According to TK, Cook hasn't really set the world on fire in reggies and they also lost today.

But surely he can't be worse than JMK. 

Flanno did ok today as a halfback of a losing team.

His test will come in games we are hoping to win.

I don't think he can steer the team to victory. I think the team took it upon itself to improve from previous weeks and did some promising things today but were victims of their own poor errors and execution.

Lets see how he goes next week. Fir his and the teams sake, I hope Barrett has realised the issues lie at hooker first and foremost.

Well if that's what yours and Villis most ardent fans say I guess Cooks a no go....
Did your new mates say speak to the possibility Reggie's lost cause they didn't have Flanno at 7???...
#wecanreadTKtoo...

Marki, I am not "blaming the ref" all the time what I am pointing out is the "sh!t" calls against us, are at the most inopportune times. If you were happy with the refereeing then good on you, but there were some really ordinary calls too, like Kikua lifting a tackled playeroff the ground when his momentum had halted and pushed him out. Penalty any other time, so why is it different against us.I will say it once again all I want to see is an even, unbiased playing field. Sometimes that is too hard to ask for.

Mate, I  didn't  see all the game but some on line defence  was pathetic. Need to focus on that I  think.

I got some Thumbs up and Laughing emojis out of that post! What did YOU give me for that one?

Mdog, we were our own worse enemy and you are right about the soft on line defence. But there were a few contentious calls and every single one if them went the Panthers way. Honestly we couldn't even buy a bounce of the ball if we tried. The good news is that Flanagan in my opinion proved all the knockers wrong and he should remain our no7.

Probably a passing glance... I'm not a thumbs up, laughing emoji type of person.

Yes. It could have been much worse. I thought we were going to be penalised a lot more for holding down. 

If Flanno continues to play the way he did yesterday he could be the answer at halfback. Maybe for a long time. He takes pressure off Burto by being able to direct the team reasonably well. What I did like us that he ran into the line and engaged the defence. He has improved a hell of a lot. 

Maybe check out the Panthers forum to see if they think they got all the calls going there way. 

My understanding is that if the player is on the ground, as was the case, the moment you touch him the tackle is completed. You can't move a tackled player. So penalty 

Marcello Montoya referred straight to the judiciary for calling a playing lying down a faggot....hell Marki gets called worse every day. I wonder if the NRL did their research " The terms faggot and fag are both used with disparaging intent and are perceived as highly insulting. However, faggot (but not fag ) is sometimes used within the gay community as a positive term of self-reference." Fine the bloke a hundred bucks but surely this is petty at worst. 

Naden/Burns edge a shocker in defence and attack. Do we have anyone in Reggie's 

Is the NRL saying there's something wrong about being a faggot. Montoya should just say some of my best friends are faggots and are proud of it 

It surely is the most ridiculous age in history...in the newspaper it was shown as f****t 

I agree Flanno looked good.

Duffty had a shocker but was good the previous 4 weeks.

For hooker it wouldn't hurt to try another option.

Burns in the centres is another question mark.

And our defence in the middle needs a bit of tightening up.

Maybe Stimson should start with Topine on the bench. 

The unforced errors were bad, but there were gapping holes up the middle defending our line, we can't expect Jacko to do all of the tackling.

Don't change the halves but keep working on the centres and forwards, we need to find improvement.

Overall I think we are progressing, even though that isn't showing up in the results column.

Agreed. It should have been a penalty. My point is that the ref missed it. He may have also missed other penalties that we would not remember because as Bulldogs supporters we only remember the ones that went against us. 

Agreed. It’s not bad for us. But the game is trying to expand the audience. And in our society it could be interrupted as hate speech. 

The ref isn't something we can control.

Plenty of things that we can fix to work on.

1-2 calls were not the difference.

Averillo is starting to look better in the centres, keep him there.

Wakeham in 14 came on too late and tried to play catch up, worth another try, or use Topine in the 14 is only getting limited minutes.

Yeah, that one should have been a penalty as he he actually picked him up to throw him out.
I thought you could shove them out but not lift them. 

Still. There were many times I would have blown a penalty when we were all over them in the tackles. Any other ref would have blown those penalties. Overall, I thought we got the better end of the stick in that game.

They should fine the faggot for lying down and apologise to Mr Montoya.

Who objected to the use of the word?
The player in question, another player or somebody who heard the it on the mike?
Just asking.
What if he called him a mother f****r or a c**t or a wh**e or even a sheila.
Just saying.

The golfer Justin Thomas lost his sponsorship from Ralph Lauren for calling himself the f****t word.

Product of today...the big things seemingly don't matter but small things are trivialsed beyond belief...they are less than unimportant....can always remember a third grade game against Tigers I believe and Michael Neil was calling out a Bulldogs player in an empty ground...f's and c's...in a loud voice...and nothing happened...think about the kiddies but a barb directed to one player is gonna get Motoya kicked out for the year

I'm condoning what was said... But he was laying there like a bundle of sticks bound together...

If he'd have called him a 'fekking Dog' he'd have PETA after him and that'd be a fate worse than 'unaliving'...

Reminds me of the Barry Ward incident where some were unsure which of the two words he used were offensive... 

I will say there is a difference between hate speech and speech that someone hates... As someone who identifies as vaccinated I'm subject to all kind of derision...

Take that filth to TK... You'll get plenty of emojis...

Other than hooker we just need to let combos build over the next 6 weeks... 

This really tough month of footy should hold us in good stead if Baz can keep their spirits up and we drop less ball at crucial moments...

It is not hate speech, just a barb between blokes for a thousand years.
Feldt should jump in and say no offence, end of story.
Unless.
Run out of words to say.