Steve Mortimer will lend his heavyweight support to Canterbury chairman Ray Dib at the upcoming elections after satisfying himself the Bulldogs are on track to regain the culture that made them the "family club".

The blue and whites have gone back to their roots by reappointing Mortimer to the board and installing former players Dean Pay and Andrew Farrar as coach and head of football respectively. There was a feeling that Canterbury had gone away from the values that made the club so successful in its halcyon years under patriarch Peter "Bullfrog" Moore.

Mortimer and fellow great Terry Lamb felt the club was losing its way under previous coach Des Hasler, one of the few coaches who hadn't previously played for the Bulldogs.

Mortimer stepped down from the board after questioning the direction under Hasler, but accepted Dib's invitation to again become a director after Pay's appointment.