We need Burton to do more of the long kicking, Galvin is ok for short kicks. Woods is a better attacking kicker of the ball. If I had to add Woods to the 19 above, play him at 14 and start Hayward. Galvin can fill in at hooker / lock when Woods comes on. We have a big mountain to climb to...

I've changed my mind slightly on our best poosible team this year. 1. Dykes. 2. Tuala 3. Xerri 4. Critter 5. Kiraz 6. Burton 7. Galvin 8. Hughes 9. Turpin 10. Thompson 11. Kiks 12. Presto 13. King 14. Hayward 15. Toups 16. Underhill 17. Todd/AJ 18. Rinakama 19. Salmon I've gone for a big pack...

Roosters very impressive against Canberra. I am glad that we don't play the Roosters until round 23. Beating the Eels is enough of a challenge. From memory the Raiders, Storm, Dogs and Broncos were the top 4 last year. The other 3 sides are not going much better than us. The media are...

Flegg beat Eels 40-16, 2 tries ti Fing at FB who must be good if he has pushed Puru to wing.

Manly pretty impressive, Turbo back for us.

I think our best chance of beating Parra is. 1. Start well.. 2. Dominate 3. Execute 4. Score points 5. Keep the intensity up. If we get on top, their season is effectively over. We are at home and we should have good crowd support, now or never.

We haven 't had much luck this season, but at least our 2 byes come at a good time. It will count for nothing if we don'f beat Parra. After the bye we play Manly at home and 2 of their better players should be backing up from SOO or rested. Then Titans away on a short turnaround with travel...

Readon and Alatani being backrowers who can play centre is a big plus. Capewell is a well known slightly bigger and probably slightly better player. This can help with depth. Guys like Dykes,Tracey, Kiraz, Tuala, Critter and Burton who can play multiple positions help with depth. Hayward is...

Too many of our players play injured far too often, This poor season may have a sliver lining, becuase we may be able to extend many of our players on reasonable deals. Guys I defenately want to extend who are far better than fans think include Tuala, Dykes and Hughes. Woods is known to be...

I am not expecting a lot of change we have a 29 man squad listed on the NRL website. I am expecting Curran, Turpin, O'Sullivian and possibly Mann to leave. Underhill, AJ and Readon and possihly Spinks to be promoted to top 30. Gordon CKT may be promoted to top 30, we may sign another hooker...

Recruitment and retention is mainly focused around 20-30 young players we are developing. So far we have seen AJ, Underhill, Sua and Readon. Sua may be signing with Perth, but so far that isn't official. Todd, Hayward and Rinakama in the last few years. Also Hopoi. We recruited Galvin and...

The Manly hooker rumour is probably BS, but it is the only position we would try to strengthen before June 30th. Parra will copy theTigers game plan, try to slow our play the balls, get up fast on Burton in numbers. We have the edge in size in the forwards, their halves are weak defenders. Run...

Players signing things yesterday, players are apparently upbeat and optimistic. I was too critical of Mann, he is doing a job for the team. Hayward is definately playing better starting from the bench. I think we could extend Mann for 1 season mainly to play this role, he will get better with...

Yep they might start Montoya and put Critter on the bench. Some chance NSW will pick McLean instead if Critter, Latrell is still injured. Critter needs a big game to push his SOO chances.

Hughes and Todd back in reserve grade good to see these guys back. Todd had a vey bad concussion injury most of the season. Our injury problems seem to be easing, back up hooker is the biggest problem. Toups and Curran can get the job done in the second row, Spinks is an excellent prospect.

I hope that the starting 13 isn't as named. Happy with Curran starting at left backrow, Salmon at lock and Hayes back to the bench. If Mann starts at hooker, I hope Hayward comes on after 20. Montoya should only play if Critter is injured, and I expect Critter to play. Spinks to replace...

If the players and coaches want to slience the critics, they know what the need to do WIN and keep winning. IMO the players can't try harder, so the coaches need to be smarter. Recuitment can't fix any problems this season, but we may need to add more depth in a few key positions for...

When we do get fast play the balls at the opponents end, Galvin usually converts, he rarely misses especially when he goes into dummy half and throws 1 pass to a try scorer. That is footy instincts and he gets into dummy half to take the opportunity very fast. Burto out the back is a great...

ODF my opinion is that any rift in the playing group is total BS. Total non-events involving the Dogs are always blown up into a big drama. No one likes losing, players aee unhappy, anxious and sometimes cranky when they are losing. That affects their ability to make good decisions. Chichton...

If we don't fix the issue of shifting off a slow PTB, the season will end with a whimper. We have done the right thing for 80 mins (Penrith) 40-50 mins (Storm) and occasional patches of 10-20 mins in some other games. We did more of the right thing when Hughes was playing, becuase he did more...