mattyg said:good stuff shrek...this whole talking it up business has worked once before...against dragons last year...wish they'd shut up and focus on training and playing. Talk AFTER we've proven ourselves. Millard is a decent player imo...roberts had a shocker and im still not sold on him over Holdsworth...i was getting close but after tonight i'm rethinking...too many errors.
Smartman said:Im not with this the 'Bulldogs are finals specialists' thing.
They might have been in the mid to late 90's but our finals record has been poor at the turn of the century (2004 we had a great squad and should have won it).
I agree, it is a myth but this team is capable of winning it this year.
Timmah said:I wouldn't say it makes them look great, I think it lifts them. Seeing as RL is a team effort Sonny's prescence lifting them is a great thing. A big lacking facet of our game is support play when a break is made and I think cost us four pointers a few times tonight.
Full credit to our first half defence as I said - it was second to none only letting one try through - but there's massive question marks over our attack and wingers. Phelps has gotta go :arrow:
Tommax25 said:half your backline needs to go more like....the bulldogs are lame im sick of everyone going on about them they are nothing special, SBW is but he wont win them the comp on his own, all this talk about bulldogs being "a real finals team" is a load of crap they are exactly the same as 13 of the other teams in the comp: are not going to win the premiership. either manly or melbourne will win thats it, dogs, cowboys, eels can make the GF and either manly or storm can get knocked out along the way but one of them at least WILL get to the GF and they will destroy the other team, unless they vers each other then there might actually be a game. ALL talk about the dogs being a specialist finals team with a good chance to win is rubbish, and there performance last night shows that IMO. game over