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[Lemon Squash]

I think we will snag a few on the way home and avoid the spoon but I think we will drop to last again over the next couple of weeks.

 

[King-Gutho94]

We will win 8 games for the year.

Beat the Cowboys/Knights at home and jag 1 against the Bunnies or Warriors on the road i reckon.

If Moses plays the last 7 games we should avoid the spoon.

I think the Knights/Souths/Dragons struggle to win many more games with there run home.

We have a tough 3 weeks but last 5 rounds softens up.

 

[Twizzle]

If Moses plays the last 7 games we should avoid the spoon.

This is a big if for mine, if he is fit with a few games to go, then I would rest him till next season, as at the moment he just seems to be struggling to fully fend of his injury/s

 

[King-Gutho94]

This is a big if for mine, if he is fit with a few games to go, then I would rest him till next season, as at the moment he just seems to be struggling to fully fend of his injury/s

We need to play him.

If we are using this period as a springboard for 2026.

We need to see how Joash gels with Mitch in the halves.

Otherwise we truly will learn nothing and its just a waste of time.

And Mitch has missed enough footy in the past 2 years with the $$$ he is on its getting embarrassing.

His due back next week that's 7 games in a row he can play.

if it was now round 26 i would put a line through him and not worry about the last 2 games.

But with 7 games left after this week you can't be leaving him on the pine as your marquee player.

 

[Twizzle]

But with 7 games left after this week you can't be leaving him on the pine as your marquee player.

If he was reday to go this week or next, then I would agee. It seems unlikely to me with his injury record/history.

Can you inagine the outcry if he was picked this week and limped off the field and got replaced ? Sometimes its just hard to know what the "right thing" to do is.

Up to Ryles I guess.

 

[King-Gutho94]

If he was reday to go this week or next, then I would agee. It seems unlikely to me with his injury record/history.

Can you inagine the outcry if he was picked this week and limped off the field and got replaced ? Sometimes its just hard to know what the "right thing" to do is.

Up to Ryles I guess.

Ryles said in the presser on sunday he is back next week.

We play this Saturday/Friday/Thursday over the next 3 weeks that's 3 games in 12 days.

I believe we may kept him on Ice this week due to the B2B short turnarounds coming up just to ease him back.

So he only has 1 x 6 day turnaround to deal with in his return.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Our run home we play the Cows/Knights at home & Souths at Allianz

Now with Moses back by then we should be favourites for all 3 games considering the mess the cowboys are in and playing them at home.

Souths are ravaged with injury and will be lucky to field a 17 atm none of these will be back for our game (No Murray, Latrell, Walker, Graham, B Smith, Sullivan).

Knights in the last round with No Ponga/Sharpe and who knows where AOB will be currently its up in the air.

I dont expect us to be beating Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne in the next 3 weeks.

As things stand now those 3 games above Cows/Souths/Newcastle i mentioned we need to be winning.

We can talk about building for the future but honestly if we can't win those 3 games in the back end of the year especially if Moses is back alarm bells should be ringing.

I don't think its much to ask.

That's my pass mark on the run home and should be for the entire club.

Win those 3 games and if were good enough to jag another one then awesome.

 

[eels_fan]

Agree minimum 3 wins needed to end the year from here on out

 

[Eelementary]

I always feel a little more confident when Moses is on the paddock.

Not just for his kicking, but his leadership.

Hawkins has done a very good job, but he's inexperienced.


Mitch being back would be huge, but is it worth it?

 

[eels_fan]

I’ve got us finishing 12th on 22 points (8 wins) on the same points as the dragons and tigers so could be 11th-13th depending on F+A.

After a 15th finish last season, I don’t think an 11th/12th finish is horrible considering the change in our squad, play style etc. I predicted us being 8th-12th before a ball was kicked (think most had us around that mark realistically and that was before we knew we’d be missing Moses for more than half the season)

 

[the phantom menace]

Our run home we play the Cows/Knights at home & Souths at Allianz

Now with Moses back by then we should be favourites for all 3 games considering the mess the cowboys are in and playing them at home.

Those are our only 3 possible wins between now and the end of season trip.

I think we win two of them - maybe Knights and Souths, with Cowboys getting the better of us? - as I don't think we have the quality or form in the squad to win all three, even with Moses back.

We should hence avoid the spoon, especially with the Titans continuing to lose and finish maybe 14th? But we won't catch up to the Tigers, which simply indicates where the squad's currently at in terms of quality and form during this rebuilding year.