Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

No Worries wrote:Or its tactical. Newcastle show interest so the dogs pay more then cant afford to keep the player off contract next year that Newcastle actually want

the only player we have that any club would want to try a stunt like that to pry away from us is klemmer lol

Dip wrote:If we had a transfer window at the end of the season, for the next 10 months after that Managers could concentrate on getting their players more money through 3rd party deals and appearing at car yard openings and Bunnings supermarket promotions on a Saturday morning. We couldn't possibly have that...

I feel you are being slightly facetious here....

And whilst you might not give a shit about player managers, have you at least spared a fraction of a thought for the hardworking NRL journo's and media contingent???

These poor bastards are at the coal face each and every day pumping out player/coach transfer rumours......sometimes purely based on what Cheryl at the local milk shop overheard one of her customers talking about.

And what might I ask, do you expect the likes of Kent and Rothfield to talk about when they are on the tele?
They can't being any Rugby League insight to the table and they certainly aren't there for their bloody looks, so you are essentially condemning them to the scrap heap.

It's not a fucking easy job mate and although most are bottom feeders, they still need to eat too.

Dip wrote:If we had a transfer window at the end of the season, for the next 10 months after that Managers could concentrate on getting their players more money through 3rd party deals and appearing at car yard openings and Bunnings supermarket promotions on a Saturday morning. We couldn't possibly have that...

I read a snippet somewhere that all the 3rd party deals Klem was offered haven't happened in the last 2 years. That's why the murmurs of him wanting out are not new and have been around for a while.
And as No Worries suggested. Klem hasn't been talking to the Knights, his manager has been have the occasional of the record coffee shop meetings with whoever.

Wasnt Klemmer in newcastle being shown around by Knights staff? Hasnt he undergone a medical by knights staff? lol

Doggies fans a bit salty about Klemmer going to the Knights ?? Or his dad ??

Napa signed... good signing!

Terrible signing

I can’t believe the club thinks the best way to release them letting Klem go news to the fans is by telling them they used his money to sign an inferior player

Rubbish decision

What's the alternative ? Release Klem and don't announce Nap, leaving a hole ? How is that any more palitable ? Losing Klem was a formality, there is probably only 4-5 players that could be considered a straight swap and conidering the cap shit fight you are in it was never going to be anything but a downgrade.

i would 100% rather a hole then to go and use klems money


letting klem go mid contract was annoying but clearly part of the game these days, had honestly made my peace with it

the idea of signing napa was frustrated me from the second it became a rumnour

we have cap issues and holes all over our squad, why go and try and replace him when we actually can't ? save the cash, maybe try and convince some of the back ends still in play to bring some of that money forward

instead, we have probably used the majority of his cash on a player who offers nothing in comparison.

the other key point is if you look at our young players, the 2 most ready to make a jump are probably renouf T & ofa, middle forwards, regardless of what happened to klem, we still need outside backs far more then we do middle forwards.

i just can't get behind buying a player that would 100% be overvalued for what he delivers, one or 2 good hits a game isn't enough to be considered a forward leader and we have probably paid him to be that, bad business

had 2 nights to sleep on it and here are the positive and negatives from saturday

Negatives:

Marcelo montoya and kerrod holland are our starting centres and thats with a fully healthy roster
Someone at the club thought dylan napa was anything more then a random hit merchant, he doesn't want to run the ball. waste of money.
Lachy lewis is gonna have a tough year
Foz wore a man bun to try and fool everyone into think he wasn't old and past it, it didn't work
Marcelo montoya and kerrod holland are our starting centres and thats with a fully healthy roster
michael lichaa is still hopeless
JMK keeps getting picked on the bench and no one knows why
Marcelo montoya and kerrod holland are our starting centres and thats with a fully healthy roster
it was round 1 and we still didn't have the urgency to pressure the bloody kicker
its gonna be a long car drive home after losing to parra on sunday

and finially

Marcelo montoya and kerrod holland are our starting centres and that's with a fully healthy roster



Positives:

Fualalo and CHN were good off the bench
only 23 more games till mad monday

haha love it
Surely Martin is called up soon.. Adam Elliot is just so fkin average I reckon. Martin wont solve all the problems but at least he is a bit of a fan fav

and surely they pick meaney at FB soon, then you wont have Marcelo montoya and kerrod holland as your starting centres and that's with a fully healthy roster

Re martin

i don't think he is lock, specialist edge for mine, RFM is the same. CHN played in the middle but probs still better on an edge too.

i don't think martin would be any better then elliot in the middle, i wouldn't make that change. RFM didn't play that well tho so pressure will be on him eventually




i'm torn re meaney

hoppa last year was so much better at fullback then he was centre, we actually kind of improved when mbye moved on because of it. him at fullback is pretty much the only outside back option we have that is close to being consistently reliable to do their job. him at centre is pretty average.

but at the same time, even if it makes us worse, 2019 is gonna see so few wins anyways, is it worth just hoping meaney develops into somthing that we can pin some hope to in the future ? possibly, but i feel we should probably atleast give it a few more losses before we think like that

why not put Jackson at 13. Now that most teams are moving away from the prop at 13 system, he seems like he would be perfect to chuck in the middle.

Then you could have Martin on the left, RFM/the fella they got from Penrith on the right.

Surely meaney will get a gig soon, they wouldnt have bought him for no reason.

jackson is still our best edge defender (tho he didn't have the best round 1 defensively) by a wide margin, note sure how CHN is there but both martin and RFM are ok but probably below average defenders out wide, i'd be hesitant to make that move when both our centre's are as allergic to defending as bryce cartwirghts kids will be to everything. its not like he would help our biggest problem in the middle either (making yards)


i honestly completely understand why martin is missing out, i just don't understand why spent $ on CHN in the first place when its the only position we had that isn't full of reserve graders, doesn't make sense



yeah i think meaney will, i mean even playing him on the wing for now and moving smith to centre is better then what we have atm. Smith defs has the build to be a good centre too

I dont understand why they targeted Cogger so hard then to leave him out for Lewis and Foran. Both those goes at too similar and neither is a halfback capable of controlling at team, they are ball runners.

Their best line up is

Meaney
Montoya
Holland
Hopoate
Smith
Lewis/Foran
Cogger
Tolman
Liccha
Sue
CHN
Martin
Jackson

Napa
Ogden
Elliot
RFM

Hi from the Tigers

and you get us this week too lol so there is another W and 30 ish F+A points gained

haha the tigers will do what they always do. Start the season well and prob win 5 our of 6. Then they will have a run where they lose prob 5 out of 6 and will end up coming 9th on for and against.

Surely there is a shake up coming at the dogs. I thought of your comment LG when montoya dropped the ball over the fking tryline and had a little Lol. I really dont mind montoya, he is a better winger than centre but he will prob be the first one dropped if they bring meaney up, considering there is no other goal kicker in the side besides Holland. Hollan is garbage though.

I honestly think that suring up the middle by putting Jackson there would help. Yes you lose a bit on the edges but you gain in the middle. They lose the ruck all the time and he can help. Then they can bring martin up and have RFM or the fella from penrith on the right.

I know the club is in cap trouble but a player the could target is Eisenheuth. Cant get a gig at the tigers at the moment and proved he was a good first grade middle forward last season. Surely he wouldnt command that much cash and he would be 10x the buy that Napa is. I admit that when I read "napa signed with the dogs" I thought it was a good signing. Couldnt have been more wrong.