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Easter monday blockbuster in the captains club!
Apr 06, 2009 - 6:30 PM - by Bulldogs News
The Bulldogs are putting out the call to all Bulldogs supporters and local businesses. We need your support in the Captains Club for the Monday Night blockbuster against the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

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We were not half bad, says Noddy
Apr 06, 2009 - 7:26 AM - by Costaki10
BRETT KIMMORLEY insisted yesterday's win over Cronulla held no special meaning for him, but the former Sharks playmaker still claimed the Bulldogs should have won by far more.

In his first match against the Sharks since leaving the club with a year to run on his contract, Kimmorley helped instigate a 24-12 win over his former teammates - and their coach Ricky Stuart conceded it should have been much bigger.

"I think we were just unlucky that we didn't put 30 or 40 on the board because our attack was really good," said Kimmorley, who admitted to being "nervous" when Cronulla came back from 18-0 down to trail 18-12 just after half-time.

Told Stuart agreed and had said he wished the Bulldogs had scored four or five more tries to "jam it right up us", Kimmorley said: "If that is the attitude he wants to take with his players he can.

"We had three disallowed tries so if you look at how the game went … if we scored those last two with 15 minutes to go it opens the game up so that's the four or five tries Ricky was talking about.

"I thought we were pretty good, they made a lot of stupid errors in the first half and they probably didn't play much structured attack. They were pretty erratic and played out the back a lot. They scored one try off a kick and one from dummy half."

Despite being on the receiving end of a high tackle from Cronulla prop Luke Douglas, Kimmorley doubted his former teammates had targeted him.

"I felt pretty sure they would have had some intensity last week at training … and I'm pretty sure it will be even more intense this week, and against whoever they are playing, their forwards will be fired up to improve on their performance today.

"I thought our forwards were great today, I thought they dominated their forwards and their halves in turn didn't ask any questions of us in attack."

After the Bulldogs' loss to Gold Coast last weekend and being stripped of the two competition points from their round-two win over Penrith the week before, Kimmorley said his only concern heading into the clash against Cronulla was ensuring his new club won.

"I just worried about the team, I didn't worry about me trying to play special," he said. "I hold no bad feelings [towards the Sharks] or anything like that, but the way this club has treated me has been unbelievable, I feel like I have been here for a long while now and I look forward to helping this club build something.

"I thought the shape we had today worked really good, and if we continue working on that hopefully next week we will be better again.

"At 18-12 it only takes one ugly try to be 18-all and the game is wide open but we did really well there, we defended well and the best bit was that we played some really good footy.

"We didn't just get boring to try to shut the game down with five hit-ups and a kick. We tried to score a try through playing footy."

Asked if he thought the Cronulla players were thinking after the game how much they missed him, Kimmorley said: "Ask them, mate."

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Bulldogs defeat Cronulla Sharks 24-12 at ANZ Stadium
Apr 06, 2009 - 6:19 AM - by DJ1
Cronulla coach Ricky Stuart slammed his team as "leg-less" and "embarrassing" after their 24-12 NRL loss to the Bulldogs at ANZ Stadium.
It was the first time since 2007 the Sharks have lost three straight games and Stuart was furious his side routinely dropped the ball on early tackles as the Bulldogs raced to an 18-0 lead.

Cronulla fought back with tries to Anthony Tupou and Paul Gallen to trail 18-12 eight minutes into the second half, but the Bulldogs closed the result out with a try to Josh Morris in the 72nd minute after three earlier efforts were denied.

The final score line did not reflect how much better the Bulldogs were but Stuart wished it did.

"It was unacceptable," said Stuart.

"That was absolutely embarrassing today, we were leg-less.

"They had a great opportunity to score another four or five tries on us and I wish they had to jam it right up us to teach us a great lesson."

Skipper Paul Gallen labelled the performance "crap" and felt the players were carrying a poor attitude from training into the game.

"We drop the ball at training and we don't seem to care," said Gallen.

"We are probably carrying that attitude into a game.

"It is unacceptable to toss crap like this up, it was ridiculous that first half."

The Sharks have just six days to turn it all around before a home clash with win-less Canberra.

Stuart said the poor attack is "not easy to fix" but was adamant the Sharks could re-group in time to keep their season afloat.

"I'm up to my head in this as much as the players are," he said.

"That's the way we confront all things at Cronulla, as a group.

"We will work hard to fix it as a group.

"It's only the fourth game of the year.

"We have got to get better and get better very, very quickly."

Bulldogs coach Kevin Moore agreed his side should have belted the Sharks but remains happy with their progress after just four games with a new team.

Hooker Michael Ennis carved up Cronulla in the first half, having a hand in first-half tries to Goodwin (fourth minute), Hazem El Masri (10th) and Andrew Ryan (23rd).

It was a deserved victory for the Bulldogs as they moved to three wins from four games - although they have lost two competition points for having 14 men on the field in the round-two win over Penrith.

The Bulldogs failed last week to have the penalty reduced, but may yet take their appeal further and try to get the points reinstated.

"I thought there was two or three things that went against us that could have made the score line blow out a little bit," said Moore.

"We probably should have put another one or two tries on.

"They're the areas we are probably not totally clicking together but that will come.

"We are really happy. It's a very good start to the year.

"We're a new side and we've won three games out of four.

"A 75 per cent success rate is terrific and I think we will get better and better."


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