BN, I have a feeling that we will make the eight, that's where it might end but still a good effort.

https://www.bulldogs.com.au/news/2019/01/10/training-snapshot-gym-session/

The boys are pumped, I'm pumped...

Must say the quality of Bulldogs website content is 1000x better than it has ever been... 

The new board and CEO have done nothing but kick goals during a tough rebuild as far as I'm concerned...

Over to you Deano and the boys!...

With a glut of backrowers at the club.... I just hope we don’t encounter a mid season release due to lack of game time.


CHN offers more... way more than Elliott. CHN needs to start. Elliott off the bench for mine.

With Ofahiki we have a beast that’s only going to get better.... surely he jags a bench spot too.

The other bench spots you’d expect to be taken up by Sauso Sue and JMK

No reason for anyone to be released, or allowed to leave (unless it suits us), it was all about the cap moving forward... Nothing wrong with serious competition for spots, and any player that wants to have a cry is probably not worth the trouble anyway... 
Will be exciting to see that first team sheet...
Elliot is more of a middle forward these days, and CHN will play an edge... Blokes like Ofa, Martin or even RFM may have to bide their time, and perform exceptionally in Reggie's if need be...

Nick Meaney looks like he’s put on some beef.... I hope this kid can be our next Luke Patten for the next 10yrs in the Fullback spot

I'm as pumped as the Michelin Man (that tyre bloke)

Dman..... have you been giving cricketer Ben Cutting special 1 on 1 catching tips?

On the cricket selectors, this article raises even more suspicions that something hasn't been right for a while.
When you've got wicket keeper Wade being one of the 2 top scorers in shield cricket (regular 50's & a recent century) not getting selected & 2 wicket keepers in Handscombe & Paine both being selected at the same time (one played out of position at slip) when they can barely get 20 runs between them...
The mind boggles. Who does Hohn think he is? Des?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-10/whats-behind-the-non-selection-of-matthew-wade/10705916
 

Michael Cohen will testify in public before House Oversight on Feb. 7.

IN PUBLIC! ON TV! I reckon this is gonna break all rating records. Bigger than Superbowl, bigger than the Olympics, bigger than Ben f***in' Hur.

Don't be surprised if Trump does something stupid around Feb 6th, maybe start a war or something. Anything to out-rate Cohen.

“I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired.”

There just won't be enough popcorn for this, but I'm gonna try!

Oh yes.
That has me pumped.

Can we fast forward to first week of March already!

Martin is locked in as a starter ahead of any other second rower - goalkicking main reason, but he is actually one of the better angle runners and is now a winner having captained the Intrust Team to a premiership.

Yes we have Holland as backup, but you don't drop your 95% goalkicker for ANYONE. You find a spot for him.

Im kinda hoping he is our next Barba actually.
He reminds me of Luke Goodwin from early 90's

LOL. I use to call my 2 kids Michelin Man when they were babies.....
They had these rolls on their thighs and arms that reminded me of him....

Hence the reason I want Smith reinstated as captain asap
Im not convinced Paine is worthy of selection at all and prefer the C next to his name doesn't affect that selection process.

Don't be disappointed.

Remember he is powerful.

sorry 2 have 2 disagree with you marki  
11   harawirea nira  ,he didnt sign for 4 years to play nsw cup  
12  falatlia marniner  he is a must 
13  jackson

Strange as it may seem I have to agree with you. Maybe we should check out his centre credentials. 

So I finished the stand alone novels Zef and I'm now at a loss. Ending set up the next trilogy perfectly but its going to be one hell of a long wait.

Did hell just freeze over??? Steve agrees with Marki, and I agree with BigT...
At least nobody agrees with villi...

As Mr Loaf says...Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

Onya Batch.

So can't this bloke f***in write! I maintain nobody does characters better than he does on the planet. So many of those characters I love and will never forget  - Nine Fingers (just about everyone's favourite, but not necessarily mine) Costa (close to mine, especially in "Best served Cold") Black Dow, Rudd Three Trees, and perhaps my favourite though very much a minor character - Friendly. and about a hundred others. None boring, none shallow, none cardboard cutouts. This bloke brilliantly names a minor, very minor character "Stranger Comes Knocking" (that's his name) and immediately gives him more menace, depth and character just by that name than some authors spend pages on back stories of characters can give

Nobody does characters like this bloke, NOBODY.

Your favourite book? Mine is Red Country, just loved the return of Logan, a bit of old style violent Western redemption story there, like Unforgiven. Funnily enough probably the least popular amongst the hard core fans where The Heroes reigns supreme.

And yes - hell of a wait. I find it hard to read (listen via audiotape) much anything else these days, I just want back into Abercrombie's head. Anyway, the first of the next trilogy is out sometime this year and Abercrombie is writing all three of them before he releases the first so there isn't George RR Martin type waits between books - a year apart at max, he's hinted maybe even less. Which will be good because I'll wait until they're all out before I do them.

New trilogy is in the First Law universe, set about 100 years or so after the first trilogy when industrialisation is coming and magic is dying - I think Red Country gave us a hint of what to expect there.

Until then... f***ed if I know.

I agree with Villi. 

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/bulldogs-issue-statement-after-napa-sex-tape-surfaces-20190111-p50quu.html

Hope there are no real negatives to come out of this, hopefully this fires him up for a big season.

The crazy thing is there are multiple standards...which one is going to apply? Former NSW coach jerks off (literally) in dressing room in front of Prime Minister yet not even mentioned in discussing the spy camera case against the dogs....which was seemingly the greatest crime of the 21st century

I liked Red Country a lot mate. The way Shivers was given a glimpse of redemption whilst clearly still being damned was a real nice way to finish the book. For me that's the real strength of the stories, the characters are given a resonance beyond their explicit appearance in the stories. Little mentions and clues here and there mean we're all too aware of their continuing existence in his universe even if we hear nothing further of their actions. This then gives a richness and authenticity to the world that you don't find in most stories in this genre.

Favourite book? I think I'd put up Red Country along with Best Served Cold and a lot of that comes down to the characters driving the narrative of each story, Logan and Costa. I actually didn't like The Heroes that much. Favourite character would have to be Glokta and a lot of that is down to him being the funniest torturer I've ever encountered. Would have loved to found out what happened to Ferro. I guess that's possible in the next series if only 100 yrs have passed.

Anyway I have to move onto something new audiobook wise so I'll let you know if I encounter anything half as good. Importantly I need to thank you once again for the recommendation. I'll probably go out and buy hard copies of all of the book just so they're there on the bookshelf. When I revisit them I just know I won't be able to go past the audioooks. 

HD...... welcome to my posse

Dman’s been refused entry numerous times

Honestly..... what is the club supposed to do or say about this Napa sex tape?


Napa’s done nothing wrong, the girl in the footage or maybe it was Dman hasn’t made a complaint about it


It happened years ago ffs.

Nice observations there and spot on.

I was just searching and the next trilogy isn't 100 years, it's just a generation.

Blurb for the first book "A Little Hatred" (Doesn't he do titles well too, eg "Before They Are Hanged") Some familiar family names there, I'm sure we'll see some of the old characters as fathers mothers grandads grandmas. And of course..... Bayaz.

The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.

On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal’s son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a man who specialises in disappointments.

Savine dan Glokta – socialite, investor, and daughter of the most feared man in the Union – plans to claw her way to the top of the slag-heap of society by any means necessary. But the slums boil over with a rage that all the money in the world cannot control.

The age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. With the help of the mad hillwoman Isern-i-Phail, Rikke struggles to control the blessing, or the curse, of the Long Eye. Glimpsing the future is one thing, but with the guiding hand of the First of the Magi still pulling the strings, changing it will be quite another…

If anything, whoever made and leaked the recording is responsible.