Bred not bought ... again

[Slackboy72]

Am I the only one who appreciates the irony that for all the players the bulldogs bought this year the one who scores the match winner to knock them out is a Mortimer?
:lol:

 

[Bulldog Force]

Yes, you're the only one.

 

[Loudstrat]

Nope, me too.

Mortimer Scores!

What's that funny sound from Rookwood? Bullfrog spinning in his grave! :lol::lol:

 

[Slackboy72]

Yes, you're the only one.

Now, now BF. Don't cry...

 

[Loudstrat]

Interesting though the amount of no-names in the Eels side: Lowrie, Robson, Gulavau, Keating, Mortimer, Mannah, Kingston -all playing gangbusters.

And almost all of the side, including Anderson, came up through the Eels junior system. Every player, bar Lowrie & Gulavau, are Eels juniors.

When was the last GF side to have only 2 imports - and both bargain basement buys?

Jock Gibson would be very proud of them.

GO EELS!!!!!!!!!!

 

[miccle]

The 2006 Broncos definitely didn't have too many imports. Good to see a team like the Eels playing so well with supposed "no-names". They'll struggle without Hayne if he's suspended, but every team struggles without their #1 star. Lowrie, Mortimer, Robson & Keating have been particularly impressive IMO.

 

[Southernsaint]

Nope, me too.

Mortimer Scores!

What's that funny sound from Rookwood? Bullfrog spinning in his grave! :lol::lol:

I always assumed he turned to dust after the stake was driven through his heart...

 

[Red Bear]

I always assumed he turned to dust after the stake was driven through his heart...

:thumb

 

[Cockadoodledoo]

Interesting though the amount of no-names in the Eels side: Lowrie, Robson, Gulavau, Keating, Mortimer, Mannah, Kingston -all playing gangbusters.

And almost all of the side, including Anderson, came up through the Eels junior system. Every player, bar Lowrie & Gulavau, are Eels juniors.

When was the last GF side to have only 2 imports - and both bargain basement buys?

Jock Gibson would be very proud of them.

GO EELS!!!!!!!!!!

Brilliant effort but that is a stretch.. Luke Burt was a Newcastle junior, Eric Grothe JR a Wests Tigers jr.. Still there is no doubting that this is an amazing effort.. Do you really need Poore and Shackleton? I reckon Tim Mannah is going to be a fantastic replacement for Cayless and Shackleton is really an ordinary player.

 

[Iafeta]

Definite stretch there. Fuifui Moimoi was a Warriors junior from the Warriors Elite Development Squad who then got picked up by South Sydney. To say he's a Parra junior would be a bit farcical.

Isn't Kingston a Queensland junior who went direct to Cronulla?

Isn't Robson a country boy who went direct to Manly?

 

[manly40gimps0]

Interesting though the amount of no-names in the Eels side: Lowrie, Robson, Gulavau, Keating, Mortimer, Mannah, Kingston -all playing gangbusters.

And almost all of the side, including Anderson, came up through the Eels junior system. Every player, bar Lowrie & Gulavau, are Eels juniors.

When was the last GF side to have only 2 imports - and both bargain basement buys?

Jock Gibson would be very proud of them.

GO EELS!!!!!!!!!!

Dude..Burts a newcastle junior

 

[Big Pete]

I thought Burt was an Eels junior? I mean I seriously remember hearing he signed a massive contract with the club when he was only 15-16?

Either way, it's an impressive effort by Parramatta. The amount of players they bring through to the NRL is impressive and the amount of players who have reinvented themselves at the club is crazy I mean just look through the side.

Jeff Robson - A nuff nuff from Manly absolutely killing it.
Todd Lowrie - The quint essential fringe first grader from Newcastle
Kevin Kingston - A player that got rejected from Cronulla. Enough said.
Joe Galavao - Was playing for East Tigers in the Q Cup because South Sydney didn't want him.

All these players are playing well and the usual suspects from Parra are leading the way.

As for this thread...meh. When the slogan was made, the Bulldogs had been royally screwed over.

 

[El Diablo]

Isn't Robson a country boy who went direct to Manly?

Robson came from the country to Parra then went to Manly and then back to Parra

http://www.smh.com.au/news/lhqnews/...-for-parramatta/2009/08/18/1250362074957.html

After playing four NRL matches in his first season at Manly after being one of seven Parramatta players lured to the club by former Eels recruitment manager Noel Cleal in 2004, Robson didn't get another chance until last year.

 

[trudge]

The Dogs need to spend a million over the salary cap to win a comp.

 

[Marshall_magic]

Am I the only one who appreciates the irony that for all the players the bulldogs bought this year the one who scores the match winner to knock them out is a Mortimer?
:lol:

Add in the fact that their tries were scored by Morris and Goodwin, both have fathers who played for St George.

 

[Loudstrat]

Canterbury - that slogan aside - have had their fair share of home grown talent.

Melboring, for example, make Easts look like the biggest junior nursery in the world.

 

[Billythekid]

Canterbury - that slogan aside - have had their fair share of home grown talent.

Melboring, for example, make Easts look like the biggest junior nursery in the world.

We are just getting started with our juniors that's for sure. Of course the game didn't exist in Victoria before we were there so it was pretty much impossible for us to produce juniors this early. The kids who got involved in the game when the storm were brought in would only now be growing up. Our junior teams are going to start having more and more Melbourne players (like this year) and they will start to filter into the top grade.

The roosters have had a lot more time to build up their areas for juniors.

We have still turned a few players careers around. Orford and Limas careers were both going nowhere until the storm got a hold of them. Cronk to wasn't exactly on the fast track to the top level.

There are plenty of other examples. When the storm buy a player they pretty much always end up in career best form.

 

[Game_Breaker]

I always assumed he turned to dust after the stake was driven through his heart...

Yeah, real classy :roll:


He's done more for RL in one day than you can do in your entire life

 

[Loudstrat]

Yeah, real classy :roll:


He's done more for RL in one day than you can do in your entire life

Like f*ck it?

 

[Brycey]

The 2006 Broncos definitely didn't have too many imports. Good to see a team like the Eels playing so well with supposed "no-names". They'll struggle without Hayne if he's suspended, but every team struggles without their #1 star. Lowrie, Mortimer, Robson & Keating have been particularly impressive IMO.

Roma, Toowoomba, Ipswich, Mt Isa, Logan, Cairns and New Zealand are not suburbs of Brisbane.

The majority of the Broncos team are imports.