General Discussion Thread

[Iamback]

You mentioned the Professional foul/penalty try. For the record I don't care what they rule as long as it makes sense at the time and some consistency.

For me Obstruction is now black and white. Yet whether something is a penalty try is open to interpretation.

Take Kiks knock on in the same game. The bunker can't call that but can call if someone is hit a bit high.

The game makes it difficult on itself sometimes

 

[WestyLife]

For me Obstruction is now black and white. Yet whether something is a penalty try is open to interpretation.

Take Kiks knock on in the same game. The bunker can't call that but can call if someone is hit a bit high.

The game makes it difficult on itself sometimes

Funny thing is we are told for the bunker to intervene it has to be a reportable offence.

 

[Iamback]

Funny thing is we are told for the bunker to intervene it has to be a reportable offence.

Which again is laughable because anything could be put on report.

I just hate how stop start the game is again

 

[WestyLife]

Which again is laughable because anything could be put on report.

I just hate how stop start the game is again

Same although the set restart had to be changed the way it was. Teams were just taking the piss last year which is on coaches.

 

[Iamback]

Same although the set restart had to be changed the way it was. Teams were just taking the piss last year which is on coaches.

Teams still do it now but in opposite. Stay down get the penalty

 

[WestyLife]

Teams still do it now but in opposite. Stay down get the penalty

They aren't equal though. Staying down requires foul play in the first place to be penalised. It's basically a captains challenge.

Teams deliberately giving a set restart is deliberate foul play to get a penalty and the advantage it comes with which is actually a professional foul and shpuld be a sin bin.

 

[Iamback]

They aren't equal though. Staying down requires foul play in the first place to be penalised. It's basically a captains challenge.

Teams deliberately giving a set restart is deliberate foul play to get a penalty and the advantage it comes with which is actually a professional foul and shpuld be a sin bin.

These days if you are tackled too hard it is a penalty.

Though on slowing down. Watch the way players now get tangled with the guy playing the ball.

The wrestle is back. So the year of blowouts is wasted

 

[murraymob]

This has been 'lifted' from twitter.

'Does this mean Kiks will need a new photo of him and new coach in bulldogs colours ' ?

No they sacked the sneaky security guard who took the photo .looks like it will be a copy paste job just add new coach lol

 

[WestyLife]

These days if you are tackled too hard it is a penalty.

Though on slowing down. Watch the way players now get tangled with the guy playing the ball.

The wrestle is back. So the year of blowouts is wasted

The wrestle was never gone. The wrestle is what happens before the player is called held when the defence is trying to earn a dominant tackle or get the attacker on their back. What is penalised after that is holding down too long, hand on ball etc. The set restart never addressed the wrestle at all.

 

[BossleyPanther]

Fox reporting some want Fittler as coach at the Dogs. It could only be a slight improvement at best. Freddy really can't coach. Bulldogs used to be my most despised club, now I just laugh.

 

[BossleyPanther]

This is a great thread https://forums.leagueunlimited.com/threads/wa-bears.486873/page-2

 

[Smug Panther]

Ciraldo would have to be brain dead to go to the dogs under Gould.

It will be Flanno, he's desperate enough

 

[BxTom]

Potter and Flanno are favourites. If Ciraldo many players will follow him, but I have faith he will stay.

What about Anthony Siebold?

 

[BossleyPanther]

What about Anthony Siebold?

I dunno, they were talking about it on SEN and made a laughing comment on Cam Smith being the coach.

 

[luv my panfas]

Ciraldo would have to be brain dead to go to the dogs under Gould.

Anyone would ! He's a control freak

 

[Crashtest]

So which coach will be the next one sacked?

Maguire mustn’t be far away. Brown with his 37% record at the Warriors must be pretty close as well, especially after having 70 points scored against them.

Griffin must be feeling the pressure as well.

O’brien and Stuart will probably survive this season...just.

 

[BossleyPanther]

So which coach will be the next one sacked?

Maguire mustn’t be far away. Brown with his 37% record at the Warriors must be pretty close as well, especially after having 70 points scored against them.

Griffin must be feeling the pressure as well.

O’brien and Stuart will probably survive this season...just.

Maguire has at least 1 more year ago reckon. Next year team will or should make the 8 if not he will be gone.

 

[Iamback]

So which coach will be the next one sacked?

Maguire mustn’t be far away. Brown with his 37% record at the Warriors must be pretty close as well, especially after having 70 points scored against them.

Griffin must be feeling the pressure as well.

O’brien and Stuart will probably survive this season...just.

From those. Most of the sides are where they should be on the ladder.

Even Newcastle. Letting Pearce go was always going to be a struggle

Maguire is off contract end of the season. I don't see him getting re-signed.

Brown is most in danger but not playing at home gets him a past.

For me Ricky should be gone but for some reason they love him there

 

[Smug Panther]

From those. Most of the sides are where they should be on the ladder.

Even Newcastle. Letting Pearce go was always going to be a struggle

Maguire is off contract end of the season. I don't see him getting re-signed.

Brown is most in danger but not playing at home gets him a past.

For me Ricky should be gone but for some reason they love him there

The Tigers sacking yet another coach won't help them

 

[The_Frog]

Andrew Webster (the SMH jurno) has written a piece which nails the dogs situation well.

Trent Barrett is gone - who should coach the Bulldogs?

It would require a supercoach to turn the broken Bulldogs around.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

From the above article:

The truth is Ciraldo, with the aid of Gould, was coaching them for the bulk of that season with Griffin on the periphery because he’d lost the faith of Panthers players.

This sounds like a rewriting of history to boost Ciraldo's stocks. There are various theories as to what happened but this is the first time I've heard this put forward. Even Gus in his explanations at the time didn't try to suggest Hook had lost the players, his version was that Hook was trying to do everything himself. A bit of a stretch to imagine Hook fronting media before and after games when he wasn't even coaching the side. What seems most logical to me is that Hook and Gould had a falling out going back to the infamous trial match against the Bulldogs.