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I think it's always tricky when your best kicker is playing centre as Burton will tonight. We had that with doueihi for a little while and I think it really limited our last tackle options and felt really predictable. There's a reason why the best kickers play in the halves and it's so that it's...

Big achievement for Galvin to supplant the halves at Bulldogs within a month of moving there. Shows the huge regard they have for him. As is our only satisfaction these days, I hope the doggies get smashed.

I don't think it's good that Benji participates in training as he does. Those opportunities should go to juniors and backups while he can focus on pushing standards. I'm not so worried about this particular doueihi event, these sorts of things happen. But I'm concerned by his broader approach...

Worse than us?

He's a raw young player. He's gotten a long term contract on big dollars that I wouldn't have offered. It's not clear yet that he is a first grade talent and he has mostly struggled when he starts. However, we had him on a decent contract until the end of next year. I see no benefit to letting...

I personally felt Madge needed the next season, when he finally had cap to recruit and got API and papalii to the club. Prior to that he was hamstrung by dud Cleary purchases. But my point wasn't so much that Madge shouldn't have been sacked but that I felt at the time there were significant...

I think to do that you need to point to some improvement. Defensively we're as weak as ever, attack we're as dysfunctional as ever. We have juniors wanting to leave and regressing, we have facets of our game that looked promising, getting worse.i tend to agree that you always wonder what a coach...

Ahhh what a disaster that we destroyed Benji's reputation in the game. Everything we do is always disorganised and impatient and then changed, exactly as with hiring Benji. It was another miracle cut out ball/flick pass in our own half that the club tried to throw when we had a chance to gain...

We don't need better players, we don't need more money, we can't blame injuries or Galvin or Gould or the refs, it's not the facility we train at, it's not the ground we call home, it's not that we need just another 3 or 4 quality players or that we just need our juniors to mature...it doesn't...

They didn't play well, but it was obvious this was all about their preparation. No player knew their role. Players aren't given a chance to succeed in that situation. Coaches like Jason Taylor and Madge almost felt too rigid in their structure, but they had one, you could see intent. What was...

Ohhhh and worst of all bloody smug cronk and not funny Voss to talk us through the game. Yes Voss, bring up the bbq again, that is hilarious. And tell us again how bad the game is, because everyone's here to entertain you, and they're all just out there to setup one liners for you so you can go...

This is the issue. Samuela does it too. They don't know their role, they're not given structure. Samuela fields a bomb and 10 out from our line hesitates in his runs looking to pass. He gets turned a little and play the ball is slow. He wasn't going to make a line break or anything but with no...

This is a really bad moment for our club... The results haven't been there but we've hidden behind close score lines. In reality, our play is declining this year, attack still lacking and players like TDS, Galvin (before he left and Samuela (promising young players) are all declining. The...

Not sure what he brings as a first receiver, limited speed, a little too sideways and not much of a kicking game. Running two wide he looks better and his best attribute is his ball playing out wide. While Galvin probably hasn't found his role yet, these things usually end bitterly for us and...

TDS has looked really good in our winning performances, but he definitely struggles when we don't have the momentum and I think he tires easily at the moment and this has a significant impact on his play in having a less consistent pass and difficulty defensively. In his few starts, he hasn't...

sure but technically Royce Hunt is also a first grader. That's just not good enough even for a reserve grader. He probably wasn't brought back on because he's not good enough.

I'm still happy we let Klemmer go. I don't see any value with him and he and Tamou are two of my least favourite players of the past. I just really hate that passive, indifferent play. We have Twal, that's enough. We definitely erred with Hunt, though. Horrific stats, what a liability.

As @Tucker points out so clearly in the win/loss stats, it just doesn't make sense what Benji is doing with Api and our hooker situation. The only reason you may play TDS in lower grades is for his development in getting him 80 minutes a game here and there rather than his 30 I first grade...

I like the idea of building him up in reserve grade as a lock/utility. Give him heaps of defensive work, get him stronger and tougher, give him a few first grade matches here and there, and then have him as the modern fast ball playing lock type in a couple seasons. In a side like ours that...

Reflecting on our approach to signings recently and with Galvin and Stefano we swung big on players that we really shouldn't have. Replacing Stefano with May has been so big in our improvement this year. And while Galvin has talent, it never quite felt right and certain that he would be a great...