News Josh Jackson’s career at crossroads as Phil Gould eyes Bulldogs overhaul

[BlackDawg]

Jackson is now an old style lock that goes 80 minutes and soaks up the tackles. Barrett has elected to make him a ball playing lock. So we have JMK who is our 1st pass from a ruck that is slow, loopy & ill directed that goes to jackson who cant ball play. Our halves never get good ball but then Barrett has played Averillo in preference to a specialist half so no eyes up football anyway & no organisation. Burton who is class but is getting tripe ball also has 2nd rowers who dont run lines or tackle bust. Furthermore they are turtled thus we never have any momentum. Then the whole thing repeats itself over and over like groundhog day. In summary, its all Barrett because he is trying to teach hippopotamus how to fly. He thinks he has the panthers as his squad. He plays players out of position, with no skillset, recruits poorly , does no live tinkering to rectify issues during the game & no players are ever dropped or swapped until we have clocked up so many losses its impossible to ressurect the season. This is all because we had a major sponsor who had a bromance with Barrett so our board caved & now we have wasted another 2 years on an absolutely shit coach.

 

[Dogtime]

Jackson is now an old style lock that goes 80 minutes and soaks up the tackles. Barrett has elected to make him a ball playing lock. So we have JMK who is our 1st pass from a ruck that is slow, loopy & ill directed that goes to jackson who cant ball play. Our halves never get good ball but then Barrett has played Averillo in preference to a specialist half so no eyes up football anyway & no organisation. Burton who is class but is getting tripe ball also has 2nd rowers who dont run lines or tackle bust. Furthermore they are turtled thus we never have any momentum. Then the whole thing repeats itself over and over like groundhog day. In summary, its all Barrett because he is trying to teach hippopotamus how to fly. He thinks he has the panthers as his squad. He plays players out of position, with no skillset, recruits poorly , does no live tinkering to rectify issues during the game & no players are ever dropped or swapped until we have clocked up so many losses its impossible to ressurect the season. This is all because we had a major sponsor who had a bromance with Barrett so our board caved & now we have wasted another 2 years on an absolutely shit coach.

Yes but what do you really think?

 

[AlzzBulldog]

If Baz is still our coach next year we need to move Jackson into the front and sign someone like Matterson so we actually have a ball playing lock. Jackson at prop isn't ideal (he has a weird body shape) but we can't play him on an edge so there's literally nowhere else we can play him. If we played like the Storm or Sharks having Jackson at lock wouldn't be an issue. I guess in that system there isn't much difference between a prop or lock anyway.

He won’t be our coach next year

 

[bradyk]

He won’t be our coach next year

He shouldn't be but Gus been saying some weird sh..

 

[Malla]

This is a nothing story from Buzz. This is the type of shit you ignore. He's trying to get a reaction from fans and the club.

Josh will stay at the Dogs but will take less.

 

[TABOO]

Jackson is now an old style lock that goes 80 minutes and soaks up the tackles. Barrett has elected to make him a ball playing lock. So we have JMK who is our 1st pass from a ruck that is slow, loopy & ill directed that goes to jackson who cant ball play. Our halves never get good ball but then Barrett has played Averillo in preference to a specialist half so no eyes up football anyway & no organisation. Burton who is class but is getting tripe ball also has 2nd rowers who dont run lines or tackle bust. Furthermore they are turtled thus we never have any momentum. Then the whole thing repeats itself over and over like groundhog day. In summary, its all Barrett because he is trying to teach hippopotamus how to fly. He thinks he has the panthers as his squad. He plays players out of position, with no skillset, recruits poorly , does no live tinkering to rectify issues during the game & no players are ever dropped or swapped until we have clocked up so many losses its impossible to ressurect the season. This is all because we had a major sponsor who had a bromance with Barrett so our board caved & now we have wasted another 2 years on an absolutely shit coach.

Pretty good summary really.

 

[D0GMATIC]

Do the good old south's or roosters trick. Medically retire from concussion or some made up injury, give an easy club job to take care of him for another decade. Cap sorted.

I thought maybe we're laying the groundwork for that with Jackos wearing of a headgear, a couple of "training mishaps" and a couple of failed gameday HIAs and voila we have a new strength and conditioning coach

 

[Como Dog]

Literally resigned okunbor, signed burns. His involvement is overrated on here. Now he wants to upgrade burton who has been underperforming.

It's a bit of a gamble but I'd upgrade him now as well. While he's not in peak form, less clubs would be after him, it's a show of good faith and confidence in him and his upgraded market value would be less than if he was tearing other teams apart. We did sign him somewhat on the cheap initially, so this step was always coming.

 

[Como Dog]

We are talking about Jackson not some other lazy player...
We placed him under immense pressure when thinking he can be a great captain after Graham, he wasn't !
TBaz is trying to turn him into an Isaah Yeo, he is not !
Yes we might not notice but I believe the roosters and the storm still respect their captains and senior players.

You're right that the club did those things and asked him to be something he is not, but he still got paid like a leading forward and captain, while he tried to do those things.

 

[Como Dog]

If Burton was on fire, he would demand $1M+ for an upgrade, though at the moment, his manager would be lucky to get 5-600k a season so it’s good timing in discussing an upgrade and looking to extend a deal at almost half the money.. he will come good but that’s up to the head coach to devise a plan that caters to Burton’s strengths… the only strength TB has identified is his bomb - f### me, talk about captain obvious, TB needs to think a little broader than that!

100% Agree

 

[the_insider]

Jackson should be on an edge it makes complete sense, he has played most of his best football there, has a pass on him, defends well on an edge and organises players either side of him.

Statstically he has been on par offensively and defensively superior than Liam Martin this year, and that is whilst being asked to play a role he hasn't played his whole career. Your comment about not being remotely close is incorrect.

Jackson - 95% tackle efficiency, average metres 86 per game, 5 offloads

Martin - 88% tackle efficiency, 101 per game, 5 offloads.

Jackson would have done no worse than Waddell on our edge this year, if I was Jackson I would be calling out Barrett for putting him in the position he has

when comparing stats you can't just compare tackle and hit up stats between an edge and a middle, if you were to do that you could make an argument that Jackson is better/on par with Kikau, Felise Kaufusi, Kurt Capewell, Sitili Tupounuia, Haumole Olakauatu which even the most biased of Jackson supporters know is nowhere near the truth.
Jackson played edge a few years back and struggled defensively with lateral movement and not being able to slide. There is nothing in Jackson's current skillset that suggests he has the attributes to be an effective edge in 2022.
To put things into perspective, Jackson has taken 85 hit ups this year and has broken 1 tackle, Martin had 7 tackle breaks in 1 game earlier this year

 

[S.B.W_Jnr]

Would it be a stupid move or a good move to have JMK at lock and bring Cook into the hooker role and give BBO more minutes?

Just thinking about it like Jackson is too slow maybe Jeremy can handle that role quicker and he works hard in defence. Just a thought.

 

[Philmus]

He can obviously do a lot better but there's no need to even consider upgrading his deal. You don't upgrade the deal of a bloke that has 3 try involvements lol

id understand if he was on minimum. but hes not. fuck him, he wants an upgrade he has to earn it. do something for fucks sake

 

[Philmus]

hopefully the club takes him up on his pay cut offer.. and cuts $700k and tells him to retire

 

[CrittaMagic69]

id understand if he was on minimum. but hes not. fuck him, he wants an upgrade he has to earn it. do something for fucks sake

I still remember some on here wanted to upgrade him to 800k per season before he even played a game for us LOL. People on here just don't get it.

 

[Howie B]

hopefully the club takes him up on his pay cut offer.. and cuts $700k and tells him to retire

Its not allowed mate under the Players Agreement. Clubs can upgrade a current contract but they cant downgrade one.

Nathan Brown made the point a few years back - "You cant do a good deal these days". If you sign someone on unders they agitate for a release unless you upgrade them. If you sign them on overs then tough luck

 

[Philmus]

I still remember some on here wanted to upgrade him to 800k per season before he even played a game for us LOL. People on here just don't get it.

same as the 'should we re sign dufty?' posts after round 1 right?

 

[Dognacious]

Yep exactly. Soooo many people on here just say to move them on. It ain’t a video game.

I am torn on this one. I actually think Jacko is still useful as the old traditional lock. Heaps of tackles and some tough hit ups. But he can’t play the current role. Baz has essentially killed his career.

Teams don’t NEED a ball playing lock. Parra did ok today with Nathan Brown at lock. He ball played a few times and actually got found out. But they didn’t rely on him for most attacking plays. We do.

Yep I also think he has something left to offer, but he's out of position and playing too many minutes

 

[KLil]

Would it be a stupid move or a good move to have JMK at lock and bring Cook into the hooker role and give BBO more minutes?

Just thinking about it like Jackson is too slow maybe Jeremy can handle that role quicker and he works hard in defence. Just a thought.

What do we have to lose?? lol

 

[Howie B]

Yep I also think he has something left to offer, but he's out of position and playing too many minutes

100%. Baz has effectively killed his career.

Or maybe that was the plan.........