Official Round 19 Bulldogs V Sharks - Team Lists and Discussion Thread

[Kempsey Dog]

Avo is a 14, nothing else.

He is another Mbye V2.0.
He is good at covering certain positions but not GREAT at any specific position.

Honestly Mbye early in his career 10x better than Averillo. Granted he did have better players around him

 

[dogluva]

Gee, I held high hopes for a win but well............. On a positive we once again played a perfect side NIL penalties for us but six to the Sharks...

Honestly don't know where we go to from here........our defense needs a massive amount of work. Both sides come in too far and about five of their tries were gifted by poor wing defence.

 

[Kempsey Dog]

It honestly feels that Lewis was told to take back seat and let Averillo doing the kicking. I honestly don’t know where to play Averillo.

Needs a year in reserve grade... Honestly I'd even extend Biondi Odo and look to leave him in reserves if possible... Covid and lack of reserve grade has hurt us immesely, it's why Panthers and Storm are so strong now as they had their systems sorted before this shit hit.

 

[hackenbush]

Ignoring the abilities, Lewis is a Half back playing a 5/8 while Avarillo is a 5/8 centre playing HB. The team would function much better. Overall the score did not reflect the game struggle. Sharks were gifted at least 4 tries to basic man-on-man defense.

 

[Trafford10]

Ariane Titmus first Tasmanian to win an Olympic gold medal tomorrow, hopefully! Something to look forward to.......football not so much.

 

[Bazildog]

You are right, there are missing pieces but he can still develop them over time. Issue is he has been forced into the halfback role in a system that is heavily reliant on halfback dominating (look at Penrith with May instead of Cleary) when he has spent more time playing fullback, centre or 5/8. If you actually watched some of him in the lower grades then you would see his style of play has totally changed.

Baz has to move him to a different role or rest him to try and protect him and get him back to doing what he's actually good at instead of trying to manufacture him into the halfback he wants. Then again Baz compared Flanagan to Cleary so fuck knows where his head is at.

He is not a half mate. I have always thought he could be a fullback and a link man in our backline but I don’t think he is a game manager or does he have the kicking game for a half.

Barrett is out of his depth. End of.

 

[chisdog]

Thompson 63 mins 17 runs 180 mtrs 56 pcm 2LBs 1TA 10tbs 2OL 31tkls 4 missed 2 pens conc & 10 in the bin

 

[chisdog]

Sutton with a try assist

he get MOM IMO

 

[dogzofwar]

Ignoring the abilities, Lewis is a Half back playing a 5/8 while Avarillo is a 5/8 centre playing HB. The team would function much better. Overall the score did not reflect the game struggle. Sharks were gifted at least 4 tries to basic man-on-man defense.

Yea I can’t get my head around it he’s the better runner playing 7 and Lewis the better kicker playing 6 hoping there’s a lot of changes this week

 

[Cheng]

Ignoring the abilities, Lewis is a Half back playing a 5/8 while Avarillo is a 5/8 centre playing HB. The team would function much better. Overall the score did not reflect the game struggle. Sharks were gifted at least 4 tries to basic man-on-man defense.

Lewis is not a halves asshole

 

[chisdog]

final count
penalties CS 6-0
re-starts CS 5-4

 

[CrittaMagic69]

He is not a half mate. I have always thought he could be a fullback and a link man in our backline but I don’t think he is a game manager or does he have the kicking game for a half.

Barrett is out of his depth. End of.

Ever heard of Jahrome Hughes?

 

[Doggiezbrah]

Needs a year in reserve grade... Honestly I'd even extend Biondi Odo and look to leave him in reserves if possible... Covid and lack of reserve grade has hurt us immesely, it's why Panthers and Storm are so strong now as they had their systems sorted before this shit hit.

We need to identify what is his best position then develop him in NSW cup. If not, he can play off the bench like a Hynes/Papi role. Extending BBO contract is no brainer, there’s something special about him.

 

[chisdog]

Jackson, has tackled his butt off today.

48 tackles 2 missed

 

[Bob dog]

The public being instructed and coerced to go along with the gutless shit fight rather than throw on the handbrake does nothing to help.

 

[Mr 95%]

Thompson OUTSTANDING

 

[Bazildog]

Ever heard of Jahrome Hughes?

He is not Jerome Hughes. He is “Jake I am not a half Averillo”. I would not be surprised if Gus “suggests” to Dumaertt to play BBO at 7 next week with The Prince @ 6.

 

[chisdog]

Silly challenge

It was probably used to get a breather

 

[flamebouyant]

BBO should replace averilo.

 

[Daustin]

Thompson proved to everyone what an asset he can be with the new rules. His motor and speed for a prop is unbelievable and he’s a great competitor. Put a few more good forwards around him and we can smash teams through the middle