2019 Review

[forward pass]

So 2019 is done and dusted - keen to see your thoughts on the Eels season.

Best Forward:
Best Back:
Most Valuable player:
Who is your favourite player to watch:
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo :
Favourite game:
Favourite try:
Favourite Bankwest experience:
Biggest disappointment (player):
Most disappointing performance:
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020:
Which player should we really go after:
Which Wenty player can we get excited about:

 

[forward pass]

Best Forward: Shaun Lane
Best Back: Blake Ferguson
Most Valuable player: Mitchell Moses
Who is your favourite player to watch: Waqa Blake
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo : D Brown
Favourite game: SF v Broncos
Favourite try: Sivo v Saints
Favourite Bankwest experience: Comeback against Saints
Biggest disappointment (player): Jennings
Most disappointing performance: Magic round v Storm
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020: 4th or 5th
Which player should we really go after: Jai Arrow
Which Wenty player can we get excited about: None from the little I have watched

 

[Gazzamatta]

Best Forward: Lane/Mahoney
Best Back: Moses
Most Valuable player: Moses
Who is your favourite player to watch: D Brown
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo : D Brown
Favourite game: SF V Broncos
Favourite try: D Brown bomb and retrieve SF V Broncos
Favourite Bankwest experience: SF V Broncos/1st game V Tigpies
Biggest disappointment (player): Mennings
Most disappointing performance: SF V Storm
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020: 8th
Which player should we really go after: P Hass
Which Wenty player can we get excited about: Stefano.

 

[Gronk]

Best Forward: Jnr Paulo
Best Back: Sivo
Most Valuable player: Moses
Who is your favourite player to watch: Nathan Brown
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo : Sivo
Favourite game: last game vs Manly
Favourite try: Waqa Blake in and away vs Manly (scored by gutho)
Favourite Bankwest experience: 58-0 was cool
Biggest disappointment (player): Bevan French
Most disappointing performance: 10-64 Vs Storm at Suncorp
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020: 5th
Which player should we really go after: Cam Murray
Which Wenty player can we get excited about: None - what happened to that Goolagong merkin ?

 

[Bazal]

Best Forward: Junior Paulo
Best Back: Blake Ferguson
Most Valuable player: Mitch Moses
Who is your favourite player to watch: Blake Ferguson/Maika Sivo. Just cos you never quite know what might happen. Especially with Fergo lol
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo : Dylan Brown
Favourite game: 58-0
Favourite try: Moses first ever try at Bankwest
Favourite Bankwest experience: 58-0 (by proxy from my couch)
Biggest disappointment (player): Daniel Alvaro/Nathan Brown
Most disappointing performance: The loss to Penrith.
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020: 4th or 5th
Which player should we really go after: David Fifita
Which Wenty player can we get excited about: Utokimanu is the best of them

 

[Incorrect]

Which Wenty player can we get excited about: None - what happened to that Goolagong merkin ?

Took up tennis I think...

 

[Eelementary]

Best Forward: Reed Mahoney
Best Back: Mitchell Moses
Most Valuable player: Mitchell Moses
Who is your favourite player to watch: Blake Ferguson
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo : Dylbro
Favourite game: Eels 58 Broncos 0
Favourite try: Any of Blake Ferguson's freakish efforts thus year
Favourite Bankwest experience: 58-0
Biggest disappointment (player): Tepai Moeroa
Most disappointing performance: Storm 32 Eels 0
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020: 4th
Which player should we really go after: Tyson Frizzell
Which Wenty player can we get excited about: Stefano Utoikamanu

 

[forward pass]

You saying Tepai was worse this year than other years?

 

[Gary Gutful]

Best Forward: Mahoney
Best Back: Sivo
Most Valuable player: Moses
Who is your favourite player to watch: Ferguson
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo : Sivo
Favourite game: 58-0 against Brisbane
Favourite try: The first try at Bankwest
Favourite Bankwest experience: Seeing the opening game against the Tigs (From Brisbane)
Biggest disappointment (player): Nrown
Most disappointing performance: 32-0 loss to Melbourne in week 2 of the finals.
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020: 7th
Which player should we really go after: David Fifita.
Which Wenty player can we get excited about: No idea. Can't be arsed following Wenty.

 

[IFR33K]

Best Forward: paulo
Best Back: gutho, fergo missed too many games.
Most Valuable player: Moses
Who is your favourite player to watch: reed being a menace in defence
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo : sivo
Favourite game: 51-6 vs wests
Favourite try: sivo vs st George
Favourite Bankwest experience: opening bankwest
Biggest disappointment (player): MJ
Most disappointing performance: Vs storm week 2. So much to play for and we shit the bed
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020: heart says 1st, head says 10th.
Which player should we really go after: papali how old is the merkin?
Which Wenty player can we get excited about: no idea

 

[Gronk]

Biggest disappointment (player): MJ

Gus ran through his Dally M awards this morning on 2ue and he had MJ just behind Latrell and Crocker.

 

[Noise]

Best Forward: paulo
Best Back: Moses
Most Valuable player: Moses
Who is your favourite player to watch: Sivo
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo : sivo
Favourite game: SF vs Brisbane 58-0
Favourite try: sivo vs st George
Favourite Bankwest experience: Broncos semi followed by the opening game
Biggest disappointment (player): Tepai (though he has constantly disappointed me for several years now)
Most disappointing performance: Both games against Melbourne
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020: 9th
Which player should we really go after: Fifita (Broncos one)
Which Wenty player can we get excited about: Nothing excites me about reserve grade.

 

[Eelementary]

You saying Tepai was worse this year than other years?

Yup.

Worse handling, worse discipline...

I'm kind of glad he is the ARU's player.

 

[IFR33K]

Gus ran through his Dally M awards this morning on 2ue and he had MJ just behind Latrell and Crocker.

For a 800k player was expecting a shit load more. Maybe gus was watching re-runs from 2014

 

[Gary Gutful]

MJ was solid this year.

 

[hindy111]

Gus ran through his Dally M awards this morning on 2ue and he had MJ just behind Latrell and Crocker.

He also had Fergo and Sico as his two wingers in his dally m team of year

 

[IFR33K]

MJ was solid this year.

Solid yes. But still disappointing for a player on the big $$$

 

[hindy111]

My review

- Good season. I enjoyed it. At no point did I ever think we where capable of taking the title but still was a fun year. If we had the same next season I'd be just as happy.

 

[strider]

Best Forward: Paulo
Best Back: Moses
Most Valuable player: Moses
Who is your favourite player to watch: Fergo
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo : Brown
Favourite game: lBroncos elim final
Favourite try: Waqa Blake in and away vs Manly
Favourite Bankwest experience: I only had one experience and we f**kin lost
Biggest disappointment (player): Tep
Most disappointing performance: Storm x2
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020: 6th
Which player should we really go after: David Fifita
Which Wenty player can we get excited about: Dunno

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Best Forward: Brown (our form picked up when he returned)
Best Back: Moses
Most Valuable player: Drown (gives us two genuine halves)
Who is your favourite player to watch: Mahoney (we finally hav
Best new talent - D Brown or Sivo : Brown (wingers are a lot easier to find than halves)
Favourite game: Canberra game 2
Favourite try: lane intercept
Favourite Bankwest experience: N/a
Biggest disappointment (player): Kaufusi (not that he was poor/terrible just expected him to really kick on and become a definite top 17 player, but has time on his side)
Most disappointing performance: Dogs game 2 (top 4 spot was there)
Where do you expect us to finish on the ladder in 2020: top 4
Which player should we really go after: dream - Jake T realistically - frizzell/Jackson
Which Wenty player can we get excited about: Salmon