THE Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs participant who was 12 minutes late to coaching was made to wrestle in opposition to eight completely different gamers over the course of a 4 minute window.
Too strenuous? Not the best way we see it.
Professional footballers are elite athletes and we’ve by no means encountered a champion athlete who didn’t practice onerous.
It’s just like the previous line about what comes first – expertise or confidence? The reply is difficult work.
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‘Clearly the tradition just isn’t proper’ | 06:27
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We’re sufficiently old to recollect going to Canterbury-Bankstown headquarters when Steve Folkes was steering the Bulldogs to the membership’s final premiership in 2004.
Back then the three staples of the best way the Bulldogs did enterprise have been practice onerous, play onerous and get together onerous.
We can nonetheless recall watching Mark O’Meley, Willie Mason, Braith Anasta, Andrew Ryan, Sonny Bill Williams and Johnathan Thurston operating coathangers round Belmore Oval within the pre-season.
It was a brutal tradition constructed round onerous work and profitable was merely a part of their DNA.
Today Canterbury-Bankstown is a really pale imitation of what the membership stood for 20 years in the past.
You get the sensation head coach Cameron Ciraldo and common supervisor of soccer Phil Gould might be making some main adjustments over the course of the low season because the Bulldogs look to rediscover what the membership stands for.
The previous saying about defence being an angle rings true.
The Dogs of War ahead packs of the Nineteen Eighties coached by Warren Ryan have been among the most brutal defensive sides within the historical past of the sport.
Today the Bulldogs’ defence is solely embarrassing, leaking a median of 32 factors per sport.
In the NRL it’s merely not ok.
Guilty verdict ends JWH’s season | 01:09
ROBBO’S STERN WORD TO JWH AFTER BRAIN SNAP
WHEN you discuss concerning the biggest entrance row forwards of the final 40 years names like Steve Roach, Glenn Lazarus, Petero Civoniceva, Shane Webcke, Paul Harragon, Ian Roberts, Sam Burgess, David Gillespie, Mark Carroll and Matt Scott inevitably enter the dialog.
That’s our high 10 in no explicit order of the most effective of the most effective who plied their commerce within the hardest place on the sphere.
After 15 years within the tough and tumble of the center of the sphere Sydney Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has earned the suitable to enter this dialogue.
Three premierships, 298 NRL matches, 33 Tests for New Zealand, Jared’s by no means taken a backward step.
As a lot as we’ve lengthy been massive followers of the best way the Roosters enforcer performs his mind snap in spherical 26 in opposition to Wests Tigers was unforgivable.
Which explains why Roosters coach Trent Robinson known as JWH in on Monday for a sit down and a debrief about the way it’s unacceptable for the alpha ahead on the Roosters to let the purple mist descend and permit his head to fall off so spectacularly.
Robinson and JWH share an especially tight-knit rapport however the Roosters coach has each proper to be fuming about Waerea-Hargreaves failing to place the workforce first main into the sharp finish of the season.
The Roosters confirmed how a lot they respect Jared by granting him a one-year extension to swimsuit up for a sixteenth straight season within the NRL earlier this yr.
But JWH let the membership, his coach and his teammates down badly by dropping his cool in opposition to the Tigers.
Instead of taking part in in one of many grudge matches of the season in opposition to arch rivals South Sydney on Friday night time when the Roosters want him, JWH might be serving the primary sport of a seven match suspension.
Jared obtained this one horribly fallacious.
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HERE’S TO A GREAT PLAYER – AND AN EVEN BETTER BLOKE
MANLY champion Jake Trbojevic continues to buck the development about good guys ending final within the NRL.
Preparing to notch his two hundredth NRL look on Friday night time at Four Pines Park in any other case referred to as Brookvale Oval, Jurbo is without doubt one of the greatest modern-day position fashions the sport has seen.
Whether he’s cooking the barbecue at a Mona Vale Raiders sport or Manly coaching or reducing an opponent in half along with his copybook deal with approach, Jake at all times does it with a smile on his face.
To the purpose the place he has been recognized to apologise to opposition gamers after placing a giant shot on.
One of our favorite Jake tales was from a Kangaroo tour in England when Trbojevic first cracked it into the inexperienced and gold enviornment.
With the Kangaroos all out celebrating an ideal win the night time wore on with the gamers rightfully having fun with themselves.
Jake being Jake had a few beers then turned safety guard and chaperone and made certain all of the gamers made it again to the workforce lodge in a single piece.
Outstanding. Champion participant and a champion bloke.
SILLY REASON RAIDERS’ DIE-HARD MISSES COWBOYS BATTLES
HOW good is the Canberra Raiders drummer referred to as Simon from Bass Hill who follows the Green Machine round rain, hail or shine.
There he was on the NRL judiciary on Tuesday night time to help massive Red Corey Horsburgh recent from travelling to the nationwide capital for the Raiders showdown with the Brisbane Broncos final Saturday.
A boiler maker and welder by commerce, Simon needed to ask for day without work work on Tuesday night time to make it to NRL headquarters from Bass Hill by 5pm to want Horsburgh good luck on the best way in.
Unfortunately the Raiders failed of their bid to get Horsburgh exonerated however Simon will nonetheless swimsuit up and make the journey to Shark Park for the Green Machine’s season-defining sport on Sunday.
He’s been to each sport this yr aside from the North Queensland Cowboys fixture in spherical one as a result of for some purpose he’s not allowed to deliver his drum into Queensland Country Bank Stadium.
Surely the NRL can have a phrase so Simon will get the inexperienced mild to make the highway journey to Townsville as effectively.
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Horsburgh’s 4 week cost upheld | 00:34
CHOOKS YOUNG GUNS DO IT AGAIN
CONGRATULATIONS to the Sydney Roosters on changing into back-to-back minor premiers within the underneath 21s Jersey Flegg competitors.
While the Roosters NRL facet trains on the swish new $10 million Nick Politis Centre of Excellence at Allianz Stadium the Tricolours Jersey Flegg facet nonetheless has way more blue collar theme to it.
The majority of area classes are held at Rowland Park in Daceyville, the gymnasium they practice in is a Colorbond shed at Daceyville PCYC they usually use the Malabar rock pool if gamers must rehab in an ice tub.
Western Sydney arch rivals Penrith and Parramatta will face off in week one of many Jersey Flegg finals on Saturday whereas the Bulldogs will play Cronulla on Sunday.
The Roosters, as minor premiers, have earned the week off.
The Tricolours success has all occurred underneath the watchful eye of well-liked head coach Dean “Uncle Fester” Feeney and energy and conditioning guru Steve Driscoll.
NRL CLUB CEOs OFF TO VEGAS
THE subsequent NRL chief govt’s convention might be held in … Las Vegas.
The 17 membership CEO’s all gathered at South Sydney’s flash new coaching centre at Heffron Park on Wednesday to go over all the massive ticket points going through the sport.
Congratulations to Tales from Tiger Town star Justin Pascoe for turning up after being unable to attend the State Leagues briefing on the NSW Blues Centre of Excellence earlier this month.
Also congratulations to Pascoe for his new Miami Vice-themed outfit on the newest Wests Tigers podcast and for the Wests Tigers formally amassing back-to-back wood spoons.
It’s been exemplary management.
JUDICIARY LOTTERY THANKFULLY OVER
CREDIT the place credit score’s due, the NRL Judiciary has now obtained to a stage the place the system appears to be working.
While we didn’t agree with Raiders cult determine Corey Horsburgh getting a four-week suspension for a grade one shoulder cost there’s clearly been an edict go round about gamers who choose to combat expenses needing to current a compelling case.
Since the start of final season there’s been 22 gamers combat match evaluation committee expenses at NRL headquarters with a strike price of 16 discovered responsible, solely three discovered not responsible and three efficiently profitable down grades.
The days of the Powerball lottery numbers usually being produced seem over.
Simplifying the system to solely having two judiciary panel members with NRL judiciary chairman Geoff Bellew having a casting vote if the panel fails to achieve a unanimous determination is working.
We did must giggle on Wednesday night time when it appeared one individual in attendance was shocked Horsburgh was suspended for 4 weeks.
We would have thought everybody knew the situation. Surely it’s within the transient.
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