News Knights star 'Dominic Young' tours Bulldogs facilities

[finchie]

Skelton at 100% ceiling or dom young at 100%
id Take Skelton every day of the week easily
He’s got untapped potential

 

[Heckler]

My hunch is Skelton will end up a Wallabie now that Eddie Jones is back in town.

 

[Kempsey Dog]

Whilst a very good player, seems a strange decision.
JAC not going no where, so it means kiraz to centre. Centre we already have xerri, alomoti and averillo, plus skelton, a few young blokes also coming through, cant see it as he wants good money

Agree. I really hope he stays at Newcastle. Hastings probs won't play for England again but you'd have him, Kai Pearce Paul, Dom Young and potentially B.Hodgson on the right edge. Like seeing combinations like this that can benefit international footy even if it's only minimal.

 

[Jebbundy]

Whilst a very good player, seems a strange decision.
JAC not going no where, so it means kiraz to centre. Centre we already have xerri, alomoti and averillo, plus skelton, a few young blokes also coming through, cant see it as he wants good money

Nothing is a guarantee under Gus, nothing..

 

[Roger the alien]

Don't need Young, Skelton will be the better player.

 

[PaxMaxi1980]

I been thinking about this and maybe with the massive extra size on Xerri we can play him as a small 13!
Left field I know!

 

[D0GMATIC]

Don't need Young, Skelton will be the better player.

Skelton could play centre . . .

 

[Alan79]

The amount of players touring the facilities recently, Turner's fingerprints all over this.

Was going to say he bumped into Turner at the pub and Steve couldn't wait to give him a tour.

 

[CrittaMagic69]

Skelton could play centre . . .

Centre position isn't available.

 

[Chris Harding]

You are 100% Correct, but staying for less is the PR crap that has to be fed to world.
We finally have the resources & the knowhow to have our players stay for less in the front pages of the wages journal & top them up with sponsorships & third party deals through the back door.

And sponsorships are easier to find if you are a top four team.

 

[flamebouyant]

Why can’t we....look at the rooster backline

What? Probably need to read previous messages mate.

 

[Papa Joe]

And sponsorships are easier to find if you are a top four team.

Also helps that we seem to have employed the Corporate Sponsorship Sourcing King in Aaron Warburton - FMD, like how many sponsors has this guy bought on board since he's been in charge....... Invaluable.

 

[billy beane]

Gee Skelton gets a lot of love on here. I have only seen him play on three occasions but apart from a fantastic try against a well beaten Raiders reserves team, he has really done fark all. The other two games were against Parra where he was invisible, and Newtown where he was hooked for some really poor efforts in defense.

Perhaps he was carrying a back injury and that affected his performances but to say he easily has a higher ceiling than Dom Young is WAY over the top in my view.

In no way am i writing him off, but all we know about him at present is that he can be a powerful runner. I take the Rugby sevens stuff with a grain of salt.

 

[CrittaMagic69]

Gee Skelton gets a lot of love on here. I have only seen him play on three occasions but apart from a fantastic try against a well beaten Raiders reserves team, he has really done fark all. The other two games were against Parra where he was invisible, and Newtown where he was hooked for some really poor efforts in defense.

Perhaps he was carrying a back injury and that affected his performances but to say he easily has a higher ceiling than Dom Young is WAY over the top in my view.

In no way am i writing him off, but all we know about him at present is that he can be a powerful runner. I take the Rugby sevens stuff with a grain of salt.

Na he definitely showed freakish ability during his first month with us, you just happened to see 2/3 of his worst games.

 

[Daustin]

I don’t really rate dom young all that much. Certainly not enough of an upgrade on Kiraz to justify spending money and and potentially losing kiraz for

 

[billy beane]

Na he definitely showed freakish ability during his first month with us, you just happened to see 2/3 of his worst games.

Perhaps, but they were pretty bad games.

I hope like hell that he is indeed a freak of a player ... but need to see much more before making judgement.

 

[Benno Bulldog]

If Skelton is a freak he would have no problem unearthing Young these guys need to be f
FG not make it into cellar dweller teams fingers crossed… there not fkn ready for FG blame Covid blame the facilities blame there early debut….

 

[D0GMATIC]

Centre position isn't available.

Id say both spots are up for grabs. The trials may well decide who gets them

 

[CrittaMagic69]

Perhaps, but they were pretty bad games.

I hope like hell that he is indeed a freak of a player ... but need to see much more before making judgement.

We were discussing this last year but I'm pretty much convinced he was carrying an injury and/or getting hammered at training. His form drop came right around the time Gus confirmed they'd given him a contract.

 

[CrittaMagic69]

Id say both spots are up for grabs. The trials may well decide who gets them

It already seems decided.