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I heard the coach gave him a spray

Yeah but that first game Preston was a late inclusion then never played.. his first game back was really last week off the bench

He usually names a player as starting before he drops them back to the bench pre game.. he must feel like it's a softer blow to the player.. hopefully this is the case again with salmon/Preston.

Good thing about the maroon jersey is it inspires players to be great regardless of their club form. That's why it's great to be a queenslander ;)

Minimum wage or ESL awaits... no intelligence on or off the field.. I suggest he learns how to use a shovel, because that's what he has to look forward to.

No way would dolphins let him go. He is an out and out superstar.. apparently :p

Watching the replay of that Harry Grant sin binning.. I think that's the worst sin binning decision of all time.. that decision alone should get Gus off his 20k fine.

You can't seriously be comparing losing Skelton to losing Thurston..

Just an observation on JAC... he is great in space but he's not very good at getting the ball down in the corner with cover defence coming across. I reckon he's missed 5 or 6 tries by being pushed out trying to get the ball down after sweep plays.

They don't want players arguing the decision.. questioning it is okay but arguing it isn't.. we will see a fair few more of these penalties over the weekend... I felt like the ref reffed to the home team and premier team, but he never lost control of game, which is what those penalties are...

Fair bit to be positive about there kennelers

If this wasn't at Penrith we wouldn't have copped half of these decisions

Both Penrith tries weren't well constructed

We've lacked polish tonight.. boys playing like they knew we couldn't win.. panthers rep is what's beating us

Hayward probably.. he offers more as he can play in halves or in the forwards... but I don't think he'd want to damage taaffes confidence too much

I think we win.

Very ridiculous indeed.. in fact you'll find a whole thread dedicated to this incident and its ridiculousness

He just wasn't good enough. Adam Reynolds would be similar sized.

Good second half boys. Well done

Boys been reading the kennel.. thinking they've won the game before playing it.. should be able to regroup and get in done in second half.. but this mole could ruin our chances

I know he was found not guilty meaning he got a second chance at his media career but seriously.. a few months in and you do this?? Dumb dumb dumb..

I don't reckon it will negatively effect the playing group.. if anything it may help them.. but more likely it has no impact at all.

Things don't look good for his claim when you're a fringe player on arguably the worst roster in the nrl. Why not just go to another club if you're unhappy with bulldogs.. there wasn't anything other than himself stopping that.

Can't stand Jimmy Smith

You did insinuate I was sucking him off though by defending him.. that was only 10 days ago.. but I do appreciate how far you've come ;)

In fairness Mooney has much more experience. He has played 44 cup games, 8 nrl games, 3 nrl trial games and playing for maori all stars... vs Todd who has played 14 cup games and 1 nrl trial game... so it's near on impossible to say what Todd's stats will look like with another almost two full...

Arsenal losing gives us some hope.. but makes it even more frustrating that we lost

Not sure about nswpol sorry mate.. but I know QPS all operational officers are trained in both firearms and taser.. if you're not trained in both you're not operational. I will add though.. all training is updated following incidents both interstate and internationally.

You're kinda right in parts but not in others.. most operational officers are specially trained in both tasers and guns.. most have access to both every shift. The taser has some limitations such as the ones you've mentioned.. ultimately it's almost never appropriate to use against a knife...

Yes. You're not trained to use a taser against a bladed weapon. Tasers are ineffective if both barbs with wires connected don't go into the person to complete the circuit.

Heart breaking stuff. Sending the best to everyone down in Sydney and hoping that your family and friends aren't caught up in this nightmare.

Yep... but that ruins my argument so I'm just going to ignore that perfectly good point.

Critta would take the kicks from the left if he wasn't injured

I think he's been great for the team.. I do think he's playing a bit injured though.. doesn't seem to be able to get up to full pace..

Critta hasn't been able to stride out all year.. saw it in the trial game and hasn't gotten better.. when coates made the break (that Mahoney cover tackled) and critta turned and chased he was the slowest man on the field.. went backwards

Mate I've got an opinion too, which some people don't like and that's fine.. but the attack is relentless and I believe based on shit that's happened in the past.. but if I have that opinion I'm a dick riding faggot.. apparently

How is it sucking him off? Everytime we lose people jump on and bash Burton.. he was solid again tonight, not his fault we loss.. he is a scape goat.

Burton haters are something else

Might be.. but I reckon they'll be hoping he's right to play, with skelton to slot straight in, if he's no good.

Even Penrith played poorly with crichton at fullback..

Would rather a young prop over tetevano, and chricton at centre

Nah you're spot on

I think all our hopes are on ange

Only thing is they'd love to spoil city's party

So we've got villa (a) and Tottenham (h) as our big tests.. city and arsenal also have to play both those teams with both playing Tottenham away plus they also both have man united away..

The way we collapsed.. I'll take the draw.. but that was almost as bad as a loss.. should have been up by 3 at HT.. feel like we just handed the league to Arsenal

Now we're fucked

Fmd

15 shots at goal at HT.. far out.. how we didn't bury at least one or two more..

We generally do alright against the storm.. maybe putting him into a game we aren't expected to win is less pressure than against an easier side.

My day job is putting up with dickheads like you. So I guess I am.

Morrin actually attacks pretty well because of his speed, how hard he runs and the good lines he picks.. unfortunately he's always good for an error or two.. and last week's happened to be when he was in a scoring position.

None of us are at training each day, but I'm pretty confident I could have picked a team from our squad that would beat our match day squad in every game this year and last... ciraldos team selections do seem very very off

Definitely an option

It is two. They are morons... and as good as Preston is I thought we would have been better off ruling him out and trying to win today's game

He was much better, but lost the ball coming out of our own end when we were down by 6 that ended up costing us two points..

The dumb part was that we were caught in two minds. Either skip the conversion or take it properly and go for the two point field goal.. in any case I think we should have taken the 2 earlier when morrin was in the bin... and Tracey touching the ball on short kick out was a brain explosion.. so...

We need to find a way to win 2 out of our next 3 games.. if we do.. we are a chance of making finals still. If we don't win any, then we will be well and truly in the spoon battle again.

We fucked it.

Don't worry I'm sure our players didn't either

If we took the 2 when morrin was off, then we would have only been behind by 4.. which totally changes the way the opposition plays.. even if they get that penalty and skip back out to 6 point lead we score at the end and convert and we lock it up...

Two games we've had to play half a game without a winger. Wingers are always bagged but if they go down injured the reshuffle it causes fucks teams

Why not take the 2 there.. dumb

Well you were right

Obstruction

Happy to sin bin us

In fairness Sutton has been pretty fair towards us until that tass non sin bin decision

How slow did he look chasing back

Agree.. and as good as cleary is this is exactly why the media needs to tone down the "greatest ever" hype with him.. can he carry an average or below average team? Hasn't been able to carry nsw yet. Happens in all team sports though I guess.

Available to be signed if he was interested

We had 30% possession in the first game so that wouldn't have helped those stats.. maybe look at PCM % vs Total RM .. that would give you a better idea. Could even average it out over the games played so everyone's stats are more easily comparable.

Rather than play him out wide we could play him in the middle off the bench and start Curran on the edge.. only problem is how much we lose from Curran in middle.

My mate worked as strength and conditioning coach at falcons. He said Wilson is the best athlete he's worked with. Very strong through the hips and maintains his balance perfectly whenever changing directions.

Tino out for the season... ACL

Clown crew are really impressing me since the season started. Well done

Perham gets caught out defensively regularly.. in nswcup.. he should never be considered for first grade again

Been watching too much shogun!

Loving the Broncos implosion

Where was our duty of care last week. Nrl making it up as they go

Isn't the bunker ref our on field ref this week?.. It's unbelievable.

I posted this link as I was mentioning this kid before we signed him.. you'll see him playing fullback at times throughout this clip.. he is a fullback, but as a young player he has often been called upon to play wing.. and when he was at the falcons you have to remember he was behind faaologo...

All these other clubs seem to roll out pretty decent 18 year old rookies, and we seem to continually hold off until they're "old enough". I'm not so convinced all of them would go backwards by developing in the nrl instead of in nsw cup... so long as they're physically up to it. If CC doesn't...

And there we go

Keep finding ways to lose this

How good has macallistair been.. I mean he could have scored another goal but he's been everywhere and our biggest threat

I get worried everytime we put gakpoo on

It should be at least be 6 again... I mean they give those things away for next to nothing most the time.

The shoe has been on the other foot for years.. that's why everyone is so shitted off. Not with this exact scenario but in lots of different situations.. remember last year when mahoney was obstructed but they decided it had no effect on the game, remember when Kyle Flanagan was penalised for a...

Yep for sure and I agree with you on all of that. galvin had a great debut.

But tigers only scored 12 points.. his fault, so shit.. (Burton haters take note)

We don't have a 7.. that's what a 6 role is.. everyone wants him to be both. It's a bit unfair. Yes he has been shit, but tonight he threatened and did really good things... Burton, kiks and Mahoney all went well and they've been relentlessly bashed on here including by me, but tonight they...

I hope we fucking fold so I can stop giving a fuck

He was one of our best you dumb ****

Earlier in the game he called held on Preston while he was still breaking tackles and pushing forward with his arms free.

RTS at 6 even.. Billy slater in at least one of his years playing... and even matty Bowen for some years.. david peachy all much better seasons than Walsh has ever had (so far)

Both teams were pretty ordinary tonight.

Hayne had a pretty special run for parra.. and turbo a few years back for manly

The guy has played regular NRL for the past 5 years (has played first grade for total of 8 years) .. and in the past 5 years has only cracked the 100m running metre average twice.. (105m in 2023 and 117m in 2020).. he is statistically very average.. and although I don't watch st George play...

Preston is "worth" more than kikau given the difference in how the two have been playing... just hoping he doesn't regress this year

He's pretty average to be fair.