Nasheed here,
It has been a while but after two years Imma back because I'm constantly shaking my head about all the inaccuracies I see when I log onto this site to read (which I do) and I think it's time as a leader of the Bulldogs fanbase I step up to d plate to disspell alot of the Bulldoggs Myths that get pumped through this place and get passed off as fact.
Where possible I'll link to quotes, but some will be on the back of general vibe yo.
Here goes yo:
Hasler ruined this club,he didn’t give a fuck about our juniors
@mikey
This above is perpetuated on a weekly basis on this site.
The truth is Des did NOT 'ruin' the juniors, and this can be proven by the law of common sense.
Des was the First Grade coach. He was not the GM of Football like
Phil Gould. He wasn't in charge of pathways. He wasn't our juniors scout. He did not have authority to allocate or re-direct our junior funding initiatives.
Unless you're insinuating that in the middle of the night, Des spent cash on a full body Didriksons bodysuit hoodie, went to d area, rounded up the hardest arabs with neck, face and sleeve tatts with a minimum of 3 felonies per hood, rollin' down to Belmore all driving a WRX or a foreign, Tupac blarin on deck, poppin bottles of Henny and 1942 Azul and suckin Hookah out the window, Des in the back seat getting pumped up with Young Nudy on the headphones with a fat blunt gettin some sloppy from a ganga, Valvoline drum in hand then going to the Junior club house, grey paint flung all over the cameras, and he and d boys drench the clubhouse in oil and Des, red eyed and high, flicked his blunt to torch the place down, screaming YAY YAAAAAAAY' like Cube do, jumping round pumping chests with the boys all with the intention of fucking up his options as a First grade coach, forcing him to recruit elsewhere.
This is NOT to say the juniors went downhill during this time. They did. Des also made questionable retention decisions.
However, he also took us to multiple Grand Finals and got the boys all firing together and playing for each other. A trait we saw at Manly too.
If you want to vent your rage, vent it to the real culprits.
Todd Greenberg, in his Israeli wisdom, made financial decisions to cut funding to the bulldogg junior development which affected the pathways on both a financial and structural level.
Raelene Castle, in her well documented level of incompetence across three organizations, was responsible for messing up our cap. My insider reliably informed me of an argument a few years ago with Mortimer (I think?) storming out of a meeting because 'Raelene doesnt understand money' because they back ended Tolmans contract from 150k to 700k across three years. I have seen that referenced and alluded to elsewhere in the media and I
think the bulldoggs incident was the catalyst for the NRL changing contract back ending rules. Des did not sit at the table to play accounting with the cap, Raelene did.
Blame that fat B.
The Bulldogs have always been known for their big arrogant intimidating props & forward pack, we invented NAS and JWH prototype, and I’m not just talking the early 2000 era, this goes way back to our Berries era, we’ve always had the best props and opposition clubs hated playing us because they knew they’d be hurting for the next fortnight.
Where has the feared Bulldogs pack gone?
- @1967
The answer to this is the game is like a good bottle of Hennessy.
You need balance.
This line of thinking isn't our fault, it is the NRL's. The game used to have the niggle, ***** breaking fingers in the scrum, the game was built on intimidation. Size, it used to be closer to Rugby Union but over time has been geared towards the faster, smaller men. This is by design. This has slowly changed over time but the big killer blows was the 2015 interchange reduction and the 2020 six again rule implementation.
Look, we CAN get big, feared, intimidating forwards like
NAS, JWH, Pele, Woods (quite literally as all are off contract or with us) but then The Kennel will be filled with 'FUCK WHY DA FUCK DO OUR FORWARDS LET IN SO MANY TRIES AT END OF GAME ULEH FUCK WE WAS WINNING THEN LET IN 3 TRIES WHY DA FUCK THEY UNFIT FUCK DESتبا لهذا الفريق'.
Just ask Ricky Stuart and the 2015/2016 era Canberra Raiders team.
Preston reminds me of elmasri the way he converts half chances to tries
-@silva
Kiraz will be the next hazem el Masri
@UpDaDoggies1935
What the fuck even is this? Firstly, the only thing
Hazem and
Kiraz have in common is Lebanese. That is where it ends. Kiraz runs and is full off aggression and squirms in rage as if he found out his daughter was dating
@Bulldogsteve. He is MUCH more like a player named
Michael Hancock from QLD which was before most kennelers time.
Also, Hazem didnt create endless half chances. The hero worship around this clown is unreal. He was slow, he wasn't strong, and made a career out of jumping on my all time fav Bulldogg
Ben Sherwins grubber kicks in plenty of space and catching the ball and putting it down. All off the back of the forwards charges.
His strike rate of 11 tries a year in the most dominant attacking team of the noughties is a fizzer too.
The fact is he was only in the team most of his career because he could kick. He was dropped to reserve grade the year before Halligan retired. Thats when his goalkicking surged. He is only loved by the fans because he is Muslim and Lebanese, which I agree should bump him above his value but saying thing like the above is too much.
When Tolman left I was happy knowing I was going to see something different on the fourth
@Dogzof95
FFS, we need to put this to bed. This isn't
Tolman's fault this whole '
Tolman on d 4th' khara zub talk. Why blame the guy who's there in the ruck, never giving up ? He was the only one having a go when you had pieces of shit like
Renouf Atoni walking in back play hands on hips. Blame the halfback for passing it to him on the 4th instead of doing razzle dazzle, and blame the coaches for not directing the play around that behaviour.
The truth is you need players like
Aiden Tolman, Darren Nicholls, Jake Averillo, Josh Jackson, Alex Twal, Victor Radley etc. No frills players to be the glue and do the dirty work to make the flash impact players shine.
Sorry uleh I've watched him hard. Do not believe the hype. He will fade out or be a 50/50 player. His over hyping came from the juniors when he was thinner and had better footwork Inglis style.
He had to bulk up for tackling reasons and now he is your typical samoan bettering ram centre, wit diminished speed and footwork. No longer the x factor. He isnt alone in the NRL here.
Holland retired and was never going to live up to the hype he got.
-@Various
This one makes me furious.
I’ve been very critical of
Holland in the past, but he actually was brilliant in hindsight.
He had that X factor and ability to do a little sumpin from nuttin.
He was a sensational fullback, centre and winger and filled in at hooker very well. Supremely versatile.
He made breaks like it was a cats breakfast and had some good combos before the club ruined him.
How many times was it said he could’ve played for Oz? He also made the most line breaks out of any centre in 2018 despite the team having problem scoring points.
The truth is it was
Pays coaching that ruined him and his love for the game. So he gave it up.
Maybe the biggest tragedy in dogs history, just before or equal to letting go of
Thurston.
He also never came from the junior ranks and made it on his own by just playing one day for a pub team. His talent bright him to the nrl.
He was so good. Just that amazing footy brain and I think the girls really liked him as he had amazing blue eyes and reminded me of freak Sinatra.
Nasheed is Foxalldayeveryday, Bulldogs09, JakeMcelvoy, Lovemachine, every new random kenneller or troll
@Various
I do not know if this is a running joke or a meme, but its ridiculous. Some appear to be complimenting me via imitation, which is ok, but it is annoying when things get linked to me that are not me, and my opinion. I understand Bulldoggsteve bein confused because he isn't very clever but everyone else saying this is really bizarre.
Frankly, the mods KNOW for a fact I do not have a duplicate account here and I am a little dissapointed they never shut that talk down. Frustrating to read and see that myth purported ERRRRYWHERE.
Pimp and peace and have a good night everyone yallah. Nasheed.
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