Eels Attack Analysis

[Poupou Escobar]

I’m talking about 2021.

You want us to attack like we did in 2018?

 

[Noise]

You want us to attack like we did in 2018?

What?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Who has said that we should be premiership favorites?
Nobody from my recollection.

Well that's good because we're not. We are less good than the premiership favorites, though with some luck we can beat them, as we did earlier this year.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I don’t reckon many people were claiming we were going to win the premiership either. Most people in the predictions thread didn’t have us as 1st or 2nd.

I had us outside the top three but inside the top six. Where do you reckon we'll finish?

 

[Noise]

I had us outside the top three but inside the top six. Where do you reckon we'll finish?

In the predictions thread I had us 7th or 8th (can’t remember which)but now I think we will finish 6th.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Why are we building? We've not really progressed over the last three seasons?

Our position on the ladder has been more to do with our draw and less games against strong sides each year over those seasons than the way we've played.

We're building nothing. We've been fortunate that more than half of the comp have been dreadful for two seasons. We're less chance of winning the comp this year than we have been at any stage of the regualar season over the last 3 years.

We're not building, we've stagnated.

Our points differential compared to the top team says otherwise.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Watch8ng the Roosters tonight with a line up not as good as ours, their constant movement when in possession and support play is light years ahead of what we do.

Don’t have to go full movement , but gee it shows what a well drilled attack should look like. We aren’t in that ball park and it doesn’t seem we practice anything other than effort and crash plays, I know that is a bit extreme , but how frustrating is it to watch an attack in synch.

Recency bias. We put 40 points on the Knights. Apologies for the stats

 

[Suitman]

Throwing them under the bus? There good f**ken players ffs! They win heaps of games and I enjoy watching them. You're the one f**ken complaining every week!!

* They're


If you want to be a smart arse yesterday..........

Everyone makes the odd spelling mistake. Even you.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

If this is the case then we'll go nowhere whilst our coaching staff has that attitude.

Do you reckon Bellyache will drop Finucane as captain if he chooses to leave?

Finucane is part of their top 17. Cartwright is in our best 19 or 20, so there's no prerogative to play him.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You've been one of those merkins

Well I'm clearly not or I wouldn't have made that post. Blake is an average defender. I hope plays wing next year.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

In the predictions thread I had us 7th or 8th (can’t remember which)but now I think we will finish 6th.

So we're exceeding your expectations?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

* They're


If you want to be a smart arse yesterday..........

Everyone makes the odd spelling mistake. Even you.

I think I know how to spell their ffs

 

[Noise]

So we're exceeding your expectations?

Winning a finals game would exceed my expectations.

 

[hindy111]

I think it is possible people are also over rating our players.
Yes our forward packs great. But the bench still is a huge drop off went the starters come off.
The spine has Moses who in his day is as good as any of other halves in comp. Mahoney also Id say is as well. But both are still just a tad under the other better sides players in those positions.
D.Brown would in attack be in the bottom half of 5/8s and Gutherson isn't as good as some make out. He doesn't break tackles and rarely even makes a bust. He sits between 5th- 7th on list of fullbacks around.

And then our backs. Sivo,Fergo,Waqa,Opacic. Its hardly mouth watering. On their day they are all capable but none are in the top 5 winger or centres in the game.

So we can sit here and say its the coach or the structures. And yes we could play more expansive and less predictable but the squad is overated by many fans. We still have no X FACTOR

 

[hindy111]

Anyhows I bought a bag of marshmallows and opening them up.

 

[Chipmunk]

Our points differential compared to the top team says otherwise.

You mean how it's less than half of the top team?

Let's see how that differential looks in 6 weeks time. The regular season is only 3/4 done.

 

[Chipmunk]

Finucane is part of their top 17. Cartwright is in our best 19 or 20, so there's no prerogative to play him.

He's definitely in the best 17 players in the squad.

 

[Chipmunk]

Winning a finals game would exceed my expectations.

I don't see it happening this year, even if we don't make the Top 4.

 

[Chipmunk]

I think it is possible people are also over rating our players.
Yes our forward packs great. But the bench still is a huge drop off went the starters come off.
The spine has Moses who in his day is as good as any of other halves in comp. Mahoney also Id say is as well. But both are still just a tad under the other better sides players in those positions.
D.Brown would in attack be in the bottom half of 5/8s and Gutherson isn't as good as some make out. He doesn't break tackles and rarely even makes a bust. He sits between 5th- 7th on list of fullbacks around.

And then our backs. Sivo,Fergo,Waqa,Opacic. Its hardly mouth watering. On their day they are all capable but none are in the top 5 winger or centres in the game.

So we can sit here and say its the coach or the structures. And yes we could play more expansive and less predictable but the squad is overated by many fans. We still have no X FACTOR

I think we have an X Factor in Cartwright, but we appear to have told him if he wants to get a game then he needs to just take bonehead runs when needed.

It's so unnatural for him, it's painful.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Anyhows I bought a bag of marshmallows and opening them up.

Can I have one?