fantastic tonight, really made an impact when he came on. has just gone off with a few mins to go to a standing ovation. Has been generally well received by the Bulldog fans, but some are yet to be convinced, they will be after tonight.

Graham currently ranking fourth in the fantasy league stats. nrlfantasy.dailytelegraph.com.au ... /?round=12

Graham currently ranking fourth in the fantasy league stats. nrlfantasy.dailytelegraph.com.au ... /?round=12

10-0 down until jammer came on. He lifted the bulldogs and changed the game. I thought he was very good

Will it have recorded since its not always free? Was at work this morning and i haven't had time to check it.

I thought the game changed when he came on. He had a really good game - just wish he was back at Saints.

If you have recorded the right channel then yes it will have recorded it.

Graham's playing well. But he's got a long way to go before he's a contender for a spot in the top 5 NRL props. For a start he's got to displace Tolman (probably not Kaisano as he's a different kind of player) to become a starter.

I don't think that's the case, in all the games I've seen jammer play this year he's bee used as a impact player off the bench and it's working. The whole team team lifted and so did the game when jammer came on.

It's not a case these days of the bench players not being as good as the stsrting 13 as its a 17 man game these days (or 16 man game if your names royce).

Graham was a very good impact player for us early in his career along with maurie and roby who was also on our bench.

I think the Doggies midfield defence was massively different without Jammer. It was dodgy before and after he was on. He also sparked them up with his aggressive tackling and entertaining conversation with Sam Burgess.

I think he is now their number 1 prop, theyput him on at about 14 mins and he stays on, whereas the others generally get rotated.

He's turned 4 or 5 of the games i've seen so far, or at least been a large part of it.

Neither Tolman nor Kaisano can last anywhere near as long as Graham so he was always going to play the most minutes.

He had a great game for the Bulldogs and he works well coming off the bench being the great ball handler he is.

Very pleased for him!

has anyone else not been able to record Jammers game.I Sky+ it then had to go out.Got back in hoping to watch the game.But no i got two minutes of it then it came up no programme synopsis.But yet i test recorded the Featherstone game the following game, well about 5 mins i was able to record & watch.I made certain before i went out that it was Premier sports channel 433 free to view.

Quote ="edon10"has anyone else not been able to record Jammers game.I Sky+ it then had to go out.Got back in hoping to watch the game.But no i got two minutes of it then it came up no programme synopsis.But yet i test recorded the Featherstone game the following game, well about 5 mins i was able to record & watch.I made certain before i went out that it was Premier sports channel 433 free to view.'" It recorded fine for me but I do subscribe to the channel, if that makes any difference?? The NRL website currently have highlights of all the games available. www.nrl.com/

Quote ="edon10"has anyone else not been able to record Jammers game.I Sky+ it then had to go out.Got back in hoping to watch the game.But no i got two minutes of it then it came up no programme synopsis.But yet i test recorded the Featherstone game the following game, well about 5 mins i was able to record & watch.I made certain before i went out that it was Premier sports channel 433 free to view.'" It recorded fine for me but I do subscribe to the channel, if that makes any difference?? The NRL website currently have highlights of all the games available. www.nrl.com/

Quote ="mistermoo"It recorded fine for me but I do subscribe to the channel, if that makes any difference?? The NRL website currently have highlights of all the games available. www.nrl.com/'" yeh thanks for that MM ,but it did say "free to view channel 433" so you exspect it to be free to view whether folk subscribe or not, i ended up spitting chips really i spit a lot more especially as it did record,aaaarhhhh.As i said it recorded 2mins of it.It looks like to me they blocked it after all ah well.Thank you.

Quote ="mistermoo"It recorded fine for me but I do subscribe to the channel, if that makes any difference?? The NRL website currently have highlights of all the games available. www.nrl.com/'" yeh thanks for that MM ,but it did say "free to view channel 433" so you exspect it to be free to view whether folk subscribe or not, i ended up spitting chips really i spit a lot more especially as it did record,aaaarhhhh.As i said it recorded 2mins of it.It looks like to me they blocked it after all ah well.Thank you.

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Graham lasts 4 mins longer than Tolman and 11 mins longer than Kasiano per game... on average.

[uKasiano, Tolman, Graham stats (in that order)[/u
Played 13 13 13
Minutes played 573 668 720
Avge Mins Per Game 44 51 55
All Runs 163 202 207
Metres Gained 1416 1549 1514
Avge Meters Gain Per Run 8.69 7.67 7.31
Offloads 23 7 4
Tackles 257 389 427
Missed Tackles 32 13 19
Errors 13 4 3
Line Breaks 2 0 0
Tries 1 0 0

*Stats Source NRL website

Tolman has some pretty impressive stats.

Tolman is a very good player. His and Graham's performances and stats are uncannily similar and they play a similar game based on a high workrate. They are almost clones of one another. The only perceivable difference between the two is that Tolman starts and Graham comes off the bench after around 20 mins replacing either Tolman or Kasiano... usually the latter.

They have to start with Kasiano - he's the impact prop who makes the offloads and breaks. So it's between Tolman and Graham who starts. Does it make any difference? Probably not. Might favour Graham coming off the bench after 20 minutes against some tiring opposition forwards, but that's about all.

They have a good blend between the 3 of them.

Indeed.

Canterbury are fortunate to have what are effectively two James Graham's who can be rotated if and when required.

Won't win the comp though - their halfbacks aren't good enough. Solid but without the X-factor.

They play good rugby at times but seems to come in bursts and not often enough.

I have little soft spot for bulldogs from when saints brought makracken(sp) over from them.

Never really liked the Bulldogs since Lamb took out Ellery Hanley playing for Balmain. Then there was Dean Pay clobbering Shaun Edwards with a bad elbow to the jaw. Always thought they sacrificed creativity in the backs in order to guarantee a big forward pack.

I'll take some interest now Graham has moved over there. But I wish he'd gone to Melbourne/Bunnies/Broncos/Tigers before the Bulldogs.

Apart from all that which I agree with, I don't like the Bulldogs for several other reasons too.

1. Major breaches of the Salary Cap in 2003 but allowed to hang on to all their players and win the comp the following year.
2. Coffs Harbour scandal - let's leave it at that since no charges were ever laid due to insufficient evidence. I'm aware of several honourable people in the know who walked away from the club at that point never to return.
3. Sizeable nasty element within their supporters crew.
4. Probably the one club most responsible for the 10 metre rule being introduced as they reduced the game to forward-dominated, low-scoring slugfests during the mid-80's.
5. Family club - blah blah blah - cynical more like.