Round 6: A Sad Day for the Bulldogs

A depressing day for any Bulldogs fan, 38-nil. Against the bloody Roosters, too. It was a much hyped game, having Sonny Bill Williams face the team he left so controversially in 2008. His first touch sadly was a try assist which was a nice play, but as a loyal doggies fan, just made me hate him more. A penalty goal from right in front left the Roosters 8-0 at half time. 7 minutes into the second half Sonny Bill scores a try on his right wing, adding further insult to injury and really shutting the crowd up.

Tony Williams yet again failed to do anything useful in the whole game, dropping the ball while reaching for the try line. Not even 2 minutes later, Mortimer went over to score the Rooster’s third (irony much?).  Poor defence by the bulldogs on their try line let Sonny Bill crash over to score his second (I may have switched the TV off at this point). A nice kick a few minutes later got Maloney over the line, and the same story happened with Jennings a few minutes after that.

Sonny Bill after scoring his first try in the corner [Source: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2013/04/12/1226619/485735-sonny-bill.jpg ]

I’ve probably said this in every blog post so far but we need our big forwards back. The vision that Kasiano and Graham provide is invaluable to the Bulldogs. Kris Keating was also out, and he’s not the best of players, but his replacement Hodkinson didn’t play well at all. Inu is also still out for the stupid tackle on Inglis and Benny Barba really wasn’t there on the night, passing to the wingers for kick returns, he just seemed uninterested to me.

And back to Tony Williams. What a waste of money he proved to be, I don’t really like calling specific players out every week, but when you cost a reported $650,000 a season you should be doing a LOT more than he is currently. I understand he’s not an 80 minute player, and he's had to play for the full 80, but really, he’s lazy in defence and he’s run so little ball compared to other big named second rowers it’s an absolute joke. Hopefully the fact he didn't get selected for Australia will fire him up for the next match. I have mixed feelings about dropping him to NSW cup though… His natural replacement would be Alaalatoa, who isn't really up to Tony William’s standard.

Hoping we can best Cronulla next round, bottom of the table isn’t a good feeling. Copping it at work something shocking.

-   Daniel Arthur

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PS: No post for representative round next week, i'll be out partying :)