08 :: R1 Sat :: Eels 28 Bulldogs 20 @ ANZ

[Dogaholic]

Quality of football so far is fairly poor. It is rouns 1 though so i am sure it will get much better

 

[skeepe]

That jersey is awful.

For those who don't have Fox, think the Storm "lightning" away jersey, but with a blue outline of the Bulldog from the Bulldogs logo.

 

[Slackboy72]

yeah the jersey sucks but they are playing some good football these juniors. If the dogs keep some of these guys they'll be top 4 again in no time.

 

[Timmah]

Jersey's good imo, simple design, easy to pde the numbers on the back. Eels have fought back and lead 24-20 with twelve remaining.

 

[Slackboy72]

Gee the Eels are caning em now.

 

[mickdo]

Wd boys Just hold on from here!

 

[mickdo]

Phew... that was close

 

[Slackboy72]

That was a bad call.

 

[Timmah]

Fugging poor call to finish with but we deserted to lose with such a sh*te performance. 30-24 fulltime to the eels. Inside the stadium there's about 10-15k already seated, far more on the tunnel side which isn't seen on tele.

 

[mickdo]

That was a bad call.

Given the camera angle I'll defer to the ref and touchie thanks very much ;-)

Would have been a conversion from out wide to draw... Dogs kicking had been scratchy to that point anyway

 

[Dogaholic]

Dogs deserved to lose. We were much better than that Eels team and they threw the game away with poor decisions, bad handling and half ar$ed defence.

yeah the jersey sucks but they are playing some good football these juniors. If the dogs keep some of these guys they'll be top 4 again in no time.

A few players in the NYC will go good at the dogs. The majority of our future stars will come from SG Ball though.

 

[Dogaholic]

Given the camera angle I'll defer to the ref and touchie thanks very much ;-)

I thought it was a fair call tbh. Ball went forward.

We also need a goal kicker. I had neard that barba was quite a good kicker :?

 

[Marshall_magic]

I watched about a 10 minute segment of the game when the Dogs got their first 2 tries. That 5/8 of theres looked really good then, how did he go for the rest of the game?

 

[joel caine number 1 fan]

Kite will play f/g this eyar if he keeps that up wow what a performance

and mortimer's a gun

that was a really fun match and im looking forward to the rest of the games this year

 

[Dogaholic]

I watched about a 10 minute segment of the game when the Dogs got their first 2 tries. That 5/8 of theres looked really good then, how did he go for the rest of the game?

Ben Barba?

Started the second half well but then dropped off.
Has a lot of improvement in his game.
Did not quite live up to the hype although the commentators did have a hard on for him.

 

[joel caine number 1 fan]

Ben Barba?

Started the second half well but then dropped off.
Has a lot of improvement in his game.
Did not quite live up to the hype although the commentators did have a hard on for him.

yeh both parra halfs out played him ,still he did some good things

 

[Marshall_magic]

Ben Barba?

Started the second half well but then dropped off.
Has a lot of improvement in his game.
Did not quite live up to the hype although the commentators did have a hard on for him.

He's the one, in the short segment of the game I watched he scored a long range try and threw the last pass in another.

 

[Dogaholic]

yeh both parra halfs out played him ,still he did some good things

I don't think Keating did well either.
Keating and Barba were both average IMO.

Mortimer was tops though.

 

[Big Pete]

Good game of footy I thought.

Williams, Bauman and Mortimer were great for the Eels while for the Dogs I thought Kite and Smith were great. Both Barba and Keating showed signs however like most promising youngsters dropped off in certain periods.

 

[mickdo]

I don't think Keating did well either.

Scored two tries but didnt really seem to show up in much else