Psycho Doggie
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Sick and tired of the rubbish dished out by the popular dailies? I've been finding the Guardian to both entertaining and insightful. They don't employ nearly as many sports reporters as the populars, but the few they have seem really good. One of today's articles has a piece on the Dogs:
[h=2]Dogs may be hard to like for some, but admiring them is easy[/h] Only those at Canterbury hold on to any notion of Canterbury still being this avuncular, working-class “family club” (though, fair’s fair, they’ve managed to reunite the Morris brothers and have the Mata’utias on speed dial). Indeed, many on the outside find the Dogs hard to like, although the departure of Michael Ennis to Cronulla may have changed that. What’s less contentious, however, is that the Bulldogs have mongrel, the type that is not willing to roll over when things are tough, the kind that more often than not wins in golden point (as they did last season four of five times).
On Saturday night the young Tigers were cutting them up with youthful pizzazz, and Luke Brooks and James Tedesco were smiling from ear to ear. The future looked bright, for the Tigers, the future looked here. But down 24-6 with just 22 minutes remaining the Dogs dragged themselves back into the contest and after, among other highlights, a gem of a cut-out-pass from Sam Kasiano to Curtis Rona and, later, Josh Morris’s first try in a year, they took the game to extra-time — where Josh Reynolds’s fill-in Moses Mbye added the important point and made you think that maybe Reynolds may not be an automatic inclusion when he returns to health. Des Hasler, who knows ornery when he sees it, liked what he saw. “We have got that ability in us to play catch-up footy but it’s something that we don’t want to do too often because we’re not going to get away with it all the time,’’ he said. “The boys showed composure and that was probably the best passage of football we played the entire game at the back end. They showed plenty of courage to stay in there and finish it off and get the points.’’ Curiously, the Bulldogs have now scored 66 second half points this season to just 24 first half points. Are they serving camomile tea for pre-game hydration?
[h=2]Dogs may be hard to like for some, but admiring them is easy[/h] Only those at Canterbury hold on to any notion of Canterbury still being this avuncular, working-class “family club” (though, fair’s fair, they’ve managed to reunite the Morris brothers and have the Mata’utias on speed dial). Indeed, many on the outside find the Dogs hard to like, although the departure of Michael Ennis to Cronulla may have changed that. What’s less contentious, however, is that the Bulldogs have mongrel, the type that is not willing to roll over when things are tough, the kind that more often than not wins in golden point (as they did last season four of five times).
On Saturday night the young Tigers were cutting them up with youthful pizzazz, and Luke Brooks and James Tedesco were smiling from ear to ear. The future looked bright, for the Tigers, the future looked here. But down 24-6 with just 22 minutes remaining the Dogs dragged themselves back into the contest and after, among other highlights, a gem of a cut-out-pass from Sam Kasiano to Curtis Rona and, later, Josh Morris’s first try in a year, they took the game to extra-time — where Josh Reynolds’s fill-in Moses Mbye added the important point and made you think that maybe Reynolds may not be an automatic inclusion when he returns to health. Des Hasler, who knows ornery when he sees it, liked what he saw. “We have got that ability in us to play catch-up footy but it’s something that we don’t want to do too often because we’re not going to get away with it all the time,’’ he said. “The boys showed composure and that was probably the best passage of football we played the entire game at the back end. They showed plenty of courage to stay in there and finish it off and get the points.’’ Curiously, the Bulldogs have now scored 66 second half points this season to just 24 first half points. Are they serving camomile tea for pre-game hydration?
