Eels in the media

[Avenger]

If you zoom in you can see avenger standing in his undies on the fourth floor

I can see the house from my balcony but I’ve just got a towel on.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I can see the house from my balcony but I’ve just got a towel on.

Is it within egg-throwing distance?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I can see the house from my balcony but I’ve just got a towel on.

 

[King-Gutho94]

FFS!! Whenever we are predicted to do anything we shit the bed.

I predict this from us this year

After 2018 and the hype before the season then losing our first 6 games it hard to be confident anymore with pre-season favoritism.

2006, 2008, 2010 we were thought of highly preseason and didnt fire a shot.

 

[hineyrulz]

After 2018 and the hype before the season then losing our first 6 games it hard to be confident anymore with pre-season favoritism.

2006, 2008, 2010 we were thought of highly preseason and didnt fire a shot.

Don’t forget 2002, when we were expected to make amends for the choke in 2001. Too be fair the rules changed and we weren’t allowed to play touch footy anymore.

 

[lucablight]

After 2018 and the hype before the season then losing our first 6 games it hard to be confident anymore with pre-season favoritism.

2006, 2008, 2010 we were thought of highly preseason and didnt fire a shot.

We were very unlucky in 2006. We won 9 in a row and ultimately lost 12-6 to a salary cap cheating Storm because of a dubious decision where Glenn Morrison was disallowed what looked like a try. If we hadn’t clowned earlier in her season we would have finished much higher and gone further in the finals.
We were never a chance of doing anything in 2008 once we lost Tim Smith and introduced new players like Hauraki and Oake who just weren’t very good.
2010 proved that 2009 was a flash in the pan moment and we couldn’t recapture being in that zone. Players like Mortimer, Robson and Keating weren’t very good and regressed to their mean.
2018 was a disgrace and no way was that a wooden spoon roster.
I’m worried about our lack of depth in the backs but our spine and forwards are still amongst the best in the comp going into this season so I’m hopeful we can live up to expectations for once. We haven’t lost any key players like those previous seasons (Maybe Ferguson but he was starting to go downhill in a lot of areas).

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

It will be a relief when we finally get Morts off the books.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It was a heavily backended contract

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

FFS O'Neill!!

 

[TheRam]

Best attacking prop at least. How many middle forwards win the Dally M?

But I actually think Payne Haas is a better all round player.

This and he is only a baby.

 

[I bleed blue & gold]

2006 we also had heaps of forwards unavailable.

 

[TheRam]

Dave riccio tipped us to win the comp in his prediction today on SEN breakfast with vossy and brandy.

Said we have the most depth in the comp which will be important with covid.

Jeez I have a bad feeling about this. With so many now tipping us as favourites, it doesn't make me feel confident now at all. Our players/club traditionally have never handled that type of praise or pressure very well at all.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if we have a spluttering type of season and an average finals series too. Pricey and the gang were the only ones that knew how to play well as overwhelming favourites. Since those days, we have been shocking and I mean shocking.

I am seriously worried now.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I'm feeling very uncomfortable with all these positive vibes about our team.... We need Des Hasler to step in and get us back under the radar....

The most surprising one for me has been Gus. He’s gone from saying we lack grit before last season’s finals to virtually calling us premiership favourites this week.

He’s done an @Avenger!

 

[strider]

The most surprising one for me has been Gus. He’s gone from saying we lack grit before last season’s finals to virtually calling us premiership favourites this week.

He’s done an @Avenger!

So you are suggesting Gus will have us on the shit list in a couple of months?

 

[Gary Gutful]

So you are suggesting Gus will have us on the shit list in a couple of months?

Definitely.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The most surprising one for me has been Gus. He’s gone from saying we lack grit before last season’s finals to virtually calling us premiership favourites this week.

He’s done an @Avenger!

#NRL180

 

[Gary Gutful]

#NRL180

It’s rugby league from half the angles.

 

[Gronk]

Jeez I have a bad feeling about this. With so many now tipping us as favourites, it doesn't make me feel confident now at all. Our players/club traditionally have never handled that type of praise or pressure very well at all.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if we have a spluttering type of season and an average finals series too. Pricey and the gang were the only ones that knew how to play well as overwhelming favourites. Since those days, we have been shocking and I mean shocking.

I am seriously worried now.

Id rather be talked up as favourites than be still stuck in a loser loop like the Wests Tigers. Enjoy the ride I reckon.

 

[Angry_eel]

No team wins premiership because people outside believe it. Its the internal belief that matters.

 

[Pazza]

And a lot of luck