Barrett's attitude has me on the wrong side atm 

declared he's cleaning house (which is fine) ( i only see 2 players off contract worth keeping) but basically put writing on the wall for season 2021 

with a decent coach and playing group willing to fight week in week out we should be pushing for the fringe of the 8 - definatly winnable games throughout 

CARN THE DOGS!!

GF - Souths Penrith
Winner - Penrith
CC medal - Penrith 5/8th
Dally M - Cleary
Dogs 12th
Spoon - Nth Queensland
First coach sacked - Walters
Titans to play finals

intrepidarts, I totally agree regarding the new rules. I really hope that some poor cvnt/s don't drop dead of a heart attack. Why speed the game up it will just become a tackle version of touch footy. Letting the game create a natural flow where the players have just enough time to think but if they react too slow they're fvcked, now that's what I call exciting football. AND bring back the scrum in its proper form where the ball is fed into the centre of the scrum tunnel and both hookers can have a crack at raking for the ball.

Yes

I've  noticed with Wakeham he tends to fade out of the game when paired with a dominant halves partner. Last year this was obvious when he had probably his best  game after losing his partner and  assuming  control.  On Saturday he was, apart from a few tackles, virtually invisible  in the first half.  Immediately after half time he got involved and was very good.  I suspect Barrett got in his ear  at half  time. This will be the benefit we get from Barrett, as with Penrith maximising the output of both halves, not having  one totally dominant a one making up the numbers.

I think Wakeham has the ability to be a good half or hooker, but you have pinpointed an issue he does get less involed when playing with a more experienced player.

IMO Flanagan has a few limitations, we need his halves partner to do some of the kicking and spark some of the attack, His edge was a mess in defense first half against the Sharks, but all players were equally to blame.
Defensive combinations should improve.

All 3 of our tries had some good footy in the and Flanagan was involved in the first 2, so his game was a mixture as was the team performance.

I don't know who Paul Suttor is but he is the only one of the NRL experts to pick the Bulldogs to make the 8. Hope he is a genius and not Marki's cousin

Paul Suttor is editor of nrl.com (for the last 3.5 yrs). Telegraph could do with someone half as good as PS...

Actually he did work for Telegraph for a year.....we're doomed...

He was smart enough to leave, or truthful enough to be sacked.

I've found the nrl.com articles to be usually reasonable & consistent. They're not going to trash their own product but they don't sugar coat every article until they're sickly sweet either. Just football articles about football without all the rubbish.

With the Telegraph, if Aaron Woods drove over an ant the front page would be "Canterbury player on murderous rampage" or something like that. It never ends. 

A more realistic headline would be :- "Ant Tramples Woods"

Fool ol’ Mark McG...
“We are all Australians” bwahahahahahahahahah...
When it suits...

Villi... 780141...
You got a league number or are you conceding before kick off???...
All comers welcome to test their mettle against Lies, Lies, Lies in the NV’L...

In latest E.L news.

Volvo is going fully electric by 2030. India is trying to outbid China to have Tesla cars manufactured there. And one of the big Japanese car companies... can’t remember which one... has criticised the Australian Gov for being behind on EL car readiness and infrastructure.

It’s coming, it won’t be stopped, and having already missed the boat, we can’t afford to pretend there is no f***in’ boat.

Nothing will be done  until they can work out how to replace fuel taxes without causing electoral damage.

Well far be it from me to mention anything about conspiracies relating to fossil fuel company families, Government corruption, and Tesla the Great... 

Regards the Davidian Maso Satirists...

Stop the boats!

If we spread covid and go into lockdown....there will be no EVs....

Besides.... I've been travelling on EVs for the last 20 years on the East Hills line and the damn things dont go 1 click above 60......

Rubbish

Villi is already claiming the tipping comp has been stolen.

At least you are consistently wrong about everything, that is quite an achievement.

At least if we don’t  have infrastructure to support electric vehicles all those Volvo drivers will no longer be a threat to our safety...
Also just  just read fragments of Volvo were discovered in sewerage today SA, WA, QLD, TAS and VIC have enacted a 5 day ‘circuit breaker’

lockdown....
Stop circuits now!!!...

if you are a shit driver, have a yellow car, or have the slightest Volvo.... please get tested...

Yeah, but it was his cousins that stole and rebirthed it...

Hey...... my second car is a Volvo...
And quite frankly, it's a pleasure to drive.

Well now we know why Volvo drivers are literally mocked...

Yes if you are a  bad driver, a Volvo at least gives every other driver fair warning and time to change their route or find another parking spot.

Every single Volvo driver I encountered was abysmal, evolution at work, survival of the species.

The old saying.  What's the difference between a Volvo driver and a pineapple.  The pricks are on the outside on a pineapple

All signed up

The story about Aus “lagging” behind on EL car readiness is about to be on the Today show.

Having copped a speeding fine last week (clocked at 57 in a 50 zone on O'Riordan st) I agree with others in that the nanny state that is NSW needs to first figure out how to slug its citizens for maximum $$$ before it fully supports the uptake in EV transport.

Another example is Andrew Constance having no appetite to consider legalizing E-scooters. 

The last thing these guys want is to lose $$$ from fuel excises or insurance levies....