African Monkey
First Grade
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Why doesn't Patterson kick instead of Gidley ?
You can't blame the coach for this so far. Eels players have been shooting themselves in the foot with all these errors.
Mate, the coach is responsible for not making players accountable. Half these blokes would have been dropped weeks ago under anyone bar Hagan. He's also responsible for the utter lack of gameplan, or defensive patterns, for not being able to fire the guys up for a must win game....the players are playing like they don't care. They know they won;t be dropped, Tautai quite possibly had the worst wingers performance of the year last week. And he's not the only one. We have 3 small props and a bunch of similar backrowers, with players better suited to balance festering in reserves. We have better backs in reserves who can't get a run. The list goes on. His selections, his gameplans, his use of the interchange (I recall a match where we used all of them in 50 mins, with no injuries), his laid back attitude in the face of sh*t footy have got us to where we are today....
Did you hear him in the pre game interview? He was asked if this was a must win win game. His response was along the lines of "Not really, win or lose it doesn't really change what we have to do to make the 8".
I wonder if he realises that there is only another 5 rounds to go.
Mate, the coach is responsible for not making players accountable. Half these blokes would have been dropped weeks ago under anyone bar Hagan. He's also responsible for the utter lack of gameplan, or defensive patterns, for not being able to fire the guys up for a must win game....the players are playing like they don't care. They know they won;t be dropped, Tautai quite possibly had the worst wingers performance of the year last week. And he's not the only one. We have 3 small props and a bunch of similar backrowers, with players better suited to balance festering in reserves. We have better backs in reserves who can't get a run. The list goes on. His selections, his gameplans, his use of the interchange (I recall a match where we used all of them in 50 mins, with no injuries), his laid back attitude in the face of sh*t footy have got us to where we are today....
Point taken. His laid back approach probably doesn't suit this group of players.
Thoughts on that effort? I thought momentoum...
But i am bias.