The dominance of Canterbury\u2019s forward pack against Penrith last round struck a chord close to the heart of Bulldogs second-rower Harry Hayes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The work of Max King, Sitili Tupouniua, Sam Hughes and Jacob Preston to batter the Panthers into submission drew comparisons to the legendary Dogs of War of yesteryear.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen videos and reputations of the past and we\u2019re trying to create our own present and future,\u201d Hayes told NRL.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess we take the lessons from those guys who were just hard hitters and hard runners.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grandfather was back there in the \u201860s so there\u2019s definitely inspiration there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hayes\u2019 Welsh-born grandfather Merv Hicks played 79 games for Canterbury between 1966-70 and was a member of the 1967 grand final team that suffered a close loss to South Sydney.<\/p>\n
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Coming off the bench against the Panthers, Hayes racked up 129 metres and 31 tackles in his 42 minutes of game time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were all really keen to play – not just because they were undefeated but it\u2019s such a cool and good experience to go and compete against the elite in our game,\u201d Hayes said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of them being from Penrith (in Bulldogs line-up) might say something different, but for me I was just really keen to play against that kind of calibre of team.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition to his Berries pedigree Hayes has come through the Bulldogs pathways, scoring a try in the 2023 NSWRL Jersey Flegg Cup premiership win over the Roosters.<\/p>\n
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Hayes is shaping as something of a good luck charm for coach Cameron Ciraldo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was part of the first two wins of the year over the Dragons in Vegas and then the Raiders before a head knock kept him out of the losses to the Knights and Rabbitohs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hayes returned for the season-defining win over the Panthers and will look to go on with the job against the Eels.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the way Ciro and the rest of the coaching staff prepared us to come out and play with a bit more spirit and to compete harder [against Penrith] \u2013 and that\u2019s what we did,” Hayes said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had such a good pre-season and I got to really compete and work with guys like Max King and Sitili Tupouniua and they are all helping me with my technique and running and tackling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone is growing together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And that growth is not restricted to the forwards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Halfback Lachlan Galvin enjoyed his best night in the blue-and-white with four line-break assists, a try assist and 13 runs for 102 metres to outpoint the game’s premier No.7 Nathan Cleary.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe played so well. He\u2019s gelling with us so well and I\u2019m hearing his voice on the field,\u201d Hayes said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo-one\u2019s worried about what anyone else says. We only listen to each other inside our four walls and what we do is for each other.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dominance of Canterbury\u2019s forward pack against Penrith last round struck a chord close to the heart of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-381656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}