Official Team List Round 20 v Knights + Match Discussion

[The DoggFather]

Should have been 30-0 at least. Both their tries had forward passes in them (obvious ones) and Schuopp butchered a certain try for JAC by getting in the way.

Plus Foxy getting pulled up instead of playing on.

36-0

 

[Dognacious]

Plus Foxy getting pulled up instead of playing on.

36-0

Yeh forgot about that one. How the fuck was that not play on?

 

[GoTheDoggies]

Another two points and Knights in the mud you love to see it

 

[The DoggFather]

Yeh forgot about that one. How the fuck was that not play on?

Either the ref is incompetent or he wanted Dogs 1-12 lol

 

[GoTheDoggies]

Imagine that left edge with Kikau next season! The other edge needs a bit more strike then we will really have our attack firing.

 

[KiwiDog7]

Plus Foxy getting pulled up instead of playing on.

36-0

Plus Jack forward pass to Fox first few mins of the game

 

[Dognacious]

Either the ref is incompetent or he wanted Dogs 1-12 lol

 

[AlzzBulldog]

I don’t expect us to win but I think like every game under Potter we will be in it up to our eyeballs


In saying that we did beat them up in N QLD coached by Baz ….obviously they have improved but so have we (under Potter)

Tigers beat them

 

[LFC Bulldogs]

What a shame we didn’t punt that dud Barrett earlier, we’d be charging into the top 8 .

 

[Bob dog]

Best defensive effort seen in a while, historical effort.

 

[Berries]

Every game I’ve been to in recent times we’ve lost things are on the up now might start going again even when we loose we’re a good watch. That knights game was the worse game of the year for me we were dreadful.

to be fair i had so many fireballs at the airport the game doesn’t resonate hehe

 

[spscand]

Yeah 2nd try for knights was 1000% forward. 1st is borderline acceptable. Like seriously wtf is the point of touchies? They can somehow call forward passes in the middle of the field from miles out but they never seem get the ones RIGHT INFRONT OF THEM! FFS! Whoever is running the ref coaching seminars needs to get sacked.

 

[Eesma]

Matty Johns didn't ask Adam or Millie to comment on the Dogs game for some reason. >.>

 

[Disposable Hero]

Did anyone else notice Burton going to FB when Averillo went off?

Its all good JAC went to 5/8

 

[Howie B]

The NRL didn’t want to see the knights get pumped by a bottom 8 side. They need them to keep drawing in the crowds.

That officiating was like a runny shit after a dodgy curry. Just stinky, painful and hoping it ends soon.
But these are first world probs for dogs fans these days.

 

[TwinTurbo]

There was a very valid reason why Averillo wasn’t picked at fullback earlier in the season and we were reminded of it again today.

Cronk’s comment at half time was spot on, every play we are now expecting that something will happen. The opposition just can’t anticipate where it’s going to come from. There is most often multiple players in motion. The support play is there 99% of the time and that’s a sure sign of confidence and trust in your team mates.

It’s just as evident in defence, players trusting their team mates on the inside and the outside. We hold the line, maintain the shape and don’t get lost, the structure holds up and that frustrated the Knoughts all game.

Burton’s kick variety just grows every week, a 50 metre chip kick, that’s ridiculous. It looks effortless and when they come out of the line to put him off he runs.

Kiraz reminds me of Curtis Rona, give him half a chance and he’ll turn it into a try. That put down was filthy, the only part of his body in the field of play was his right hand with the ball. For the first time in years we have strike on both sides of field.

It wasn’t perfect but fark me it was good.

Always a Bulldog

 

[KLil]

What a shame we didn’t punt that dud Barrett earlier, we’d be charging into the top 8 .

Maybe Top 4.. lol

 

[KLil]

Anyone notice Potter signal what looked like the Knights coaching box "what's that under your eye" with a cheeky grin? Bloke is head coach all day.. Tigers ruined the bloke..

 

[RefWorld]

Had a great time.
Was scary second half though

Dogs clocked off in the second half, literally took their eyes off the ball on occasions.
But Knights never looked like scoring. Far too reliant on Ponga in attack.

 

[RefWorld]

Then as a neutral, do you support the game, in it's current form? Are you in agreeance with the six again and the captain's challenge and the bunker dissecting every play of the game and still stuffing it up?

I have some problems with the game in its current form. Quite a few.

The six again hasn't worked as intended.
And fiddling around with it this year hasn't worked either.

The biggest problem is that we hardly ever know what the six again is for and who infringed. With a penalty, the ref has time to call out what the penalty was for and who infringed and usually points to the player as well. I think we have to go back to just blowing a penalty instead of a six again. Things went ok doing that for a long time.

I like the captain's challenge, just as I like the batsman's challenge in cricket. Although it is poorly used a lot in RL and teams are exploiting it as they always do. A few changes in how it's enforced and I'd keep it.

Bunker? Where to start...
Firstly, I have no time for idiots who abuse refs. It’s not uncommon in schoolboy games for the police to have to be called to escort a 17-year-old ref from the ground because parents and supporters of the losing side have surrounded the refs change sheds. And we are talking about games that are in age groups at under 16’s level or younger. It’s a frigging disgrace.

At NRL level, there are too many idiots who bag refs and always blame them for their team’s loss. I’d love to give those idiots a whistle and sit back and watch them make fools of themselves.

These are people who are usually sitting on their fat arses in the comfort of their loungerooms. A ref covers more distance in a game than anyone, other than the touch judges sometimes, they are involved in every play. They have to make split-second decisions with sweat in their eyes, their heads moving as they run, with their view often impeded by bodies between them and the ball.

They have to watch the ruck, the 10, the markers, the dummy half. And that’s just at the play the ball. Touch judges help, but being a touch judge is even harder sometimes, with a sea of arms and legs and bodies in front of them and in high scoring games often cover more distance in a game than anyone, doing a 100m sprint after each conversion or penalty attempt and then be ready for the kick-off.

Idiot fans who abuse refs and touch judges haven’t got a clue.

Refs and touch judges have to be extremely fit just to get through a game. There are a couple of refs who have gotten to the end of a Yo-Yo test where the tape has finished and they’re still going.

Most idiot fans who abuse them would drop dead doing the warm up.

Having said all that, I don’t understand how the guys in the bunker with big Hi_Res screens, lots of angles, super slow-mo, a comfy chair and bottled water in hand can get some decisions so blatantly and obviously wrong.

And it’s used too much, slows the game down too much too often. You watch games below NRL level with no bunker and it just flows so much better, the ref makes the call and we get on with the game.

I’d probably get rid of the bunker if it was up to me, but the problem with that is the technology is there, and would be used by the media after games, refs would get crucified for any decision they got wrong by the losing team and the media. The back page of the Telegraph would have a still of the ball touching the ground in-goal when a ref had said no try, not grounded and so on, etc, etc, etc.

But I’m still leaning towards getting rid of the bunker.

Cheers,
RW.