Pay is trying different combinations in the 2nd half so lots of change to the look of the team

Rhyse Martin sin binned for professional foul in defence. 

Joke....score locked up but we have ISP plus no Martin.

Lost 28-22 good hit out.

how good is meany ?  from what iv seen he cant tackle ,hopa will be our no 1  ,so who will the centres be very big worry for next weeks opener  montoya & holland , this harper
wont make it not nrl ready , 

Holland no worries at all, is dangerous e very time he touches the ball... Hoppa at 1... Olive and okunbar played themselves out of a shot...
Penalties killed the ISP team...
Jmk gets the nod over lichaa on that game but I'm thinking they will rotate...
Good hit out... Sue and Napa busy...

hopa
smith
holland
haraiea niera
criten
foran
lewis
napa
king
toleman
f mariner
jackson
martin
res
sue
faloalo
elliett
smith/ lichaa /oden tke your pick 
i thought chris smith played realy well could be a bolter 

Who was the C'bury forward in #28? He had a small afro. Seemed to be a big guy & sure put some aggression in. I didn't recognise that one.

Tui Katoa

Let's go Bulldoks! Let's go! 

Okunbar has perhaps the best physique of anyone to be an absolute beast but he just doesn't appear to have the anger...if he had Gordon Tallis' anger he would be a superstar

Thanks...

josh jackson praises dylan napa 
https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/02/23/praise-for-dylan-napa-after-eye-catching-cameo-against-raiders/

Okunbar was good in patches but was lacking in a bit of on field smarts. Seemed to be out of position at times. Yes I agree, he needs to have Kellogs Angry Flakes for breakfast  

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...y/news-story/9b357da00e752a4125f158e949252c3c
i wonder what supporters  think of this story ,
the bulldogs management set 2 start negotiations with dean pay off contracted @ years end 
i would wait till round 12 just 2 see how the team is going ,what happens if he get a contract extension & we are travelling no good it may have bad consequences 

Tony you just told us they were going to kick him out...can you see this is slightly at odds with your previous post.
Have you ever seen the movie Office Space...

Will say Olive left him high and dry a couple of times too...

He stole my stapler!!!...

Forget the Reggies 2nd half, what mattered was the first half where it was mostly The NRL team.

And we looked good, passing and ball movement was great, line speed in defence was excellent and very very good on our line. Foran was unrecognisable, who was that bloke running freely like he'd never been injured in his life?

Cattle is still gonna be a problem, we still need new talent. If we're tested for depth I don't think we'll pass, I doubt there will be any Reggies coming into NRL this year that would improve the team unlike last year when Lewis, Martin and Smith not only improved the team but the club too.

But - I guess we already knew that.

Not that sold on Crichton, nor was I when we brought him. He's the sort of player I hope we avoid trying tom recruit in future - recruited because he was available, not targeted. Look he's a good average player but that's both his strength and his weakness.

I'd stick with Meany through good and bad until and unless he becomes untenable because unless we've got some other long term FB option lined up - we've GOT to make him work. Hoppa I love his skill but I think he'd serve us better using that skill setting up wingers and back-rowers in the centres.

Best on ground was undoubtedly the new skills coach bloke - you can just see the confidence they have in their game now. 2nd best I'm gonna give to coach Pay - that was good heads up up-tempo football we were playing as promised.

And he's the one that's in for the big test this year. I'm confident in the nucleus of what we have and that the recruitment team can get what we need to round them out to be aiming top 4 next season and for a title in the season(s) immediately following that - they'll open that window for us.

But Deano's off to a good start (and finish to last year). I like the underlying attacking philosophy, I like the energy he's got going in defense. But still - it'll take more. At this stage I'll back him but I won't lock him.

Well said Zef....

I watched a Penrith 2018 game on Fox the other day & geez Crichton would have had to have been the worst on ground that game

For a guy his size... built like Solomon’s Kata... he should be steam rolling opposition players with ease. Anyway, let’s hope the coaching staff have worked on his game this off season


As for Pay, I would be a fan of offering him at least a 1yr extension right now. He may be old school, doesn’t talk well like Seibold or Trent Robinson, but he’s doing everything that’s needed to get this club going forward I believe.

Just needs to work on the type of players we’re recruiting for 2020 because we do lack depth in the backline & at Hooker

That was Renouf To'omaga not Tui Katoa.

I was struggling to tell watching on my phone... Did he look a little unfit?...

So Witnit, outside the main starting 5 forwards, who really stepped up yesterday?

Renouf?
Chris Smith?
Tualau?

Oh OK. Thanks. A few had completely different looks this year with the different hair. Ray FM was another one.

If it was Renouf, it was hard to tell about his fitness, but it looked like he'd been eating well. You wouldn't want to be the opposition kicker on his watch either... 

The camera quality wasn't the same standard as channel 9 is capable of, noticeably the lighting, focus, sharpness & other finer details they're capable of, so it wasn't easy spotting who was who a lot of the time. They never released a team sheet attributed to jersey numbers either. Raiders having 2 x #19's on the field at once at one stage wasn't helping (the commentators didn't recognise them all either).
The audio level was really low too, I had to crank up the volume at my end just to hear them talking, but when the ground announcer starting talking, of course that was loud...

Oops. Old eyes small screen.

The pleasure is all on this side of the desk

The starting pack were v good for sure. I also like the look of Sue. He does things at a million miles an hour. Chris Smith also did some good things. 

Agree re Smith most likely to step up,.. Sue is a pleasure to watch compared to Klem; uses his feet to get between players, looks like he's a chance of an offload, gets to ground quickly with no dry humping the ground leading to a slow ptb....

Villi... 946729 is 'not found' as a league on SC...

Dman... it’s the correct league number mate.

2 others have already joined



Maybe you joined the Vietnamese SuperCoach league?