2010_Canterbury-Bankstown_Bulldogs_season
2010 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs season
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 2010 rugby season
The 2010 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs season was the 76th in the club's history. They competed in the National Rugby League's 2010 Telstra Cup Premiership under coach Kevin Moore. They finished the regular season 13th (out of 16), failing to make the finals.[1]
| 2010 season | |||
| CEO | Todd Greenberg | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Head coach | Kevin Moore | ||
| Captain | Andrew Ryan | ||
| Top try scorer | Club: Ben Barba 14 | ||
| Top points scorer | Club: Bryson Goodwin 148 | ||
| Highest home attendance | 37,773 | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 10,350 | ||
| Average home attendance | 18,845 | ||
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The club welcomed a new logo and the re-instatement of the "Canterbury-Bankstown" prefix after spending the previous 11 seasons as simply the "Bulldogs". Club record-holder and pointscorer Hazem El Masri had retired at the end of the 2009 season and did not play in 2010.
Former Australian swimming team coach Alan Thompson, a long-time supporter of the Bulldogs, was appointed general manager of the club's football operations on 15 April 2010.[2]
Draw and results
*From Sunday 5 April at 2am, Australia and NZ daylight saving time ends; all games are in AEST.
Ladder
| Pos. | Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  St. George Illawarra Dragons (P) |
24 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 518 | 299 | +219 | 38 |
| 2 |  Penrith Panthers |
24 | 15 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 645 | 489 | +156 | 34 |
| 3 |  Wests Tigers |
24 | 15 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 537 | 503 | +34 | 34 |
| 4 |  Gold Coast Titans |
24 | 15 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 520 | 498 | +22 | 34 |
| 5 |  New Zealand Warriors |
24 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 539 | 486 | +53 | 32 |
| 6 |  Sydney Roosters |
24 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 559 | 510 | +49 | 32 |
| 7 |  Canberra Raiders |
24 | 13 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 499 | 493 | +6 | 30 |
| 8 |  Manly Warringah Sea Eagles |
24 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 545 | 510 | +35 | 28 |
| 9 |  South Sydney Rabbitohs |
24 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 584 | 567 | +17 | 26 |
| 10 |  Brisbane Broncos |
24 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 508 | 535 | −27 | 26 |
| 11 |  Newcastle Knights |
24 | 10 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 499 | 569 | −70 | 24 |
| 12 |  Parramatta Eels |
24 | 10 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 413 | 491 | −78 | 24 |
| 13 |  Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs |
24 | 9 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 494 | 539 | −45 | 22 |
| 14 |  Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks |
24 | 7 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 354 | 609 | −255 | 18 |
| 15 |  North Queensland Cowboys |
24 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 425 | 667 | −242 | 14 |
| 16 |  Melbourne Storm |
24 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 489 | 363 | +126 | 01 |
1 Melbourne were deducted eight premiership points and barred from receiving premiership points for the rest of the season due to gross long-term salary cap breaches.[3]
Player movements
Gains
Losses
| Player | Joined Club |
|---|---|
| Greg Eastwood | Leeds Rhinos |
| John Kite | Melbourne Storm |
| Daryl Millard | Wakefield Trinity Wildcats |
| Hazem El Masri | Retirement |
| Ben Hannant | Brisbane Broncos |
Squad
The Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs have signed the below players in first grade to play in the main competition.
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- Costello, Tim (9 November 2010). "2010 in review – Canterbury Bulldogs (13th)". League Unlimited. leagueunlimited.com. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
- AFP (15 April 2010). "Swimming coach switches to rugby league". Times Live. AVUSA, Inc. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
- Stuart Honeysett and Brent Read (23 April 2010) Shocking end to the Melbourne Storm era The Australian