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Canterbury five-eighth Josh Reynolds insists there is nothing wrong with his sides attacking structure despite points drying up for the Bulldogs.The Bulldogs have scored an average of just 13.8 points per match since their second bye in round 19, and enter Sundays elimination final against Penrith on the back of three straight losses.But Reynolds has leapt to the defence of the attacking structure set by coach Des Hasler, which often sees the ball passed through a forwards hands before reaching him or halfback Moses Mbye.Des is the coach, he sets the structure and hes got a pretty good history I reckon in the game, Reynolds said.Hes done extremely well as a player and I think his stats speak for themselves as a coach.I trust what he delivers to us and its whether we deliver it as he wants it.And we havent been doing that lately. So its not the structure, its not the team or the way we play.Reynolds is one of just a handful of players at the Bulldogs who still remain at the club since Hasler arrived in 2012.Since that time he has represented NSW in two separate Origin series, and as such, maintains the modified game plan has not impacted his own performance.Ive been playing here for five years now and I feel Ive adapted to it, he said.I really enjoy it. And I have so many people come and say do you feel you dont get the ball first-hand.If thats not whats best for the team then I dont care if I dont get the ball first-hand.However he admits both he and Moses Mbye speak about the frustration surrounding the contentious game plan.We chat about it to each other, he said.Why do people constantly ask? I know the past couple of weeks has been a struggle with our attack and were not shy to say that.Its just what Des feels we do best for the team.The Bulldogs have made the past five finals series, and Reynolds knows he and Mbye need to put the discussion aside ahead of Sundays elimination final against Penrith at Allianz Stadium.Its semi-finals, do or die, he said.If we think about what weve done over the past few weeks, the same thing will happen.We put some points on some good teams at stages so its just getting back to that. Nets Jerseys China . The Redskins announced Monday that the quarterback who led the team to the Super Bowl championship in the 1987 season will serve as a personnel executive. Wholesale Custom Nets Shirts .C. United of Major League Soccer. 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Gulam Bodi was a spent force by the time he was linked to match-fixing. The same could be said for Thami Tsolekile, who is the only other international in the group, and Ethy Mbhalati, who recently had a benefit year at the end of a career that spanned more than a decade. Pumelela Matshikwe and Jean Symes were not well known but they were promising talents, perhaps with unfulfilled potential. But none were household names.They have also not been dealt the punishment Cronje was. He was banned for life; these players will be kept out of the game for between seven and 20 years, perhaps because their wrongdoing was not deemed as great. Cronje admitted to accepting money to influence the outcome of international matches, the five here have admitted to varying roles in attempting to manipulate domestic cricket. CSA has maintained it have no evidence a fix was actually carried out.In the end, that may not actually matter. The thought was there, some of the steps were taken and while South African cricket may not miss this quintet it will feel the effects of their actions in the following ways.Uncertainty The first warnings of match-fixing came out 10 months ago, in November 2015 but still the investigation has not reached its conclusion. That leaves the matter open to more speculation, fans unsure of whether their game is clean and players on tenterhooks. Judge Bernard Ngoepe, the chairman of CSAs Anti-Corruption Unit, explained the reasons for the slow pace of proceedings but gave no indication how much longer it would remain pending.Some people might have thought the process was too slow, he said. If it has to be slow, so be it. We take our work seriously and it must be remembered that we need to have something concrete to trigger an investigation.We do not engage in witch hunts. Whatever we do, we do it with a purpose. bearing in mind, we are dealing with the future of people, in some instances very young people, and not forgetting our primary responsibility which is to protect the integrity of the sport. We neither rush nor deliberately go slow. Adequate balancing is needed because you might, out of excitement or undue haste, destroy the future of people or harm the very cause you want to promote.Ngoepe explained it had been difficult to get witnesses to co-operate in the face of increasing attention while Haroon Lorgat, CSAs chief executive, appealed for discretion in the media.As is the case with investigations of this nature, be it ordinary malpractices in life, you do find that people are hesitant in coming forward and giving at once and right at the beginning all the new information that you need, Ngoepe said. Under those circumstances, you need to know how to deal with people, how to approach them, how to point out the advantages of cleaning up the sport which will be in the interest of everybody, iincluding the people themselves.dddddddddddd Despite some malpractices, we must accept that they too love the sport.Lorgat added: I would appeal to the media, sometimes part of the reason for the delay is because we are able to coax a potential witness to a point but then the media speculates and you create nervousness or fear among potential witnesses and we lose anything between three and and four weeks to get back to the position we were. Please understand when we say we are not in a position to make further comment.South Africas T20 league These five players all admitted to attempting to influence aspects of South Africas T20 tournament, its highest-profile domestic event. CSA has been trying for years to bring this competition more in line with leagues around the world but has been unable to do so for reasons ranging from scheduling to the weak Rand failing to attract major foreign names. In the 2017-18 season, CSA plans to repackage the Ram Slam as a global T20 tournament, for which it will own the rights. It will do so with the shadow of match-fixing hanging over the event but Lorgat insists it will not sabotage aims to turn it into a showpiece.CSA is fortunate in that, its got a suite of sponsors that are very confident in the way we administer and govern the game. They are aware of the investigation and the way we go about it, he said. Im confident we will be able to reposition our league.The title sponsor of the competition in its current form, Ram, said it would be reviewing its backing of the event when Bodi was banned. It has not yet indicated what it will do after the latest round of bans. Transformation In increasingly politicised times in South African sport, it is impossible to ignore that three of the four cricketers banned on Monday were black Africans and two of them - Tsolekile and Mbhalati - seniors at their franchise. With CSAs focus on transformation, which now includes targets in the national team as well as franchise sides, this is a setback and Lorgat admitted as much.Any senior player who is lost to the system is one too many, he said. The fact that they happen to be black players is probably a particular issue because we are so focused on transformation. It does impact us.But he was careful to ask that stereotypes are not perpetuated. I dont believe that corruption is unique to any race or creed, he said. Bookmakers will attempt to corrupt anybody they believe they can get to.Ngoepe responded to the implication that players from more disadvantaged backgrounds would be more vulnerable to corruption. On another day your question could have been given their poor background, would they not have been more vulnerable and taken advantage of, he said. You can look at me and decide whether I am white or black but I dont subscribe to the notion that because you come from a poor or disadvantaged background, you should open yourself up to corruption. That should never be justification for being corrupt. ' ' '