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Just putting his best foot forward….

Why does our edge and centre/wing defence always slide backwards when defending? We just give up so much ground on sets. Is this coached? I see no other team that defends this way. Reckon assistant coaches are so important to structures. Hope we can come up with some better systems next year.

Case of everything that could go wrong has gone wrong 🤦‍♂️

Laurie has lifted in recent weeks. Maybe finally rediscovering his confidence after last year’s injury.

Could be aiming to lock down some squad players and salaries so they better understand what money they will have left to target marquees. Hopefully that’s the case.

Biggest high to the biggest low in 2 minutes

Between now and pre season is key for signings. If we could somehow jag 2 of the quality of ipap and api our first 17 will look a lot better than the start of this year. The 2 above plus Pole, a fit Stefano and Blore, Naden, plus Douehi with a pre season. If the 2 jagged quality signings were...

Wonder if that makes Kade Dykes more gettable now if another of his paths is blocked for 2 more years?

Think Ciraldo missed a trick if he actually rates himself as a good NRL coach of the future. If he does eventually jump in with a team high on the ladder or after Cleary finishes his contract, fair chance the natural cycle of teams means his team slide down the table over his tenure. Where does...

I would love Ciraldo, but Burton rejecting his player option also allows Bulldogs to upgrade and extend his contract.

If Ciraldo did sign I’m tipping he would think he could bring some over. If he doesn’t think he could bring players over or attract other quality options from the market then he sits tight and waits for a better option/time.

The club currently has a stink about it. What are the factors that cause a stink / help remove it: - club and board (is it divisive or unified, finances, leadership, attracting sponsorship, facilities (eg COE), culture. - football operations: pathways, recruitment, support of coaches and...

Don’t mind a young coach at all for this next stage. Assistant coaches will be super important to the success of that though. Reckon assistant coaches play a huge role in how good teams go in modern footy setups. Wonder who a Ciraldo or Morris would bring in to work with them if they got the gig?

Surely the Cowboys start to feel some salary cap crunch. They have rocketed up the table and have a lot of money invested into some of their senior players (Taumalolo, Townsend, Holmes, Luch next year). All their young guns are gonna want an upgrade pretty quickly the way they are playing...

I’d like to hope they are a fair way down the path with behind the scenes negotiations on who the new coach will be. If not we are in trouble given that 2 other clubs now in the market for coaching talent and the time involved to go through the recruitment process. Sets back recruitment and...

Agree, if we could jag 2 more top end signings similar to Api and IPap then it starts to look pretty good. Get key injured players back on the park and cross our fingers some of our juniors progress, even better. Would take any of Tapine, Chrichton, Burton, etc in a heartbeat.

Strongest team on paper all year. But with so many players coming back from injury and no consistency on combinations likely need a few weeks together to get the output to match the potential. Hopefully we can string some consistent weeks together. Slot Api, Paps, Douehi and maybe one other...

The glass half full way of looking at tonight is we lost 2 of our spine before half time, already had our first choice fullback out, had a debutant and Pauga playing his first game of the season, have Stef still trying to find his fitness, were down to 1 on the bench at one stage, got smashed in...

Would be nice just to get a run of games where the fifty/fifties are even rather than more often than not feeling we never get the rub of the green from the reffing.

He’s already been offered $1.1M for 2 years by the Dragons, so he’s not going to come to the Tigers for $900K for 3 years.