Eels attack after ten rounds

[Poupou Escobar]

So after ten rounds we have scored the third most points in the competition, despite having played half our games against the top five defensive sides. We have made one fewer line break than the Panthers.

We need to fix our own defence, but our attack is humming. Good job Murph!

 

[emjaycee]

FFS Kidwell, lift your game.

 

[Gronk]

 

[emjaycee]

Interestingly in the press conference yesterday, BA made mention of our starts and how we need to make sure we dont let the opposition score early, so I had a quick look at points flow in our games this year.

In our 4 losses this year, the other team has scored first and in only 2 of our 6 wins has this happened. The 2 times it happened where we won were against Storm and Panthers however, in both games we scored next and within 10 mins of their try. So in neither game did we let them get more than a single try lead on us and in both games they were the last try scorers in regulation time.

Both games were also even at half-time. We also haven't lost this year when leading at half-time and haven't won when behind at half-time.

Not sure what, if any conclusion to be drawn from this analysis but interesting nonetheless.

 

[hineyrulz]

Awesome!! Time to extend Murph before he gets pinched off us!!

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

We'll attack after ten rounds? Ambush!!

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Or did we just let the cat out of the bag?

 

[hindy111]

Interestingly in the press conference yesterday, BA made mention of our starts and how we need to make sure we dont let the opposition score early, so I had a quick look at points flow in our games this year.

In our 4 losses this year, the other team has scored first and in only 2 of our 6 wins has this happened. The 2 times it happened where we won were against Storm and Panthers however, in both games we scored next and within 10 mins of their try. So in neither game did we let them get more than a single try lead on us and in both games they were the last try scorers in regulation time.

Both games were also even at half-time. We also haven't lost this year when leading at half-time and haven't won when behind at half-time.

Not sure what, if any conclusion to be drawn from this analysis but interesting nonetheless.

We have had one shocking game. Cowboys.
Could be undefeated in all the others. But then Storm and Penrith and even the Titans twice could of beaten us. We are going ok but need work.
A bit of tweaking and some guys to come back and we might be flying.

I'd still prefer once Marata is back a bench of

Papali'i, Brown,Cartwright,Kafusi......

 

[Gary Gutful]

Bring in Barrett to replace Kidwell.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Our D has been G.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

FFS Kidwell, lift your game.

He’s thrown it in the too hard basket ffs!

 

[lucablight]

Attack is trash in the 20m zone. We are very fortunate to have a great forward pack and score a lot of opportunistic tries.

 

[pazzaeel]

Attack is trash in the 20m zone. We are very fortunate to have a great forward pack and score a lot of opportunistic tries.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Attack is trash in the 20m zone. We are very fortunate to have a great forward pack and score a lot of opportunistic tries.

Luckier than 13 other teams ffs!

 

[hindy111]

Our D has been G.

f**knof merkin

 

[hindy111]

Bring in Barrett to replace Kidwell.

Very silly comment.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Don’t disagree about being better in the opposition 20. Would turn us from a very good attacking team into a great one.

However, our current attack would be more than sufficient if we could get our defence sorted. Letting in far too many soft tries this year.

 

[Twizzle]

Attack is trash in the 20m zone. We are very fortunate to have a great forward pack and score a lot of opportunistic tries.

if only we had enough space in our cap for a quality forward pack, as well as a top quality back line.

 

[Eelementary]

Don’t disagree about being better in the opposition 20. Would turn us from a very good attacking team into a great one.

However, our current attack would be more than sufficient if we could get our defence sorted. Letting in far too many soft tries this year.

Which I can't understand - we defended very well last year.

Perhaps it's due to our backline woes - maybe getting Blake, Sivo, etc. back in the side will see our defence improve, as teams will not find it as easy to go around us?

I don't know.

 

[yy_cheng]

Which I can't understand - we defended very well last year.

Perhaps it's due to our backline woes - maybe getting Blake, Sivo, etc. back in the side will see our defence improve, as teams will not find it as easy to go around us?

I don't know.

its actually simple. Mentality and desire.

Penrith's line speed is always up there.

We can do it but not every game

Nrown used to set our linespeed and so did Stoney

Nrown goes MIA now.

Also our offloading tires the opposition. I don;t think we offloaded at all until Matto came on.

I get that you need to bash and charge and earn the right to offload but against a defense who is always offside, the offloads tires them out.

Then there are more holes for our attack.


I think we play the best when we chase the collision in attack and defense and introduce offloads. When we go wide from 1 end to the other, it is crap