Rd20: 3pm Parra v Canberra GAME DAY THREAD @ GIO Stadium 19/7/25

[The Predictor]

Flanno is a whiny bitch. Whinges about everything. I doubt he's taken seriously.

Yet Ryles tows the line to the teams detriment, I know who’d I’d rather when it comes to having a whinge

 

[Eelementary]

Ryles is a part of that recruitment team. And all Ryles has shown us is that he is capable of competing for a spoon.

I've seen better structures in place.

We're a young team, with loads of inexperience. Inconsistency is part of having a young team.

No to mention key players being unavailable for so long.

Ryles may well tell the recruitment team who to target, but it's not his responsibility to get the details of the contracts sorted, which is an area that may pose a problem.

 

[Noise]

I've seen better structures in place.

We're a young team, with loads of inexperience. Inconsistency is part of having a young team.

No to mention key players being unavailable for so long.

Ryles may well tell the recruitment team who to target, but it's not his responsibility to get the details of the contracts sorted, which is an area that may pose a problem.

Disagree that we are inconsistent. We are consistently shit.

 

[eels_fan]

Yet Ryles tows the line to the teams detriment, I know who’d I’d rather when it comes to having a whinge

You cant whinge about refereeing decisions in a game you miss 50 tackles and complete at under 60%

the optics on that are you are passing the buck rather looking at what you can control.

If we’d lost the game by 6-10 points yesterday, I think Ryles would have made a comment about lopsided officiating, but when you lose by 20+ points with those stats, you won’t be taken seriously

 

[JokerEel]

Problem is, we haven’t signed anyone of note really since the 7 left basically in 2021, getting to the GF while pleasing has really harmed the club with poor extensions, retentions, options and continual signing of reserve graders hoping to get lightning in a bottle.

Have to hope that the front office suddenly get on a roll, unlikely but it’s what we need to see .

We don't even seem to be looking to poach young guns coming through either...

Raiders 3 in Flegg yesterday looks good can defend and hit a hole. We should be recruiting Flegg players to come play cup and replace the likes of Tago and Dunster.

We have resigned a lot of duds this year that are just taking up a top 30 or development spot.

 

[JokerEel]

Agree with most of what you said, but I'd argue that we had a forwards leader in both Nathan Brown, and Reagan Campbell-Gillard.

They aren't forward leaders.

 

[JokerEel]

You cant whinge about refereeing decisions in a game you miss 50 tackles and complete at under 60%

the optics on that are you are passing the buck rather looking at what you can control.

If we’d lost the game by 6-10 points yesterday, I think Ryles would have made a comment about lopsided officiating, but when you lose by 20+ points with those stats, you won’t be taken seriously

Storm lost by 2 yesterday I doubt we hear Bellamy complain about the ref..

 

[Stevie]

You cant whinge about refereeing decisions in a game you miss 50 tackles and complete at under 60%

the optics on that are you are passing the buck rather looking at what you can control.

If we’d lost the game by 6-10 points yesterday, I think Ryles would have made a comment about lopsided officiating, but when you lose by 20+ points with those stats, you won’t be taken seriously

 

[Timana]

Let's play fill in the gaps.
Averillo could be 5/8 or centre
Tino (pipedream)
David Fifita
Between Kautoga, Williams, Tuialagi, Will Latu we can probably cover 2nd row. Not against signing a gun 2nd rower
From row we will have Jnr, Tuivaiti, Moretti. We need two front rowers
Centres if we dont get a speedster like Averillo then im not sure what the options are but sure as shit we need some pace in the 3/4 line.
I really hope there are signings on the way.
Raiders have a lot of good forwards. Go forward, no nonsense. Big and athletic.
We actually need a forward leader...we dont and haven't had one since Ray Price...

Fui?

 

[Timana]

But you have to also complete and that's where we eff it up..59% completions is not even acceptable for a pub team

Yes but if you watch the Raiders, they look to see if there is anyone there to offload to and they made fewer mistakes.

We throw it out w/o looking with big culprits (Lomax, Hopgood) and we throw alot of hospitals where the passer should've held on to it.

Alot of the mistakes yesterday were stupid.. Kick out on the full, kickoff out on the full, joash (oh so many mistakes), he just chanced his arm and no one knew what he was doing

 

[Gary Gutful]

Yet Ryles tows the line to the teams detriment, I know who’d I’d rather when it comes to having a whinge

The Parra game was very different to the Dragons v Bulldogs. Refereeing didn't cost us the game. Flanno is a f**kwit. Glad he isn't our coach.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Disagree that we are inconsistent. We are consistently shit.

We aren't consistently shit. We show pockets of quality football in a lot of games. In yesterday's game we were shit, good and then shit again.

 

[The Predictor]

You cant whinge about refereeing decisions in a game you miss 50 tackles and complete at under 60%

the optics on that are you are passing the buck rather looking at what you can control.

If we’d lost the game by 6-10 points yesterday, I think Ryles would have made a comment about lopsided officiating, but when you lose by 20+ points with those stats, you won’t be taken seriously

I agree, I wasn’t necessarily talking about this game, but past games, Ryles comes across quite passive, hence continuation of dubious calls, no matter how shit we are, until we stop being shit we will continue getting the rubbish calls

 

[Gary Gutful]

Need to fix our discipline.

 

[Noise]

We aren't consistently shit. We show pockets of quality football in a lot of games. In yesterday's game we were shit, good and then shit again.

Which teams are consistently shit? And consistently good? Because by your description every team would be inconsistent, even the top of the competition Raiders.

I think if you up the top of the table you are consistently good. If you are fighting for the spoon you are consistently shit.

 

[Delboy]

Need to fix our discipline.

Yep, but Klein needed to police both sides the same. That’s what often is the issue. 8-0 penalty count and 6 agains and Klein always seems to be influenced by one teams table position and the crowd.

 

[Stevie]

Terrible penalty against RCG. What is he supposed to do? He literally did nothing.

 

[Stevie]

Ok. Ok.

I’d take Douhi for 1 year on a minimum salary to play 5/8.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Which teams are consistently shit? And consistently good? Because by your description every team would be inconsistent, even the top of the competition Raiders.

I think if you up the top of the table you are consistently good. If you are fighting for the spoon you are consistently shit.

The Raiders can be poor at times. They blew a good start against the eels yesterday.

I think there are degrees of consistency rather than it being a yes/no.

 

[Timana]

The Raiders can be poor at times. They blew a good start against the eels yesterday.

I think there are degrees of consistency rather than it being a yes/no.

Dude, they are 1st with only 3 losses and they have played most of the top 8 teams already.
They are better than probably 16 other teams