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POST GAME DISCUSSION 2019 Rd13 - Eels 22 v Sharks 42

Kornstar

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What I dont get, why the hell didnt we wait for June as per original agreement to see if we keep BA?

Scared of losing Gutho/Moses? Media pressure?

The board are as much to blame as anyone else

Whoever decided to let our captains contract negotiations to go into the season should be sacked. The captain isn't just any player and if you give the captaincy to someone as young as Gutho the assumption is that you want them to stick around.

Why you would then offer some shit contract last year and then let it fester into the season is beyond me and doesn't seem like a great way to run a club.

That then flowed onto the coaches contract and they were forced to act because the public pressure just got too much and it threatened to really divide everyone.

It simply should never have gotten that far and we should have made a decision one way or another much, much earlier!!!

Different board, same shit!
 

Gronk

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I haven't watched the game yet. Gee missing a FB seems to have messed us up.

So how good were the sharks ?
 

Kornstar

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I haven't watched the game yet. Gee missing a FB seems to have messed us up.

So how good were the sharks ?

It was like men vs boys in the forwards and they won accordingly.

Graham hasn't played for 9 months and he looked 3 times fitter and 10 times more motivated to play than any of our forwards.
 

Djay

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I agree.
He's had more than enough time to sort this shit out, yet it's the same old problems year after year.
6 seasons ffs, yet we continue to see the same issues that we were watching in the first year of his tenure. The excuses from back then don't wash with we me anymore.
I've tried to be more than patient with BA, but IMO, it's really wearing thin now.
Spot on.

He still says some right things in his presser, like he knows what the problems are but FFS it's been 6 years, if he hasn't weaved out the same issues we had in 2013 now in 2019 which he hasn't, then it's pretty evident the guy is not capable.

Ditto about him aswell, I have stayed patient and defended him non stop but after that embarrassing display against Melbourne this year that was it for me, just proved we still have a losing culture and mentality, we have no idea how to fight against any sort of adversity. His had his time to sort all that out, his had 6 f**king years to assemble a good roster but now enough is enough. His clearly out of his depth because he hasn't solved one single issue that we had prior to his arrival.

I can't even be bothered to go through the amount of plodders we have and the misplaced trust he has in some players.

When you look at it and for me this is the most defining factor, just how much have we improved in 5 years? And what do we have to show for BA's efforts? 2 Semi Final loses, that is the highlight.
 

emjaycee

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If they were willing to defend like last week, you would be right but it wasn't shown tonight.
 

TheParraboy

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I haven't watched the game yet. Gee missing a FB seems to have messed us up.

So how good were the sharks ?


A lot of the time we made them look good eg stupid kicking mainly and soft missed tackles would do it too..

They did score a try off a forward pass, and another one from a knock on which would have made the scores closer

Their left edge destroyed us, breaks at will, especially when Graham was on
 
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