Hoping he puts some Bulldogs on their arses tomorrow night.

-PB

Andrew Fifita just scored the try of the season

Johnson scores just as good a try to steal the game at the death.

lel Sharks lel.

-PB

Nearly threw it away there but came back strong to beat the Grubs.

-PB

We're fucking useless so glad I tipped the Cowboys. Still on for a perfect round.

Not that I want to attack club doctors and their credibility, but why do they announce injury layoff expected return dates when players make miraculous recoveries well and truly short of the estimated recovery period?

I speak of Adam Reynolds returning last night for Souths, 3 weeks after an apparent injury which the "club doctor" said was going to keep him out for 3-4 months (which exacerbated the accidental contact made by James Graham and Klemmer for attempting to charge down a field goal attempt)

Not only is it dishonest to say players arent that badly hurt, its more than likely that this is part of the mind games teams play on the preparation of the opposition, Im suspecting the St George Dragons were not expecting to face up against Souths with Reynolds. On a grander scale, Darius Boyd, the most imposing, dominant fullback of the competition - was "said" to be expecting to miss out on the whole season, but we can only hope New South Wales Origin was well and truly prepared to face a Queensland team with him in there, because its not Inglis or Slater, but Boyd is NSW's tormentor

Why do they even have a use for club doctors anyway? :-K The only certainty for expected layoffs is suspension of which Greg Bird will not be there for Origin... [-(

What this Bulldogs team needs is for someone to put 50 or 60 pts on them.

Do another 7 straight Cowboys!

-PB

thankfully, sanity prevails and the NRL smashes the AFL and the A League grand final for ratings in Australia this sunday

Morgan in the squad.

Thank fuck.

DCE has been shit house.

Morgan and JT will carve shit up.

-PB

Parramatta Eels fined $525,000 for salary cap breaches, and could be stripped of 4 competition points next season.

Shows you how badly the board and the management mismanage the club if they can cheat by that much and still be as crap as they are.

I still don't get the obsession of having a utility in the team, it's Game One and we know NSW will pick a very big forward pack. Then you factor in we have Myles as a frontrower and Gillet on the bench as well, thats a very small team, something we struggled with last series. ](*,)

It's good that we've ruled out DCE early though, last year he was in terrible form + injured and Mal still played him. That decision lost us the series.

Personally think Morgan is a little green and has only been picked based on a good last three weeks but nonetheless I hope he does well.

Don't get NSW's team though.

No idea why you guys seem to dislike Maloney, he's so far ahead of Hodkinson at the moment its not even funny.

Dugan isn't exactly a ball playing fullback either, just puts Pearce under even more pressure (Not the smartest thing to do).

SydCro would know more than me but Jackson is a secondrower? Don't think he's ever played lock before? Found that a little strange.

It's also quite amazing to think Hopoate is there, he's done a great job of turning a handful of good games at Manly into big $$$'s and a Rep career.

Also for those that play SuperCoach, started off with Graham due to his great bye schedule, cop a shitty four week suspension, decide to hold onto him, he comes back and gets concussed and gives me a shitty score and than misses this week as well, ffs. :x

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I personally hate the amount of "old boys" in the QLD team.

The likes of Myles, Parker, Thaiday, Scott.

Time for new blood ffs.

-PB

Not 100% sure but think he has played some lock for us, but yeah he's primarily a second rower.

As for Graham, I am now glad I brought Burgess in instead of Graham.

Can't agree with that.

Maybe with Myles (But he was pretty good last Origin Series)

Parker is probably the best lock in the game at the moment. (Have a look at his stats)

Thaiday is in his best form since probably five years ago. (Plus he always turns up for Origin)

Scott -we really don't have many quality frontrowers at the moment, can't think of any who deserve to be there instead of him.

Agreed. Origin is about picking the best 17, no matter age. The only time you think of the future is if it's a dead rubber

Anyway in terms of preparing for the future I think we're slowly getting there.

I'm sure I'll forget a few guys but nonetheless

You have Chambers introduced in the last year, Gagai will takeover from Hodges next year as well.

In terms of fullbacks we have GI (Boyd is a pretty decent backup as well) who will step in for Slater in the next few years (who I expect to be moved out to the wing)

Due to the Yow Yeh injury we are a little light on in quality wingers but Holmes will be ready in a couple of seasons.

Guerra, Gillett & Papalii are entering their prime. Napa has been introduced to the squad this year.(Give it a few years Oates and Lowe will screaming out for call ups as well)

The halves look in good shape with Hunt & DCE (Morgan as well- Depending on where he finishes up)

At hooker we are set as well with Friend, Segeyaro and even McCullough.

The front row is a concern though - desperately need McGuire to step up and hope like hell a few of the older boys hang on for the next few years before the younger guys are ready. (Perrett, Molo, Ofahengaue, etc.)

There are also a fair few other guys who haven't really hit NRL level just yet but look very promising.

Think we're in pretty good shape for the future. :d

Massive crowd @ ANZ.



-PB

"Pride of the league"

Still can't believe we won that game :lol:

-PB

Starting to become a believer in the Cowboys. At the other end, the Tigers are easily the most embarrassing and under performing team in the comp.

:lol: NSW can keep Hodkinson, no way he gets back into this team, and no way he should be. In 10 mins we've looked better with Reynolds and Mbye in the halves than we have with Hodkinson at any time this season

So pumped for tonight. The buildup to this in Brisbane has been outrageous. Praying the boys can get the job done and shut these arrogant Queensland cunts up [-o<

I'm just in it for the biffo.

Can't remember ever caring less about Origin before. All I care about is that the Bulldogs players make it through unscathed.

Nothing says rugby league like an angry asian chick bashing a drum.

And we thought our gimmicky crap was bad.

Shannon Loll.

My nana pushes harder than Billy Slater :lol: