Eels Holden Cup Team and junior reps thread, Part II

[Forty20]

Penalty to Parra and we find touch 10m short of halfway.

Mauala takes the first charge before Kelepi shrugs off a number of would be defenders and finds an offload.

He backs up that run with the next charge!

Mattersin finds himself with ball and beats another defender before slipping an offload to Lussick. Parra take the tackle and attack down their right the next play with Clay taking the lead.

He sees the compressed Tigers' defence and stabs a chip kick to the corner for Lavaka. He mistimes it slightly but it is still hit more than good enough and Lavaka takes it with ease to score.

Davis has a difficult kick form outwide on the right but he nails it.

Parra lead Tigers 52-14

70min gone.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Sounds like ZDC's kicking game is improving.

 

[Forty20]

Goodall finds himself with some space and sets off downfield for a good 30m gain before having the ball raked out of his hands.

Parra recover the pill for siz again but lose possession a few tackles later as we attack down our right edge. Folau was hit in a good tackle and lost control of the ball.

The Tigers play conservatively in reply and Matterson absolutely belts someone out on our left edge.

Wests come back to the middle and try a chip kick but it is snatched up by Pritchard (I think) who links up with Clay (I think) who then hits Davis who streaks away for his hat trick.

Davis converts from out wide again.

Parra lead Tigers 58-14

75min gone.

 

[Forty20]

Correction I think that was Markus that plucked the kick out of the air.

Kelepi has burst through from the kick off set and very nearly goes the length of the field. He is pulled down 10m short and Parra look to crack 60 points.

We spin it to the middle but the defence has gotten up very quickly (questionably so) and nail our ball carrier.

Clay stabs a grubber back towards the posts. Some good vision from him there as he has a chaser on it straight away but it kicks on from the initial roll and goes dead.

 

[Forty20]

The Tigers get a late consolation try and simple hands catch Parra short on the inside down our left edge.

Not sure who was to blame there but it was a soft try after some excellent defence this half.

Moses hits the extras.

Tigers trails 20-58

78min gone.

 

[Forty20]

Sounds like ZDC's kicking game is improving.

Yeah his whole array of kicks were pretty good today.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Nice to see we didn't put the cue in the rack this week. Kaysa would never allow it.

 

[Forty20]

The Tigers make a break of a blatant forward pass/offload but fail to convert it into points.

Makelim and Lavaka wrap up the initial break and then the Tigers chip the ball cross field looking for the try in the opposite corner.

The chasers weren't there and the ball rolls in touch to bring an end to the game.

Full Time

Parra dft. Wests Tigers 58-20

Excellent effort after the miserable showing last week. Lots of great performances but Matterson, Davis and Tanginoa were massive today.

 

[The Colonel]

If we lose a winger at any stage this season I can see Davis making his debut potentially ahead of Morgan. The kid is class and a goal kicker to boot.

 

[strider]

sounds like Davis has quite a good boot on him

 

[Forty20]

If we lose a winger at any stage this season I can see Davis making his debut potentially ahead of Morgan. The kid is class and a goal kicker to boot.

Yeah, Davis looks to be an excellent prospect. Speed, agility, power, size and a fair dash of footy nous.

If Goodall keeps working on a few components of his game he wouldn't be too far off either. He is physically monstrous and has enough speed to be a fair threat on the wing.

 

[hindy111]

Two grades win and now the main game

 

[hindy111]

How did tepai Moara go? And do you think Tanginoa will be back in first grade soon? I find it a little odd he was in the team to start the year without any trial form.Did nothing wrong than dropped.

 

[Joely01]

Great win by the boys.

 

[Forty20]

How did tepai Moara go? And do you think Tanginoa will be back in first grade soon? I find it a little odd he was in the team to start the year without any trial form.Did nothing wrong than dropped.

Moeroa was very good once again. Punishing in defence and well involved it attack. He is such a well balanced player and would likely play just as well against the bigger bodies in the NRL or NSW Cup. He is a key part of this squad though and it would be a huge loss if he was promoted.

Kelepi was superb in general. He got smashed once but was a powerhouse up the middle and almost single handedly dominated the Tigers' front row. If he keeps playing like today he couldn't be too far from a call up to first grade.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

They probably wanted him to get more game time after missing a lot of the off season.

 

[The Engineers Room]

He looked unfit in the first few NRL games and I think he needed some game time.

 

[half_back]

Moeroa out there warming up with first grade in a jersey 19.

 

[Forty20]

Dyldam Parramatta Eels Round 8 Holden Cup:

1. Corey Makelim

2. Fabian Goodall

3. John Folau

4. Nathan Davis

5. Halauafu Lavaka

6. Ryan Matterson

7. Zach Dockar-Clay

8. Tepai Tepu-Smith

9. Kaysa Pritchard

10. Kelepi Tanginoa

11. Tepai Moeroa

12. Eric Newbigging

13. Josh Aloiai

Interchange:

14. Joey Lussick

15. Fred Junior Mauala

16. Jordan Muna

17. Jeff Markus

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Unchanged line up.

 

[Forty20]

Since Poups isn't doing his f**king job, here have some SG Ball highlights you merkins!

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