News He’s going to be a great No. 6’: Ciraldo shuts down Burton move after Bulldogs star ruled out

[Geoff Chambers]

Jesus Christ he's not a very well man is he? Last year he claimed Burton the best kicking game in the world and now they only stayed in striking distance last week due to his kicking game.

That's ego central 101.


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[D- voice]

I would like to ask Burto this question...Who comes 1st Team or Individual ?

 

[Freakzilla]

So just about every “expert” and NRL analyst in the game is calling for him to be moved to centre now. Brad Fittler, Cameron Smith, Laurie Daley, Greg Alexander, Braith Anasta, Mathew Johns, Mark Geyer. FFS just move him already!

Fittler & Daley are 2 that started in the centres & moved to 6. Them 2 would be more qualified about this topic than anyone else. If both say Burton is a better centre then they should know.

 

[Scoooby]

Sick of CC, leaves a bad taste !!

 

[NPC83]

Yup dominant half
Nathan Cleary
Adam Reynolds
Not going to happen we need to change direction!

Not sure about that level just somebody to organise and direct play would help but I’m saying that doesn’t excuse his lack of involvement.

 

[Geoff Chambers]

Indeed


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[Old Man JB]

Can’t wait for Gus to blame previous administration on the Burton deal….

He's typing the tweet right now. Yep, Total Fool

 

[NPC83]

All I can say, if he is deterrind to be a 5/8 he should be working harder for it, is he ?

I don’t know mate… I’m starting to feel it could be a contract we have to ride out and I really hope I’m wrong.

 

[Moedogg]

Burton is the most under pressure to perform in the team. He's definitely on notice, hope that's the rocket up the arse he needs.

 

[dogsday]

When Burton is kicking bombs the opposition are standing over 10m from where he's kicking, simply just waiting for the kick, get closer to the defence before you kick, better still don't
bomb all the time drive a grubber when closer to the defensive line.
Probably wrong place for my 2 bobs worth, just shows how much i get involved.

 

[EL Hefe]

So which poor sucker will be our coach next year?

 

[boggie23]

The thing with Burton playing centre. He will excel at the roosters, broncos, souths, panthers etc because they have keary, mam, walker, luai etc. he doesn’t crack any of those teams as a half.

Our halves are Hutchinson and sexton (if you want to include taaffe, tracer, Hayward, Bbo…. I personally wouldn’t). If we had a class 6 then sure shift him to centre. But when we have no one note worthy in the halves. No big kicking game at all (unless you consider Mahoney a big boot, hutch and sexton are not realisable for long clearing kicks). And to compound it. We have centres in the calibre of critta, xerri and Kiraz. Fair enough his best position on most teams isn’t 5/8. But he is definitely the best we have. He doesn’t seem like a big game player and his decision making Is poor. His ability to take over and control games in non existent. But he is better then hutch, sexton and the rest.

 

[BULLDOGGSFAN]

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Fittler & Daley are 2 that started in the centres & moved to 6. Them 2 would be more qualified about this topic than anyone else. If both say Burton is a better centre then they should know.

Yeah good point. I remember both of them playing a bit of lock too.

I would understand if there wasn’t any other option but we’ve got Sexton, Tracey, Salmon, Biondi-Oda and even Chricton ( who actually looked better than Burton there after the one game he played for Samoa ).

Personally I’d be playing Salmon at 6 because he’s a big body defensively and will straighten up our attack. He’s shown he’s not afraid to play deep into the line which will free up space for Burton and Kikau on the outside.

 

[BULLDOGGSFAN]

So which poor sucker will be our coach next year?

Wayne Bennett is available! Just saying…

 

[D0GMATIC]

Wont happen, Gus' ego would rather be in denial than be proved wrong.

I'd say that CC selects team and Gus' ego wouldn't have much to do with it. After all,only 1 can sack the other if things don't go to plan

 

[D0GMATIC]

So just about every “expert” and NRL analyst in the game is calling for him to be moved to centre now. Brad Fittler, Cameron Smith, Laurie Daley, Greg Alexander, Braith Anasta, Mathew Johns, Mark Geyer. FFS just move him already!

Of those,1 has coached @ NRL level, unsuccessfully. They're all paid to say something in the media, if Burton has a great game this week, those same people will be paid to sing his praises

 

[D- voice]

Can’t wait for Gus to blame previous administration on the Burton deal….

Gus has never blamed previous managements, he simply acknowledged we have problems as we all did.
We can't live in denial and pretend it isn't a huge problem, not only he had to bring in a new roster he also had to rebuild the pathways.

 

[Phalangist]

The thing with Burton playing centre. He will excel at the roosters, broncos, souths, panthers etc because they have keary, mam, walker, luai etc. he doesn’t crack any of those teams as a half.

Our halves are Hutchinson and sexton (if you want to include taaffe, tracer, Hayward, Bbo…. I personally wouldn’t). If we had a class 6 then sure shift him to centre. But when we have no one note worthy in the halves. No big kicking game at all (unless you consider Mahoney a big boot, hutch and sexton are not realisable for long clearing kicks). And to compound it. We have centres in the calibre of critta, xerri and Kiraz. Fair enough his best position on most teams isn’t 5/8. But he is definitely the best we have. He doesn’t seem like a big game player and his decision making Is poor. His ability to take over and control games in non existent. But he is better then hutch, sexton and the rest.

I agree
His a 6 for me for the next couple of years. Just play sexton with him.

 

[Bullfrog2]

The thing with Burton playing centre. He will excel at the roosters, broncos, souths, panthers etc because they have keary, mam, walker, luai etc. he doesn’t crack any of those teams as a half.

Our halves are Hutchinson and sexton (if you want to include taaffe, tracer, Hayward, Bbo…. I personally wouldn’t). If we had a class 6 then sure shift him to centre. But when we have no one note worthy in the halves. No big kicking game at all (unless you consider Mahoney a big boot, hutch and sexton are not realisable for long clearing kicks). And to compound it. We have centres in the calibre of critta, xerri and Kiraz. Fair enough his best position on most teams isn’t 5/8. But he is definitely the best we have. He doesn’t seem like a big game player and his decision making Is poor. His ability to take over and control games in non existent. But he is better then hutch, sexton and the rest.

Overall he is better than hucth and sexton at 5/8 agree. But hutch and sexton are both superior ball players, hence we should select both hutch and sexton at half & 5/8. WHY - because we lack attacking flair and need to get our quality outside backs more ball & into space! Something Burton cannot do, he is a ball runner and stifles the attack.
CC pick players in positions to team needs and not player needs FFS.

 

[Cook]

His kicking game getting us out of trouble was actually pretty good last week, will agree with that

It actually was. I thought same thing, and tbf that’s all the coach really said. He didn’t single out anything else he did.