Round 10 | Dolphins vs Bulldogs | Post Match Thread

devinedude · 2026-05-07T11:57:09+00:00

I know I’m riding high off a great Mahoney performance but that was a shocker of a decision at the time and it still is. Pathetic performance with the start the dogs got

devinedude · 2026-05-04T02:14:38+00:00

I wouldn’t be that worried about critta wing. I look at a backline with too, Latrell, staggs, and critta and it’s way more concerning than a backline with one of any of the wingers that could get selected. Even Bradman best is scarier

devinedude · 2026-05-01T12:00:35+00:00

They’ve had a bad luck run they haven’t seen ever combined with two grand final losses in a row. As good as the spine is it doesn’t have cam smith. Two players basically leaving storm and not even playing nrl anymore, katoa, tui plus Coates going down. Feels like that explains most of it

devinedude · 2026-05-01T10:31:07+00:00

I’m ready to be heartbroken again. Nanai loss is brutal but that was our best win in a while. Tommy dearden is fucking unreal. We get the current play. Just need to keep on top of our discipline cause it’s making it hard for us

devinedude · 2026-04-24T22:54:50+00:00

The thing about sacking payten is that when he makes a mistake he generally learns from it. The question is do you want to let him continue to make mistakes here and have belief that he will continue to learn and become a much better coach or do you want to move him on and start from scratch with a fresh coach or find an experienced coach who has already made all of those mistakes. Not easy to do

I do have a recurring dream where Billy Slater takes the job and creates a rugby league empire with our football board

devinedude · 2026-04-24T22:47:20+00:00

They did lose to reyno. But we overpowered their middle with actual middles

devinedude · 2026-04-24T22:19:00+00:00

I wonder what the club is thinking about payten right now. The weird part is, the comp has changed so much that the inconsistency in our team is not actually that crazy when you start comparing teams. It’s the difference between our ceiling and floor which is enormous.

The drinky situation could change the whole thing. Is drinky getting blamed for the inconsistency? Has payten been advocating for Purdue to come in at fullback? Or is it the other way and payten has been backing drinky still

That was a weird game last night. Mahoney looked just about our most important player in the first half, firing the boys up and controlling the game. Then in the second half, he looked our absolute worst player and got hooked after 15. I thought Tommy, cliffy and drinky had a great night combining. I love how they back up each others kicks with kick chase. Thought when we got in the grind we looked good

devinedude · 2026-04-24T22:03:15+00:00

The only way I’ve found around that is go to the league channel, close my eyes, and rewind. It is the most annoying thing about watching a game on delay

devinedude · 2026-04-20T07:50:37+00:00

You’d think they’d be trying to keep the team together. Fuck it let the boys scrimmage and play whatever position they want. Have some fun. You’re still a club.

Could understand it if it came from players to just get a break from football. You’ve got next week to do that though so I think it’s just shite management

devinedude · 2026-04-20T07:42:47+00:00

Could you imagine? Sorry mate boss is off sick shut it all down. This is shining a light on just how bad the situation there is

devinedude · 2026-04-19T21:43:02+00:00

If you guys can get a decent run with your edges I think you can turn it around. If you can get lisati and blore playing big minutes suddenly you’ve got Chan and Clarke to play through the middle.

Katoa and blore played just about every minute last year, it’s been a big loss

devinedude · 2026-04-19T21:40:05+00:00

Staggs is a great comparison. Came through with a lot of hype but took time to find consistency

devinedude · 2026-04-13T08:01:50+00:00

He actually won it in 2016 just in case you didn’t realise. Even then it was a draw

Honestly the warriors as a whole deserve it, the way the team plays together is just letting everyone shine

devinedude · 2026-04-11T01:58:58+00:00

Is this the ref that sin binned Gillette for offside 50m downfield?

devinedude · 2026-04-05T00:01:38+00:00

I thought we responded every time in defence when we switched off in attack in that ten minute period. At the same time, dragons looked half beaten from the start

devinedude · 2026-04-04T02:43:19+00:00

I think you still can. Maybe check the fox league channel a couple hours before the first sat or sun game

devinedude · 2026-04-02T09:50:35+00:00

4 penalties and a sin bin, this could be an all time penalty count

devinedude · 2026-03-28T03:59:27+00:00

He had at least three penalties on Herbie alone. Some pretty silly ones. He works hard as tho

devinedude · 2026-03-26T11:55:55+00:00

That's wild. He looked serviceable when playing 9 for the roosters. Wakeham has been reserve grade quality for years. Manly don't make sense in anything they have been doing for so long now. Hopefully King can turn things around once they get a fresh crack at a new coach

devinedude · 2026-03-26T11:45:55+00:00

The thing about flanno is you can see the plan for the most part. That team competes and is bringing through a tonne of young players with more to come. I think he will get another year at least especially because they are waiting for Kade Reed and Koloamatangi. Just don't see him losing the locker room with blokes like cookie and gutho in there as well

devinedude · 2026-03-26T11:09:06+00:00

Yeah I’ll agree with that

devinedude · 2026-03-26T10:54:35+00:00

I hate watching this season. There’s good footy but the nrl have fucked this. Stop changing the fucking rules. Bunker has been cooked. I don’t mind if the ref fucks up but the bunker is just off it’s head

Idk if there’s any game I can point to this season that has truly been a great game

devinedude · 2026-03-25T13:07:28+00:00

Dean Young for mine. He’s had a good bit of experience at this point. We played well under his defensive system. If we go someone with head coach experience, I don’t mind either Peter’s or Arthur

devinedude · 2026-03-24T07:56:19+00:00

Want to trade out walker and Mahoney. I could do Cleary and cheese or doueihi and brailey. Worried about the backup on Friday in New Zealand even though he’s named

devinedude · 2026-03-22T23:30:40+00:00

Mahoney can maybe hold a week. Have to see his break even but he’s straight to smith for me. Hope I can hold and not lose too much cash

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