Round 23 - Dogs Press Conference (feat Lewis).

[speedy2460]

at least we do have some enthusiasm in the team again. This has been missing for a long time.

Yeah.Good to see. All the players like playing for Dean Pay. Hes a players coach. Such an improvement on what we have had for the past few years.

 

[Bob dog]

Lewis is is showing maturity beyond his years, the shining light has shown.

 

[Mr Invisible]

Does Lewis remind anyone of Josh "Passion" Reynolds, just with a cooler head and more skills?

 

[Howard Moon]

Does Lewis remind anyone of Josh "Passion" Reynolds, just with a cooler head and more skills?

his positional play in defence reminds me of JT, especially cleaning up kicks at the back, he has a good knack for knowing where the ball is going

 

[dogluva]

A fun presser ;what a change. Spoke to Lachie after the game and when mentioned the fact that we wanted him for life his exact words were. "Well that is the plan" A great kid who loves his footy and he loves the Dogs. Was a bit over awed with the attention but was most accommodating to the fans who of course wanted plenty of pics and autographs. Even came back after he had finished the interview with Steve Turner on the side line to catch up with kids who missed out earlier.

 

[Barba's Barber]

Haha what an absolute champion of a kid. Man I am so glad he is a Bulldog.

 

[Bluebody]

I'm liking everything about this kid more and more. Has the potential and skills to be a star and has a great attitude to go with it.

For a young bloke he talks well too and those facial expressions he was pulling were hilarious. Nice to see him and Pay working close together on his game.

You do expect a coach to get into the mind of a youngster and shape the way he relates to the game. Pay is doing this where it matters and he seems to be doing a lot of it. Hasler didn't seem to give a shit.

 

[GDR]

Anyone want to question Pay as a coach just have a look and listen to the respect Lewis and I'm sure the rest of the players have for him. Looking from the outside we know shit about what goes on internally and for so called fans to question his tactics and ability know Jack shit

yeah but bench rotation

 

[KLil]

Gives me confidence moving forward if the coach and young guns have this kind of relationship , things should improve next year and beyond , can’t wait

But his a shit coach... According to some.

 

[KLil]

This kid is a star on and off the field. Good mix of confidence and respect. He can be anything, I just hope he stays in a Bulldogs jersey

That's my only fear hey... Can see the Gronkos jumping at Lewis. Hopefully he stays honourable and stix with the dogs.

 

[Z-Dizzle]

his positional play in defence reminds me of JT, especially cleaning up kicks at the back, he has a good knack for knowing where the ball is going

Literally comparing him to one of the worst defensive halves in the competition?

 

[Howard Moon]

Literally comparing him to one of the worst defensive halves in the competition?

I said his positional play bozo..

 

[dogwhisperer]

Anyone want to question Pay as a coach just have a look and listen to the respect Lewis and I'm sure the rest of the players have for him. Looking from the outside we know shit about what goes on internally and for so called fans to question his tactics and ability know Jack shit

You didn’t just hit the nail on the head there with that post, you actually smashed the nail on the head!

It’s so true, you have guys like Dean Pay growing up with footy, being coached by some great coaches, becoming an assistant coach under Ricky, under Craig Bellamy, being in charge of the NSW under 20’s, eating, drinking, and shitting footy all there lives and then you get some knuckle heads on this forum who think they can coach better than Pay because he doesn’t rotate his bench the way THEY want. All of a sudden he becomes a shit coach in their eyes.

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, we are so bloody lucky some knuckle heads on this forum don’t coach the dogs. Thank goodness for that.

 

[dogwhisperer]

Yeah.Good to see. All the players like playing for Dean Pay. Hes a players coach. Such an improvement on what we have had for the past few years.

Please man, can you remember what we had to watch for 5 years. It was disgusting! It hurt my eyes.

 

[dogwhisperer]

But his a shit coach... According to some.

That’s right he’s a shit coach because he’s untried and they won’t give him a go. Some are still bum hurt from the super league days because he played for Parra. Some don’t like Ricky Stuart , so they don’t like Pay because Pay and Ricky are mates.

So what they’ll do, they’ll start to point out that’s he’s a shit coach because he gave Tolman too many minutes and didn’t give Ogden enough minutes to cover their real reasons why they don’t like him. And they fail to see the culture he’s building and the way he’s making players play for the jersey.

 

[GDR]

That’s right he’s a shit coach because he’s untried and they won’t give him a go. Some are still bum hurt from the super league days because he played for Parra. Some don’t like Ricky Stuart , so they don’t like Pay because Pay and Ricky are mates.

So what they’ll do, they’ll start to point out that’s he’s a shit coach because he gave Tolman too many minutes and didn’t give Ogden enough minutes to cover their real reasons why they don’t like him. And they fail to see the culture he’s building and the way he’s making players play for the jersey.

Totally agree there are definitely agendas ... Also don't rule out the fact that some people are just miserable, and want everyone else to be miserable too.

 

[Vlasnik]

You have to watch it - bloody hilarious! Especially at the end!

 

[Teddybear]

You do expect a coach to get into the mind of a youngster and shape the way he relates to the game. Pay is doing this where it matters and he seems to be doing a lot of it. Hasler didn't seem to give a shit.

He had that 500k a year mind doctor to do that for hasler what was his name again John Novak.........