Round 1 score

[_Johnsy]

Drags 32
Dogs 14

 

[Southernsaint]

Final Score:

4 train carriages,
26 seats,
2 fires,
33 arrests.

Ohhhhh, the football score?!

 

[MONY]

dogs 26
drags 14

 

[zombiebloodlust]

The side is shaping up to look something like this: Hornby, Best, Kelly, Cooper, Simmonds, long-odds-maybe Barrett, Head, Timmins, Young, Thompson, Poore, Gorrell, Bailey with a bench of: Previously Unheard Of Reserve Grade Utility, Sims, Norrie, Manu. If Barrett plays we lose 16-34. If he can't be arsed at least another two of the high profile players will drop out and any sort of horror is possible. 10-48, maybe.

 

[Surely]

You have about as much chance of beating the dogs as we do penrith ...

You're all pretty damn quiet in here, 2 trial losses and you go into your shells !

 

[Collateral]

Dragons 5 - 0 Dogs...Mark my words!!!!

 

[Dragon_psa]

Dragons 25-24

 

[aenima1]

dragons 32, dogs 14.....no chance at all. the dragons have a hell of a lot of work to do to even compare to the dogs.

 

[Dragons Cross]

Dogs 36, Dragons 6

We never win round 1 unless is against the Sharks

 

[Ribs]

Bollocks to us being no chance, I love nothing more than a Saints team being under pressure and written off by the media and everyone else. Whether it be our team of reserve graders that punished the Warriors a couple of seasons ago or the same again against Parra last year, we do well under these circumstances.

Bring it on I say. Dragons 28 - Dogs - 20.

 

[God-King Dean]

Final Score:

4 train carriages,
26 seats,
2 fires,
33 arrests.

Ohhhhh, the football score?!

.....don't forget plenty of fines from the Transits & p*ss all over the seats and jizz galore. like at the game at WIN

 

[thommo4pm]

we will win this game and win it well.

I am feeling very confident, and this will be our team from what I can make of seeing browny interviewed.

Hornby
Youngquest/Best undecided
Kelly
Cooper
Simmonds
Barrett
Head

Timmins
Thommo
Young
Poore
Ennis
Bailey

Sims
Creagh
Greenshields(will be in the 17)
Manu/Norrie

We will win 34-18.

 

[Hollywood]

I'm seriously concerned. From reports last weekend, the way the Dogs carved up in the second half against a Souths team we were well and truly beaten by a week earlier, it sends a chilling message, it's hard to see us holding much a of a candle to the Dogs in the first round considering early pre season form.

We've got a lot of improvement to do if we are to be any hope of a winning start to the comp.

If we go out with a good attitude, we could make it a tough game, if we go out with the attitude as we did against Souths, we could get a pasting against the Dogs.

Given the form of the two sides though, there seems to be light years.

Still no better yardstick than starting with the premiers in round 1. I just fear that a heavy defeat though could spark more rumours about an unhappy team and stall our season before it gets going, with the focus on whats happening at the club, rather than the premiership.

I'm not filled with confidence

 

[Collateral]

When is the actual squad being named?

 

[Russo]

no one thinks gorrell will be in the team ?? (i havent actually seen him play myself so i cant say much)

 

[borat]

As much as I hate to say it I don't like our chances. Our preparation hasn't been the best, we have alot of first grade players who haven't played in any trials, Michael Ennis hasn't even played any gametime with the team let alone trials, we usually start the season poorly and have lost our fair share of Rd1 games plus our record against the Dogs who are now the premiers is not crash hot either. All of this adds up to a loss IMO. As long as we are competitive I don't expect us to put it together for a few rounds. I don't necessarily like it but this is what I think will happen.

I think Ennis will start RD on the bench with Gorrell in the team just due to Ennis lack of Fitness/game time.

 

[SaintTPP]

When is the actual squad being named?

I think its always on Tuesday afternoons. So in about 4 days.

 

[gaz_head]

for sum reason i have a good feeling about nxt week against the dogs

 

[Collateral]

no one thinks gorrell will be in the team ?? (i havent actually seen him play myself so i cant say much)

I dont think he will be in first grade unless there is no other option...He isnt a bad player... but I dont think he is very favoured.

 

[mightydragon]

I wouldnt take too much into account on the souths game. It wasn't a great team that we fielded that night. I was disappointed with the effort made by most that night, some players had their chance in the top grade to impress and they just didnt measure up.