2019 R21 Sat - Eels 20-14 Knights @ Bankwest

[Rhyno]

Just acquainting himself with his future teammates, eh @Rhyno ?

No place for ponga in our backline

Eels 2020 backline
Gutherson
Radradra
Ferguson
Blake
Sivo
Brown
Moses

Best backline in the last 30 years

 

[OldPanther]

Ponga Flying Kick:

 

[Tooooks]

I would I take Ponga at the Raiders but his future is in the halves imo. He is too small for fullback.

Ponga 184cm 92kg
Tedesco 184cm 95kg
Slater shorter than both and about 89kg.

 

[League Unlimited News]

MATCH REPORT - Eels 20 Knights 14:

Eels capitalise on sloppy Knights performance
Andrew Ferguson | August 10 2019 7:26PM


Parramatta Eels v Newcastle Knights

Newcastle has trotted out one of their worst efforts of the year which sees them drift further away from finals contention, while the Eels have all but secured their place in the 2019 finals after downing the Knights 20-14 at Bankwest Stadium tonight.

Read the full report - https://leagueunlimited.com/news/33885-eels-v-knights-report/

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I'm sure Brown has got that one in the bank saving it for a moment late in the game. If not I'm sure BA will point it out to him at half time.

Nice

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Ponga strikes me as a player who doesn't want to grind and do hard work. He would have fit right in at the Raiders the last 10 years.

I think his problem is similar to Hayne's (on-field problems) in that he is great at everything but he is not an endurance athlete, which seems to be an essential feature of modern fullback play. Look at some of the relative plodders who are still very effective as NRL fullbacks due to the fact they are always there when they're needed:

Edwards
Dugan
Gutherson
Thompson

Plus four of the top five teams have high involvement fullbacks as well, but they aren't plodders.

 

[mongoose]

Ponga 184cm 92kg
Tedesco 184cm 95kg
Slater shorter than both and about 89kg.

hmmm ok maybe i should have checked his bio lol, he looks smaller.

 

[Glen]

If there’s no swing, there’s no penalty. There was nothing in it until mr tough guy threw a punch, which is supposed to be a send off... but earned him a penalty.

And yes, the Knights deserved to lose, but we are capable of doing that ourselves and yet we keep getting help.

It may be so that they would not stop the play until Manu took a swing. That’s typical bad NRL refereeing.

But the real tough guy Klemmer acted first in throwing an unprovoked forearm/elbow at a guy who had both arms pinned back in a tackle. He didn’t catch all of it but he made contact. PENALTY. Then Manu retaliated and took a swing and missed. Lucky that he did miss, but swinging at the air deserves NO PENALTY. Have you ever seen someone penalised for a big swinging arm that goes way over someone’s head?

 

[macavity]

Klemmer was tackling. Nothing in it.

Typical shitty reffing.

 

[macavity]

I think his problem is similar to Hayne's (on-field problems) in that he is great at everything but he is not an endurance athlete, which seems to be an essential feature of modern fullback play. Look at some of the relative plodders who are still very effective as NRL fullbacks due to the fact they are always there when they're needed:

Edwards
Dugan
Gutherson
Thompson

Plus four of the top five teams have high involvement fullbacks as well, but they aren't plodders.

Should have left him at 6.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Should have left him at 6.

But then teams could wear him out with heaps of tackling.