I reckon French is so fast that he was actually in front of himself when he scored that try. Lucky the bunker missed it.
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I thought I heard the ref ask if he was onside, and a caller on talkin sports just said he heard the same thingI must admit it was an ugly win, but weird we didn't make too many mistakes just didn't make too much ground getting out of trouble, it was like they were so fatigue they couldn't get .
Although the Bulldogs don't offer anything in attack, I thought our defence wasn't too bad.
Brown kept us in the game and gets better every week, definitely the buy of the year for us, but he's been mentioned as the buy of the year overall. Exactly what we needed with when Wicks left.
Matagi had one of his better games too, a few strong runs kept us in the game and I think he's probably suited off the bench after the first 20 minutes.
I think Moeroa should start ahead of Kenny Edwards. I like Kenny's passion but lately he's had the mistake in him with poor handling and discipline.
As for the refereeing, I only saw the replay of the no penalty try when I get home as it wasn't shown at the ground. I can sort of understand why they didn't award a penalty try as the ball did bounce off the post, but not by much. Id say Moses would've got there.
And I'm not surprised we hardly got a penalty the amount of the times the Bulldogs were off side and held down too long was ridiculous. Perenara has always had it in for us. I swear I heard on the ref's mic to check for French's try, even though he was the kicker.
How didn't it end well? He retired after a year where Manly subsidised his salary and cost us peanuts under the cap.
You know who is a bigger prop? Vaughn that's f*cking who
That happens sometimes in rugby league.
I reckon he knew Watmough would retire whenever he could no longer contribute, and that the retirement loophole would keep his payout off our cap. If you'll remember, we were somewhat devious at the time about paying merkins outside the cap.
Last year the Chooks paid Michael Jennings to play for us. Sometimes it's best for the club. In fact, if it wasn't clubs wouldn't do it.
I know it happens sometimes but signing a player of his age, with the amount of games he'd played, and his injuries, for four years, it ups the chances considerably. In fact it makes it almost a certainty.
I think we got lucky with his retirement in that the NRL wanted the salary cap stuff to go away. I'm not sure how confident the club would have been in exploiting any loophole. But who knows, they were a bunch of clueless shonks.
There's been a number of games this year we've won that I reckon we would have lost in recent years - the Warriors game a few weeks ago, the Tigers game and last night as you mention. The team have shown some real starch and grit this year
But we knew of a loophole. You can't judge the signing independent of that knowledge. Just because the fans didn't understand doesn't mean the coach didn't have a plan. The bigger risk was Foran and he turned out to have minimal cap impact as well.
So BA goes to Watmough in 2014 and has a conversation that goes:
His attacking form has been very poor, but he's still been a starting middle forward in a top eight team, and his defensive workrate has been very high. Try to think of him as an extra lock and you'll understand his role better.
Well after it happened there was a lot of talk of closing said loophole, so it was obviously there.
