Official Nick Cotric signs three year deal with the Bulldogs

[bradyk]

With Dean Pay's departure from Canterbury on Tuesday, the lack of coaching certainty had the potential to undermine their pursuit of Cotric, but the Bulldogs have reassured him the chance to play centre remains from next year.

Source

Does anyone else find this at least a little concerning? Someone high up in the club is guaranteeing Cotric a centre spot even though the coach for next season hasn't been decided yet. Who is this mystery person who can make that call, and how is the new coach going to feel that at least one position in his team has already been picked for him? How many other positions have already been locked in?

Not really. We don't have one NRL standard centre at the club.

 

[El Padrino]

Who was talking to you?
You're the one usually posting negative crap.
Back to your tax returns Godfather.

stop being a negative Nancy

why do you pick fights all the time.

 

[KiwiDog7]

Cotric gives us genuine strike out wide

Speed kills

 

[D- voice]

Good news !
A step forward in the right direction !!!

 

[Riggs80]

Haha the raiders fans cut up on the greenhouse forum. Interesting to note one of them thinks he took up $650k per year offer

 

[ILiveForDib]

Now we need a hooker, and a half then this teams looking good. Burton and we have to try snap a hooker from somewhere, even Ben hunt wouldn’t be a bad shout.

What’s happening with Dufty

 

[Spoonman84]

It's just great to be buying genuine NRL players that you can get excited about again instead of the journeyman, untested juniors and fringe first graders that we have had to put up with for the last few years.

 

[Daustin]

now if we could get charlie staines, matt burton and darryl clarke we would be a totally different team

 

[Howie B]

Cotric gives us genuine strike out wide

Speed kills

I reckon his biggest asset is his power . He is a very good player and has played heaps of centres in juniors

Great signing

 

[Donkey Slayer]

With Dean Pay's departure from Canterbury on Tuesday, the lack of coaching certainty had the potential to undermine their pursuit of Cotric, but the Bulldogs have reassured him the chance to play centre remains from next year.

Source

Does anyone else find this at least a little concerning? Someone high up in the club is guaranteeing Cotric a centre spot even though the coach for next season hasn't been decided yet. Who is this mystery person who can make that call, and how is the new coach going to feel that at least one position in his team has already been picked for him? How many other positions have already been locked in?

DWZ either plays wing and cotric plays centre

Or

Cotric plays wing DWZ centre

Seeing how shit DWZ has been they may want him on the wing but i think he can be strong at centre

 

[CrittaMagic69]

With Dean Pay's departure from Canterbury on Tuesday, the lack of coaching certainty had the potential to undermine their pursuit of Cotric, but the Bulldogs have reassured him the chance to play centre remains from next year.

Source

Does anyone else find this at least a little concerning? Someone high up in the club is guaranteeing Cotric a centre spot even though the coach for next season hasn't been decided yet. Who is this mystery person who can make that call, and how is the new coach going to feel that at least one position in his team has already been picked for him? How many other positions have already been locked in?

It's either you know who or the coach has already been decided...but signing Cotric is sort of a no brainer imo, we need an explosive centre and Cotric is the best option on the market. There's risk there as he has limited experience in the role at NRL level but unfortunately for us we're in a position where we need to take risks.

 

[Spoonman84]

DWZ either plays wing and cotric plays centre

Or

Cotric plays wing DWZ centre

Seeing how shit DWZ has been they may want him on the wing but i think he can be strong at centre

Its got to be wing for DWZ he can't pass a footy.

 

[DinkumDog]

stop being a negative Nancy

why do you pick fights all the time.

Were you looking in the mirror when you said that?

 

[The DoggFather]

Credit to Cotric and Thompson for making the jump before anyone else, especially to a bottom placed team with coaching uncertainty.

I know they got paid well, but most players nowadays want the easy way out or to only play for a handful of clubs..

It's speaks to Cotric and Thompson's character that they're willing to take on a challenge and prove themselves in a bigger role.

I have a gut feeling that they were told that Pay is gone next year to help get them over the line.

One can even use Cotric finally signing as some evidence to that.

 

[CrittaMagic69]

DWZ either plays wing and cotric plays centre

Or

Cotric plays wing DWZ centre

Seeing how shit DWZ has been they may want him on the wing but i think he can be strong at centre

DWZ looks like he could be a solid hole running centre, but really he's an out and out winger. At his best he's a world-class winger so just keep him there, dumb down his role and clearly spell out to him what he needs to do each game. A winger that averages around 200m a game, a couple of offloads, a couple of tackle breaks and finishes well is very valuable on the wing...just needs to reduce the errors.

 

[Kempsey Dog]

aaron schoup mate.

I like Schoupp aswell left centre predominantly, but he had a post on his insta saying to his mate he was a "flying winger" lol hopefully that's not the case

 

[Doggiezbrah]

DWZ either plays wing and cotric plays centre

Or

Cotric plays wing DWZ centre

Seeing how shit DWZ has been they may want him on the wing but i think he can be strong at centre

There’s no way we signed cotric to play wing. The DWZ and Cotric combo sounds nice

 

[El Padrino]

Were you looking in the mirror when you said that?

you cant stop being a Debbie Downer can you....

this is a poor reflection on your character

for shame

where is you Bulldog spirit?

 

[Dogna88]

1. Avo (maybe who knows)
2. DWZ
3. Cotric
4. Hoppa
5. Okunbor/Smith
6. Foran
7. Wakeham/Cogger/Lewis/Hastings

9. Thats the biggest ?. Friend or Tom Starling for me

 

[Kurrupt78]

Is this official?? Nothing on the Official website

 

[B-Train]

Now we finally have a vision to sell other players.. We changed coaches.. We've already signed Thompson and Cotric and have tonnes of cap space this year and next year... And you'll get to start or play more minutes..

Surely those two signings and the confirmation of Barrett give other targets more confidence in signing now.