he is also well-connected at Belmore. I reckon he would "step...

Hi guys, I don't want to be accused of being a Hickey hater. Far from it. He is a decent guy. But I think the comments about Hickey's weight and form are an expression of fan's frustration/disappointment that he did not develop into a top notch FG player. When Hickey started, he was...

A great man Allan. I used to go up to Belmore as a kid at night to watch training. The team used to run up and down the back of the old hill. Taylforth would then practice his goalkicking and sometimes I would boot the ball back to him. He kicked to the southern end to avoid the rail tracks...

All great skippers but please don't forget Kevin Ryan as captain and coach. When he came across from St George in 1967, we had been dead for 20 years. He was captain-coach when we beat St George in the Final to end their 11 year dynasty. We dit it - never forget that fact!!! Then we went down in...

Old guys, you mentioned that the match with Les Johns against Balmain. Was it a match of the round in mid-1969 at SCG? We beat Balmain that game - and they won the comp later. I remember 1969 because we started so strong but were cruelled by injuries. First yar I went to every home game walking...

Hi I don't post much anymore on Kennel but I go back a long way - to Les Johns. We have been blessed with great FBs IMO. I think you need to look beyond the club at their representative careers to comapre them across generations. Here are my Top 3 FBs (with apologies to Potter, Silva and...

Agreed la(x5). What you say is heartfelt and true. The club was seriously weakened in 2007-08 and has been seriously destabilized by the Hannant fiasco. We get more column inches on potential recruitment than the damn Roosters these days. It’s ridiculous. But chin up, pal. Idris and Barba...

Yep it sucks. Personally, I think we should ditch the salary cap system and let the strong survive and the weak fail. The current system encourages corruption and mediocrity and fails to reward hard work and smart recruitment. On St Merge juniors, I don't know how many of them are genuine...

This argument about developing our own juniors is like a throwback to the era when players had little stars next to their names in the Big League program if they were local products. Or before the 1960s when you had to live in a district to play for that team. The fact is that the Mortimers...

This whole situation is a result of Canterbury needing to recruit established first grade quality players at any price after 2008. We had NO CHOICE excdept to buy a lot of established players to rebuild the club ASAP. While the culture of the club is now excellent, these guys can’t ALL be...

Sorry guys. Patten is a legend - and could reach 200 games this year with some luck (177 now). But he is 30 now with a suspect back - so just too old to be appointed captain. Captain needs to be younger. Ennis is the logical choice. Or Hannant.

Sorry i meant giving an old guy a "2 year contract" in my last post.

This is tricky. Some guys have gone too early - Price for example. He had years left in him. I also think we should have kept Sherwin in 2008. His kicking game and general organisational skills in attack and defence would have kept us off the bottom of the ladder for sure IMO. But we let him go...

Good question and good answers. Elsegood looked great as a rookie. I think the players who generate high hopes are often guys you hope will cover for the retirement or exit of a great player like Mortimer, Lamb or Price. History shows that they rarely live up to the pressure/expectations and...

This is a tricky issue. We had a similar time in the past when a great half back retired and we couldn't replace them - 1989 was an example when Turvey retired, Hagan left and an unknown from outside the club replaced them (Greg Mackey). We had no local product ready to step into the role...

This guy is a solid player. The policy of bringing back decent juniors is positive. People always crap on about "born-bred". I know it was a joke for a roosters game but don't complain when we bring one home. Also, Payne raised all that cash for charity with the Brisbane-Sydney walk I think. So...

Interesting comments, League Freak. I don't follow the Panthers closely - being a Dogs fan. From what you say there are parallels between Panthers after 2003 and Dogs after 2004. Bad decisions on player retention, stars who went AWOL (Gower), solid coaching that just couldn't save the day. I...

Don't want to start a "Rabbits Love-In" (is that technically a "Gerbilfest"??) here but John Lang is a key difference for them. He is a very calm and smart operator who will give them decent structure, play to their strengths and keep Crowie stuck up in the stands. Remember what he did at...

Anasta is an interesting case, Hansta. Anyone who saw him in 2002 would have thought he was going to be a legend. He did everything great in that rookie year (correct?). He just seemed to get into a less creative mindset over the years and lost a lot of pace and bulked up too much to play...

Moey, you make some very valid points. I think our recruitment in recent years was shocking partly because most of our cash was tied up in trying to keep a bunch of highly paid but very inconsistent (and often petulant) superstars. Not just the likes of SBW, Maitua and Mason - but also guys...

Agree Simmo. You've got to hand it to Souths actually. They have got a massive pack next year. A lot of people are paying out on Asotasi since he left the Dogs but the fact remains that we was great when he was part of a great pack. With more size around him, he could return to his best next...

Game has changed true but you still need to create "fear" or maybe it should be called "uncertainty" in the opposition defense. Melbourne get that from their backline. We can get that from Idris and Morris to some extent But Canterbury has always liked great enforcers and K Moore is a...

Yes 2009 was great - and I just want to thank Kennel contributors too. I live in China and we don't get much League on TV here. Sometimes the Australia Network disappears for a few days or weeks. So I rely on The Kennel each week for scores during the match. If it wasn't for...

haha pOrn.star, now we come back to the old chestnut about rating players from different eras. I don't want to diss Moi Moi. He is cool. But Cement Gillespie would have done just fine against Moi Moi - as would Peter Kelly, Peter Tunks and even small guys with great defensive techniques...

Bargache, good research/memory. Dunn actually played at No.10 even though he was skinny for a front row forward. This team started to have problems in 1989 after Steve Mortimer retired and we lost Hagan and Sargent to Newcastle and Currie left. Sargent was a big loss. We got a guy called...

Coyote, its funny you mention Jason Alchin. He was fantastic at full back that year - a stroke of genius from Gould to put him there. I think he replaced someone who got injured but I can't remember who. What a luxury in halves depth then - Steve Mortimer backed up by Alchin or Hagan to play...

Right on Coyote. I think 1988 grand final was a great game from him. Look for DVD of that game. We had a great pack that day - I think it was Tunks, Joe Thomas, Dunn, Gillespie, Folkes, Langmack. Creative and powerful. We were awesome that year - even when Turvey got injured late in the...

You got it 200% right SBW. Maybe to a level you didn't realize. To say "Barba or Hickey" off bench just shows what a huge challenge lies ahead for the club in terms of style. Do we go with the "same old same old" bulldogs style that ran of steam last Friday. Or do we become a more modern...

Badly injured man. Came back too early. No real alternatives. We wouldn't have gone closer with someone else. Took some bad options probably because of pain and exhaustion. Just ran out of puff. End of story.

Our weakness is creativity in nos. 6, 12-11 and bench. Kimmorley, Stagg and Ennis are fine. Eastwood is gone now. Can't carry both warburton and ryan ion second row. Too similar. Same with hickey, hodgson and armit up front. Not enough variety. Someone else in the forum said Roberts would be a...

Luck and momentum was the difference. They go together most years now with salary cap evening out the competition so much. Look at 1995. We were unstoppable because of super league. Penrith, Balmain, Manly. Teams come from nowhere and won the comp out of momentum and luck. The n they disappeared...

Hi bulldogs 2010, sorry about my text. I think Chinese internet services caused spacing to get removed. Try and think of it like an AFL tap out. Very intense. CHEERS

As an overseas fan, I got to watch the game last friday night. Maybe regular watchers will have seen different stuff. I thought we looked too big and slow compared to Parramatta as the game wore on. Maybe we got worn out with too much early defence on our line because of crap referee decisions...

haha Chris, you are an old dog. I was at the agme at Lidcombe you are talking about - first game of 1971! We were wearing those hooped jerseys. We got flogged the following week as well - but almost made the semi-finals because Les Johns had a last fling in the second half of the season. That...

While it seems certain that the points will be lost, Penrith's attempt to get the points actually helps out case in a small way. It has forced the NRL through Annersley to acknowledge that the interchange error had no bearing on the result of the game and that they are only punishing the...

A lot of people are grateful for the great pictures but I am especially grateful. Thanks so much. I live in Shanghai, China and I don't get to see many images of the Dogs. This is pretty hard for a Campsie guy who has followed the Dogs for 40 years now - my first ever game at Belmore was 1968 (a...

Hi this is a great thread but I agree with nuff nuffs. I posted something about the 1988 team elsewhere today and I think it would be very competitive against both sides. I think we all love the 1995 team because it won against great odds - coming from sudden death to go all the way and beat...

I am old enough to remember all the champion teams of our modern era. In fact, I am just old enough to remember losing the 1967 GF. IMO this 1988 premiership team was the CLASSIC Bulldogs style team - great forwards, brilliant halfs (including Hagan), strong centres (Farrar and...