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Listening to Yeo - what a great leader and smart footballer

Panthers show what enthusiasm and hunger looks like. Their aggressive D never letting opponents stand in a tackle - always putting them on the ground and then the urgency to get up and stand at marker. In the first half after a charge down looked like Roosters would score for sure but a chase...

All this rubbish about Benji’s holiday time during the Bye round. Really, people are still eating up that garbage. As I understand it was not even a week away and the players are all given time off under Players Association guidelines so they can’t train. It is not unusual for other coaches to...

Ploy to get us paying some of his next contract in England and to sway opinion on his value. Expected move from his Manager. Let’s wait and see what actually eventuates.

Once again- great effort Tucker!! Kicking stats are interesting to me as they support something I noticed quite a few months back- our kickers (Sezer, Galvin, Api) are actually not great strikers of the ball. Short kicking in A seemed ok but certainly any long kicking out of our own territory...

Great work Tucker!! It’s been pretty clear in most games that our forwards had no grunt or decent work rate. Running metres were nearly always far less than our opposition even with equal possession. PCMs also low due to our lack of hard running and struggle to get over the advantage line -...

Cory Parker doesn’t like us much does he. Always ripping into us every opportunity. However his latest article suggesting we haven’t improved this season and won’t improve next season due to our lack of defensive mindset or players, is pretty true. These last few recruitment spots must be for...

Hey Jolls, great post. Level headed and to the point without the over reactions and emotions. I do believe that we are somewhat walking a tightrope and things could go either way for us. A lot will depend on the final bits of recruitment but more importantly the strengthening of our coaching...

RCG will have to take a pay cut from $775k if he thinks he can go to the Roosters. Not sure how many more players the Dogs can have.

Since he signed with us I have watched him with interest. Luai has impressed me with his demeanor both on and off the field. I believe that he can help lift us and that his infectious character can rub off on the young guys. I am confident that he will be a huge influence. I really hope that he...

I hope they catch the ahole and bring him back here.

Love Api- But being honest he has looked totally clapped for a few months. Not sure if he has been playing injured for a while now. Benji made a comment in the last presser to that effect.

If the NRL accepts that as an outcome- more likely they will not allow the suspension to be played outside of the competition games because it’s us.

Not enthused by Bird signing but let’s hope he has a couple of seasons in him where he can bring out some competitiveness and hunger, leading the way for our young guys. Hopefully he is not playing in the backs for us, would rather see him at 11, 12, 13 or 14. As for missing out on Horsborough...

Also have a pack that every time we have played them have made our forwards look like marshmallows. Furthermore the way they have fallen off in the last month doesn’t fill me with awe on Flanagan as coach.

After sleeping on it and getting past the immediate disappointment of watching that performance, then reading everyones posts here, I think the obvious realisation for what we have seen in many of our poor games comes back mostly to our weak roster this season and the players who we have had to...

That was hard to watch. Can’t stand many Eels players so that made it even harder. We deserve the spoon as we were certainly the poorest team in the comp. A one line summary of each of our guys tonight: Mason can’t tackle and is not ready to play fullback in NRL. Tupou still can’t catch...

Not excited by this signing but hope I’m wrong about him. Have never liked him much so I will wait and see how he goes for us before rubbishing him. Certainly no longer a first choice centre.

100% MT. Those run metre stats for the game surprise me. 170m correct? Didn’t seem to be that much - just goes to show how little our guys work some weeks when we struggle for anyone to run over 100m!!

Read the post. I spoke of his work rate in the first half when the Dogs were struggling to make yardage. He made few carries and didn’t look keen for work. In the second half he looked like he’d taken a knock - I believe it was actually quite early because he hobbled around for most of it...