R8 // Bulldogs 16-12 Knights @ ANZ // Sat 7.30pm

[Jobdog]

1. Sam Perrett
2. Corey Thompson 3. Josh Morris 4. Timoteo Lafai 5. Mitch Brown
6. Josh Reynolds 7. Trent Hodkinson
8. Aiden Tolman 9. Michael Ennis 10. James Graham
11. Josh Jackson 12. Tony Williams
13. Dale Finucane

Interchange: 14. Greg Eastwood 15. David Klemmer 16. Tim Browne 17. Sam Kasiano
Reserves: 19. Moses Mbye 20. Pat O'Hanlon

1. Darius Boyd
2. James McManus 3. Dane Gagai 4. Joseph Leilua 5. Jake Mamo
6. Jarrod Mullen 7. Tyrone Roberts
8. Kade Snowden 9. Kurt Gidley 10. Zane Tetevano
11. Beau Scott 12. Chris Houston
13. Jeremy Smith

Interchange: 14. Adam Clydsdale 15. Korbin Sims 17. Adam Cuthbertson 18. Robbie Rochow

Head referee: Henry Perenara
Assistant referee: Alan Shortall
Sideline Officials: Dan Eastwood, Dave Ryan
Video Referees: Bernard Sutton, Andrew Dunemann;


VB NSW Cup Round 8
SAT 1:30PM | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs (CBY) v Newcastle Knights (NEW) @ Belmore Sports Ground

Holden Cup Under 20's Round 8
SAT 5:15PM | Bulldogs v Knights @ ANZ Stadium​

 

[Burns]

Bennett has said there will be changes this week at a press conference this morning.

Mason is facing a 2 week suspension, 3 weeks if he contests. Kade will be back. Smith to be rested due to injury.

 

[Knight Vision]

We need a major improve ( kick in the ass) to win this. I just dont see it.

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

If Bennett has 'the talk' then us by 4 if not then then the dogs by 33

 

[slotmachine]

3/3 against the Dogs last year.

We're a complete mystery week to week, so we'll probably win comfortably.

 

[League_God]

1.Darius Boyd
2.James McManus
3.Dane Gagai
4.Joey Leulia
5.Jake Mamo
6.Jarrod Mullen
7.Tyrone Roberts
8.Kade Snowden
9.Kurt Gidley
10.Zane Tetevano
11.Beau Scott
12.Adam Cuthbertson
13.Jeremy Smith

14.Adam Clydesdale
15.Chris Houston
16.Korbin Sims
17.Paterika Vaivai


Houston lost us the game last week with moments of shitness. The quality of his runs though were actually really good. The stats reflect that. He should NEVER be out wide, but chuck him on in the middle when Zane gets tired and he'll tighten up the D around the ruck.

Cuthbo should be in the number 12 jersey unless injured or he strings together the same amount of poor games together as houston and rochow had to in order to lose their place.
Cuthbo outwide makes sense in every way.

 

[Burwood]

Don't forget that Snowden returns this week.

I noticed that Vaivai bagged a double in NSW Cup this week- I wonder if he is close to pressing for a spot?

 

[Rod]

Pretty easy to go into this game with a negative mentality after what we dished up last week, but for whatever reason we seem to go ok against the Dogs in recent years. Wouldn't surprise me at all if we bounce back with a quality showing.

We need to be attempting to get our backs into the game at every opportunity.

 

[Zoidberg]

What do we think about Willies grade 2 charge? Surely we'll contest this.

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

What do we think about Willies grade 2 charge? Surely we'll contest this.

Nah, shoulder charges are impossible to get off. He lead with his shoulder and didn't wrap his arms around.

 

[Jono078]

So what's the team going to look like assuming Uate, Mason and Smith are out?

1 Boyd
2 Mamo
3 Gagai
4 Leilua
5 McManus
6 Mullen
7 Roberts
8 Snowden
9 Gidley
10 Cuthbertson
11 Scott
12 Rochow
13 Fa'alogo
--
14 Clydesdale
15 Sims
17 Tetevano
18 Vaivai, Tapine?

Just no Houston please.

 

[slotmachine]

So what's the team going to look like assuming Uate, Mason and Smith are out?

Snowden front row, Cuthbo lock, Fa'alogo bench.

 

[Spot On]

Bennett has said there will be changes this week at a press conference this morning.

Mason is facing a 2 week suspension, 3 weeks if he contests. Kade will be back. Smith to be rested due to injury.

How the f**k is Mason looking at 2 weeks when Will Chambers cleaned a bloke fair up with a shoulder charge last week and missed no f**ken time at all?????

 

[The Showstopper]

Our issues are in the final third of the ground on the opposition's line. The rest comes from the blowback from giving away 20 metre restarts all the time on a 7 tackle set if you throw in the zero tackle as well.

 

[Noname36]

Despite Mason being out I'm way more concerned about the second row at the moment. We've just got absolutely nothing out wide apart from Scott. Maybe it's time to bring Tapine in? Might be a shocking idea as I've never been a fan of forwards jumping straight into FG from NYC but he did train with FG in the off season and he played a couple of trials so I don't think he'd be too out of his depth. Maybe we could start Rochow and then bring him on later and move Rochow into the centre forward rotation.

 

[Spot On]

It would be nice to see the side "push up" when attacking. It seems were happy for a bloke to get the ball and watch him go to the defence and get tackled. We rarely have any support or shape to attack when we've got the ball. Just throw the f**king thing around already, I'm sick of watching our stale piss attempts at using the ball.

And that useless prick at the back would want to have a go this week.

 

[Noname36]

^ word... Particularly re the useless prick at the back. So many times on Friday I actually saw some of the forwards run into the line and wanted to get the ball away, they looked around for someone to offload to and Boyd was literally just standing there like a shag on a rock and not running up to take it.

 

[otori]

Despite Mason being out I'm way more concerned about the second row at the moment. We've just got absolutely nothing out wide apart from Scott. Maybe it's time to bring Tapine in? Might be a shocking idea as I've never been a fan of forwards jumping straight into FG from NYC but he did train with FG in the off season and he played a couple of trials so I don't think he'd be too out of his depth. Maybe we could start Rochow and then bring him on later and move Rochow into the centre forward rotation.

Rochow does seem off form at the moment. Personally I really like his play and when he runs good lines off Boyd, we saw lots of points last season. I honestly reckon we'd have more value dumping Smith and bringing in Tapine/a NSW cup player but I know not many on here will agree with that.

Our forwards haven't been terrible though. We're actually offloading way more than last year but I just think our links out wide have been atrocious. IMO combination of Mullen/Boyd injuries/form, lack of quality and speed out of dummy half and the wrong players getting the ball in the movements.

 

[slotmachine]

Smith is getting the week off to rest his knee and Mason will be suspended.

Think we will see Snowden back to front row, Cuthbo to lock and Fa'alogo on the bench.

 

[Burwood]

I think we'll see Houston moved to lock and Rochow back into his usual place out wide. Houston deserves his place in the team- it just needs to be in a role where his only responsibility is carting the ball forward.