Geez talk about a late season fade.

-PB

Do any teams want the Bulldogs spot in the finals? Literally no point in us being there.

The bunker just overturned a refs call, why did they not do this last night? 

aish a penalty didn't find touch

the sloppiness is becoming a real problem here

broncos having a rough start to this gme
they aren't playing badly though actually
little sloppy at times

Yeah we've just had 3 Thursday games in a row lol. Had 2 the whole season before that.

Seriously, how many Thursday games have the Bulldogs had?

After I go to training on Thursday nights, the drive home I usually have the radio set on my local station and more often than not it's live commentary on Thursday Night Rugby League. And I swear, it has felt like every single Thursday for the last 2 months, every week I swear the Bulldogs are playing :lol:

Will some effort by the Dogs to go from 4th to finishing the season in 7th in the space of a few weeks.

Won't matter we have one of the worst goal-kicking rates in the comps - regardless of whether its Parker/Milford/Hunt/Kahu kicking them. We'd be firmly in the top 4 if we had a decent kicker. 


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watched the replay broncos v storm
gee that was a satisfying win. Shame they didn't win by a bigger margin - hit those conversions and don't concede that late try and they can land a crippling psychological blow against the storm a fortnight out from the finals probably ending their season. Their line speed in defence was about as good as last week but their attack has improved, in particular their back rowers stepping before the line and props (particularly mcguire) hitting the advantage line and going forward. The halves have flourished with the extra space that provides

Still they have a couple of areas to improve

1. Hopefully parker takes the goal kicking duties come finals time. I understand nurturing a replacement but they need those points
2. Their line speed in defense has improved out of sight. They need to keep this up and hurting the opposition in tackles. But it could be a little straighter. They come up a little staggered
3. They need to improve by a big margin their ability to turn field position into repeat sets of 6. That was one area where melbourne were much better than brisbane
4. occasionally their decoys got in a way of their runners. Their execution should improve

Storm not so strong after all.

-PB

broncos really building now

one thing they could work on is getting repeat sets. Their need to do that more often

Absolutely useless. No heart, no creativity. What's the point of paying all this money for M'Bye when he can't do anything; Lichaa even less... If we didn't have creative forwards this would be a nothing team.

It's an embarrassment to the competition that we have managed to stay in the top 4 for this long. Just about time for Des to go tbph.

This so much.

They literally have two jobs ffs and most of the times they don't do anything at all.

-PB

and instantly the experts at the abc are saying the titans are hot contenders?

Hasn't been good signs for us for a while. Just been scraping by.

I said a month ago that it was just so important to get on some kind of roll on and build some kind of momentum before we head into the finals and that's slowly coming together. Good signs tonight. 

Not good signs for the Dogs though, outplayed all night despite the refs being in their back pocket all night.

Also if you finish in the top 6 you are guaranteed in playing one final at home. 

Big game next week against the Storm. 

They will get a home final unless they finish in the top 4 though

broncos building nicely

after the cheap shot the last five minutes of the game broncos looked like an origin team

their discipline has improved and their line speed in defence has improved again (though it still isn't particularly straight). They are slightly sloppy around the ruck.

If they continue to build they could match the heights of last year. Shame they won't get a home final though

If that's not a send off I don't know what is. 

Can't wait to finish 5th and be knocked out Week 1 of the finals

Can we just get rid of touch judges? They simply do nothing, I've just seen three forward passes in a row ffs. 

Not the greatest game but some good signs for us. 

broncos made a lot of mistakes tonight but they seemed to hit harder in tackles. If they continue to lift in how much they hurt the opposition in tackles the execution will come
credit to bennet for the improvement

Anyone got a link to it?

Git rid of video ref too.

Can we just get rid of this golden point rubbish now, no idea how anyone can enjoy that.  

Absolute fucking joke. Would have been better off getting tackled before the line instead of going on and scoring.

And justice prevails!