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Rd8: Eels v Cowboys GAME DAY THREAD in Darwin 30/4/22

King-Gutho94

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Would we lose anything much by swapping Dylan Brown and Jake Arthur for tthe second half? Jake defending in the centres, and Dylan trying some things closer to the ball to try and get us back in the game?

It's less predictable, given the Cowboys have clearly done their homework on what was last week's "surpise" positional switch and have our measure.
Surely you dont homework for Jakey boy.

All you need to know is he will crab across the field on an angle and pass it to the man on his outside when running left and then his man on the inside when running right.
 

Bandwagon

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Epic fail by Parra. Honestly we are well off the pace and bereft of ideas in attack.
Lane looked lazy from the get go. Not blaming him and he has a few mates but this 1st half performance is simply not good enough..
Out coached, out enthused and out played...worrying about getting the fkn red eye back tonight to play riff on Friday...seriously..priorities...win this fkn game first

Lanes getting fed ball by Shrub, it's just not the quality he gets from Drown.
 

Incorrect

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lol yes Jake Arthur is the problem tonight.
Seriously, have you seen the pass in to his teammates head, the delay in backline movement and resulting hospital pass that saw Drown get smashed and winded? The nonsensical kicks that no teammates seem to know are on....

We're struggling as a team, it ain't all Jake's fault but he's a massive part of our problem. Drown needs to go back to the halves and now....
 

yy_cheng

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Surely you dont homework for Jakey boy.

All you need to know is he will crab across the field on an angle and pass it to the man on his outside when running left and then his man on the inside when running right.
He;s setting them up. He'll do this like 15 times and then he'll take the line on and break thru
 

Happy MEel

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Correct. His stats are as good as they have been all season. 0 tries, 0 try assists and 0 line break assists. His running meters of 13 are also bang on his average per half.
He’s just doing his job, exactly what dad wants him to do. Catch the ball, take a few steps, think about what he did at training this week, think some more, take a few more steps, then pass the ball to the player with the most defenders around them.
 

Poupou Escobar

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We appear to have come with the approach of trying to grind our opponents down and wait for them to capitulate. That would seem to be a fairly dumb approach for a match in the tropics against a team from the tropics.

We've got sweet f**k all otherwise. Our general team play is its normal pedestrian and predictable self.
The Cowboys are completing at 89% to our 80%. They are the ones who are grinding, not us. The Cowboys halves have thrown 37 passes to our 52. We need to get back to basics. f**k this side-side shit off.
 

Happy MEel

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I would think itd be a scary thought jake having to defend the rather large hiku ... feldt would be odds 9n for a few more
Jake’s no smaller than Drown. It’s not my ideal scenario (which I’ve posted) but we’re more likely to score points, which is what we need to do now that we’re down.
 

yy_cheng

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Seriously, have you seen the pass in to his teammates head, the delay in backline movement and resulting hospital pass that saw Drown get smashed and winded? The nonsensical kicks that no teammates seem to know are on....

We're struggling as a team, it ain't all Jake's fault but he's a massive part of our problem. Drown needs to go back to the halves and now....
we're setting it all up for the panfers game. Don't show anything in attack.
 

Soto

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Another massive difference is the fact our dummy half does not run....
They are killing us at the play the ball but continue to play 1 out with little or no variety...Is there any footy nous in this club or is run hard tackle hard mantra the answer to the holy grail???
 
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