Eels appoint Ando as GM Football

[emjaycee]

This!!! God knows we have enough idiots from the current board already poking their heads into team affairs

Who exactly from the current board is poking their heads into team affairs?

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

Probably the same way we judged our previous coachs and CEOs??... In fact I would say if you cloaked follow the parhways and development of our players from 14s and15s onwards and your closely involved with the parramatta junior league than I would say it would be easy to form an appraisal on his performance, but granted not everyone will be able to do it..

And no doubt people will try.

 

[spartan2153]

just saw the ray price interview.

WOW. The further this guy is away from the eels the better. Calling anderson a loser. LOL

WOW i can honestly say now we know why fitzy didnt let him near the club.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I don't need to see another interview with Price to know that he is a major nuff nuff.

 

[oldmancraigy]

i dont, we let go of good first grade talent to chase players that weren't off contract. it has contributed to the eroding of this roster and our two wooden spoons.

Pretty sure we signed up a State of Origin prop with the money we didn't spend on a guy who hadn't manage to represent city. Oh, and the SoO rep was cheaper.

The amounts Inu and Mateo were paid was ludicrous. We could've matched that money, but we wouldn't have had success because we kept them. We would've done just as poorly (if not more so).
Worth noting that the club which signed Inu paid him to play elsewhere to get rid of him, and the club which took him on a massive discount doesn't want him either.
Mateo is a bench player - for $450k? You're kidding me.

 

[Maroubra Eel]

just saw the ray price interview.

WOW. The further this guy is away from the eels the better. Calling anderson a loser. LOL

WOW i can honestly say now we know why fitzy didnt let him near the club.

Isn't Price a PDRL board member?

This is awkward.

 

[lingard]

Yes next year will be Kearneys year. Smart thinking.

When will it be Ricky Stuart's year? Does he miss a turn?

 

[Pazza]

Pretty sure we signed up a State of Origin prop with the money we didn't spend on a guy who hadn't manage to represent city. Oh, and the SoO rep was cheaper.

The amounts Inu and Mateo were paid was ludicrous. We could've matched that money, but we wouldn't have had success because we kept them. We would've done just as poorly (if not more so).
Worth noting that the club which signed Inu paid him to play elsewhere to get rid of him, and the club which took him on a massive discount doesn't want him either.
Mateo is a bench player - for $450k? You're kidding me.

wasn't Tahu the replacement for Inu?

the money they were offered was a bit over the top but they both have more talent between the two of them than half our first grade squad. fact to the matter is we have won 2 wooden spoons and to say that we would have done worse with them in the side is just laughable.

 

[Loudstrat]

Inu and Mateo were major losses. 2010 sw us facing an impossible task to keep our 09 squad together under the cap. After shedding Robson, Gulavau, Kingston, Lowrie et-al, we banked on Mortimer, Inu and Mateo to support Hayne and Mannah in the building of the post Cayless/Hindy/Grothe/Burt era. That the Warriors threw cash at them wasnt our fault, but admins at other clubs would not have let it happen.

Throw Mateo and Inu in our side from the last few years, and maybe we wouldnt have bought the likes of Tonga, Sandow or Roberts. It meant we might have stuck with Albert Kelly. Who knows.

I do know that we have thrown big money to attract players into positions vacated by Mateo and Inu.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Pretty sure we signed up a State of Origin prop with the money we didn't spend on a guy who hadn't manage to represent city. Oh, and the SoO rep was cheaper.

The amounts Inu and Mateo were paid was ludicrous. We could've matched that money, but we wouldn't have had success because we kept them. We would've done just as poorly (if not more so).
Worth noting that the club which signed Inu paid him to play elsewhere to get rid of him, and the club which took him on a massive discount doesn't want him either.
Mateo is a bench player - for $450k? You're kidding me.

Sixty minutes off the bench is worth as much as sixty minutes starting.

The reason Mateo isn't worth as much as the elite edge forwards is because his defence is garbage. Like Dave Taylor, he is an elite attacking player out wide but in defence he is a liability.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

When will it be Ricky Stuart's year? Does he miss a turn?

Sticky deserves some of the credit for next year's squad, but the quality juniors (i.e. cheap depth) we owe to the 'academy' set up in 2011.

 

[Pazza]

Sticky deserves some of the credit for next year's squad, but the quality juniors (i.e. cheap depth) we owe to the 'academy' set up in 2011.

this club has been pumping out quality juniors well before 2011!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

wasn't Tahu the replacement for Inu?

In 2010 we had both of them on the books. Plus Hayne, Grothe, Burt and Reddy.

At full strength we couldn't have fit them all into the team.

the money they were offered was a bit over the top but they both have more talent between the two of them than half our first grade squad. fact to the matter is we have won 2 wooden spoons and to say that we would have done worse with them in the side is just laughable.

A wooden spoon means nothing. Better clubs than ours have won the spoon since their last premiership, and some (including the two most recent premiers) have won a premiership within a couple of years of a wooden spoon.

Sometimes coming last is the price you have to pay for future success. Although as they say, not all pain is gain.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

this club has been pumping out quality juniors well before 2011!

Yeah, pumping the merkins straight into other clubs.

 

[Casper The Ghost]

What part of Polynesia is JT from?

Polyamnesia better known as Amnesiapoly.

 

[Casper The Ghost]

The Pygmy region that's why The bigger one knocked him out.

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Casper The Ghost]

I think JT is from Amnesia. :alcho:

f**k, you beat me to it..... smart arse.

 

[Sujskiez]

Oh well look in the bright side with the influence of DA in our club the refs are less likely to target us with penalties:roll::roll:

 

[oldmancraigy]

Sixty minutes off the bench is worth as much as sixty minutes starting.

Yes - but if an edge 'attack only' forward isn't playing 80 minutes, then the fact he's a "bench only" kind of guy starts to take on some significance right? And he ought to be remunerated accordingly...

 

[Poupou Escobar]

He starts most games, though I think he's better off the bench.

Agree that <80 minute players deserve less money (duh) but in Mateo's favour he hasn't missed a game since 2009. So he's still played more minutes than Jarryd Hayne these past two years.

But yeah, $450k if true is too much. Or at least it was back in 2011. There would be a few back rowers on more than that these days.