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This team is deadset scary. They pass more than I've ever seen a team pass, they have great forwards, good kicking game, a sparkie player in Barba.

Against Melbourne today they defended something insane like 35 tackles in their red zone in the 2nd half and conceded 1 try off a kick. Fantastic defence.

I had a sneaky tip that the GF would be Bulldogs vs Souths about a month ago. The Bulldogs, for me, are the team to beat. I'm resally concerned about Round 18 all of a sudden, they are a class above us.
 
That game actually proved how important Slater is to Melbourne's attacking structure.

Without him they lacked an x-factor in attack - while in contrast Barba was a genuine weapon at fullback for the dogs.

The dogs are beatable and we are one team who can do it if at our best!
 
Dogs are in form right now, Melbourne are out of form. If we were in August I'd place more importance on this but we're in June. Plenty of teams will go in and out of form before we get to the finals.

Souths IMO don't have the roster to make it to the GF. Manly, Brisbane, and Melbourne look the best 3 teams overall to me. Apart from us of course!!
 
Shifty Sheens will need to put his thinking cap on! There will be a way to get the better of any team. Maybe the Bulldogs books could be audited?
 
The best thing that has happened to Canterbury is Hasler. I don't reckon they'd be anywhere near as good if he didn't leave Manly unexpectedly and join them this year. And there is more to come next year, as they seem to be buying up a storm. Tony Williams and Sam Kasiano in the same team will be very scary indeed.

Manly are looking hot at the moment also. I hate to say it but both teams would lap us at present.
 
I told you guys from the start of the season that the Bulldogs worry me. A case of you so called experts thinking the noob knows nothing but I will forgive you because it is only june, and i will except an apology from those people sometime in August.
 
@tigerkaz said:
I told you guys from the start of the season that the Bulldogs worry me. A case of you so called experts thinking the noob knows nothing but I will forgive you because it is only june, and i will except an apology from those people sometime in August.
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and you are? :mrgreen:
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but seriously, The Bulldogs for mind have peaked at the wrong part of the season.

An Injury or two in the forwards, and they will suffer greatly. Despite their injury "crisis" in the backline, they haven't lost any big name players - think about it. Turner, Lafai, Brown, Goodwin, Macdougall - hardly world beaters. They have been bloody lucky this year.

We've had injuries all year, to big players in vital positions and are within cooee of the top 4.

This is the difference. All year we have overcome adversity. All year the dogs have had the "Hasler" effect.

Starting round 18 the Bulldogs are going to crash and burn. Mark my words.
 
Our only chance is if A. Barba plays Origin and B. Someone smashes him. I don't wanna see this happen but at the moment that seems to be our best chance of winning.
 
I think if we can really get up in their faces and put pressure on the short passing game within their forward pack they can and will crack under intense pressure

If you can bustle them out of the game they can be beaten

Farah is the key to beating them in attack with our quick shift , move the big fellas around and great completion %
 
Don't worry about Barba. The Tigers have a way of making superstar players look ordinary. The problem is that their lesser name players are totally firing and they have Frank Pritchard and Sam Kasiano who will probably just run straight through us.

With Ellis back we're a chance I suppose. Them having nuffy wingers leads me to believe the key to stopping them is a compressed sliding defence. Up and in will open gaps and play right into their hands. Compress the defence and encourage them to go around us with Luke MacDougall and Jono Wright (easily their two worst players) and slide so their forward rush isn't as effective and hang on.

Their defence today was superb though so that worries me. I have my doubts that we're any better than the Storm in attack this year.
 
@underdog said:
@tigerkaz said:
I told you guys from the start of the season that the Bulldogs worry me. A case of you so called experts thinking the noob knows nothing but I will forgive you because it is only june, and i will except an apology from those people sometime in August.

and you are? :mrgreen:
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but seriously, The Bulldogs for mind have peaked at the wrong part of the season.

An Injury or two in the forwards, and they will suffer greatly. Despite their injury "crisis" in the backline, they haven't lost any big name players - think about it. Turner, Lafai, Brown, Goodwin, Macdougall - hardly world beaters. They have been bloody lucky this year.

We've had injuries all year, to big players in vital positions and are within cooee of the top 4.

This is the difference. All year we have overcome adversity. All year the dogs have had the "Hasler" effect.

Starting round 18 the Bulldogs are going to crash and burn. Mark my words.
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Yes they are playing to their best whereas teams like the Tigers ,Melbourne,Manly etc have a lot of improvement in them and a lot of their players lack successful finals experience

We can hold the Bulldogs to 12-14 points but can they hold the Tigers , full strength Storm to less than 14 points Not likely
 
@underdog said:
@tigerkaz said:
I told you guys from the start of the season that the Bulldogs worry me. A case of you so called experts thinking the noob knows nothing but I will forgive you because it is only june, and i will except an apology from those people sometime in August.

and you are? :mrgreen:
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but seriously, The Bulldogs for mind have peaked at the wrong part of the season.

An Injury or two in the forwards, and they will suffer greatly. Despite their injury "crisis" in the backline, they haven't lost any big name players - think about it. Turner, Lafai, Brown, Goodwin, Macdougall - hardly world beaters. They have been bloody lucky this year.

We've had injuries all year, to big players in vital positions and are within cooee of the top 4.

This is the difference. All year we have overcome adversity. All year the dogs have had the "Hasler" effect.

Starting round 18 the Bulldogs are going to crash and burn. Mark my words.
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hodkinson? their first choice halfback lol
they would say the same for us.. ellis (not a playmaker, we know how important he is), utai, lote, fulton (not a big name much, is he), groat, cashmere etc.. these are all hardly world beaters..

point is.. everything balances out, if one team gets lucky in one department, other team in another. that's why it's always week by week, you don't know when the injuries can strike, who they can strike. you don't know when the ref decision will go for you, when against.

eventually, it all balances out imo and the title winners always deserve it (except storm, i guess)
 
I thought Melbourne were hard done by today. That Hinchcliffe try being disallowed for obstruction was rubbish from what i saw. Changed the momentum of the game after the storm got onto the board a few mins earlier and led to a try on the next play which put the dogs up
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