Canterbury have endured their least potent start to a season in 56 years, scoring just 24 points in their opening three losses ahead of Kieran Foran’s return.
The Dogs need Foran to make an immediate impact on his return next week as they try to fix their worst start to a season in attack in 56 years.
The Bulldogs have scored just 24 points across their opening three games, the least they have notched up to start the year since 1964.
Foran is expected to return from a shoulder and hamstring injury against St George Illawarra next week, as both sides search for their first win of the season.
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It will be a welcome return for a Bulldogs side who have made the most errors in the NRL and are ranked in the bottom two for points, tries, run metres, line breaks, tackle busts and offloads.
“He will help. He will lift the players. Just that experience he brings will help,” coach Dean Pay said.
“We all need to do a better job than what we are doing.
“Everyone who is involved with what we do when we get in our good ball.
“We seem to be a little lost and frantic with what we are doing. And that causes errors.”
The Bulldogs routinely blew chances early in Sunday night’s loss to Manly.
They coughed up possession while attacking the Sea Eagles’ line four times in the first 20 minutes, frustrating coach Pay.
It came after Pay switched his halves combination from the opening two rounds, dropping Brandon Wakeham for Jack Cogger.
Foran had trained at five-eighth for the majority of the return from the coronavirus shutdown before tweaking a hamstring, but Pay insisted that didn’t warrant the attacking problems.
“It’s no excuse, we should be better than that,” Pay said.
“We need to be better again next week with the errors we make when we do get down the field
“We’ve got to find some more patience in what we are doing and getting through out sets.
“Because we’re not building any pressure at all.”
Birdy
Roar Rookie
They were always going to win . They have a history of pulling off wins against the odds. Consistency, well we won't go there. Go the Gold and black. Titans have to succeed.we need a team on the coast massive RL area from Logan to nthn nsw and west to Springfield.
The Barry
Roar Guru
Foran comes back and we average 12 points a game for a few weeks, then he gets injured and we go back to averaging eight There’s more wrong with the Dogs attack than who is wearing what jersey
Tom G
Roar Rookie
Forans return will make an enormous difference to this side. Then all they need to do is keep him on the park for more than a handful of games this season.
kk
Roar Pro
JOHN, as a Canterbury man I have learned the art of patience. It's a long time between premierships.
JOHN ALLAN
Guest
I'm positive the term "rebuild" didn't exist years ago. The Australian Cricket team & Brisbane Lions dominated with teams that were aging so a rebuild was the downside of a successful winning run with the team relatively unchanged. Fans & potential sponsors are somewhat impatient & don't take too kindly to having to wait (& wait) for their team to be competitive.
Chris.P.Bacon
Guest
Good effort from your Tigers Birdy! (I won't mention the Titans or the Bulldogs (damn them!)) ;)
kk
Roar Pro
Agree Birdy. Rebuilds have some joyous moments and Lewis provides some of the best.
Birdy
Roar Rookie
I hope when Foran comes back they keep Lewis.. before his bad form at the end of last year he was one of my up and coming youngies. Always had time to do great things, then he just seemed to drop in confidence. Foran will sort him out.