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Finau Latu's Move to Canterbury Bulldogs

Forster Dragon

Juniors
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Why we would want to help the Dogs in any way is beyond me...and people believe it is to make cap space...when do we ever get any player of note with our available cap?

Soft. We are just soft.
He has not been playing and apparently under treatment for a back injury,why not let the Dogs have the added expense of his wages and rehab.
 

John moz

Juniors
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Flanno had all year to let Lawrie go but he doesn't re sign the next best forward only 19 . Gould keeps signing players mid season how is this allowed Galvin now Latu why give bulldogs an advantage.
Look out he will be ok to play us next game Gould will start Latu for his debut.
 

Dragon David

First Grade
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Flanno had all year to let Lawrie go but he doesn't re sign the next best forward only 19 . Gould keeps signing players mid season how is this allowed Galvin now Latu why give bulldogs an advantage.
Look out he will be ok to play us next game Gould will start Latu for his debut.
Yes, what gives? It just amazes me how Gould gets deals done. He knows talent and so does Ciraldo. They look at all players running around and put circles around players' names and work on a way to lure them to their club. They have a way to talk to managers of proposed new players and a way to talk to players they don't want and their managers as well and then get rid of one and get another just like that.
 

maestro1

Bench
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Yes, what gives? It just amazes me how Gould gets deals done. He knows talent and so does Ciraldo. They look at all players running around and put circles around players' names and work on a way to lure them to their club. They have a way to talk to managers of proposed new players and a way to talk to players they don't want and their managers as well and then get rid of one and get another just like that.
Gould is very close to the player managers. Especially the ones that have the best players and juniors in their stable
 

since77

Bench
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Talking of Dragons ending up at the Dogs. I might be alone here but I was glad to see Kurt Mann playing Origin on Wednesday and getting some recognition late in his career. He always looked like a first grader but we screwed him around and didn't know what to do with him. A common problem for us.
Yep, and this is a time to remember that we are still in a phase of undoing all the damage that the McGreogor era did to the club. That’s where the rot really started. Mann was another player that McGregor screwed around season after season. Bench? Fullback? 5/8? Centre? Lock? Scapegoat? Then he went to another club who had a similar moron for a coach - Knights - with much the same results.
No surprise he’s now settled and playing consistently well. Bellamy always rated him.
 
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since77

Bench
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Could you imagine Blake lawrie in the Panthers or storm system

how has this bloke managed a 10 year career in the NRL???
Because he plays at the Dragons. Home of the worst forward pack in the NRL for the last 5 years or so and for much of the decade before that. Home of monumentally dumb recruitment decisions year after year after year.
Yet you’ll still come across people who stick up for him because he plays “with heart”. Just give me a prop who’ll do some damage FFS. Would be nice to see that for a change.
 

AyiosYiorgos

Coach
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CAP CLEANOUT

The Canterbury Bulldogs continue to offload players to free up salary cap space. Last week it was Kurtis Morrin, who left to join the Gold Coast Titans. This week it’s former Warriors young gun Zyon Maiu’u, who is being offered to rival clubs – just four months after arriving at Belmore. It was only in February that the Dogs announced his arrival in a press release: “The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are excited to announce the signing of boom youngster Zyon Maiu’u on a two-year deal, effective immediately.”
 
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CAP CLEANOUT

The Canterbury Bulldogs continue to offload players to free up salary cap space. Last week it was Kurtis Morrin, who left to join the Gold Coast Titans. This week it’s former Warriors young gun Zyon Maiu’u, who is being offered to rival clubs – just four months after arriving at Belmore. It was only in February that the Dogs announced his arrival in a press release: “The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are excited to announce the signing of boom youngster Zyon Maiu’u on a two-year deal, effective immediately.”
Has anyone here seen him play??
Remember all the carry on when the Dogs signed Tom Amone, aka the best prop by far in the English Super League.
Think the same scenario applies here.
Just like the way some of the Queensland players struggle to adapt to life in Sydney, some Warrior's players also seem to struggle when moving away from NZ
 
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