R3 - Bulldogs vs Warriors - Team Lists and Discussion Thread

[Mr Invisible]

NRL Round 3: Bulldogs v Warriors, Forsyth Barr Stadium Dunedin - Friday, March 17th 2017 - 8pm (NZ) 6pm (Sydney) Broadcast: Fox only

BULLDOGS

1. Brad Abbey
2. Brett Morris
3. Josh Morris
4. Brenko Lee
5. Marcelo Montoya
6. Josh Reynolds
7. Moses Mbye
8. Aiden Tolman
9. Michael Lichaa
10. James Graham
11. Josh Jackson
12. Greg Eastwood
13. David Klemmer

14. Sam Kasiano
15. Danny Fualalo
16. Adam Elliott
17. Raymond Faitala-Mariner

19. Craig Garvey
20. Matt Frawley
21. Francis Tualau
23. Reimis Smith

 

[Mr Invisible]

Warriors 21 player squad.

WARRIORS

1 Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (C)
2 Ken Maumalo
3 David Fusitu'a
4 Solomone Kata
5 Manu Vatuvei
6 Mafoa'aeata Hingano
7 Shaun Johnson
8 Albert Vete
9 Issac Luke
10 Jacob Lillyman
11 Bodene Thompson
12 Ryan Hoffman
13 Simon Mannering

Interchange:
14 Erin Clark
15 Sam Lisone
16 Charlie Gubb
17 Bunty Afoa

Reserves:
18 Blake Ayshford
20 James Gavet
21 Tuimoala Lolohea
22 Mason Lino

 

[finchie]

Rts is in doubt

 

[Haddaway]

I hated losing to storm and cocks but I will be even more gutted if we lose to the Warriors. I don't care what anyone says their forward pack is TOILET.

 

[Mr Invisible]

STRONG side from Warriors... even if RTS is out, Lolohea will carve us up.

The only thing that stops Warriors being a top 4 side (in my opinion) is their inconsistency.

 

[silva]

Dogs will teach these pretenders a lesson this weekend

 

[blueyedsamurai]

Depends if the warriors show up or not, hopefully we get the lazy warriors.

 

[OITENTA-E-NOVE]

Depends if the warriors show up or not, hopefully we get the lazy warriors.

depends if the bulldogs show up or not. what if neither team shows up?

 

[blueyedsamurai]

depends if the bulldogs show up or not. what if neither team shows up?

then we've got a cripple fight which might be fun to watch.

 

[KLil]

Dogs have become the warriors.. Just a dumb inconsistant iratic team with no heart nor passion.

Will be a classy game this one..

 

[FaceBreaker]

You basically need to toss a coin and wonder which warriors side will turn up.

Keys to winning:
- Target vatuvei early, he is a co fidence player - if he drops the first bomb he will be rubbish all game. First bomb MUST go to his wing.
- smash them up front - their forwards have been shit so far this year.
- block on mamalou. This guy is like 6"5. He will outleap our wingers and also vatuvei is good in the air on attack.

 

[OITENTA-E-NOVE]

 

[Bulldog_4_Life]

Even though Johnson has received some stick this week, I think it depends on how Hingano plays, Johnson needs a controlling half next to him and if Hingano can take that pressure off him (has the ability to), then Johnson will carve us up around the edges.

 

[Dognacious]

STRONG side from Warriors... even if RTS is out, Lolohea will carve us up.

The only thing that stops Warriors being a top 4 side (in my opinion) is their inconsistency.

They always look like a good side on paper, but dont perform like it often

 

[Haddaway]

Strong side? That forward pack is shite. The backs are big and skillfull but that means jack if our forwards do what they should do, to that AWFUL forward pack.

 

[OITENTA-E-NOVE]

saw a pretty funny comment on the warriors forum:

Bulldogs will be frothing at the chance to bomb to either Ken or Manu that they'll just end up confused and kick it straight to RTS.

Kearney you M A D M A N.​

 

[Spoonman84]

Strong side? That forward pack is shite. The backs are big and skillfull but that means jack if our forwards do what they should do, to that AWFUL forward pack.

It's the first thing I noticed there's nothing about that pack that should scare us...if we play with intensity in the forwards we should get them.

 

[beaudean]

Why is rts in doubt?

 

[KiwiDog7]

saw a pretty funny comment on the warriors forum:

Bulldogs will be frothing at the chance to bomb to either Ken or Manu that they'll just end up confused and kick it straight to RTS.

Kearney you M A D M A N.​

If only our halves knew how to bomb

 

[KiwiDog7]

Why is rts in doubt?

Concussion

Didn't pass necessary tests