All that is needed is to manufacture players....... INSTANT RUGBA LEEG PLAYER IN A CAN - JUST ADD WATER.

It’s unbelievable that the NRL haven’t done exactly this. 

I think I got as emotional as he did watching the press conference.

All I can say is Thanks Joshy.
He goes down as one my all time favourite players. 

I can't think of a player that brought hysteria to dogs fans. Maybe Ben Barba. 

I hope he gets another crowd rush send off in that final game. 

I have seen 14-15 year olds soak up quality coaching, decide that they want to win and almost overnight be become vastly better players.

For tackling, and high end attacking instincts starting younger helps.

But good coach ages 14-18 combined with a player that wants a career and has the hunger to succeed can make an NRL player out of a kid with the basic attributes.

Most elite schools offer everything, academic, art and literature, music and drama, sports.

Kids are always interested in at least one of these 4 areas and often kids are just interested in one.

Kids that are good at sport but also good at other things might prefer to keep sport as a hobby.

But perhaps 10% of kids are good at sport and are only interested in sport. They will either have a successful career in sport or struggle to find meaningful and interesting well paid work.

First thing to tell young kids that want to play league is, it isn't an easy career, it is a very challenging job, but also rewarding.

The dogs dropped the ball badly on junior development and scouting 2012-2020, we let a lot of young kids down. Guys that could have had NRL careers didn't get the right coaching at the right time.

Very few clubs are getting this area 100% right, Panthers are.

Gus built development at the Panthers, Warriors and Dogs. If is an old formula from an earlier era that lazy or disorganised clubs forgot. The Cows, Sharks and Newcastle probably get a pass mark. Souths and the Raiders also not bad. Tigers have a lot of talent to choose from.

I can more or less guarantee there are more kids with talent who want a shot then there are junior rep teams spots available. That is how it always rolls.

Yes. Love the grub. Hope he gets a huge send off

I think we have the best spine and backline of the season, even with Foxy out.

We will probably gamble on Skelton on the wing.

I also expect that Nu Brown may come in for Flanno.

Forwards wise the Broncos have us well covered, we might struggle in that area. But for a one off game with a lot of crowd support, and a bit of  luck, effort might get us over the line.

The retirement of Grub should increase the crowd and should lift the spirit and energy of fans, especially if reserve grade wins. Winning reserve grade is more important than normal, the team needs the fans to lift them to a mighty effort.

With Haas being out we are a chance. Not a great one but you never know. All depends on the Broncos unfortunately. If they play bad we can win. 

Haas, Walsh, and Flegler…

Surely we sign Tino now. Free agent. We have enough money to beat other offers. If we could get Haas as well we have the best pack in the game. 

Reserve grade losing and Grub off after 21 mins.

Must be injured, worst possible way to end a career, damn shame.

Hopefully the fans can lift his spirits.

I would be happy with just Tino, some good young forwards in the U19s SOO, we might get one of them.

We already have 2 good young forwards one played U19s SOO the other has beennout injured for most of the season.

That is weird Grub is back on now, the site is wrong?

Looks like Grub started at hooker and was rotated.

Presto!!!

Bugger  - we need to defend better than that.

Good try.

Broncos are off their game, cut out the dumb mistakes and defend a bit better we can win this.

Rubbish defence as usual. Only Sexton saving us. Cobo should have been sent. Elbow to the face. 

We really need somebody to take out Reynolds. 

D is weak as bro… 
Hopefully Sexy passes HIA and we can score early…

I was expecting a send off.

We are only trailing by 4 points, but that was a disappointing half.

The best halftime speech wins this, neither side is playing that well.

Fekk…. So soft…

I can’t remember when we were this bad defensively. Fuck this club. 

We have to be the laziest dumbest team in the comp.

And the unluckiest team... forget the 50/50 calls, the injuries and also the ball just doesn't want to bounce in our favour. Whathave the Dogs done to deserve it.

We need a good shrink.

I am used to dogs side that is mentally up for the fight and plays with energy and comittment for 80 min

Preston, Marhoney, Kiaz, Morrin, Topine, King, TPJ and Burton are the players I would expect to play with spirit and energy. Preston delivered and the others were patchy.

So much for Grubs big day at Bellmore,  we rarely got into  second gear.

What happened to the old Bulldog spirit where any player that came on found … ? 

Last week’s win was an illusion- we leaked 32 points against Rabbitohs B team. 44 points today.
Defence is what good teams are built on

I would like to know that.

For the first 10 rounds or so, I was happy with the effort, occasionally we were totally out played, but we also had a few close losses.

After King and Sutton got injured first time around, we struggled to match it in the forwards.

But in the last 5-6 weeks we have rarely played with any energy spirit and commitment.

Very disappointing, bring back the Bulldogs.

It is only our good form earlier in the season that is keeping us ahead of the Tigers and Dragons on the table.

Averillo, Kiraz, Wilson and Preston good.

TPJ a mix of good with the occasional bad option.

Burton and Marhoney should be providing more leadership.

If we are trying to convince Tino to join the club that is the wrong kind of performance.

Anyway it probably can't get any worse.

Bulldogs spirit is bullshit. As is all the crap the club Carrie’s on about. It is a shadow of its former self. I would be surprised if we are in a better position in a couple of years time. We don’t have the talent on or off the field. It will probably take Gus to k lol eave for the team to finally make the finals. Fuck this club.