Eels in the media

[hineyrulz]

Season 2022 is not finished yet. How do we know if this year will not be an improvement?

I was talking about last season, and from what I have seen from this season week 3 is a pipe dream at best. Our defence is almost the worst in the comp.

 

[TheRam]

As long as due diligence is done and club figureheads believe it will be an improvement on what we have now.

Why all the Ciraldo love? Whats he going to do that's better than what we have currently?

I no f**k all about Ciraldo btw.

Well of course. When Most fans advocate for a coach change they expect due diligence is done and that the club figureheads believe it will be an improvement on what we have now.

Ciraldo has a lot of positive noise around him and he is Schrodinger's cat so unless we have a better coach in mind he probably is as good as anyone. But what is fairly obvious now is that a new voice is needed to move the needle and hopefully in the right direction.

But I wrote a lengthy and detailed post on who I want as our next coach and how I would do it. I put it in both the Rumours and 'Eels Next Coach' thread.

 

[hineyrulz]

And as from posting anything from 60’s lol, he doesn’t live in the real world that bloke.

He was one of the Jake should be in first grade brigade, “the star of the off season” shows how clueless he is because from what I and anyone with a clue can see he is absolutely miles off first grade. It’s a joke he’s even the number 1 halves back up.

What does that also say about how we trained in the off season if he was one of our stars????

Rankin has outplayed him every time I saw them play together and lets face it Captain Rankin is a journeyman footy player on bald tires. But yes we should all have a look at ourselves says 60’s, a bloke who wouldn’t dare be critical of the Eels and the coach and set up he might lose all that access for his shiny new echo chamber that is called a forum.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

But what is fairly obvious now

It’s only obvious to frustrated simpletons stirring each other up. It’s nice to think that just sacking the coach will take us to the next level but the reality is that we are way behind the top clubs in recruitment and retention. The reserve grade side was going well before injuries started to bite but look at the grades below it. It’s probably the weakest we’ve been since I started following the club. I don’t know what our financials are like since Covid smashed the leagues club but if we do have the money to spend we’re not spending it on junior recruitment. Or at least we’re spending significantly less than the Panthers and Roosters.

 

[Gronk]

Form a queue haters.

 

[hineyrulz]

Form a queue haters.

Umm welcome to an hour ago, try and stay on topic please FFS!!

 

[Incorrect]

Form a queue haters.

Is your "haters" label directed at posters in here? If so, who? Because I haven't seen anything posted around here that has crossed the line and become personal or offensive towards Jake Arthur. And I would resent being lumped with the kind of brain-dead morons that have on other forums etc and told to "form a queue" by the likes of you. Critics aren't necessarily "haters".

 

[strider]

Yeah people are obviously not impressed around here (understatement) .... but its hardly what has been reported as happened elsewhere .... i blame elon musk

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Elon Musk hater!

 

[84 Baby]

My hate queue:
1. Gutho - FMD bro… leaders don’t pass it off every time to rookies when we’re playing like busted f**ks, and then have a cuddle with Kyle Felcht while the Cows are scoring.
2. Perham - all good but if you wanna be an NRL player, you can’t give up hat tricks to Felcht
3. Penisini - learn from it, sometimes when it looks like you’ve showed up your opponent, they just setting you up
4. Drown - appreciate moving, but champions get it done wherever they are on field
5. Simonsson - well they avoided you for some reason, so how about actually going looking for some work instead
6. Jrthur - get up to pace! And do it quick. You’re either behind or in front of play. And play quicker. Opposition (and fans) aren’t going to give you time
7. Moses - all good, just f**ken kick goals. All it takes is putting it between 2 sticks and over another
8. Reg - love ya work, mo. One slightly off game doesn’t change that.
9. Mahoney - you got a choice. You can leave with fans blaming club for lowballing, or you can leave with fans packing your bags?
10. Junior - more runs, less pronunciation instruction to commentators please.
11. Papali’i - all good, BUT YOU BETTER f**kEN KEEP IT UP ALL YEAR!
12. Lano - can you hit up a witch doctor to kill off Sean Lame please? He keeps haunting the club.
13. Nrown - dude… did you even play this week?
14. Maka - I can only remember you making one run. Is that a good thing or bad thing?
15. Matto - awesome awesome couple of games. It’s just coincidence you’re in contract negotiations right?
16. Oregon - honestly if that’s the standard, grab your board and head for Cronulla beach, brah.
17. Cartwright - I’m a little disappointed you didn’t miracle us a win to be honest.
18. Greig - I thought I told you to shave those sideburns!
Brthur - I don’t pretend to know what happens behind closed doors, but bro 2 shit house performances in 3 games? Do we need to ask Gus to run a training session too?
If they exist (maybe it’s NRL’s fault), the f**khead who decided to take our home game vs Cows to Darwin - Yes we contractually need to (to the f**khead who signed that contract - 32k fans don’t give a shit about whatever money that brought in if it means a loss), and no the Cows don’t draw a crowd at Parra, but they f**ken play/train all year in that shit! And you can’t tell me Canberra or Cronulla or Titans draw big crowds at Parra, plus we took Brisbane there last year, who you can’t tell me they don’t draw in Parra.

 

[Gronk]

Is your "haters" label directed at posters in here? If so, who? Because I haven't seen anything posted around here that has crossed the line and become personal or offensive towards Jake Arthur. And I would resent being lumped with the kind of brain-dead morons that have on other forums etc and told to "form a queue" by the likes of you. Critics aren't necessarily "haters".

Are you are claiming that there has been "healthy debate" on here surrounding the use of Jake Arthur in the last two weeks ? I opened a thread today seeking "healthy debate" and how'd that go ?

 

[Gronk]

Yeah people are obviously not impressed around here (understatement) .... but its hardly what has been reported as happened elsewhere .... i blame elon musk

The absence of extreme hate here does not mean there was zero hate. If you read the article it was pleading for perspective and healthy debate. Not much of that here, but plenty of barbs flying towards people "also known as The Apologists" who do want that.

 

[84 Baby]

I’m amazed it’s taken so long for this article to come out. Jrthur’s been bashed here since late last season.
Also I’m not sure Martin Lang is the best person to discuss it.

 

[hineyrulz]

I’m amazed it’s taken so long for this article to come out. Jrthur’s been bashed here since late last season.
Also I’m not sure Martin Lang is the best person to discuss it.

No the criticism has only come from after the Cows game because we are all sore
Looooooooooosers!!!!

 

[Incorrect]

Are you are claiming that there has been "healthy debate" on here surrounding the use of Jake Arthur in the last two weeks ? I opened a thread today seeking "healthy debate" and how'd that go ?

I don't know, I haven't seen that thread....and I've got you on ignore....

But let's all get serious. Yes we are completely buggered with injuries right now, and that means we've been backed in to a corner whereby we have had to pick a bloke who, in terms of who is eligible in our top 30, is the least suitable and most out of his depth in first grade by some stretch....Them's the cards we've been dealt, let's just get on with it now and play.....

 

[strider]

Are you are claiming that there has been "healthy debate" on here surrounding the use of Jake Arthur in the last two weeks ? I opened a thread today seeking "healthy debate" and how'd that go ?

I think there has been both genuine debate and childish crap ... but I don't think its gone too far personal (as far as I can tell - I must admit I can't be f'ed reading it all)

The absence of extreme hate here does not mean there was zero hate. If you read the article it was pleading for perspective and healthy debate. Not much of that here, but plenty of barbs flying towards people "also known as The Apologists" who do want that.

yeah I get your point .... I think hate is the extreme - and the obsessive nature of some stuff going on looks like they do verge on "hate" ..... but there aren't that many of them - its mostly frustration and obessive venting (thinking thats funny) all feeding off eachother (which yes is annoying as f**k) ..... you can't call everyone a hater - there are different levels of "dislike" going on - most people are being objective too

 

[Gronk]

I don't know, I haven't seen that thread....and I've got you on ignore....

But let's all get serious. Yes we are completely buggered with injuries right now, and that means we've been backed in to a corner whereby we have had to pick a bloke who, in terms of who is eligible in our top 30, is the least suitable and most out of his depth in first grade by some stretch....Them's the cards we've been dealt, let's just get on with it now and play.....

Well what you ^^^ just said is all I have been saying for the past fortnight.

 

[84 Baby]

I don't know, I haven't seen that thread....and I've got you on ignore....

But let's all get serious. Yes we are completely buggered with injuries right now, and that means we've been backed in to a corner whereby we have had to pick a bloke who, in terms of who is eligible in our top 30, is the least suitable and most out of his depth in first grade by some stretch....Them's the cards we've been dealt, let's just get on with it now and play.....

Probably fortunate you have him on ignore. Some of the things he says about the females in your life….

 

[Gronk]

Merkins posted sledges on Jakes Insta.

 

[hineyrulz]

And who on here is advocating for that sort of shit?? But he’s a professional RL player apparently and sadly shit like this is going to happen.

Instagram is for imbeciles like Twitter.