Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

For everyone keen for Willison to come here, sounds like he will be hard to pry away from the Donkeys. Same manager as Stef.

Willison wants to leave his own legacy at the Broncos and forge a premiership-winning front-row partnership with representative prop Payne Haas.

 
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Interesting...might mean nothing...but..

Jack Hetherington-
2018- 54% win ratio
2019- 50% win ratio
2020- 100% win ratio
2020- 50% win ratio (warriors move)
2021- 12% win ratio
2022- 33% win ratio
2023- 58% win ratio
2024- 42% win ratio

Corey Horsburgh-
2019- 59% win ratio
2020- 50% win ratio
2021- 25% win ratio
2022- 55% win ratio
2023- 55% win ratio
2024- 50% win ratio

Neither of these guys played in the powerhouse sides (Hetherington was at Penrith to start his career- 3 years.

But both have winning career records. So their style of play seems to have success on the field.

Not saying it's a direct correlation, but these guys win.
 
It's even more funny that Gus said they need to promote juniors but all they do is buy players and offload them early. If I'm a junior there I'm not feeling to confident.

We need to swing our balance around some and buy more experienced players to help develop.
Yeah, theres an article written about how the leadership group at the club are letting the young players down someone might have posted it already I havnt seen it anywhere so if they have sorry but here's a link.
 
Totally agree here, i feel since we are going down the path of being a development club we will always be a bottom 8 team and in this day and age that is not good enough!!People can bag GUS all they want but he has turned the Bulldogs around in 3 years and they still on the up, It just don't make sense why we think this will change. Our so called young stars maybe are not as good as we think they are.Sure we jag a good signing every now and then, but that's it we need to keep doing this every year until we get out of this mess we are in.
The bulldogs have been very clever. They have not spent all their cap on top tier players but mid priced players who have taken them to mid table. Once those contracts are up you will see them throw the kitchen sink at a few key positions.

Meanwhile we go around trying to pay top dollar for key positions and our squad around them are reserve grade quality. When will they wake up
 
A tired Bradford Best outpaced him twice in the last 10 minutes last week to score tries from his errors. Don't think his pace is elite and seemed flustered in the decision making when the game was on the line.
Looking more at some of the try’s and line breaks he has made this year it’s way ahead of anyone in our backline,
And I would be more concerned in his pace if he couldn’t catch someone like Brent Naden, as Bradman Best is actually a fast centre in today’s game
Remembering both players would have been tired in those chases.
 
I can't believe people are actually suggesting Jack Hetherington. The guy doesn't even have any controlled aggression he's just a straight up idiot.
Bloke has a huge skillset, he is tough as nails, and has a big ticker.
Only a handful of guys who have pulled our jersey on have had all 3 of these.
Yes he is a loose cannon, but he has rugby league in his veins, born and raised from a family containing a number of top level players.
 
Bloke has a huge skillset, he is tough as nails, and has a big ticker.
Only a handful of guys who have pulled our jersey on have had all 3 of these.
Yes he is a loose cannon, but he has rugby league in his veins, born and raised from a family containing a number of top level players.
I can see the reasoning but our discipline is an issue already. I don't know how adding one of the most ill disciplined players in the comp would go towards fixing that.
 
The bulldogs have been very clever. They have not spent all their cap on top tier players but mid priced players who have taken them to mid table. Once those contracts are up you will see them throw the kitchen sink at a few key positions.

Meanwhile we go around trying to pay top dollar for key positions and our squad around them are reserve grade quality. When will they wake up
This!

We need hard nosed 7 outta 10 every game type actual first graders! lol at the dogs and dolphins packs, even Melbourne. Honest toilers.
 
This!

We need hard nosed 7 outta 10 every game type actual first graders! lol at the dogs and dolphins packs, even Melbourne. Honest toilers.
We’re in a period of separating the wheat from the chaff, you only have to read this forum to understand how complicated that is.
 
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Looking more at some of the try’s and line breaks he has made this year it’s way ahead of anyone in our backline,
And I would be more concerned in his pace if he couldn’t catch someone like Brent Naden, as Bradman Best is actually a fast centre in today’s game
Remembering both players would have been tired in those chases.
Best put 20 metres on him over 80 metres in both tries and he was never in the picture on the 2nd - so how much more tired would Tilagi have been than Best (who had probably ran further than Tilagi did on his first try than Tilagi did all night)??
 
You've really never seen midseason transfers before? Or do you live under a rock
Also players not getting a look in at other clubs, especially those off contract, will push for a move to us even if only for 6 months, if they get a realistic chance for first grade to push their claims for next season
So the deadline has come and gone and guess what?

Bearly anyone moved

We moved on 2 players that we didn’t need anymore and that was about it

But yeah I live under a rock
 

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