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  1. aqua_duck

    Sack Adam O'Brien

    I’m just curious who were these awesome forwards we brought in after letting him walk
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    Sack Adam O'Brien

    EXCLUSIVE: Phil Gould reveals how Knights let unlikely Dally M leader go to the Dogs on 'genius' $40k deal! 📰 Wide World of Sports Bulldogs supremo Phil Gould has revealed how the club came to sign shock Dally M leader Jacob Kiraz on a paltry $40,000 deal, declaring that the move has made him...
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    Match Discussion: Round 4 vs Canberra @ McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton

    There were certain points that we would’ve been better off playing with a 3 man bench than having some of the aforementioned players but the fact that we have struggled to find better alternatives is an even bigger indictment on AOB
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    Match Discussion: Round 4 vs Canberra @ McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton

    In my opinion guys like Pearce and Gagai kind of earn a longer stay of execution simply because they’ve got runs on the board, Dom after last season IMO perhaps should have been in that situation but guys like Crossland, Hunt, Mann, Fitzgibbon, Jones, etc simply should not be afforded that...
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    Tim Sheens relieved of coaching duties

    As I said they went from a roster that would have rivalled some kangaroo teams to a roster that would rival some origin teams. Lazarus and to a lesser extent Todd were big loss no doubt but Martin, Gaffey and Barnhill were eventually replaced by superior players. I would argue no team with the...
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    Match Discussion: Round 4 vs Canberra @ McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton

    Tends to happen when AOB utter fails in building sufficient squad depth
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    Match Discussion: Round 4 vs Canberra @ McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton

    to be honest are we much worse off playing with a 3 man bench? But to answer your question I’d have Mann at 14 and promote one of the bench forwards to lock with Lucas on to the bench
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    Tim Sheens relieved of coaching duties

    I’m sorry but how rebuild Canberra? I guess if you consider going from a kangaroos quality roster to merely a state of origin quality roster a ‘rebuild’ then yeah you can say he rebuilt Canberra, mind you it’s not that hard to rebuild a team with the likes of Meninga, Daley, Stuart, Clyde...
  9. aqua_duck

    Sack Adam O'Brien

    You can also get away with playing Cotter at prop when you have Taumalolo at 13
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    Match Discussion: Round 4 vs Canberra @ McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton

    Sure Dom had a bad game last week but we have guys like Crossland who has played maybe 5 adequate games in his career and 33 bad games yet keeps getting extended and picked week in week out
  11. aqua_duck

    Sack Adam O'Brien

    Fitz is the most one dimensional player I’ve possibly ever seen, he runs a good crash line but is literally not capable of anything else, the issue for me is not that he keeps getting re-signed but rather that they have not been able to add any strings to his game and that he is so high up the...
  12. aqua_duck

    Sack Adam O'Brien

    100%, success should be measured in how many first graders you develop not how many Harold Mats titles you win.
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    Sack Adam O'Brien

    Yep 100%, I mean we literally sent Latrell Mitchell packing as a 15 year old, Latrell literally made NSW under 16s 5 months after we told him he wasn’t good enough for our Mats team. Also don’t forget the Safs didn’t come into our system until under 20s. From what Ive heard the issue with a lot...
  14. aqua_duck

    Sack Adam O'Brien

    As mentioned Kiraz was a 19 year old who played 2 years up in NSW cup, he also has prototypical size for the position, to write him off that soon was at the time and as has turned out to be incorrect, it also speaks to how AOB seems build a squad or more so fail to build a squad. Look at our top...
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    Sack Adam O'Brien

    As mentioned he played a full year of NSW cup at 19 and though he didn’t dominate I believe from what I saw of him more than held his own. At the end of the day it’s not really about replacing Kiraz as such but more a point of our master coach and his inability to recognise and develop talent...
  16. aqua_duck

    Sack Adam O'Brien

    From the games I saw he was pretty good, especially for a teenager especially defensively. I don’t disagree with Musgrove being picked ahead of him at that time but as it pertains to letting go a young guy with prototypical physical attributes who played up 2 years that’s where I think the...
  17. aqua_duck

    Sack Adam O'Brien

    Exactly, I mean when you consistency fail to build sufficient depth whilst happily letting go of quality players like Jacob Kiraz it really is mind boggling
  18. aqua_duck

    Around the Grounds

    Pretty sure when he signed the first year of his contract was development and then 2nd year would be top 30, from what I understand he was pretty much told by the club (I’m assuming AOB) that he was not really being viewed as a first grader and as such sought a release which was granted. I...
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    Around the Grounds

    I saw him play NSW cup in 2021 and thought he probably should have debuted in first grade that year, from what I understand he’s a guy Clint Zammit signed to the cowboys and then brought with him to the knights and has big wraps on unfortunately he doesn’t fit the Adam O’Brien criteria of being...
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    NRLW

    100%, you’re not going to replace Millie like for like but Johnstone and Predabon are both young and will improve, Romaniuk was a great find at the back end of the season and Hannah Southwell is pretty much a new signing for us given she missed pretty much the entire season last year. I think...

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