Bulldogs Debate Page

[Beretta]

What a game over canberra.

Dogs of War

 

[Hounddog]

We beat Parra in both lower grades.

Flegg won, With Woods scoring 2 trys and probably being the class player on the field.

Reserve grade O'Neill ruled out HIA after 1 minute. Hutch and Tia stared in the halves. Tia probably best for us.

Logan Spinks from Tamworth scored a try in Tamworth and the crowd loved it. My guess is that we had majority crowd support.

Underhill only played 14 minutes. My hunch is that the Salmon injury may have been a factor.

Candidates to replace Salmon for the Chooks, Underhill, Smith, Turpin, Taffee, Wilson, Hutch, Tia.

The order that I listed them is my preference. The Rabbits/Broncos game is an indicator of likely ground conditions. I'm not expecting a fast dry track.

Young second rowers Readon and Spinks seemed to handle reserve grade well. Not expecting them in the NRL this season. I can see them being development squad next season.

 

[Micko]

Would love to see Underhill given a chance.

 

[Micko]

I really hope they move Woods into Cup soon. I understand that they want to bring him through slowly for his own development. But the kid is simply too good not to be playing open age footy.

 

[Hounddog]

I really hope they move Woods into Cup soon. I understand that they want to bring him through slowly for his own development. But the kid is simply too good not to be playing open age footy.

O'Neill's HIA seems bad enough to miss at least 1 week.
Hutch, Taaffe and Turpin played reserve grade.
We had a centre as 18th man, Tia probably started in the centres.

The same set up could accommodate Woods, Smith starting in the centres and moving to second row or lock. Woods playing halfback but starting on the bench.

Woods partnering Hutch, Taaffe and Turpin in the spine with Tia at centre is a pretty soft entry into reserve grade. Can be for limited minutes, perhaps the last 20 first game.

I hope Underhill isn't injured and we were simply putting him on ice because he might be needed for NRL. Given the conditions I expect, and multiple games with short turnarounds, I think that Underhill could be very useful in the Roosters game.

If Underhill plays well and we are winning we can cut down the minutes for some of the other middles. Also give Hopoi more minutes.

The safest option against the Roosters is Turpin, not a star but neither was Salmon. I would like to see Underhill.

 

[Hounddog]

Hayes starting second row, Smith on the bench.
Smith will come on for DSF with Hayes moving to the middle.
Underhill in the squad him replacing Smith wouldn't be a surprise.
Smith is more of a specialist right edge second rower / centre and a good mobile defender.
Underhill has more size and work rate in the middle, Hayes can do a job in the second row.
I expect either Smith or Underhill to do a good job and foe fans to be happy.
I'm happy to see young pups with more long term potential get a shot. Turpin can do a job, but we have seen what he can do.
I think Turpin, Hutch and Taaffe are doing a underrated job in reserve grade helping the young pups develop into NRL players.
Watch for young Reado to be a future NRL player, his dad was one of my all time favourites.
With the young emerging talent we have something has to give somewhere. We can't keep them all even if a few established members of the side move on.
Gus and Cirro have done a good job building the club into something similar to the Panthers.
I haven't been at all happy with Montoya the last few games, a wet slippery track might keep him in the side. Anyone could score trys on the wing playing outside of Kiks, you just need to catch the ball.