News Reject Shop - Team of 17 players bulldogs let go

[wendog33]

More kick a Dog when its down time.

IF David Klemmer joins the Knights he will be the latest in a long list of talented players the Bulldogs have let slip through their fingers since 2012.

Des Hasler was brought to the Bulldogs to break the premiership drought, but ultimately they have seen their best and brightest players leave the club.

Whether they left for salary cap issues, personal reasons or more lucrative offers, this team of ex-Bulldogs makes for impressive reading.

It also features some of the club’s most beloved stars.

Fox Sports brings you the ultimate team of Bulldogs players to have left the club since 2012 and compares it to the side that could run out for Round 1 in 2019.

THE BULLDOGS REJECT TEAM

1. Ben Barba
Went to the Broncos for family reasons in 2014, before winning a competition with the Sharks in 2016 and picking up the Man of Steel award for St Helens in the Super League in 2018.

2. Curtis Rona
Left the club in 2017 to pursue a rugby union career with the Western Force and went on to represent the Wallabies in three Test matches to date.

3. Tim Lafai
At the age of 25 Lafai joined the Dragons in 2016, where he has scored 16 tries in 68 games over the past three seasons.

4. Josh Morris
Morris scored 103 tries in 217 games for the Bulldogs from 2009 to 2018, before taking up an offer to join the Sharks, when he was squeezed out due to salary cap issues.

5. Brett Morris
Another victim of the salary cap dramas that have plagued the Bulldogs in recent seasons, Morris will join the Roosters in 2019 after scoring 23 tries in 58 games for Canterbury.

6. Josh Reynolds
One of the club’s favourite sons, Reynolds joined the Tigers in 2018 after the Bulldogs signed Kieran Foran on a big money deal.

7. Moses Mbye
The 25-year-old was one of the first dominoes to fall in the salary cap drama and joined the Tigers mid season, after scoring 272 points in 94 games for the Bulldogs.

8. James Graham
The former Canterbury captain was considered the heart and soul of the Bulldogs, but was let go after 155 games for the club who signed Aaron Woods on a big-money deal. Graham joined the Dragons, while his replacement Woods left the club six months after arriving.

9. Damien Cook
The current Blues and Kangaroos No.9 left the Bulldogs in 2016, after scoring four tries in seven games for the club and he hasn’t looked back.

10. David Klemmer?
Klemmer is reported to be close to signing with the Knights after 113 games for the Bulldogs. The 24-year-old has played 12 times for the Blues and has 17 Tests for his country to his name.

11. Marty Taupau
The current Sea Eagles enforcer left the Bulldogs in 2014 to join the Tigers after 10 games for Canterbury and has gone on to play 22 times for New Zealand.

12. Sam Kasiano
The man mountain slimmed down under new coach Craig Bellamy at the Storm in 2018, after scoring 15 tries in 139 games for the Bulldogs from 2011 to 2017.

13. Dale Finucane
The hard-nosed lock left the Bulldogs after appearing in the 2012 and 2014 grand finals, before joining the Storm where he has appeared in the last three deciders.

14. Aaron Woods
Woods was brought to the club on big money from the Wests Tigers, but lost his Blues jersey in 2018, before joining the Sharks and reclaiming his Kangaroos jersey at the end of the season.

15. Herman Ese’ese
The 24-year-old is forging a promising career at the Knights after leaving the Bulldogs for the Broncos back in 2016.

16. Michael Ennis
The now retired Ennis was forced out of the club in favour of Michael Lichaa and he went to the Sharks where he won a premiership in 2016 in his last game of rugby league.

17. Corey Thompson
The wily winger scored 15 tries in 35 games for the Bulldogs before leaving to join Widness in 2016. Thompson scored nine tries in 20 starts for the Tigers in his return to the NRL in 2018.

POTENTIAL 2019 ROUND 1 TEAM

1. Nick Meaney
2. Christian Crichton
3. Will Hopoate
4. Kerrod Holland
5. Reimis Smith
6. Lachlan Lewis
7. Kieran Foran
8. Aiden Tolman
9. Michael Lichaa
10. David Klemmer?
11. Josh Jackson
12. Corey Harawira-Naera
13. Adam Elliott

14. Sauaso Sue
15. Danny Fualalo
16. Raymond Faitala-Mariner
17. Rhyse Martin

https://coupler.foxsports.com.au/ap...2/news-story/108d9562ac1222b389632873e6098613

 

[vegny]

Lol. They really know how to rub it in.

So what is happening with the sharks salary cap breach investigation

 

[GDR]

Nearly every single one of those departures was as a result of DES and DIB .. but supporters still wanna lay into the current board LOL

 

[Nexus]

Rather than start a thread with a link why don’t you post the contents in here? Why give them free clicks?

 

[no1bulldog]

Inside every bulldogs membership pack is this fridge magnet this year

 

[south of heaven]

Nearly every single one of those departures was as a result of DES and DIB .. but supporters still wanna lay into the current board LOL

Oh no des dib and fester totally fucked us

 

[CroydonDog]

Some have been missed, but others? Meh.

I'm not losing any sleep over the Qld cup hero Kasiano.

 

[shannon2009]

I just can’t see where our cap is spent

 

[GDR]

Oh no des dib and fester totally fucked us

I still laugh about your uncle fester photo shop of rae

 

[south of heaven]

I still laugh about your uncle fester photo shop of rae

Id do more but the nightmares you get looking at her melon is terrifying

 

[Vlasnik]

Someone hand me my oxygen mask......at least they didn't mention the potential signings Des sent packing. Example Munster and Co.

 

[Heckler]

Inside every bulldogs membership pack is this fridge magnet this year

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Our brand is like the Phoenix. We will Always rise from the rubble!

 

[The_Chimpster]

Someone hand me my oxygen mask......at least they didn't mention the potential signings Des sent packing. Example Munster and Co.

Not defending has-lice, but he apparently did say no to Mitchell Moses, so that's one good move he made amongst the 1000 terrible ones

 

[CrittaMagic69]

You could do this for 15 other teams tbh.

 

[Dognacious]

...and u can blame Des for all of it. Same thing happened at Manly. A bunch of big names left there in the few years after Des went as well.

Des is a gift that keeps on giving. He underpaid the stars and overpaid the shitkickers

 

[Mr Invisible]

Nearly every single one of those departures was as a result of DES and DIB .. but supporters still wanna lay into the current board LOL

Hang on though..

This was over a long period of time.

We haven't even ended one year with the current mob and already we are more charitable than St Vinnies.

They lied about how bad the cap situation was to offload players, and lied about offloading some players.

 

[Spoonman84]

Hang on though..

This was over a long period of time.

We haven't even ended one year with the current mob and already we are more charitable than St Vinnies.

They lied about how bad the cap situation was to offload players, and lied about offloading some players.

Where’s your proof they have lied that’s a mighty big accusation!

 

[GDR]

Hang on though..

This was over a long period of time.

We haven't even ended one year with the current mob and already we are more charitable than St Vinnies.

They lied about how bad the cap situation was to offload players, and lied about offloading some players.

The previous morons let some quality players go .. the current mob got rid of 2 over paid losers, that most people were glad to see the back of..

The Klemmer situation is out of their hands.. Klemmers misses has decided whats happening..

Its a very dumb move to try and force a player to stay that does not want to stay ... no one wins in those situations

 

[Spoonman84]

The previous morons let some quality players go .. the current mob got rid of 2 over paid losers, that most people were glad to see the back of..

The Klemmer situation is out of their hands.. Klemmers misses has decided whats happening..

Its a very dumb move to try and force a player to stay that does not want to stay ... no one wins in those situations

Look at how much the Klemmer thing devides people on here! It could easily devide a team!

 

[nangsta]

Nearly every single one of those departures was as a result of DES and DIB .. but supporters still wanna lay into the current board LOL

Why is it that those who criticise the current board are called supporters of Des and Dib.

What if some supporters are supporters of the club and critical of whoever is making mistakes regardless of which board they are on.

I havent seen anything from the current board yet that inspires any confidence.