Who Let the Dogs Out? (RL2)

[madmick96]

The Bulldogs are back and pumped up as they enter the 2006 season of the NRL Telstra Premiership.

The Starting Lineup:
Patten, L
El Masri, H
Maitua, R
Tonga, W
Utai, M
Holdsworth, D
Sherwin, B
O'Meley, M
Hughes, C
Asotasi, R
Mason, W
Ryan, A (c)
Williams, S

The Bench:
Perry, A
Armit, C
Grimaldi, T
Myles, N

Reserves:
Phelps, C
Cutler, T
Conn, D
Morrin, B
Brideson, A
Mcilwain, D
Czislowski, B

CAN THEY WIN THE PREMIERSHIP AGAIN?

Their first match of the season are against last year's grand finalists, The North Queensland Cowboys.

In other matches over the weekend:

Roosters 30 def Raiders 10
Warriors 16 def Sea Eagles 12

The Cowboys Lineup:

The Bulldogs Lineup:

The Cowboys are on the field and are warming up for this ripper of a match, its raining and the Bulldogs can play pretty well in the rain, so the Dogs are tipped to win the match.

The match length is 20 minutes, so the first half is 10 minutes.

9th Minute:
Sherwin kicks off, Dog's players running towards catcher, bad pass and bad communication, El Masri intercepts and gets tackled 10 m out from the line, Holdsworth passes to Williams and then to O'Meley who runs into a huge gap and scores the try. El Masri converts (1 out of 1).

Cowboys 0 - 6 Bulldogs

7th Minute:
Williams tackles Cowboy into touch, Sherwin feeds scrum 20 m out, bursts out of scrum half, dodges few players breaks a tackle and scores. El Masri converts again (2 out of 2).

Cowboys 0 - 12 Bulldogs

4th Minute:
Dogs get penalty for being offside 10 m out of their own try line, third tackle for Cowboys, Thurston (I think) throws a dummy and dives to the try line and scores. Hannay converts (1 out 1).

Cowboys 6 - 12 Bulldogs

 

[pinchinator]

looks good mate but did it have to be with the dogs? but hey its still a good story

 

[madmick96]

wats wrong with the dogs?

 

[pinchinator]

they have to many good players my advice is the sharks is the way to go but keep going with this story its good

 

[madmick96]

2nd Minute:
After a Cowboy knocked it on, Sherwin picked it up, and ran through the defence and then passed it back to the middle where Williams barged through an scored. El Masri converts (3 out of 3).

Cowboys 6 - 18 Bulldogs

And then on the stroke of half-time, a Cowboy kicked on the 4th tackle and Utai caught it in the Dog's 20 m, he ran on the left side and amazingly broke all 3 tackles and ran across the field to score. El Masri converts (4 out of 4).

Cowboys 6 - 24 Bulldogs

Here are the half-time stats:

The Dogs have really dominated this half even when trailing in possesion, but the Cowboys were absolutely appaling with 41 missed tackles, their coach is gonna be fuming in the dressing room.

 

[Brett_Lee]

Good luck with the story mate. I guess its going to be a good rivalry between our stories .

Anyway Hope the broncos win the premeirship

Will be watching this one

brett_lee :

 

[madmick96]

5th Minute:
Long pass out to Utai, he finds open space, breaks one tackle and he scores his second. El Masri converts (5 out of 5).

Cowboys 6 - 30 Bulldogs

2nd Minute:
Sherwin sprinted out from dummy half, just broke through and did a wicked sidestep then just jumped through to score right under the posts. El Masri converts (6 out of 6).

Cowboys 6 - 36 Bulldogs

And in the last few seconds of the match, Bowen scored a drop goal 20 m out from the Dog's line to get 1 extra point to his name. And thats the game, Bulldogs have thrashed last years grand finalists, 7-36 with a margin of a whooping 19 points, only if they were bonus points.

Stay tuned, match stats are coming right up.

The Cowboys have played incredibly badly today, just look at the stats, but on the bright side, the Bulldogs have won and have made a great start to their Premiership campaign. The Dogs are playing the Dragons next week and after this performance, they are a force to be reckoned with.

Now the Man of the Match is Daniel Holdsworth, he has played really well with 7 hit ups and gained a total of 70 metres.

Good luck with the story mate. I guess its going to be a good rivalry between our stories .

Anyway Hope the broncos win the premeirship

Will be watching this one

brett_lee :

yep great rivalry, but i was inspired by u to make this story so thx
ill be watching your story 2

 

[madmick96]

The Bulldogs are home at the Sydney Showground and are playing against the St. George Illawarra Dragons and here are the lineups.

Bulldogs Lineup:

Dragons Lineup:

4th Minute:
After countless attempts to score, the Dogs have finally done with a mistake from a Dragon. Sherwin passed it to O'Meley who just ran right through the defence and scored. El Masri converts (1 out of 1).

Bulldogs 6 - 0 Dragons

2nd Minute:
Just to seal the lead before half-time, Asotasi scored a field goal from 12 m out on the last tackle of the set.

Bulldogs 7 - 0 Dragons

Half-Time stats:

Even though this has been a very tight first half, the stats certainly favour the home side, anything can happen in the next half.

6th Minute:
Good build up to try with offloads and quick passes which left the Dragons defence for dead. 1 m out, short flat pass to Maitua? and he just dives into the crater of a gap. El Masri converts easily (2 out of 2).

Bulldogs 13 - 0 Dragons

 

[madmick96]

And that's the game for the Bulldogs defeating the Dragons 13 to zero, the score might say that it was easy but it was harder than you think.

Here are the fulltime stats

Round 1 and 2 Wrap-Up

Round 1:
Warriors 16 def Sea Eagles 12
Raiders 10 db Roosters 30
Cowboys 7 db Bulldogs 36
Tigers 18 def Rabbitohs 0
Dragons 16 def Eels 4
Panthers 10 def Knights 6
Storm 22 def Broncos 14
Sharks BYE

Round 2
Knights 18 def Cowboys 8
Eels 12 def Sharks 10
Bulldogs 13 def Dragons 0
Rooster 28 def Storm 4
Broncos 40 def Tigers 4
Sea Eagles 22 def Panthers 14
Rabbitohs 18 def Warriors 10
Raiders BYE

The Bulldogs next match will be in Round 3 at Toyota Park against the Cronulla Sharks, this match will be a big one because of....you know... :boxing

 

[pinchinator]

yay go sharks no offence

 

[madmick96]

yay go sharks no offence

none taken , for the next match (and the rest) im gonna give people reps if they guess the outcome of the match, so post ur guesses in this format:

Sharks win by 6 or lower
Sharks win by 10 - 15 pts.
Sharks win by 15 - 20 pts.
Sharks win by 20 or more pts.

Dogs win by 6 or lower
Dogs win by 10 - 15 pts.
Dogs win by 15 - 20 pts.
Dogs win by 20 or more pts.

AND the same with the losses eg: Dogs lose by 10 - 15 pts.

 

[pinchinator]

well even though i reckon the dogs will lose im going to go with Sharks win by 6 or lower

 

[MWaugh]

dogs by 10-15

your prop scored a field goal?

 

[kookaburra69]

great start to the season mate
go the warriors!!!

 

[madmick96]

dogs by 10-15

your prop scored a field goal?

lol yeah he was right in front