News The Bulldogs have a huge problem on their hands with fears star recruit Luke Thompson could cut his NRL stint short.

[Rodzilla]

Tbh id do it tough not getting my whistle wet for 7 weeks too.

if the Rodzilla whistle got wet, id still be happy about it 7 weeks later

 

[Jarrad El Hickey]

FFS

 

[the_insider]

I totally agree with your comment
I imagine that Thompson has had nothing to do with this press release and is not complaining about his current situation outside of the club more about what’s happening to him on the inside !

I agree but my comment was more about the apologists finding every excuse they can to explain his performances

 

[youoboys]

Bulldogs fan here: DT at it again. Hill states he is committed and club is doing everything to get his mrs down under.... it would be a struggle and am sure the club is doing its best for him. Fuck China and its virus!

 

[youoboys]

Bulldogs fan here: DT at it again. Hill states he is committed and club is doing everything to get his mrs down under.... it would be a struggle and am sure the club is doing its best for him. Fuck China and its virus!

 

[capt obvious]

I havent or should i say seen or heard a quote from thommo himself, hard to debate this without the lads words. If it doesn’t work out for him, we can move on and wish him all the best.

 

[chisdog]

So it says he is doing it tough because he has no family here, his GF cannot come here because of the Covid situation etc and he may consider going home because of all of this....
Ok, no worries, fair enough...But in the same article it is written " There is even talk that Gold Coast is watching on with interest because Justin Holbrook was his coach at St Helens."
What relevance is this if he has home sickness?

Holbrook looks like his GF if he puts a wig on!

 

[chisdog]

Pretty stupid hey. Bullfrog would have had his missus smuggled in weeks ago.
Still id rather the cash back, plenty people do it much much worse for 40 grand a year.
A softer jacko.
Peoples loved ones pass away, and they still play on weekends.
Theres more to it, doesnt want to be at canterbury i reckon.
Another one in the feather for hill and lyn. Absolute shambles.
Wasnt expecting much more to be honest.

They should consult Okunbor. He was pretty good at smuggling a girl to his hotel room, it should be easy for him to smuggle Thomo's misses into the country.

 

[chisdog]

I honestly never thought that the NRL should return at all from Covid and these things support my opinion. The Warriors players and the undue stress of the bubble causes. All for money!

It would have set the NRL back years & they'd pretty much already spent the money under their financial wiz kid Todd Greenturd. Clubs probably would have folded too. It was the best of a bad situation. There are many places that should never have shutdown at all but every politician has panicked & was too scared not to.

 

[chisdog]

The pay cut was a smokescreen so St Helens would release him, Luke Thompson is no quitter, he’s been quite vocal since he had arrived at Belmore, he thought he was going to be walking into a well oiled machine, not one that was only running on 3 cylinders off the field aswell, hence 3 weeks later all the back room staff are fired !, including the man that has dropped him this week, he doesn’t need a rest just some direction, roll on next year

Well oiled machine? Hasn't he got a TV or computer?

 

[Snake]

It was silly bringing him out here early in a struggling team during Covid. Should have just waited for next season and a fresh start.

 

[Natboy]

Living by himself in isolation, ouch

That will be you for the rest of your life but surely you have the brains to acknowledge how difficult this would be for him?

 

[B-Train]

It was silly bringing him out here early in a struggling team during Covid. Should have just waited for next season and a fresh start.

I said the same thing initially and most people hammered me for it. It looks like it would have been the smarter move in hindsight.

 

[c-b-b]

The pay cut was a smokescreen so St Helens would release him, Luke Thompson is no quitter, he’s been quite vocal since he had arrived at Belmore, he thought he was going to be walking into a well oiled machine, not one that was only running on 3 cylinders off the field aswell, hence 3 weeks later all the back room staff are fired !, including the man that has dropped him this week, he doesn’t need a rest just some direction, roll on next year

Part of me wants to believe that it was a smokescreen (as I tried to believe at the time) but I'm just not sure. Don't forget we also had to pay a release fee which was more wasted money and he's added very little this year.

I'm also confident he was well aware what he was walking into. He would have a manager who would know the goings on here, even a simple google search would tell him Pay was unlikely to be around and the general unhappiness of fans with the board etc.

 

[Mr Shhh]

Living by himself surprises me. Surly someone at the club has a spare room.

 

[Suave]

Our management really can’t get anything right can they? They’re applauded for bringing him over early only for it to backfire with him getting homesick in the bubble and being exposed to our club when our culture is at it’s at its absolute worst. Plus Green getting an ACL after getting signed. Some of it is our inept doing but sometimes, man it’s like Ray Dib had put some sort of voodoo curse on the joint when he left.

At this point, if he’s in as bad a headspace as what this article suggests maybe it’s best if we can find a way to ship him back to the UK for the remainder of the season. The season is gone anyway and he’s not going to learn anything off Georgalis. Best case scenario he comes back for 2021 preseason feeling refreshed, with a decent coach and environment and the Dib voodoo curse finally being lifted.

 

[AlzzBulldog]

That will be you for the rest of your life but surely you have the brains to acknowledge how difficult this would be for him?

Whats your point, did i say it wasnt difficult?
Always looking to start shit

 

[Dogtime]

Obviously let him go home. Chances are better for him and his gf to come back together in December with serious hopes of a vaccine on its way. This year is a write off already. Its a no brainer. He's a very fit disciplined guy so let him return home immediately. He knows what he needs to work on to prepare for pre season training.

 

[Novdoggie]

And people bag out his form. Kudos to him doing what he’s doing. I know I couldn’t.

Agree. You only have to look at the Warriors players who have returned home for the same reasons.
So called fans should just back off.

 

[Raysie]

All alone in a new country that you can't enjoy, while playing for a team with nothing to play for...

I can see how that would be a mental battle.