Official Round 4 - Dogs vs Storm - Consolidated Match Thread

[KiwiDog7]

All the pressure on the Storm nobody outside of us fans probably give us a shot

Storm due a L

But if we don’t win I just want to see the effort from last week and keep building the young players confidence

 

[Kempsey Dog]

The Bulldogs have the best record of any current team against the Storm, winning 21 of 39 games (53.8%). They are the only current team that the Storm have a losing record against.

Sadly that's part of the Des ball and the way our forwards played. After 2012 though we played them a lot without origin reps. It's still an impressive feat given how consistent the cheaters have been

 

[Spoonman84]

Sadly that's part of the Des ball and the way our forwards played. After 2012 though we played them a lot without origin reps. It's still an impressive feat given how consistent the cheaters have been

We owned them in the early 2000s aswell. I think we had a 8 game winning streak against them from 2000 till 2004.

 

[Scoooby]

We as a club must stop cam smith breaking hazems recorded..!!!

Obviously it’s inevitable and is going to happen.. but we don’t want it happening against us, even if we don’t win but we stop him getting his 4/5 goals then that’s a proud moment also!!

Come on boys... do it for pride of the doggs jersey and most of all do it for Elmagic !!!

 

[Kempsey Dog]

We as a club must stop cam smith breaking hazems recorded..!!!

Obviously it’s inevitable and is going to happen.. but we don’t want it happening against us, even if we don’t win but we stop him getting his 4/5 goals then that’s a proud moment also!!

Come on boys... do it for pride of the doggs jersey and most of all do it for Elmagic !!!

nrl scheduled it this way intentionally... we wont score a point until he breaks the record.

 

[KLil]

We as a club must stop cam smith breaking hazems recorded..!!!

Obviously it’s inevitable and is going to happen.. but we don’t want it happening against us, even if we don’t win but we stop him getting his 4/5 goals then that’s a proud moment also!!

Come on boys... do it for pride of the doggs jersey and most of all do it for Elmagic !!!

Still it would be great sportsmanship and healthy for our club if Hazem and the club share this moment with respect. Even we all want Smith to break his leg in the first min.

 

[Bob dog]

Okunbor is going to have his hands full with Ado Carr, hope they have good lateral shift on the wings.

 

[maroondog72]

Hate those occasional lollipop loop balls too but his got more in the kit bag then just them....

If you reckon putting Martin in the middle to run around after 60 min then it wont happen... Maybe he can do it in reserves but NRL is different ball game. I do agree RFM should be on the bench but who puts on an edge backrower as an impact player down an edge?? What a waste... RFM comes in for Smith and is strictly on the bench as an impact player who bends lines and gives us quick play the balls through the middle, his an average backrower.

See you and everyone are basically stressing about killing momentum and u want to put a slow tired forward in the middle where momentum stems from... Its genius. lol

Until Brown comes along and pushes Lichaa out Lichaa will be number 14 because its the most logical approach at a balanced team.

"occasional" fukn lol

 

[Interestingg]

Lewis and Cogger both have non-existent running games. JMK needs to create some sort of threat from dummy half or we will be suffocated the entire game

 

[TwinTurbo]

Okunbor is going to have his hands full with Ado Carr, hope they have good lateral shift on the wings.

Kick high to Ado Car's wing, that'll give him nightmares.


Go Dogs

 

[Howard Moon]

Brodie Croft is due for an off night

 

[GDR]

Forwards running with support from other forwards is the only way to beat melbourne.. You cannot go around them and you cannot go through them with one out hit ups.. But you can go through them with forwards drawing and passing or an offload,,, because they love a gang tackle with a wrestle and theres normally 3-5 players in a tackle..

 

[surfdog]

agree, it puts them off there game

 

[Doomsdaydog]

I would definitely start with Lichaa at 9.

His job in the first 5 minutes is to knock the fuck out of Cameron Smith.

Both teams reduced to a 3 man bench, Dogs by 4.

 

[Scoooby]

We will put in a good performance, all the boys will work hard for one another and win lose or draw we will be proud, we are playing the bench mark of the comp, a win will go a long way in terms of confidence a 2-2 start is a massive year and top 8 would look promising if so!!

 

[TwinTurbo]

Forwards running with support from other forwards is the only way to beat melbourne.. You cannot go around them and you cannot go through them with one out hit ups.. But you can go through them with forwards drawing and passing or an offload,,, because they love a gang tackle with a wrestle and theres normally 3-5 players in a tackle..

That's why Desball was reasonably succesfull against them.

Go Dogs

 

[dogwhisperer]

I would definitely start with Lichaa at 9.

His job in the first 5 minutes is to knock the fuck out of Cameron Smith.

Both teams reduced to a 3 man bench, Dogs by 4.

I like that strategy

 

[Doomsdaydog]

I like that strategy

Ive been thinking about it all week, and on the bright side, what have we got to lose?

 

[GDR]

That's why Desball was reasonably succesfull against them.

Go Dogs

Desball 2012 edition was the only time they played like that .. i never understood why they went away from that formula when it was so successful..

 

[GDR]

Ive been thinking about it all week, and on the bright side, what have we got to lose?

problem is then we are reduced to 12 on the field... they will already look like they have one man extra as it is..