Glad that someone finally called Gus out on his hypocrisies. His emotional response is clearly a tactic to distract us from the real issue which is the insane conflict of interest he has exploited for far too long. If you are paid 1M plus on channel nine, you really shouldn't be using that position to market your club to a player like he has with Galvin. But beyond Gus, there are way too many opportunities for conflicts of interests in NRL media. Whether it is Braith Anasta holding NRL 360 whilst being a player manager or Gorden Tallis sitting on NRL 360 whilst his wife is a Titans board member. It really shouldn't be hard to enforce complete neutrality (ie no direct ties to clubs/players if you are in a media position). The lack of professionalism in this part of the game has to be cleaned up.
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CNK lives rent free in too many heads. Webby isn't moving him from FB and nor should he. His work rate is unreal and is often the one taking carries through the middle when the boys are buggered, particularly in the second halves of the cows, dragons and dolphins games.
Cause he's been our best centre this year?
First time this year we have fielded our full strength team. How good!
Boyd takes his player option for 2026 and remains with Warriors
Tanah Boyd makes big call on NRL future amid Cowboys interest
He has been linked with a move away from New Zealand.
www.zerotackle.com
Tanah Boyd taking up his option for next year and sticking around. Think the club would have been honest with him and he could still be in their plans? He may be depth but if he gets an opportunity, he might grab it with both hands. Think now if TMM is to be extended, it’s as a 14 going forward. Still a possibility, we signed Walker as a bench utility who can fill multiple positions and TMM has that in his arsenal. If he got a preseason to become accustomed to lock off the bench, I’d back him with him a strong defender. That’s possibly where Gannon fits in though?
Apparently, Mahoney approached the Dogs and asked to leave when he found out they were serious about getting Galvin in ASAP.
Take it with a grain of salt, but the rumour doing the rounds is that there’s a number of Bulldogs players upset with how this has all gone down because they feel Sexton has been screwed over/led on by Ciraldo/Gus
Off sharks forum. Will make my day if true
Take it with a grain of salt, but the rumour doing the rounds is that there’s a number of Bulldogs players upset with how this has all gone down because they feel Sexton has been screwed over/led on by Ciraldo/Gus
Off sharks forum. Will make my day if true
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There were times when Luke gave a spray to Leka and Ali for just staying back, not running any lines and just expecting him to to run it up without any support. I liked seeing that. Always need options.
On Ali, did he play with a dislocated finger during the early stages of the game? Surely looked like it on tv.
The game taught the youngsters a lesson that they need to be alert at all times. Hero individual plays will come where they will get to shine, but they also need to able to be part of the team first mentality where everything has to be on point to get the win in the first place.
On Demitric i think he was too eager when he first came on. As soon as he came on he made what seemed like 4 or so tackles in a row.
Get rid of him. Should have made 300 metres.
seems like a bit of an overreaction to a tough loss in trying conditions to a fellow top 4 side in Canberra. All the travel finally got to us and we played a bit flat tonight. Yet we still almost won that game. It happens- look at what happened to the Sharks this week who have been travelling as much as we have in the last month. I'd back the same team with JFH and Barney to get the job done against the bunnies. If we maintain the effort/intensity with better execution, we should get the bunnies and get back on track.
Why do people feel they need to shake the team up after gong on a 5 run streak and finally losing a close game against a good team missing 2 of our best players?
The Raiders defense was ON. Their wingers seem to jam in perfectly (Something we could learn) and shut down a couple of wide plays that could have gone in against a lesser team. They also had tabs on Metcalf not letting him get a sniff of any gaps.
I think we just chalk this up as a nice loss and move on to next week. No drastic lineup changes needed.
The Raiders defense was ON. Their wingers seem to jam in perfectly (Something we could learn) and shut down a couple of wide plays that could have gone in against a lesser team. They also had tabs on Metcalf not letting him get a sniff of any gaps.
I think we just chalk this up as a nice loss and move on to next week. No drastic lineup changes needed.
First one he dropped it cold.
Second one he got a head clash then lost the ball
The last one the pass to him wasn’t on. Yes he dropped it but Canberra had two defenders on him. Bad decision making from Metcalf.
We never looked dangerous in their red zone. Their defensive line had little trouble adjusting to our attack.. That is the biggest problem reflected by our inability to find holes throughout the game
Leka is the least of our problems
Loved Clark aiming up on Papalii!
Physically smashed him and bullied their biggest man. Another pack leader backing him up (JFH or Barnett) and we would have had a platform to work off.
I’m loving Clark’s work and he’s growing every week. Might be my favourite forward!
Physically smashed him and bullied their biggest man. Another pack leader backing him up (JFH or Barnett) and we would have had a platform to work off.
I’m loving Clark’s work and he’s growing every week. Might be my favourite forward!
Clark stood up to him, but we needed Barney and Fish to own that bike shed bully! He stole our lunch money!
Marata is killing it. Love his work at moment.
Raiders probably deserved to win, but the win might hurt them for the next few weeks.. Tāpine and Starling will probably miss a couple of games. I'm not too disappointed, we'll bounce back, and it's good to see Marata playing well again
I think we need to talk about DWZ.
Bros just not there anymore.
Bros just not there anymore.
Feel ok about it. Two form teams going at it at finals intensity and our two alphas out where possibly the difference.
Raiders outmuscled us and our lack of attacking x-factor was exposed.
Onwards and upwards for next week because you can’t win em all
Raiders outmuscled us and our lack of attacking x-factor was exposed.
Onwards and upwards for next week because you can’t win em all
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