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However, The Daily Telegraph\u2019s Dave Riccio pointed out that the club\u2019s long-term No.7 Mitchell Woods is not ready due to repeated hamstring injuries. <\/p>\n
\u201cWoods is not ready, he can\u2019t get on the training paddock,\u201d Riccio said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a super-talented AFL and rugby union player. They were after him. All the AFL clubs were after him. He had to make a call, AFL or league. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd just due to the differences in those sports, his ability to get the workload into his legs has caused issues with his hamstrings and he hasn\u2019t been able to get on the training paddock and get the load in to be ready for an NRL campaign.\u201d <\/p>\n
Crawley pointed out that Galvin is not the only Bulldogs playmaker confused with his role, with Matt Burton a shadow of the player he was last season. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe know what Matt Burton\u2019s capable of as a footballer, but at the moment, he doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s got any confidence whatsoever and he looks confused in his role and I think that sort of spreads across the team,\u201d Crawley said. <\/p>\n
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\u201cThere\u2019s this swapping and changing of different players into different positions and the constant speculation that goes on around his head when it comes to his future, and will he pushed out or will Galvin end up at five-eighth?\u201d <\/p>\n
Crawley feels the blame for the Bulldogs\u2019 unbalanced roster should fall at the feet of Phil Gould, who has put this team together over the last five years. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think all this points to the bigger problem at the Bulldogs, which goes to the top of the club, it\u2019s Gus Gould,\u201d Crawley said. <\/p>\n
\u201cGus is a rugby league genius. He\u2019s proven to have one of the sharpest minds in the game, but he can also get too smart for himself and I truly believe that little bits that have happened here with the recruitment of Galvin, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s improved the squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when you look back at a lot of the utility-type players that they brought on board, initially under Ciraldo, there was five of six of them, for a while it looked like it was working, now it doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s working. <\/p>\n
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\u201cI think the lack of speed in the side, all these different things says to me that in the five years Gus has been there, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve seen the changes that right now should be coming to fruition.\u201d <\/p>\n
However, Anasta feels the Bulldogs can still turn it around, but they have to make a call on Galvin playing halfback in the next few weeks and then start hammering down some combinations, while a change of style might also be the solution. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s more the style they\u2019re playing, the intensity they\u2019re playing at, and playing more to their strengths, more so than their weaknesses,\u201d Anasta said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI actually think they\u2019ve got a team that can turn it around this year. Listen, I don\u2019t think they can win the comp after seeing what I\u2019ve seen the last couple of months, but I can definitely see them still making the top eight with this side, even with Galvin and Burton in the halves. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut they\u2019ve either got to stick with them and play better with the team they\u2019ve got, or make significant changes, and that\u2019s probably going to be dictated over the next month.\u201d <\/p>\n
However, Gorden Tallis warned the Bulldogs can\u2019t keep chopping and changing their side and expect consistency. <\/p>\n
\u201cStop making changes, so the players sit in their slots and believe where they\u2019re playing,\u201d Tallis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Ciraldo and Phil Gould have been criticised for trying to turn potentially a great five-eighth in Lachlan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[1813,64,63,314768,7618,5084,17343,52527,763,314848,205709,314774,45123,4617,1082,33215,4746,255303,314772,761,762,158,11396,314849,314850,314851,85,13321,282302,698,4515],"class_list":["post-650981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-ankle-injury","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-backline-overhaul","tag-cameron-ciraldo","tag-campbell-graham","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-dave-riccio","tag-fox-league","tag-game-inside","tag-gus-gould","tag-halves-shake-up","tag-hamstring-injuries","tag-lachlan-galvin","tag-latrell-mitchell","tag-lord-gould-of-brookwood","tag-mark-st-john","tag-media-ban","tag-media-silence","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-paul-crawley","tag-rugby-league-genius","tag-season-implodes","tag-shock-press-conference","tag-sports","tag-storm-star","tag-training-paddock","tag-western-bulldogs","tag-wests-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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