Is Meaney really out?

Last I heard he was having scans, I would be surprised if we could get that done over the Easter weekend.

Our NRL and reserve grade squads look "a bit odd the pace" compared to the stronger teams.

I think we have 30 in our NRL squad, but have some development spots...

We may need to release some players to sign more players....

We could try Holland at fullback ,defence is optional in that position... 

As to why we named 30, my guess is we didn't have a lot of money to spend in any case... signings were always dependent on someone leaving.

I’ll go thru the remaining backline players we have outside of 1st grade:-

Harper
Olive
Crichton
Montoya

Renouf went very well in his 1st match of the year. Crighton played very good and Kayne Kalache was excellent. Fullback went okay nothing special.  The rest you wouldn't feed. Have no idea why they played RFM should have saved him for next week. MCL don't how bad yet.

Harper was okay throw him in 1sts what harm would it do.  I need a drink.

Well Montoya is at least better than Olive :)

Even in reserve grade we are obviously developing young players, and needing to pay existing contracts...

This year it is a case of operating within budget, we have some money to spend, but if we sign good young development players, they can play NRL after June 30.

We can move CHN to the centres, but if RFM and Elliott  are inured we might even be short of backrowers...

If things don't come good soon, the NRL shoudl give cap relief.

The year the target is to improve overall by the end of the season....

The Cows are beatable, even if we cobble together a team, 1 week at a time...

The young fullback seems to have a bit of size / speed hence my interest, he is still very young....

What was your opinion of the Souths no 9?....

He is a kind of organising 9, more like Cam Smith than Cook, no chance of playing regular NRL anytime soon at Souths.

JMK has been going well for us, I am happy with most of the spine, Lichaa off the bench offers nothing. 

Better make that two or more drinks :)
 

He was excellent. He'll play when Cook is on rep duty. 

Yep the problem then is everyone will know how good he is...

He would be a great fit for for us... JMK could play 14 .. he is one player I would go all in to sign and bring that big Souths prop with him.... that guy is a fridge...
(in fact I would serve away from him and run into the fridge ..).

He isn't big but is an angry ant 

Looks like we're going hard for a good young half from Ipswich.  Son of one of the Walker brothers I think.  Only 17

I was talking about the big prop Tom Armone or someone  like that ... a real unit.
I would hate to run into someone like that ....

The 9 does the job in defence, his attack including kicking game is his real strength.

Sounds good ... youth is the way to go..
Quick fixes cost a fortune or only deliver average results.

Yeah I know I replying about the hooker.  Our hookers do not get angry probably don't even swear.

I haven't noticed him swearing, but I think he would have the full vocab...

Speaking of which, I never understood why we didn't keep Joe Tramontana that guy was the ultimate angry ant.

We have a prop in Ball  ... Mosese Pope, huge kid and very talented. Hope they keep him. Watched him come up through the juniors the last couple years.  Bad luck that the Ball side got beat with a last second field goal.  Matts won easily though, our only win this week.

Yeah I like the fact that we are giving good you kids an early shot at NSW Cup.

Even if it doesn't work out you drop them back and they know what is needed to go to the next level.

If we keep the best players coming through our system we will be fine.

I hate having reserve grade full of reserve graders that will only ever be reserve graders, or someone else's duds.

Then watching our good players playing NRL somewhere else... gee we bought some duds and let some good players go in the last 5 years.

Joey is the ultimate angry ant.  Always entertaining watching him play.

There are multiple players in the rep teams that are at least a year younger than the age limit.  They are trying to fast track them playing against older players.  All this takes time unfortunately. 

Nancy.... give us some good Bulldogs news please??

Anything?? 

Matts won... 😊

Dman's off the grog???????

Hahaha

What about Will Chalmbers..... did he get carried off on a stretcher last night?

Yes, the 2 things are related ... no grog in the lock up..,,Go Dman !!!!

Chambers and JWH did borrow handbags for a fight.... then Dman disguised as a granny attempted to sort them out ... lucky a real granny was there and sorted it.

The Matts side won and are in the prelim final what more good news do you need Villi?   ......  Okay here's what you have been hoping for .....  Michael has re-signed for a further 4 years at 2.8mil. 

i have some good new ITS EASTER SUNDAY happy easter 2 all , maybe ODF  is right about  being persistent  making to many changes  ,reading the kennel garbage everyone there now wants morgan harper  i say prfff   his worst than holland may as well keep dutchy for now  there is no one there , i was watching john olive yesterday in the canterbury cup & the great montoya  they are even not @ reserve grade level you think they would be putting plenty of pressure on holland but no way are they  so i can see why holland is there as there is nothing in the reggies to pick , hopa will back back @ no 1 next week as meany will miss time to due injury wonder who deano will put in the centres 

Wow, I just read about Bennet blowing up about the referees. What the fk is that d!ckhead on about, I mean his team was the ones who got the benefit of all the dodgy calls on Friday. I think he must be p!ssed that we exposed the wabbits weaknesses or his coaching shortfalls.

I raise him a disallowed try against Dutchy and a penalty against Remis Smith for starters plus stepping off the mark on every tackle and attack on our half back by Burgess who objected to a good legal tackle. As each week passes I feel it is a one horse race.