Phil Gould

Gus, you're heavily involved in Clubland as well.

Are the players, do they see it like that, that they have the responsibility as defenders to make sure that they're looking after whoever they're tackling?

James, I suggest you ask someone else, mate, rather than me, if you don't mind.

No, that's all right.

I'd like you to keep your job.

We're having an open discussion about an incident that was out there on the park tonight.

Can I get your take before I give you mine?

A handful of months away, and their season's starting next year, not in 2028, that they need some form of help.

Why are you here today?

Well, a couple of reasons.

Number one, you've been asking me for a while to come here.

I'd sort of been, most of the blokes when they get their new podcast and that sort of thing, they ask you to come on and all that and I was doing a fair few but they all sounded the same and looked the same and I sort of dropped away from doing all that sort of stuff and I was trying to keep myself out of the media as much as possible the last couple of years and

But this was sort of where the club is at the moment and sort of supporting our administration and our management because they're dealing with a lot of members and corporates and all that sort of things, asking questions about performances and that.

And it gets hard for them to keep giving out the messages.

So it might as well come from me.

And we know you've got a big following here with the Canterbury Faithful there.

So we thought it was a good place to start to maybe get a few messages out there and answer a few questions for them.

No, not to that extent.

If we go back, and can I go back a little bit in history about where we've sort of been?

When I first got to the Bulldogs, obviously the Bulldogs had been through a terrible time and the first couple of years there were extremely difficult as we tried to reinvent ourselves and change our roster and do all those sort of things.