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Eels in the media

Poupou Escobar

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Stone is a better player than Lussick anyway. Who's to say we would've even been close to Penrith at the 79th minute if Lussick had been there?
 

strider

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We had nobody else. 2 outside backs on the bench and Will Penisini as 18th man.
Will Smith at dummy half? ... we seemed content to have an under strength team.

Im not as upset as gazza over it - lol .... im not hating anyone over what happened. You do what seems best at the time.
 

84 Baby

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Lol. Yeah, sure he did. As if theyd admit it. A grade fu*k up.
I think he stepped on beau scotts foot didnt he

Even if he did get injured at training, it probably might have been wise to rest him with most the team in the last round.
I guess we could have played Stone at hooker that game (which Gazza would’ve agreed was the best choice at time), started Rodwell maybe at lock and brought ummm… ummm… ummm…. kindly asked the NRL for dispensation to play an unregistered player because all our other players were either injured or were being rested because we didn’t want them to get injured.
And then we risk Stone getting injured in that game, Lussick getting injured at training and we’re left with Billy Smith to play 80 at hooker, occasionally spelled by Gutho (which Gazza would’ve admitted was the best choice at the time).
Injuries happen.
Maybe we rushed Mahoney back and he got reinjured, or maybe we keep him in cotton wool and he gets reinjured mid finals game.
 

Gazzamatta

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Will Smith at dummy half? ... we seemed content to have an under strength team.

Im not as upset as gazza over it - lol .... im not hating anyone over what happened. You do what seems best at the time.
😡 Yep. F'n furious. Cost us our chance to play the major final. BA aint no Ted Lasso thats for sure. 😉
 

Obscene Assassin

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Will Smith at dummy half? ... we seemed content to have an under strength team.

Im not as upset as gazza over it - lol .... im not hating anyone over what happened. You do what seems best at the time.

Will Smith was five-eighth and captain. We literally had no one else left in the bubble
 

I bleed blue & gold

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Maybe the lesson we learned is not to play you last hooker standing in a last round game where every other Eel was a reserve grader?
Maybe the lesson we learned is not to play you last hooker standing in a last round game where every other Eel was a reserve grader?
Like a few people have said, we were stretched for players.
Besides, it’s just unlucky. You can’t always rest blokes just in case. Maybe he was under done? He hadn’t played a heap of FG that year. Every appearance might have done him good. There was no reserve grade.
 

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