Pre-Game Bulldogs V Manly [Round 26, 2024]

[DanielTurbo888]

Who knows with this team. We have been hot and cold all year. We need to bring some confidence into the finals. Another loss here could psychologically ruin us. We have taken a huge step backwards after last week's catastrophe and the only way to fix that is a win against one of the in form teams of the comp with the best defence. I have no confidence. Hopefully the players do.

 

[davohan123]

Think you posts sums up a lot of views going into Friday.

Who knows with this team. We have been hot and cold all year. We need to bring some confidence into the finals. Another loss here could psychologically ruin us. We have taken a huge step backwards after last week's catastrophe and the only way to fix that is a win against one of the in form teams of the comp with the best defence. I have no confidence. Hopefully the players do.

 

[Waz13]

Am I the only one that lines these two teams up on paper and thinks it’s a bloody mismatch in our favor? Don’t get me wrong they have won some games but they have beaten 3 top 8 teams since rd 5 dragons twice and sharks by a point. We win our next two we will have beaten every top 8 team this year. I know games ain’t won on paper but fair go we should really get up in this one.

 

[Will on the hill]

Am I the only one that lines these two teams up on paper and thinks it’s a bloody mismatch in our favor? Don’t get me wrong they have won some games but they have beaten 3 top 8 teams since rd 5 dragons twice and sharks by a point. We win our next two we will have beaten every top 8 team this year. I know games ain’t won on paper but fair go we should really get up in this one.

You're not alone. On paper we have the edge but last week we lost to a team that had maybe 2 players that would make it into our team on paper. Dogs have been incredibly consistent and we have been up and down like a yo-yo.

I live in hope that last week was down to complacency and seeing as we won't play another bottom 8 team until next year we will see the best of our team for the next month or two.

I'm nervous and excited which is exactly where any fan hopes to be in late August.

 

[Cliffy2Beaver]

The Doggies will try to resist us
But I think we will be good enough in the end and come from behind and do them

Are you trying to say we'll do them doggie style?

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

There’s a reason why he’s never left.

Yep , the system is irreplaceable.

The money they’ve spent down there is gobsmacking !!

I always laugh on here when the anti coach members say how much better we’d be if we had Bellamy.

I call bull**** on that, Bellamy IS a very good coach , but the facilities , people around him is just streets ahead of all the other clubs.

If he moved to say , the Tigers , he’d improve them a little but it wouldn’t be the magic sponge.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Am I the only one that lines these two teams up on paper and thinks it’s a bloody mismatch in our favor? Don’t get me wrong they have won some games but they have beaten 3 top 8 teams since rd 5 dragons twice and sharks by a point. We win our next two we will have beaten every top 8 team this year. I know games ain’t won on paper but fair go we should really get up in this one.

IF we are allowed to!!

Klein & Sutton

Enough said

 

[Cliffy2Beaver]

Simpkin is young, fit and gives great service from dummy-half.

Simpkin got hooked in the Roosters game and hasn't been seen since. Maybe he didn't react well and Siebs is playing the parent role

 

[stoodamire]

Am I the only one that lines these two teams up on paper and thinks it’s a bloody mismatch in our favor? Don’t get me wrong they have won some games but they have beaten 3 top 8 teams since rd 5 dragons twice and sharks by a point. We win our next two we will have beaten every top 8 team this year. I know games ain’t won on paper but fair go we should really get up in this one.

The one undeniable stat is they have the best defence in the league. Which can’t be understated.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

The one undeniable stat is they have the best defence in the league. Which can’t be understated.

We will have to have the absolute perfect game to win this , and I doubt the Klein / Sutton bunker clown combination will allow that.

You watch ( if we get ahead ) the penalties / 6 agains will start in earnest and just like that the game will change.

 

[NYEagle]

Wow that is essentially a full strength team!.

If we can't win with this lot, where do we turn?.

it's time. Now or never. Dogs are the perfect opponent to see if we are serious. If we can't lift for this game we are certainly first round finals fodder,

And honestly, if there is no improvement can you see an upside for the next 5 years?. They have spent so much already on this bunch of sleepwalkers from Bankstown.

NYEagle

 

[ManEagle]

Am I the only one that lines these two teams up on paper and thinks it’s a bloody mismatch in our favor? Don’t get me wrong they have won some games but they have beaten 3 top 8 teams since rd 5 dragons twice and sharks by a point. We win our next two we will have beaten every top 8 team this year. I know games ain’t won on paper but fair go we should really get up in this one.

It's not the names on the paper I worry about these days
It's the brain in the head
The fire in the belly
And courage in the heart
That we lack sometimes
And at the moment the dogs have it in spades

 

[Bomb Voyage]

i thought the team list had to be updated 24 hours out, yet nothing?

 

[SeaEagleSI1]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3795413567379313

 

[Dion Johnson]

i thought the team list had to be updated 24 hours out, yet nothing?

The game is 1800 hours on Friday,

 

[ALinda]

i thought the team list had to be updated 24 hours out, yet nothing?

Yes, 24 hours before our game is 6pm tomorrow (Thurs).

 

[ALinda]

Talk of a 40K crowd seems way over for a 6pm Friday game.

But if it is, would go close to the biggest ever Manly vs Canterbury crowd.

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My son bought tickets today and the PAX was over 40,500. It's going to be big!

 

[mickqld]

IF we are allowed to!!

Klein & Sutton

Enough said

FMD seriously. The nrl just don't want us to win do they.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

FMD seriously. The nrl just don't want us to win do they.

Nope , glaringly obvious isn’t it , can’t disrupt the Bulldogs fairytale.

Look it’s a tough ask regardless, but I bet ( just like every other time this year ) we’ll get a lead and then all of a sudden the flow of the game will change.

You can smell it coming.

Really , no chance of a win.

 

[BOZO]

Are you trying to say we'll do them doggie style?

Its the best way to do those Mongrels feathered friend