I’ve was told a few weeks back about potential signings from cowboys.Have you heard or do you ‘know’?
Have they taken photos in 2023 jerseys and then passed those jerseys to current teammates ?.
I agree bro. TPJ loss was unexpected and not the clubs fault. I’m just not sure if the OP logic that Gus loss makes up stronger in the middle when we haven’t replaced him
I think that like all positions, we will be looking to promote from within. This needs to be clear to anyone in the club who aspires to playing fg NRLol. The battle for positions will also work in our favour. All this being said, we will struggle to make the 8, and will probably miss out, but so long as we start to play like a real football team, fix our defense, and win more games then last year I will be happy.
he didn’t really smash it mate. He played ok.. nothing special to be honest
He averaged over 35 tackles and roughly 150 running metres in under 60 minutes a game through that period.. in my opinion he smashed it.
Less than you can count on one hand more so saying despite such he was the only one that could dent the line. He could do what the other middles couldn’t shame his attitude was dog crap.
Can you imagine if they get injured? Who would even play in their place
Ok 2 mates kennells be aware
The negative and abusive lad is back
Im all on board bud gus
Good, hopefully we can celebrate some Bulldogs success this year.
Top 8 back row for sure. We all know tho, we need 1 top prop and we will push hard for finals. The game has not changed since 1908
UK Super league is an option for recruiting, but what I don’t understand is why we haven’t poked around Rugby Union circles for giant mobile forwards who are in abundance, not to mention, they don’t get payed very well unless playing in Europe competitions or Internationally for England, All Blacks or Australia. 190cm+ 120kg+ forwards are everywhere in that sport, League would be an easy transition for them especially given we enforce a 10m or 15m defensive line as opposed to 5m in rugby where forwards get pumped almost at a standing start.
Union forwards, especially props and hookers, find it very difficult to transition to League. League players have a different kind of fitness from union players. Union props are selected and condition for short burst of upper body strength and power, push in scrums, rucks and mauls, lifting in line outs, Union has a 5 metre rule, so no run ups. Ball park, in League the ball is in play for around 65 of the 80 minutes whilst in Union it's around 35 minutes. A while back the All Blacks had a KPI of allowing the ball to be inn play for less than 25 minutes.
I get your point on fitness given the differing game styles, but I’m not sure you understand the game of Rugby Union in detail, those forwards don’t get subbed after 20-30 mins like a lot of props do in the NRL modern era, their are also times they are attacking or defending for 12+ phases straight through the forwards - that takes an amazing amount of effort…. Are you saying NRL teams can’t find players like Leo Thompson or his twin Tyrone Thompson somewhere in the world to successfully transition? (in Leo’s case, is a proven success having played for the Kiwis already?)
King and Knight have been quite injury prone also which is concerning. There was a prop called Gordon whippy still available (crazy I know, thought there was nothing available) to sign in November who we really shouldve gone hard for but the tigers signed him late Nov. He is a prop who couldve handled first grade from r1 this yr and been a real asset for us