This link isn't on a pay-wall :

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6862291/NRL-legend-1million-contract-caught-stealing-board-shorts.html

Thanks BN.  Good luck to Brett.

Yeh, really?...I remember a lot were calling it as a downfall and that we were lucky to be where we were on the ladder. We had like three one point wins in a row by field goals. Then SteveNFI started arguing with everyone and defending the team and arguing that there was nothing wrong with our team and that everyone was ungrateful for our victories, when we could all see the demise. He couldn't hack it so he started to make fun of my then user name DrewBou and being arrogant and rude right on that IanC level.  

Crikey... Let it go 1D. Steve's a changed man since his stint at Joliet, even villi likes him... You don't understand what its like to grow up on the mean streets of The Shire... ;)
Dan you may need to dust of the pulpit and get you're 'can't we all just get along speech' out .. ;)

His very dare you accuse the NRLol of not policing the cap approximately... They have $68 million to spend after releasing fergo...
Oh and TPJ has offered to play for nothing just to be a rooster...

Des inherited a good squad - minus some halves.

Des then proceeded with options like Reynolds and Mbye in the halves ... we defended well and were able to grind out 1 point wins .. but the team slowly trended downhill. 

Now we finally have decent halves, but are missing the rest of the team... our defence is very ordinary, and has to be fixed to win any games.

But if we can get the defence to 90% of what it was in the DesBall era we will win a lot more games, and be much more enjoyable to watch.

Overall prefer this team, I just want to sack Joe Williams, and get a real defensive coach... :) .....(joke..... it isn't Joe ????....)

$68 Million is the budget for forwards ... halves 22 Million and outside backs $44 Million.... or so it seems.

Didn't we have a Joe Williams in the 95 Gee Ef?
He was our winga.

No this Joe Williams played for us in 2008, a season most Dogs fans have wiped from memory.

I remember him being the only NRL player I was 100% sure was a way worse defender than me....

On a good day I might be on par with Soward  :)

EDIT:: A Witches Hat would have made more tackles, than Joe.

Peace and love ...sunshine lollipops and rainbows. 

You may be getting confused with Jason Williams

Slinky 
dont you mean 
jason willams
whos joe willams?
jason willams was on the wing
came from wests before he joned 
canterbury & was a dam good player

I agree wholeheartedly. 
They are definitely not worth that much. But I struggle to make sense that if our average guys are on backhanded deals (like Eastwood etc last year) then who the hell was on 1.5M in the Des era? I was under the impression that at one stage TRex was our highest contract at 600k a year. The numbers never stacked up to me. Unless we had all of our top 30 on minimum 300k, it still falls short. 

We certainly look better in attack which is a plus in my book regardless of wins or losses.

But sooner or later, we need to convert this better play to results otherwise it looks like a poorer gamestyle to Desball.

Tye potential is there, we just seem to make new schoolboy mistakes every week. 
Need to be smarter.

Didn't he come from Souths?

Stick the lollipops up your wrinkly old arse

Why does everybody have to be so unkind? 

Yep different players Joe Williams was from Souths and didn't last long.

https://youtu.be/fvzdehnJA9k

Far out, you have changed....ok i'll be kind now, just needed to get it off my chest

https://www.bulldogs.com.au/news/2019/03/29/dean-pay-extends-his-contract-with-the-bulldogs-by-a-further-12-months/

I hope we can rack up a few wins and make this look like a good decision.

I fully understand the salary cap situation and the relative merits of our squad, so we need to cut Dean some slack, the flip-side is the team must look well prepared and be on an improving trend. 

So like all NRL coaches, results matter, job security is a myth. 

Everyone changes when you have the realisation that IGA are again making Black and Gold DARK chocolate bullets.

What adebarkle so this board has given dean pay 
a 1 year extention on his contract
F M D , winless me im so depressed 
shod of waited till round 10 

Yep there can be no woof in a Debarkled Bulldog!

I’m not fussed either way about Pay getting another 12months. I think it’s fair.

Same here villi... Its as much about the perception of stability for the players as anything else... Pay put his entire head coaching future at stake taking the job and deserves our backing for that alone...
Plus he signed when he though incompetent Dib&co may have been in charge still... Very bold...
 I'd have preferred to have waited until rnd 8ish, but at the end of the day, pay wouldn't be on much so a pay out to secure the likes of a Bellamy or Holbrook if they were to become available is not a big deal...

Cmon lads let's break the duck this week!!!...

Yep, a further year is okay. If things are still in the toilet mid next year they can sign a new coach. Justin Holbrook was my preferred pick last year and will be next if things don't improve.

I am.
I see no benefit in him getting months extra so early in the season. 
What purpose other job security for Pay does it serve?
This is a black mark on the current administration. They have been good to date but have fallen for the same mistake we have done in the past.

So if we end up near last this season, we write it off as a salary cap ridden season. Next year if we start with a 0 and 5 record, do we sack Pay and pay him out, or do we finish another sesson poorly and seek a new coach in 2021?

There was absolutely nothing to be gained by re-signing Pay so early. Nothing. 

Poor decision in my opinion.

I question whether we've learnt anything.

Unless the administration quietly emailed me to tell me we are chasing a Bellamy or Robertson for 2021, it makes no sense to me at all.

It could be worse I suppose......we could have Des.....

Tony what tune does the adebarkle board play? 
No that great hit by FMD " Winless Me"