It's still a Dog's life for Lake

[Maddog37]

Re: It's still a Dog's life for Lake

I disagree with Gmo on this. Lake deserves a chance and if he is no good then bad luck. Trading him now and you would get unders. The guy is a champion full back. Better than Scarlett for the two years prior to this. He gets injured and we say piss off???? No way.

[LostDoggy]

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Really good news, hopefuly he will back to full fitness next year and back to playing good footy for us.

[Bornadog]

Re: It's still a Dog's life for Lake

I disagree with Gmo on this. Lake deserves a chance and if he is no good then bad luck. Trading him now and you would get unders. The guy is a champion full back. Better than Scarlett for the two years prior to this. He gets injured and we say piss off???? No way.

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[anfo27]

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Perfect example Didak. No pre-season looks injured still, getting a pre- season is just unbelieveably important

maybe we need to let Brian know how important this is because at present his pre-season takes a back seat to his holidays.

[G-Mo77]

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I disagree with Gmo on this. Lake deserves a chance and if he is no good then bad luck. Trading him now and you would get unders. The guy is a champion full back. Better than Scarlett for the two years prior to this. He gets injured and we say piss off???? No way.

More to it than injury. If that was just the case then I'd agree with you.

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Quality post as usual.

[chef]

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More to it than injury. If that was just the case then I'd agree with you.




Quality post as usual.

Do you know this for fact, or is it just an assumption?

[GVGjr]

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maybe we need to let Brian know how important this is because at present his pre-season takes a back seat to his holidays.

True good call.

[G-Mo77]

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Do you know this for fact, or is it just an assumption?

Bit of both, I've got some pretty reliable sources and can read between the lines on what's been said in the media so pretty much the same as anyone who just says it's just injury or bad luck.

[chef]

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Bit of both, I've got some pretty reliable sources and can read between the lines on what's been said in the media so pretty much the same as anyone who just says it's just injury or bad luck.

Fair enough.

According to McCartney he's a required player so I can't see him going anywhere.

[ledge]

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Injury is fully to blame, if he hadnt had injuries all would have been good, he would have had a full pre season etc etc...
Its what grew from having injuries and operations that caused the tension and created other issues.
Obviously pressure built on player and coaches due to us starting to lose games and the season not panning out as planned.
Media start to see this and stories are written, true or not.
Snowballed, no injuries , no snowball thus it was due to Brians injuries.

[Bornadog]

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Quality post as usual.

Any need to make a comment? I don't think so.

[Bulldog4life]

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I'm glad Brian is staying. Whatever the reason(s) he had a shocking year but let's look at the great years he played before that. Everyone loved him. If he wants to stay and start afresh let's all get behind him instead of bagging him.

[LostDoggy]

Re: It's still a Dog's life for Lake

Injury is fully to blame, if he hadnt had injuries all would have been good, he would have had a full pre season etc etc...
Its what grew from having injuries and operations that caused the tension and created other issues.
Obviously pressure built on player and coaches due to us starting to lose games and the season not panning out as planned.
Media start to see this and stories are written, true or not.
Snowballed, no injuries , no snowball thus it was due to Brians injuries.

Totally agree with this post. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Lake have three big operations? Plenty of players take a long time to get over one major operation let alone three. No preseason is the killer imo. You are always playing catch up with the players who have had a solid preseason. Possibly throw in some other off-field stuff and you don't have a recipe for a successful season. I simply refuse to believe that a guy with Brian's ability would have lost it all so quickly to the point where he'll never play well again. As for trading him - do we trade Cooney as well on the back of one crap year?

[anfo27]

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Fair enough.

According to McCartney he's a required player so I can't see him going anywhere.

Every player on every list with any value at all is a required player. We all know that is a throw away line that every coach/list manager/president/assistant says about any player. I'm not saying Lake is going or not but I wouldn't take any notice of what coaches say about players being a required player.

[anfo27]

Re: It's still a Dog's life for Lake

Injury is fully to blame, if he hadnt had injuries all would have been good, he would have had a full pre season etc etc...
Its what grew from having injuries and operations that caused the tension and created other issues.
Obviously pressure built on player and coaches due to us starting to lose games and the season not panning out as planned.
Media start to see this and stories are written, true or not.
Snowballed, no injuries , no snowball thus it was due to Brians injuries.

This is just a cop out Ledge.
Was Lake crippled with injuries? Yes. Did Lake do everything within his power to get himself right this pre-season? Absolutely not. That is the issue here, nothing more nothing less. We all love Lake, we all think he is a superstar of the competition and we all would love to see him in bulldogs colours next year dominating like we all know he can but you can't just ignore the fact that Lake our 2nd highest paid player has treated the club, team mates & supporters like mugs because he wanted to have a holiday that wasn't ruined with rehab.
I love Lake but this is unprofessional & unacceptable.