Posts Tagged "Steve Folkes"

The Bulldogs have had the somewhat embarrassing situation arise this week of seeing coach Kevin Moore – son of famed Bulldogs patriarch Peter “Bullfrog” Moore – resign as head coach after being told his services would not be required in 2012.

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Steve Folkes, coach of the 2002 Bulldogs, remembers the tears and stunned looks when he told his players the finals-bound club had been stripped of 37 premiership points for salary cap breaches.

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Wests Tigers centre Chris Lawrence says the presence of premiership-winning former coach Steve Folkes as the NRL side’s conditioner has made them mentally tougher for the season ahead.

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The structure of rugby league, with its national under-20s competition, might be good for the entertainment it provides, but it’s failed miserably in developing the stars of the future.

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Wayne Bennett has incredible respect as a rugby league coach, but if he can manage to get the Kiwis even close to the Kangaroos on Saturday night, then it will probably be time to bump him up from King to God.

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Ex-Bulldogs rugby league coach Steve Folkes has swapped sports by becoming the West Indian cricket team’s strength and conditioning coach.

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If Parramatta NRL officials want to talk to New Zealand Test coach Stephen Kearney about the vacant Eels coaching position, they’ve got a wait on their hands.

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Preseason wooden spoon favourites Canberra dared to dream of NRL premiership success today after surging into sixth place with a 52-34 riot over real cellar dwellers the Bulldogs.

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After 30 years of blood sweat and tears, Steve Folkes’ time with the Bulldogs scarcely deserved to end this way.

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Canterbury Bulldogs coach Steve Folkes should have had a happier ending. Instead, he will exit his tenure at the club on the back of the worst season he has ever experienced – both as a player and a mentor.

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Bulldogs Chief Executive Todd Greenberg will be thankful the storm that had been cast from Sonny Bill’s departure is over. Greenberg was the man in the middle of a fiasco that shocked the NRL.

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Penrith bounced back from their demoralising defeat to Canberra in style with a 52-16 NRL thumping of the hapless Bulldogs at CUA Stadium tonight.

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Bulldogs coach Steve Folkes claims Sonny Bill Williams was heavily involved in the NRL club’s decision to release Willie Mason last year.

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Injured fullback Luke Patten has predicted his exciting replacement Benjamin Barba could flick the attacking switch for the misfiring Bulldogs against a Cowboys outfit who have not celebrated a win since mid-April.

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The Steve Folkes and Sonny Bill Williams rivalry has turned into a tussle that’s really not worth having.

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The Bulldogs barked but it was the law that finally bit Sonny Bill Williams today after the NRL club was granted an injunction preventing him from playing rugby union in France.

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An unapologetic Sonny Bill Williams says he hopes his trailblazing defection to French rugby union will be the catalyst for a better deal for the NRL players he left behind.

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Boxer Anthony Mundine has arrived in the south of France to help runaway Bulldogs NRL star Sonny Bill Williams settle into his new rugby union career.

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Sonny Bill Williams said former coach Steve Folkes was at the centre of his decision to abandon the club to take up a rugby contract with Toulon.

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The Wests Tigers victory over the Bulldogs could be the fine-tuning performance the club needed to assert a position in the top eight and regain the form that has made them so wonderful to watch.

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