Recent content by bulldogsmyte

56% possession and we are behind. Terrible

Can't argue with that although if he ran with Morrins motor his joints wouldn't last that long.

He's big willy 2.0+. Left the Dogs to pursue boxing only to return to play for a rival team. The only difference is that big willy left boxing before a single fight.

In terms of halves (and leaders) absolutely 100%. In terms of FB Barba 2012 was our last great FB, right up there with our greatest FBs Johns, Davies, McGrady, Potter and Brentnall. The latter 3 along with Barba all won either Dally M or Rothmans Player of the year.

Yes indeed. It was consistently a top 5 school in the state back in the day and we were one of the few schools who were taught to always give up our seats for adults on the bus and train.

Barba, Lamb and Mortimer had the footy smarts to regularly know when and where to attack as well as their physical prowess. We have not had any player of that calibre in the spine for over a decade.

It's the ref's self fulfilling prophecy. They expect the big name teams to win so when the game is close the underdogs must be breaking the rules so it's time for the "hero" ref to leave their mark on the game.

His whole career. He wasn't known as 3rd man Thaiday for nothing.

at least we won the 2nd half. i didn't see the match - just followed the score on the NRL and the comments on TK. Was it the riff playing too good or the dogs playing bad?

Spot on. I remember our entire forward pack was injured at various times in the first half of that season and when they returned our backline got injured. It was a spooky mirror of our defending premiership side in 81.

yes just like in 86 to stop us winning a three-peat.

Sadly it seems that over the last 2 decades a number of our best and most high profile charismatic players left on bad terms - Big Willie, SBW, Barba. Our current assistant coach was writing new articles back in 2012 that our blocks were illegal as well.

Barba was amazing that year. The top 4 individual years I've seen for the Dogs over 40 years was 1979 Mortimer, 1991 McGrady and Jonathan Davies and 2012 Barba. A shame that Melbourne contained him in the GF.

Agree. 2012 we were the best in the comp withe Barba on fire our attack was near unstoppable. 2014 without Barba our attack was clunky and we were reliant on defense, fighting spirit and field goals to get by a number of games. I felt we underachieved in 2012 and way overachieved in 2014.

2012 was one that got away for sure. The Dogs were the best team that year by far