Two holes to flatten the curve..
72 holes later…

Can’t wait for the press release about how club members are negatively impacting his family… 

In his application form, there was a question that asked: What is your handicap?

Dan's response: Where do I start?

He can start with a complete lack of scruples…

Ooookkkaaayyy then… back to Trump it is… who’s up tl date date with their warp speed???… 

Back to the footy, great to hear Burto nominate  Sexy as the first Dogs player to be training the house down this off season… 

Back to off season posts, how can my smart phone still be spell checking Dogs as Digs after all this time’???…

Back to the footy, sack someone!!!.,,

..ummm....maybe because you've been taking digs at us all this time...?

The phone doesn't lie.

With fair reason… when stuff like Tolman to hooker and Burton to fullback is posted the shovel should come out!!!…

Some may think this as surprising than Sutherland Shire drivers using their blinkers (believe me nothing is ) but I believe Hayze Perham has the makings of a really good fullback, This try is evidence but I do think he has speed is good under a hight ball and can marshall defences...confidence may be a problem but if that can be built I wouldn't drop him any time soon. Most-watched tries of 2023: Perham finds JAC | Bulldogs

Those are HD specials....

If it were me, it would have been "Tolman and Burton both out!"

Thanks Ciro.
You've made the mistake 3/4 of season 2023.
Don't do it again otherwise it will be your ass that will be kicked out of here.....

Dman, there's an 8th wave....
It's coming...

Book yourself in.

I’ve just waxed my board…

Did you just say you got vaxxed coz you're bored?

Great try, plenty of skill and pace… an element of luck which you sometimes need… His greatest deficiency was his passing game… too many times did the play break down with him neither passing or breaking the line when we had half a chance… 

Shire drivers can in the main negotiate roundabouts, as opposed to Newy drivers… the old ‘5 ways’ honed their skills…

#shovel…

Clandestine…
So do these legacy media hack grub presstitute Germoulists need a dictionary, or are we happy to concede they are flat out liars about almost everything???…

It's clandestine coz Gus has a long term contract with us, and it's illegal for AFB to be used as a carrot to lure Gus to his new club.....

It wasn’t funny on either forum…

Mockstra, would you sign AFB to a 4 or 5 year deal if it ensured he signed with us, or would you stick to your 2 year only deal and miss out???…

5 years - out of the question
4 years is still to high risk (will depend highly on the SC plan in 3rd or 4th year)
For a player like him, played in his actual position, I'd give him 3 years but obviously would better with 2 and then 1 in our favour

He'll improve us, but nowhere near what a good spine will do for us. Doubt he alone can get us into finals. Need huge improvement by alot of players in this team.

Give him five years if that’s what it takes. He will most likely leave halfway through anyway. 

Touché!!!

Yes it's true Dman.... QPR has won 2 in a row!
Still in relegation spot but hopefully climb out soon

Thank God the Aus Cricket Teams new sponsor Toyota’s manufacturing process, and keeping it up and running on the road doesn’t require electricity, gas, oil, or any digging….

Appreciate the update… here I was thinking no one cared…

So what is the vibe for 2024?

Most experts would say that we are short of middle forwards, but stronger in most other positions then 2023.

I like the fact that we want to develop forwards and are giving some young guys a shot.

I rate Connor Tracey, but the signing is almost overkill.

Seems like we will sign quality where we can get it....

Halves, fullback, centres, wings, lock, utilities, lots of options.

Will depth in other areas help cover our lack of middles?

Can we get KO playing regular NRL, and in what position?

Hard to get a read on this season, especially the unknown unknowns that are unknown.

Funny thing is I don’t see “most experts” talking about our front row… they like a few vocal and no nothing supporters\germoulists are too busy bagging Gus to make a reasonable assessment….

Let’s not even mention who is/was actually available.. let’s not mention that there is probably stuff going on behind closed doors which we don’t know, or as fans even hand a right to know…

That said… Yeah we need a prop…

The pathways are critical to long term success for us as we aren’t one of the glamour clubs with DG paper bags…

The vibe for me is positive… Amer can’t possibly have the bad luck we had with injuries last year, another off season for the key players together, a great signing in Critter and some signings in Curran, Mann, Tracey, Taffe and others. Burto hopefully better with his 2nd year (at 5/8) syndrome behind him… and some decent choices in the halves…

I tend to agree that we are lacking props. Compare us to almost any other team and we are most likely the worst in that area. What really worried me is the team list I looked at when we last made finals. We had Tolman, Graham, Kasiano and Klemmer. Now we have guys that are reserve graders playing front row. 

For me the Tracy signing was one of the better ones. He is a hard running fullback that slits straight in there and keeps Crichton at centre. He gives us a much stronger team. The others are more overkill and some probably not needed. 

I think that we will be relying on tempo, grit, execution, completions and kicking game.

Holding up the attacker in goal is sufficient to prevent a try ,defending the tryline is possible with grit,energy and teamwork.

In 2023 we had too many silly dropped balls then a lack of grit energy and teamwork in defence.

Guys like Hughes, Patolo and KK have a bit of size, we have some other relative unknowns with a bit of size 
.But the defence will be partially dependent on small high workrate defenders working hard and working together,

In attack, kicking game, ball movement and speed can partially compensate for a lack of yards.

Good coaching is always using what you have, also improving what we have and getting what we need.

Since we haven't been able to sign a good middle, we need to get the most out of what we have.