The Dogfather
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It has come to my attention that there is a big problem with the way that we play our footy. We dont play to win, we play in a conservative way in other words in a way not to loose.
Our attack in the past 2-3 years has been really standard and average. We have been predictable and have not really set the world on fire. If you think about it if we didnt have ben barba in 2012 we wouldnt have been so successful.
We have a great coach and a pretty good squad but havnt really captured the form that gets the heart beating with excitement and gets the fans flocking to the games like the good old days when we really were dogs of war 2000-2008.
To break it down it comes to these factors:
The halves, hooker and backs. The dogs have always had a strong forward pack but we have never really had great halves since thurston, sherwin and anasta left the club. Adam perry and corey hughes were great out of dummy half and we havnt really had a hooker like them since. And honestly forget ben barba, no one has filled the gap left by luke patten. (Brett Morris still hasnt shown his best, too early to judge).
Curtis rona is a great signing but we havnt signed wingers with that excitement that utai and hazem brought. Yes its time for tall strong wingers but is it too much to ask for to have wingers like Semi radradra or DWZ from panthers or alex johnston.
For me there is still a lot of improvement needed in our team. They leave me wanting more out of their performance every week. Its a worrying sign. I still wait for the day where the dogs will dominate once more.
Our attack in the past 2-3 years has been really standard and average. We have been predictable and have not really set the world on fire. If you think about it if we didnt have ben barba in 2012 we wouldnt have been so successful.
We have a great coach and a pretty good squad but havnt really captured the form that gets the heart beating with excitement and gets the fans flocking to the games like the good old days when we really were dogs of war 2000-2008.
To break it down it comes to these factors:
The halves, hooker and backs. The dogs have always had a strong forward pack but we have never really had great halves since thurston, sherwin and anasta left the club. Adam perry and corey hughes were great out of dummy half and we havnt really had a hooker like them since. And honestly forget ben barba, no one has filled the gap left by luke patten. (Brett Morris still hasnt shown his best, too early to judge).
Curtis rona is a great signing but we havnt signed wingers with that excitement that utai and hazem brought. Yes its time for tall strong wingers but is it too much to ask for to have wingers like Semi radradra or DWZ from panthers or alex johnston.
For me there is still a lot of improvement needed in our team. They leave me wanting more out of their performance every week. Its a worrying sign. I still wait for the day where the dogs will dominate once more.