2017 Finals Wk2 - Eels v Cowboys (GAME DAY THREAD)

[I'm a loser baby...]

You guys and your relentless optimism. I just consulted my clairvoyant, and guess what?

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

the first time you said it I thought it was a finalist for dumbest thing I'd ever heard on here....I haven't changed my mind.

Hey, you also said that about my 'mock one-speed' bicycle!!

 

[Bazal]

You guys and your relentless optimism. I just consulted my clairvoyant, and guess what?

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Yes but the future is shit that hasn't happened yet, so there's still a chance!

 

[Bazal]

Hey, you also said that about my 'mock one-speed' bicycle!!

It's a large finals series. Like soccer world cup qualification

 

[Suitman]

I am a season ticket holder, and go to as many games as I am able. I stay until the final siren every time, win or lose. I just like to see the end of the game - it's Parra, so I will watch every single second.

However I don't have a problem with anyone who does leave early. People go to see their team win. If their team no longer has a chance, what's the point in staying? People also go to watch a competition. When that Morgan try was scored the competition was pretty much over. Why stay? May as well get an easier exit and get home earlier.

I stayed last night. Right up until every player had left the field. Not to applaud my team - f**k that, they lost! If they want my applause then they have to win, or at least play well. They didn't. They played like shit. I applauded them on their great season after the Souths game. That was the end of their great season. They then went on to play two more games and lost both - one where they put in a good fight but ultimately made too many errors and gave away too many penalties...and another where they just didn't play anywhere near what they are capable of.

I will buy another season ticket next year, and I will go to as many games as I can. I will applaud them when they win, and I will chastise them when they play like shit. But if a day comes where I do actually choose to leave a game early because I can't watch the embarrassment any longer, then it doesn't make me any less of a fan that anyone else.

You seem a good bloke Suity. You don't need to go around judging others like that.

Fair enough and I respect that view.
I just thought it was a bad look.
I reckon more than half the crowd had left before full time.
That's 20000 fans who turned their backs on the team. That is their prerogative I suppose but I just think it shows little respect to the players. Yes, sure, they didn't play to their potential and were well beaten on the night. I still respected what they have done throughout the season and IMO they had earned the right of my support right till the end.
As I said, I think it was a bad look. That's all.

 

[Bazal]

Fair enough and I respect that view.
I just thought it was a bad look.
I reckon more than half the crowd had left before full time.
That's 20000 fans who turned their backs on the team. That is their prerogative I suppose but I just think it shows little respect to the players. Yes, sure, they didn't play to their potential and were well beaten on the night. I still respected what they have done throughout the season and IMO they had earned the right of my support right till the end.
As I said, I think it was a bad look. That's all.

Nah I agree 100%

Walking out just because they're losing means you are no more than a fairweather fan IMO.

 

[sammythesaint]

It always amuses me when fans of really shit teams come here to troll. We finished 4th when most "experts" tipped us to miss the 8. We pushed this year's likely premiers for 80 minutes.

How'd your team go again? You'll miss the 8 for at least the next two years while we'll be finals mainstays for the foreseeable future. Neck up, you spineless mongoloid.

Nahhhh...you guys over the past 12 weeks actually believed you had a chance of a flag....poor misguided turn the porch light back on.

 

[Bazal]

Nahhhh...you guys over the past 12 weeks actually believed you had a chance of a flag....poor misguided turn the porch light back on.

A flag?

I'm sure a lot of us have flags, we take them to games and wave them about when we score tries and such.

 

[sammythesaint]

Any boys.....better you got knocked out now... rather than copping a 60 point thrashing to the rorters next week.
Finishing 5th though was a massive under achievement.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

It's a large finals series. Like soccer world cup qualification

With so many stupid trolls about lately I'm not holding out much hope.

 

[Bazal]

Any boys.....better you got knocked out now... rather than copping a 60 point thrashing to the rorters next week.
Finishing 5th though was a massive under achievement.

Even better to have finished 9th and not had to lose any finals!

 

[sammythesaint]

Even better to have finished 9th and not had to lose any finals!

Definitely......bring ln 2018.
No one to replace semi?
Ohhh well, you can always ask Hayne

 

[Bazal]

Definitely......bring ln 2018.
No one to replace semi?
Ohhh well, you can always ask Hayne

I'm still wondering why our flags are relevant tbh. You're all over the place!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Definitely......bring ln 2018.
No one to replace semi?
Ohhh well, you can always ask Hayne

Will make it easier to fit Gutherson and French into the team.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Definitely......bring ln 2018.
No one to replace semi?
Ohhh well, you can always ask Hayne

Yes, we're a club in crisis. Next year we'll only have the same number of Semis as every other club!

 

[Bazal]

Yes, we're a club in crisis. Next year we'll only have the same number of Semis as every other club!

Interesting stat....no team with a Semi Radradra in it has ever won the NRL premiership.

That merkin was holding us back the whole time!

 

[sammythesaint]

Yes, we're a club in crisis. Next year we'll only have the same number of Semis as every other club!

Well....unfortunately for the Eels, he was a key strike weapon....so yes....you may well be in crisis. Not as though your talent cupboard is over flowing.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Well....unfortunately for the Eels, he was a key strike weapon....so yes....you may well be in crisis. Not as though your talent cupboard is over flowing.

If only the rules allowed us to use the money we were paying Semi to pay other players...

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Nahhhh...you guys over the past 12 weeks actually believed you had a chance of a flag....poor misguided turn the porch light back on.

We still are a chance of winning the comp. Making the finals this year is the first step for a team that had eleven of our top 17 without finals experience.

We'll lose Radradra next year and Beau Scott will be a year older and slower (the only member of our top 17 older than 30), but these top 17 players are all young enough to be better next year:

Alvaro
Auva'a
Brown
Evans
French
Gutherson
King
Moeroa
Moses
Norman
Pritchard

That includes our entire spine. It's very exciting!

 

[Bandwagon]

f**k me, I leave the other thread cause the trolling was so f**king poor, and I get this second rate apprentice f**kstick's understudy.

Do yourself a favour mate, and stick your head in a blender.