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Good pace
A guy in the comments below says he signed for 4 years
Good pace
A guy in the comments below says he signed for 4 years
Happy to see Waddell/Elliott/Stimson/even it saddens me to say, Jacko move on in the next 12 months.We have a lot of second rowers in the top 30. I think we need to move 1-2 of them on.
I'll retell what I was told by the Melbourne talent scout in Sydney years ago...
He walked into my work place and said...you've got him
I asked who
He said Lichaa, 16 clubs were trying to sign him but the Bulldogs paid most and continued Melbourne were looking at him as a replacement for Cameron Smith !
Poor Lichaa ...He didn't know DesTroyer Hasler was waiting for him at the Bulldogs
Imagine going from being THE best hooker prospect in the competition with EVERY side trying to sign you to 3 years later being released by the dogs who don't make the finals to being re-signed in the offseason only to finish up and not a single team wants to sign you even as a back-up.Lichaa was the NSW U20s hooker & everybody said he was promising. The problem was Des wanted a tackling hooker & Lichaa was a running hooker. Des destroyed his career.
he wont score those shit tries in grade tho, but yes looks promising.Good pace
What happened on the field though?Let me tell you this guy can play ! Used to get pumped by him every finals lol
Maybe some players are on their way out and that needs to be announced first. We should shop a few that aren't ever going to be required - eg: Elliott, Waddell, Stimson, Wakeham, Flanagan. I'd keep Allan at this stage as we need a bit of depth to cover fullback, wing and centre.This is another report of a player signed, but nothing official from the club. With this guy, that dummy half that won the Mal Meninga Cup in 2018, the huge Wests forward, and the back rower from QLD also reported today, we would be at our top 30. However none of those supposed signings have been officially announced.
Hmmm.The Bulldogs have agreed to sign a South Sydney hooker named Cook – but it isn’t Damien.
In what could prove a recruitment masterstroke, the Bulldogs have continued their multimillion-dollar spending spree by reaching an agreement with rising Rabbitohs star Joshua Cook.
News Corp Australia can reveal Canterbury have struck a deal with the other Cook’s South Sydney understudy after identifying the 22-year-old as the player who could solve their hooking woes.
In another Bulldogs mark made by Phil Gould, the rugby league mastermind was instrumental in getting yet another Canterbury deal done.
South Sydney's Joshua Cook is heading to Belmore. Picture: NRL Imagery
“Gus did his homework and helped identify him,” said a source close to the deal.
“He saw a lot of upside in the kid who would have been playing NRL this year if not for an injury.”
A former NSW under 16s-star, Cook’s 2021 season was derailed by a shoulder injury and then Covid.
Despite seeing little football this year, Cook has been earmarked as an NRL player and is expected to be announced as the Bulldogs next signing later this week.
A South Sydney junior who has rifled his way through the junior grades, Cook was touted as a future star by former Rabbitohs boss Shane Richardson during his tenure at the top.
“All Josh has needed over the past few seasons to represent at higher levels is luck with injuries, something which unfortunately hasn’t come his way,“ Richardson said.
“However we are seeing his game improve every week in the Canterbury Cup and Jersey Flegg competitions this year and there is still plenty of improvement in him.
“His best football is definitely in front of him.”
Phil Gould has made an immediate impact as the Bulldogs new General Manager of Football. Picture: Getty Images.
His latest Bulldogs signing, Gould is fast making his mark at the Bulldogs after being appointed the club’s General Manager of Football.
Taking a hands-on approach in the Bulldogs rebuild, Gould was pivotal in signing both Tevita Pangi Jr and Paul Vaughan.
Following an eight-year horror show that started in 2013 under former coach Des Hasler, Gould has vowed to return the Bulldogs to a final’s force.
And with the club’s long list of signings including Josh Addo Carr, Matt Burton, Brent Naden and Matt Dufty, all is on track.
The hooking role was seen as the last recruitment hurdle to clear.
Having used Jeremy Marshall King as a makeshift No. 9 and Sione Katoa at dummy half this year, the Bulldogs have not had a game breaking hooker since losing Michael Ennis to the Sharks.
If you ever watched Lichaa in lower grades he was a stand out. Even when he played lower grades with us but for some reason as soon as he played first grade he just seemed to take a back seat to senior players like he was too frighten to run because he'd get into trouble or something. Didn't make sense. He blew his career. Des definitely helped.He was a running hooker?
Even though Cook hasn't played first grade (I believe) he hopefully becomes our number 1 starting hooker IMMEDIATELY.Nothing official from the club because some would be development contracts. Josh cook and John Asiata would be top 30 signings.
he certainly wasHe was a running hooker?
So what is wrong with what I said? It is a fact. That & the game was rigged with the refereeing.Are you kidding? To be or fair?????
The FULL TIME score was 30-6!!!!! That’s all she wrote…….
And it is a sad indictment on Des Hasler & his coaching.Imagine going from being THE best hooker prospect in the competition with EVERY side trying to sign you to 3 years later being released by the dogs who don't make the finals to being re-signed in the offseason only to finish up and not a single team wants to sign you even as a back-up.
That's sad TBH.
DesTroyer absolutely destroyed him by playing him full games and not using Cook to replace him...Imagine going from being THE best hooker prospect in the competition with EVERY side trying to sign you to 3 years later being released by the dogs who don't make the finals to being re-signed in the offseason only to finish up and not a single team wants to sign you even as a back-up.
That's sad TBH.
Des is a wanker lets start our own chant just like tigers did but sad news is i dont think we will be winning against manly any time soonDesTroyer absolutely destroyed him by playing him full games and using Cook to replace him...
Do you remember ?
He used select 4 forwards on the bench (no utility) and most time he would use 3 replacements only !