Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Tigertragic83]

I think Blore should get more time as others have said and i think Tualagi should start to get some time as well. I think Tamou is done, he doesnt make yardage at all. Would prefer stefano or Jo starting prop with Seyfarth at 13. Then have a bench of Amone, Stefano/jo, Blore/Garner and Simpkin/tualagi.

I think Tamou still has something to offer, but would love to see Seyfarth starting. I think his link work at 13 has been really impressive and our attack looks its best while he is on as he is pushing Brooks wider of the ruck and that is improving Brooks' game as well.


I watched the game again and Tamou was very good. He’s quick off the line, stops them dead and he chases more than most. He also makes plenty of PCM. Joffa is good at 13 but Seyfarth offers more in attack as you said. I don’t think we lost it in the forward TBH. The two eels centres had it all over ours, once they spread it we’re in all sorts. I think the key though, just about every time we started to look like doing something with the ball we stuffed up, whereas they have someone to either chip it, put someone through a hole or read and run through. We just don’t give ourselves that opportunity. It all comes down to silly errors, simple as that. Ref didn’t help either.

Agree don’t think it was lost in the forwards I was live at game and we seemed to match them in field position down the middle

We were crushed in the forwards ......the problem is the effects of that are seen out wide because the defence is forced to compact more and more to tighten the ruck

Only reason it looked that way was because of momentum and ridiculous 6 against which tired the defence out. It was more caused by the ref than it was being outmatched. The limited sets we did get our forwards put huge dents in the Parramatta line, whereas pathetic slimers were making metres in broken play

I refuse to put Parramatta on a pedestal. They're dead-set gronks

And they beat us by 28 ...so it makes us ......

Parra smashed us up the guts ...thats the facts unfortunately

Oh I agree don't mistake that for a second..

But I don't think it was the mismatch that it looked like. I would think any team would struggle with the huge weight of possession and 24 odd penalties and 6 against.

Roosters struggled containing Parramatta with the same weight of possession. And they have one of the best forward packs in the comp.

 

[TigerWest]

The way we got rolled up the middle against the eels,theres a case for more size in the front row to start.
Id be ok with at least one of Mikalae,Stefano or Musgrave to replace Twal or Tamou...and another to come on after 20 mins.
There were mitigating circumstances,but we just got steamrolled
Tamou mite be a no 14 these days,and Twal mite be better value at 13 than Joffa who really hasnt set the world on fire..

Not a bad idea, Tamou has shown speed and ability with the ball when given space.

I know Musgrove has been injured, but he can't be to far away from returning?

Some have said he is no good, but I think he provides the intimidating mongrel we lack atm?

I agree However he needs to intimidate without the ball too. That game against Manly at BankWest was far from intimidating

He’s certainly had a few he would like to forget? Who knows, was he playing injured?

 

[GCfan]

The way we got rolled up the middle against the eels,theres a case for more size in the front row to start.
Id be ok with at least one of Mikalae,Stefano or Musgrave to replace Twal or Tamou...and another to come on after 20 mins.
There were mitigating circumstances,but we just got steamrolled
Tamou mite be a no 14 these days,and Twal mite be better value at 13 than Joffa who really hasnt set the world on fire..

Not a bad idea, Tamou has shown speed and ability with the ball when given space.

I know Musgrove has been injured, but he can't be to far away from returning?

Some have said he is no good, but I think he provides the intimidating mongrel we lack atm?

I agree However he needs to intimidate without the ball too. That game against Manly at BankWest was far from intimidating

He’s certainly had a few he would like to forget? Who knows, was he playing injured?

Let’s hope so otherwise he’s not the guy to lead us anywhere other than Plodderville

 

[GCfan]

I think Blore should get more time as others have said and i think Tualagi should start to get some time as well. I think Tamou is done, he doesnt make yardage at all. Would prefer stefano or Jo starting prop with Seyfarth at 13. Then have a bench of Amone, Stefano/jo, Blore/Garner and Simpkin/tualagi.

I think Tamou still has something to offer, but would love to see Seyfarth starting. I think his link work at 13 has been really impressive and our attack looks its best while he is on as he is pushing Brooks wider of the ruck and that is improving Brooks' game as well.


I watched the game again and Tamou was very good. He’s quick off the line, stops them dead and he chases more than most. He also makes plenty of PCM. Joffa is good at 13 but Seyfarth offers more in attack as you said. I don’t think we lost it in the forward TBH. The two eels centres had it all over ours, once they spread it we’re in all sorts. I think the key though, just about every time we started to look like doing something with the ball we stuffed up, whereas they have someone to either chip it, put someone through a hole or read and run through. We just don’t give ourselves that opportunity. It all comes down to silly errors, simple as that. Ref didn’t help either.

Agree don’t think it was lost in the forwards I was live at game and we seemed to match them in field position down the middle

We were crushed in the forwards ......the problem is the effects of that are seen out wide because the defence is forced to compact more and more to tighten the ruck

Only reason it looked that way was because of momentum and ridiculous 6 against which tired the defence out. It was more caused by the ref than it was being outmatched. The limited sets we did get our forwards put huge dents in the Parramatta line, whereas pathetic slimers were making metres in broken play

I refuse to put Parramatta on a pedestal. They're dead-set gronks

And they beat us by 28 ...so it makes us ......

Parra smashed us up the guts ...thats the facts unfortunately

Oh I agree don't mistake that for a second..

But I don't think it was the mismatch that it looked like. I would think any team would struggle with the huge weight of possession and 24 odd penalties and 6 against.

Roosters struggled containing Parramatta with the same weight of possession. And they have one of the best forward packs in the comp.

I agree that we were on the rough end of officiating but I reckon we did so much of the damage ourselves. I get that momentum against you will ultimately lead to gassing out but we matched the poor refereeing with some poor play too

 

[rihannafan1]

Kurt Capewell has had a tour of the Bulldogs facilities as well as a secret meeting with officials.

lol sounds really secretive if we know about it.

 

[TheDaBoss]

Cause of cordner retirment...Apprently routers enquring about hectic cheese

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Cause of cordner retirment...Apprently routers enquring about hectic cheese

They’ll definitely pick up a marquee signing with Friend, Cordner and B Moz all gone. And you watch everyone lose their minds.

 

[Tigertragic83]

I think Blore should get more time as others have said and i think Tualagi should start to get some time as well. I think Tamou is done, he doesnt make yardage at all. Would prefer stefano or Jo starting prop with Seyfarth at 13. Then have a bench of Amone, Stefano/jo, Blore/Garner and Simpkin/tualagi.

I think Tamou still has something to offer, but would love to see Seyfarth starting. I think his link work at 13 has been really impressive and our attack looks its best while he is on as he is pushing Brooks wider of the ruck and that is improving Brooks' game as well.


I watched the game again and Tamou was very good. He’s quick off the line, stops them dead and he chases more than most. He also makes plenty of PCM. Joffa is good at 13 but Seyfarth offers more in attack as you said. I don’t think we lost it in the forward TBH. The two eels centres had it all over ours, once they spread it we’re in all sorts. I think the key though, just about every time we started to look like doing something with the ball we stuffed up, whereas they have someone to either chip it, put someone through a hole or read and run through. We just don’t give ourselves that opportunity. It all comes down to silly errors, simple as that. Ref didn’t help either.

Agree don’t think it was lost in the forwards I was live at game and we seemed to match them in field position down the middle

We were crushed in the forwards ......the problem is the effects of that are seen out wide because the defence is forced to compact more and more to tighten the ruck

Only reason it looked that way was because of momentum and ridiculous 6 against which tired the defence out. It was more caused by the ref than it was being outmatched. The limited sets we did get our forwards put huge dents in the Parramatta line, whereas pathetic slimers were making metres in broken play

I refuse to put Parramatta on a pedestal. They're dead-set gronks

And they beat us by 28 ...so it makes us ......

Parra smashed us up the guts ...thats the facts unfortunately

Oh I agree don't mistake that for a second..

But I don't think it was the mismatch that it looked like. I would think any team would struggle with the huge weight of possession and 24 odd penalties and 6 against.

Roosters struggled containing Parramatta with the same weight of possession. And they have one of the best forward packs in the comp.

I agree that we were on the rough end of officiating but I reckon we did so much of the damage ourselves. I get that momentum against you will ultimately lead to gassing out but we matched the poor refereeing with some poor play too

Yeah sadly we can't seem to shake out the simple errors. although I feel like we're getting better in this department compared to last year. Our defence last 3 weeks has been miles ahead of where we were

 

[Needaname]

I think Blore should get more time as others have said and i think Tualagi should start to get some time as well. I think Tamou is done, he doesnt make yardage at all. Would prefer stefano or Jo starting prop with Seyfarth at 13. Then have a bench of Amone, Stefano/jo, Blore/Garner and Simpkin/tualagi.

I think Tamou still has something to offer, but would love to see Seyfarth starting. I think his link work at 13 has been really impressive and our attack looks its best while he is on as he is pushing Brooks wider of the ruck and that is improving Brooks' game as well.


I watched the game again and Tamou was very good. He’s quick off the line, stops them dead and he chases more than most. He also makes plenty of PCM. Joffa is good at 13 but Seyfarth offers more in attack as you said. I don’t think we lost it in the forward TBH. The two eels centres had it all over ours, once they spread it we’re in all sorts. I think the key though, just about every time we started to look like doing something with the ball we stuffed up, whereas they have someone to either chip it, put someone through a hole or read and run through. We just don’t give ourselves that opportunity. It all comes down to silly errors, simple as that. Ref didn’t help either.

We can match the Eels forwards in attack, yes. So the game was not lost there. We had the same yardage and opportunities as them throughout the game. They just made the better of them.
But on the other side of the ball. The game was completely lost in the forwards. We struggled to contain their momentum. They grew and grew as we lost the ability to stay in the arm wrestle through the match. The Eels are a momentum team. You knock them down a peg and they start to fall apart. We just continued to feed their ego by gifting them repeat sets and errors in the strike zone.
Needed a couple more forwards like Amone they played with a nothing to lose style and took it to RCG with a bit of ruff housing. Following that the Eels forwards started to get drawn into the dog fight and Papali got done for the knee so we were starting to get under their skin a bit it was just a matter of too little too late.
If we have any further chance in this competition we need to ditch the clean skin style and really let these other teams know they’re in a game.
Not sure our young / old forwards have it in them though.

 

[TheDaBoss]

Cause of cordner retirment...Apprently routers enquring about hectic cheese

They’ll definitely pick up a marquee signing with Friend, Cordner and B Moz all gone. And you watch everyone lose their minds.

Cap rorting

 

[rihannafan1]

Cause of cordner retirment...Apprently routers enquring about hectic cheese

They’ll definitely pick up a marquee signing with Friend, Cordner and B Moz all gone. And you watch everyone lose their minds.

Cap rorting

This needs to be one of the priorities for our admin to become better at. It is a grey area that the league allows and if we're to really compete we either need to get better at that or unearth some generational players from somewhere.

 

[finnzo]

Cause of cordner retirment...Apprently routers enquring about hectic cheese

They’ll definitely pick up a marquee signing with Friend, Cordner and B Moz all gone. And you watch everyone lose their minds.

Cap rorting

They will only have Cordners money all the others didn’t have contracts for next year anyway

 

[Tigertragic83]

I think Blore should get more time as others have said and i think Tualagi should start to get some time as well. I think Tamou is done, he doesnt make yardage at all. Would prefer stefano or Jo starting prop with Seyfarth at 13. Then have a bench of Amone, Stefano/jo, Blore/Garner and Simpkin/tualagi.

I think Tamou still has something to offer, but would love to see Seyfarth starting. I think his link work at 13 has been really impressive and our attack looks its best while he is on as he is pushing Brooks wider of the ruck and that is improving Brooks' game as well.


I watched the game again and Tamou was very good. He’s quick off the line, stops them dead and he chases more than most. He also makes plenty of PCM. Joffa is good at 13 but Seyfarth offers more in attack as you said. I don’t think we lost it in the forward TBH. The two eels centres had it all over ours, once they spread it we’re in all sorts. I think the key though, just about every time we started to look like doing something with the ball we stuffed up, whereas they have someone to either chip it, put someone through a hole or read and run through. We just don’t give ourselves that opportunity. It all comes down to silly errors, simple as that. Ref didn’t help either.

We can match the Eels forwards in attack, yes. So the game was not lost there. We had the same yardage and opportunities as them throughout the game. They just made the better of them.
But on the other side of the ball. The game was completely lost in the forwards. We struggled to contain their momentum. They grew and grew as we lost the ability to stay in the arm wrestle through the match. The Eels are a momentum team. You knock them down a peg and they start to fall apart. We just continued to feed their ego by gifting them repeat sets and errors in the strike zone.
Needed a couple more forwards like Amone they played with a nothing to lose style and took it to RCG with a bit of ruff housing. Following that the Eels forwards started to get drawn into the dog fight and Papali got done for the knee so we were starting to get under their skin a bit it was just a matter of too little too late.
If we have any further chance in this competition we need to ditch the clean skin style and really let these other teams know they’re in a game.
Not sure our young / old forwards have it in them though.

This is the thing about our last couple of wins. Albeit against weakened opposition we obviously had a game plan to limit the forwards involvement and built pressure through kicks and last tackle options

This is where the game was lost. Through lack of pressure and poor ball handling. Hard to blame forwards when they've tackles their ass off for better part of 60mins. I think Maguire has built (and maybe I have my orange coloured goggles on here) one of the more competitive forward packs in the comp. He created competition, brought in size and turfed the plodder off to clearys waiting arms.

When this team clicks, and it will...look out

 

[Demps]


 

[TigerTone]

Cause of cordner retirment...Apprently routers enquring about hectic cheese

They’ll definitely pick up a marquee signing with Friend, Cordner and B Moz all gone. And you watch everyone lose their minds.

Cap rorting

They will only have Cordners money all the others didn’t have contracts for next year anyway

Cordners money plus brown paper bags equals a marquee signing.

 

[weststigerman]


Is it really effective immediately, or is he going to play on the weekend and then change clubs?

 

[DJG]


Thank god we didnt sign him..

some people will complain and sook, but DWZ never wanted to come here and I'm glad he didn't.

 

[Cairnstigers]

Cause of cordner retirment...Apprently routers enquring about hectic cheese

They’ll definitely pick up a marquee signing with Friend, Cordner and B Moz all gone. And you watch everyone lose their minds.

Cap rorting

They will only have Cordners money all the others didn’t have contracts for next year anyway

Cordners money plus brown paper bags equals a marquee signing.

And they will still have $2million left in the kitty after they sign the cheese
Then again I think Jayden sua will probably go there now

 

[izotope]


Thank god we didnt sign him..

some people will complain and sook, but DWZ never wanted to come here and I'm glad he didn't.

Got the better deal for mine Ken M for what was it $350?

 

[Demps]


Is it really effective immediately, or is he going to play on the weekend and then change clubs?

Who knows.
Bet the doggies are stoked.
Huge relief, especially financially.