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Who should be our coach? The options out there seem a little thin.

Do the coaching staff even talk to each other? The level of disconnect from everyone in attack and defence is baffling.

Who is the coach that we need?

I think Kevvie would be willing to drop Billy to the bench, but then Kevvie would put Smoothy on to start because Mozer is not ready to start. So that means Mozer is probably more so in direct competition with Smoothy. However, I think the real competition should be between Walters and Smoothy...

Agreed. Particularly for someone like Willison and Te Kura. I don't think Haas will ever be an aggressive type player, but Willison and Te Kura can be. They could learn a lot from Taupau on and off the field.

We need a bit of roster refresh to get some depth and a few positional changes to get some better balance in the squad. The below list is a reasonable, conservative, and realistic approach. However, if I'm being honest, there are some bigger changes I would like to make to the roster, which...

I think a one year contract is perfectly fine for Taupau, especially given how thin our stocks are. He is only really needed for a 3-6 month period to facilitate the transition of Willison, Te Kura, and any other young prop coming through into regular NRL players. Anything more than a one year...

Taupau is playing like his old self again, and it is the version I thought/hoped we would get when we first signed him. For whatever reason, he wasn't playing like this in his previous games, but now that he is, I think he needs to be retained, especially over someone like Baker. If this form...

I have never liked the set restart rule, because it is gimmicky and makes the matches feel a bit arcade like. It adds an extra layer of greyness to the refereeing if a match when they are trying to achieve black and white on everything else. The sport looks extremely amateurish when there is...

Has the set restart rule reduced the amount of wrestling in tackles?

Is Matt Ballin the only confirmed assistant coach at this stage for next season? Any rumours of anyone of note joining the coaching staff?

What is annoying though is that Sexton is probably only viewed as a stop-gap solution by the Bulldogs until one of their juniors is ready for NRL. Until that happens, which would likely be 2 years on from now, he is pretty much guaranteed first grade games by staying at the Bulldogs. It's...

Staggs could become a pretty good backrower in my opinion. He is quick, agile and naturally aggressive on both sides of the ball. He would be a real handful for any opposition half to defend against, and I reckon they would try to avoid running into him as much as possible. His contact in...

I could be wrong, but I don't think anything has been confirmed yet. I thought it was only speculation from the media.

Would Sitili Tupouniua be someone we should look at? The Roosters are looking to offload him even though he was signed long term. He would strengthen our backrow options and has the ability to fill in at centre if needed.

There have been instances in the past where the winger gets shoulder charged by the defender coming across and they drop the ball before putting it down, and the bunker makes the decision that they would have scored had they not been shoulder charged, therefore they award the penalty try. That...

With the lack of backrow depth, does Staggs get moved to backrow? He pretty much plays like a backrower anyway.

Mariner is too easily man handled and driven backwards on kick returns, assuming he even catches it in the first place. We are under pressure immediately each set because of this. This is something we were so much better at last year when Cobbo was on the wing and was mostly able to make the...

Correct. It's easy to understand why he has low run metres during that period, however, Baker is largely to blame for that string of consecutive sets we even had to defend in our own end in the first place because he dropped the ball on his first touch. Other players also contributed to it after...

I understand the need to upgrade those three, but you can't neglect the rest of the squad, which is what we have done. Neither of them are good enough or consistent enough to demand top dollar.