Kent, Trent Hodkinson all heart

[KelpiesHuskies]

hodkinson has one trait that no halfback has he tackles like a second rower.

 

[Mr Beast]

Is that you chip?

Running IP search match up

 

[Wolfmother]

There is no doubt in my mind that if the bulldogs were snubbed this year we would be facing a grueling up hill battle to another embarrassing loss.

In the dying minutes of the game slater was a certain to score until the trio from the dogs scooped in to save that try. Reynolds came out of nowhere followed by trex and Jmoz .

Ps I also have to stand corrected about trex he actually put in more effort in the short time he was on than I first saw.
I hope Daley gives him a longer stint next game.

 

[midas]

importantly for Hodkinson, he didn't make the mistakes that Pearce is known to do in Origin games... that said, Hodkinson will need to pick up his Game for Origin II as QLD will undoubtedly look to close down Hayne and NSW will need to find other attacking avenues thru Hodkinson and Farah

 

[terrylamb4lyfe]

Funny, the tin foilers here were ranting about Kent hating the club a few weeks ago.

 

[c-b-b]

Funny, the tin foilers here were ranting about Kent hating the club a few weeks ago.

He'd look like an idiot if he tried to say anything other than he what did in the article, one good article doesn't mean he suddenly loves the club. But it's easy to put the boot in if there's any type of bad issue which he does with pleasure.

 

[vietorious]

Not just a good tackler, but he reads well in defence. More often than not, he takes the right player.

Hodko was solid. Organised the team well overall. Its hard to play well when you defend your line for majority of the second half. Hard to put a stamp on the game when your forwards were out o f petrol and didnt make that many metres.

 

[dogs_of_war89]

He would have had a try assist had hoffman been a little quicker and stronger. He put him him through a nice gap early in the first half. Directed the forwards. No stupid kicks/passes or mistakes like our mate pearce and defended like a prop. In the last 25 minutes of the second half the blues had very little ball. He will only gonna get better.

This is the first year that the nsw players come out saying thats the closest theyve been as a playing group and gallen, bird and farah come out in support of reynolds after that tackle. Our halves are made for origin and winning the series will not only help them but the bulldogs aswell.

 

[bcmf]

QLD are scared now.

i got tickets to game 2 and ill be there cheering our boys.

 

[immortalbulldog]

While not bulldog related this is the part that concerns me. Funny how they don't report this news straight away isn't it! Basically news ltd has had a month to get in there and cover up as much as they can and have got their scapegoat ready.

They also released it on the day of origin so it was overshadowed

 

[Powerslide]

The NRL has other problems. The whispers in the corridor of power at ICAC suggest phone taps will reveal another club is cheating the salary cap, with the taps a chance to become public when more evidence is tendered against Eddie O’Beid.

This club also recently let go a staffer involved in recruitment.


Any Idea boys and girl who this may be? By the sounds of it, likely to be systematic rorting not just a 'mistake' Who has let recruitment staff go recently?

 

[Nano]

The NRL has other problems. The whispers in the corridor of power at ICAC suggest phone taps will reveal another club is cheating the salary cap, with the taps a chance to become public when more evidence is tendered against Eddie O’Beid.

This club also recently let go a staffer involved in recruitment.


Any Idea boys and girl who this may be? By the sounds of it, likely to be systematic rorting not just a 'mistake' Who has let recruitment staff go recently?

You tell us, are they listed on the share market?

 

[Powerslide]

The team I am thinking of is not listed on the stock exchange, but is privately owned.

 

[Karat]

The NRL has other problems. The whispers in the corridor of power at ICAC suggest phone taps will reveal another club is cheating the salary cap, with the taps a chance to become public when more evidence is tendered against Eddie O’Beid.

This club also recently let go a staffer involved in recruitment.


Any Idea boys and girl who this may be? By the sounds of it, likely to be systematic rorting not just a 'mistake' Who has let recruitment staff go recently?

Only staffer that springs to mind is Mark Hughes who left the Rabbits to join the Panthers

 

[Nano]

The team I am thinking of is not listed on the stock exchange, but is privately owned.

That rules out one club I'm thinking of and the only club on the stock exchange.

Only staffer that springs to mind is Mark Hughes who left the Rabbits to join the Panthers

Was that recent and Crowe does own them, dots being connected?

 

[immortalbulldog]

Bulldog's Trent Hodkinson begins each game with a brand new kicking tee he dedicates to a child suffering chronic illness.
Source: News Corp Australia

EVERY time Trent Hodkinson lines up a kick, somewhere, a heart flutters.

It rises with hope, in the little heart of a small child that knows that this kick, on a kicking team bearing their name, might sail between the posts.

For some time now Hodkinson begins each game with a brand new kicking tee that he dedicates to a child suffering chronic illness, writing their name on the tee and presenting it to them after the game.

There is no better example how grounded Hodkinson is, and why he is on the verge of becoming one of the game’s marquee players.

He did it again Wednesday night, writing a name and seeing his two penalty goals be the eventual difference between NSW and Queensland.

Forget what the bookies say, the Canterbury Bulldogs are the overwhelming premiership favourites.

Wednesday’s Origin match was final confirmation.

Hodkinson and Josh Reynolds flourished in the pressure-cooker of Origin and, on the back of what you expect will be two more performances at this level, they will return to lead the Dogs through the last third of the home and away rounds behind a pack that just happens to be the biggest and best in the competition.

A dominant pack and quality halves?

No club would ask for more as they head into the finals.

After years of injury Hodkinson has picked the right time to come good.

Next year he will be one of four halfbacks off contract. The others are Adam Reynolds, Ben Hunt and Daly Cherry-Evans.

It will be a feeding frenzy for NRL clubs looking to improve their stocks.

There are too few genuine halfbacks in the game, and certainly not enough to go around the 16 clubs.

Hodkinson’s rise in performance ensures he will be part of the dealing in the months ahead.

The Broncos are keenly interested in Cherry-Evans but the thoroughness of the NRL’s investigation into recent allegations of salary cap rorting could impact on Brisbane’s ability to recruit him.

It leaves Cherry-Evans in a bind.

He is on the outs with his Manly teammates, who believe they have lost Glenn Stewart because salary cap money is being stockpiled to re-sign Cherry-Evans, who they believe is heading to

Brisbane in 2016 anyway.

That venom flashed briefly during Origin on Wednesday night when Manly teammate Anthony Watmough chased Cherry-Evans across the park and made sure he put a little extra in his shot.

While it will be dismissed publicly as simply “Origin”, mate against mate and all that, have no doubt it will be recognised for what it is by teammates back at Manly.

There are a lot of questions to be asked about the Broncos? Why did they declare themselves to the NRL, sometime around a month after a whistleblower had tipped off owners News Ltd (publisher of the Telegraph) that rorting was going on?

Why was football manager Andrew Gee let go?

NRL boss Dave Smith and chief financial officer Jim Doyle were at Red Hill on Thursday going through the Broncos’ books.

Be sure, there are countless people close to the Broncos organisation willing to stand up for Gee, not prepared to let him be made the scapegoat for the club’s cap turmoil.

Any sort of rorting can’t be implemented at a club without the knowledge and tacit approval of others.

The NRL has other problems. The whispers in the corridor of power at ICAC suggest phone taps will reveal another club is cheating the salary cap, with the taps a chance to become public when more evidence is tendered against Eddie O’Beid.

This club also recently let go a staffer involved in recruitment.

While there is nothing criminal about the actitivies from an ICAC perspective, the cap rorting will amount to a large headache for the NRL.

Two clubs in one year? How widespread is it?

None of this is a concern for Hodkinson, who along with Josh Reynolds now gets the chance to secure the Blues their first series since 2005 and then lead the Bulldogs the rest of the way.

He is the feel-good story to emerge in what are very interesting times for the game.

As far as I've been able to tell there are two clubs, Rabbitohs let Mark Hughes go late last year and the Eels let their recruitment officer yo this year. Very interesting

 

[immortalbulldog]

The NRL has other problems. The whispers in the corridor of power at ICAC suggest phone taps will reveal another club is cheating the salary cap, with the taps a chance to become public when more evidence is tendered against Eddie O’Beid.

This club also recently let go a staffer involved in recruitment.


Any Idea boys and girl who this may be? By the sounds of it, likely to be systematic rorting not just a 'mistake' Who has let recruitment staff go recently?

Rabbitohs and Eels

 

[immortalbulldog]

Well Ray Hadley confirmed on 2GB that he was referring to the eels

 

[Powerslide]

Rabbitohs and Eels

Not going to confirm or deny, but for anyone that knows anything about the current ICAC investigation and if the evidence is against the man in the article not hard to work it out.

 

[Nano]

If its the Eels, maybe we can get Hayne lol