Eels review

[Fast Eddie]

Yeah. McIvor comes up to and goes "I'm not too sure I really want to talk to you because it looks like you have had your heart ripped out of you"

"f**ken oath....oh sh*t are we on telly!?"

Was great stuff. Also no suprises that according to NRLSTATS.com that pricey made the most metres and McKinnon the only linebreak.

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

McKinnons F bombs were gold

Did anyone else see when the camera was on Cayless in the 1st half and he was on the bench he yelled out just need to take a piss and ran up the tunnel

 

[NZ Warrior]

Again the ref didn't help the cause, but after 25 rounds we must be use to that!
How can Price forward when facing backwards without throwing the ball over his head?

I could not believe that call either. That was another big one. It's a pretty steep hill you have to tread, when the ref is making critical calls against you. Parra made 2 blatantly obvious forward passes that didn't get called.

 

[NZ Warrior]

It was like an old school Warriors game... front row stepping up, rest of the team solid, two players making dodgy errors.

That really stings that one. Particularly given the first half we were so ordinary, and just kept dropping the ball... and it was still 0-0. Up until the Logan-gate moment, we were rolling like the Titanic serenely... without hiccup, and then the Logan iceberg came up. That was bewildering. Absolutely staggering. Finals series match, and you choose the selfish, dumb option. You play the selfish game, instead of the team game, with 29,000 fans waiting... where a win would give you another home game, and another golden chance for the game to build on it's success in New Zealand. Instead, we lose, and the press will get negative, positive on the All Blacks, and all the good work of marketing this game gets twist turned upside down.

On one player's play.

That is the really sh*tty thing out of all of this. Just when the Warriors get the big media attention, we find a way to make people turn the TV's off and flip over the newspaper pages. The real war cry comes out "Typical bloody Warriors".

The media create all the hype and the build up, the crowds decide to turn up again. We lose and everyone gets hurt.

Maybe the pressure is too much.

 

[Skram]

Poor choices by the Warriors, Swans try attempt, Witt passing to Luck on tackle zero!

I have a problem with that, the ball came into Witts hands and he passed immediately before Archer yelled 6 more, then Luck loses it. Logan Swann threw a much more dodgy pass after the ref had called '6 more' earlier in the season yet thats not advantage whereas this is. No consisteny in NRL reffing, it's quite disconcerting.
I thought we were hard done by on a number of occasions but the Eels were too, refereeing has been shocking forever and we should be used to it. We shouldn't be used to not scoring after consecutive sets and muffing trys like the Swann no pass.
Anderson in for Swann, Koopu to center, don't care who else comes in, anyone who would pass the ball in that situation will do me.

 

[Dr Crane]

Even Pricey mentioned it during the post match interview....can tell he wasn;t to happy about it.

And you could tell Wade wasn't to happy about anything!

"f**ken oath I'm not.....oh sh*t are we on telly!?"

McIvor-"Yes...blah blah blah?"

"Yeah we didn't play that well....f**ken..mumble"

Someone please upload that to youtube:lol:

Just watching it now.

BEST INTERVIEW EVER.

 

[WarriorsFan4Life]

Just watching it now.

BEST INTERVIEW EVER.

He owned Mcivor on that one.

 

[Dr Crane]

I wish someone had asked, do you have a word to describe Logan Swann right now?

 

[NZ Warrior]

Wade was probably looking for him, during the interview.

 

[Skram]

I love Wade's intensity, the interview just displayed it, was hilarious too, he was gutted poor bastard. If McIvor pulled the Stanaway question on him there and then it would have been the third time he'd been knocked out on TV.

 

[NZ Warrior]

I love Wade's intensity, the interview just displayed it, was hilarious too, he was gutted poor bastard. If McIvor pulled the Stanaway question on him there and then it would have been the third time he'd been knocked out on TV.

I think this is one of the many kicks up the arse, the Warriors needed. I just hope that they are still around next week, so the arse-kicking can take effect.

I think they will bulldoze whoever they face next week. We certainly brought the pain with our Defense game. I just hope they remember to bring the Attack for the next game too.

The Warriors had a huge Defensive game tonight, the bombardment was very intense. I hope they keep that side of it up. Parra are going to be sore tomorrow.

 

[Skram]

Parra are going to be sore tomorrow.

Not as much as Skinny Byrne, poor bastard looked like he just defended Swann from half the stadiums wrath.

 

[NZ Warrior]

True that.

You've also got to feel for Crockett too. It was going to be a beautiful smashing of Hayne, and the poor bastard ends up dazing himself off Hayne's shoulder.

 

[NZ Warrior]

It's 1:40am. I think I am finally getting tired.

Damn you, Warriors!!!

 

[Skram]

Hayne seems like a bit of a softc*ck though, stayed down longer than he should've a couple of times. Loved Wiki throwing the Eel's player off him in the play the ball like he was nothing. Some good fends in there too by Wiki and Price, saw a few players go backwards on defense.

 

[AuckMel]

It would have been nice to play one less game in Aus trying to win the title.

Hopefully the cards fall over way over the rest of the weekend.

 

[Rich102]

It was a very intense game and incredibly even in the stats. The only thing that seperated the two teams at 80 minutes was 1 conversion attempt.
I thought Wiki would have relished the type of game a bit more. I thought he was quiet whilst the Eels second rowers were very busy.
Not a spectacular game but very even with terrific defence from both teams.
Gee I like the way Gatis plays.
I thought Mannering had a poor game, perhaps trying too hard.
Was that our first 40/20 of the season?
Big hit on Rapira to start the game; I thought he did well to hold the ball and even better to get up and continue playing.
Wade was well covered last night.
Gosh we need another strike player, I hope Tate delivers!

 

[ozbash]

we missed JRo, bigtime.

Agree with all thats been said,, well, most of it.

Ithought mannering had a much more solid game, didnt help him playing inside crockett.

Ravs was a big improver imo, he took on the line more and showed a bit of authority around the ruck which has been missing.

the touchies were sh*t, jee they missed some stuff..

 

[JoeD]

Was that our first 40/20 of the season?

did we get a 40/20?

I never realised Grothe was such a grub. Did he go high nearly every tackle. Lauaki has got to adjust his tackle technique, he got done once for a back slam but it could have been done a couple more. What an atmosphere/crowd. Even though we lost I'm glad that we obviously played with a lot of passion and kept a very dangerous backline to 2 tries.

 

[NZ Warrior]

did we get a 40/20?

I never realised Grothe was such a grub. Did he go high nearly every tackle. Lauaki has got to adjust his tackle technique, he got done once for a back slam but it could have been done a couple more. What an atmosphere/crowd. Even though we lost I'm glad that we obviously played with a lot of passion and kept a very dangerous backline to 2 tries.

We didn't get a 40/20. Fien came close twice.

Lauaki's backslam was on PJ Marsh, the judiciary won't even look at it. f**k, I hate PJ and Piggy.