Fuaaarrrkkkk keyboard hero hiding behind the screen is getting angry... Better watch out before I get hurt! LMAO
Why am I a hypocrite? Wasn't calling you Goblett. I have never bagged Pay
after the lewis situation , I wonder how much his hands are tied with the 30 man squad situation.. I don't know for certain.. does anyone know for sure what the 30 mans squad is ??
They have a better spine, BUT the Rabbits team is pretty much the same from previous years besides Gagai and few others. My point is the Rabbits missed out on the finals last few years and Anthony Seibold has turned their game around. Seibold is to be given credit for their rise. He has inherited a squad that has underperformed in previous years. He obviously knows how to coach.
He inherited a team with Reynolds and Walker in the halves, Cook and Farah at dummy half and Johnson at fullback, with Inglis as cover if he needs him. There is no comparison between what Siebold and Pay inherited.
The thing I don't get is how can Pay name Lewis on an extended bench if there's no chance he can play. If he wants Lewis training with the squad he can do that without naming him. There must be more to that.
Since when have you started to believe in "rumours"?
Of course I don't think he encourages them to lose. But going by our finishes we seem to be lacking the killer instinct. Some of our best sides didn't always have the most talent, but when a refs call hurt us the team would channel the anger about it into demolishing the team in front of us. What Pay said at the start of the season made me think the team would have that kind of determination and fight. We now go into our shell when these decisions come along instead of living up to his planned aggression. I have watched us play a few teams that we've dominated early in the match who have gotten one good refs call and then played with aggression which makes our team look like they don't want to be there anymore. I think it was against the Raiders that I first stopped expecting to see the dogs of war, when their reserve grade pack tore ours to shreds with simple aggression that we should have been capable of matching. But I've since seen countless games where we could have won but just lost the intensity when things got hard. To me that comes down to mindset and ours isn't that of a winning team right now. I agree that refereeing has screwed us in many matches, but if this happened to teams of the past we'd have finished the games looking like we were trying to put our opponents in hospital. Now we have a habit of getting within reach of winning, but playing like we've got nothing at stake when the tide turns. If we were more resilient we'd have won a number of extra games.
I've seen many incidents that individually contributed to losses too. But turning it around starts with responding well to knowing that we're on the end of dud calls or throwing equal or greater aggression at any team that tries to throw us off by playing hard. We've lacked the spark that gets us playing like it matters. You can't throw the blame for that entirely on Pay, but if things don't change a little as he recruits his own squad the club should scrutinize whether another coach could be firing them up more. I think the recipe for what makes a good coach is a ough one to emulate and Pay hasn't yet worked out that magic balance.
If anything I applaud the clubs decision to start chasing players stuck in a bottleneck as soon as they took the reigns. If Cogger ends up developing his talent as the year progresses and does well we might have picked him up before his true asking price became obvious. We will be lacking a bit of balance in how our salary cap is allocated for a while yet, but hopefully in a year or two our policy of giving youngsters a chance will have won us a few quality players who display some loyalty.
One key thing is we replaced Reynolds with Foran. Reynolds was THE ONLY spark we had in attack. Now we have none!
Ridiculous comparison, Alex Johnstone, Greg Inglis, Dane Gagai, proper halves, Burgess boys and Damien Cook. Are you for fucking real?
New Bulldogs players in 2018:
Of course we should. With our spine we should be running dead last. Parra and the cowboys have been much bigger underachievers.
Do you ever stop pushing your bullshit agenda, you have zero credibility. Stop trying to destabilise our club and be be an actual supporter. I think Pay in his first year as a head coach would welcome someone with Chris Anderson’s experience, I know I feel a whole lot better having him play a part in our recruitment.
Not u dude..
Funny people bought into that things would be sunshine and rainbows and lollipops. The "fun" has just begun.