Eels Roosters game day thread

[Poupou Escobar]

Tepai has not one line break all season. For a guy who plays a lot of minutes and is meant to be the next big thing that is pretty terrible. How many other backrowers playing a lot of minutes would have a stat like that? Terribly over rated

Playing outside Gutherson and Smith, what do you expect? Anyway after 20 minutes he moves into the middle. Not much space there.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Well i think I'd forget everything that happened in the second half, but the damage done in the first half was really disappointing, but in many respects not surprising. We struggle with competing for possesion against potential Top 4 Teams when they play really well.

The biggest issue to address is why we get ourselves in a position to not be able to compete possesion wise against decent teams. Until we fix that we won't see a genuine contender anytime soon.

We panic because we know our attack is shit. So we do anything to avoid a slow play-the-ball. Need to be more patient. Better talk will fix that.

 

[The Phelan Folly]

1. Keep Teddy at all costs.....(he seems like a contented guy at the Tigers)
2.Keep Moses,but if he gets a heap more elsewhere let him go.
3.Hillbilly wont leave as all he knows is postcode 2040.....plus hes skipper here....wont be if he joins another club
4. Brookes will be offered x amount....Dont really care weather he accepts or not...He can be replaced easier.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Just here to let you know dont expect too much from pimple face Moses.....
He wont be your god......
You will get to hate him as much as us Tigers as the season goes on....Good evening

You saw our kicking game and one sided attack today. Moses is exactly what we need.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

do what Tigers are doing...clean house
Buy some nasty pigs........
You have good backs ,just need some mongrel in the forwards
you should have spare cash......

You seem to have got a bit lost and ended up on the Eels forum. But now that we all know what an insightful bloke you are I'm sure that most of us will follow you over to the Tigers forum, where I'm sure you'll be posting about us in future.

 

[Tiger Woody]

You saw our kicking game and one sided attack today. Moses is exactly what we need.

sorry mate ,cant agree
ive seen too much of this inconsistent player
worst tackler in the NRL.
i will be watching him closely in 2018

 

[Poupou Escobar]

How.many TPAs do you reckon the Sharks have compared to all the other middle of the road teams?

Plenty I reckon. Look at their squad. You reckon they just get everyone on unders?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I equate one element of game management being that your sole game manager is more aware that it's an error to get himself tackled on the 5ft tackle multiple times in most matches.

But he is also our best playmaker. Merkin needs to run the ball when he sees an opportunity. This is why you have at least two kickers.

 

[Gronk]

Roosters we faultless today and would have beaten any team IMO.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

IF BA rated Mannah why does our captain and leading PROP get 25mins. Don't give me the bullshit cause we behind. So our leading prop is only good when winning? Seriously we need 2 new props to replace Alvaro and this guy. Mannah on bench at best.

Why would you think Mannah is our leading prop? Just because he's been at the club the longest? He is our Matt Prior. Unfortunately we don't have a Fifita or a Gallen.

Tepai isn't the man people wanted. I reckon Fuimano will end up the better

Moeroa plays 40 minutes in the middle. Fuimaono offers nothing in the middle. Also not as good in defence.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

oh shit...
i thought i was on the tigers site...Rubbishing Moses like we all are doing..
Im so terribly sorry.....

No harm done, mate. Off you go and we'll catch up to you.

 

[Kornstar]

And go f**k your mother.

#happymothersday

He'd be keeping it in the family cause his mom and dad are brother and sister.

 

[Chipmunk]

We panic because we know our attack is shit. So we do anything to avoid a slow play-the-ball. Need to be more patient. Better talk will fix that.

But why would we panic? We should be expecting the Roosters to perform exactly the way they did. The Roosters didn't show us anything today that they haven't shown at some stage throughout the season. It's not as if they plucked some unbelievably amazing never-before-seen performance out of their arse. We would only panic if we weren't prepared well enough.

We've been consistently poor around the play the ball now for more than a decade, you'd think the amount of work that we should have done in that decade we'd have got it better than this by now.

I'd say our on-field communication in many areas would be just diabolical, but this is more of a guess.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

depends who that one and seven are.

Well if they're back rowers then yes, they probably help heaps when you're doing all the tackling. But you'll find most halves and fullbacks are in the team for their attack. In defence their teams try to limit their involvement.

 

[Avenger]

Has Mau been below par this year?

 

[Chipmunk]

Plenty I reckon. Look at their squad. You reckon they just get everyone on unders?

You're just guessing because they have a better squad than we do and perform better, but you have zero evidence to back this up. Why would the Sharks have any more TPA's than Us, or Manly, or Souths, or the Dragons?

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Has Mau been below par this year?

Been injured I think.

 

[Avenger]

So why would the Sharks have any more TPA's than us, or Manly, or Souths, or the Dragons?

because we committed frauds last year and nobody wants to touch us even major sponsors unless they are part of the mafia.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I reckon we need a team psychologist.

 

[Chipmunk]

But he is also our best playmaker. Merkin needs to run the ball when he sees an opportunity. This is why you have at least two kickers.

Well that's obviously a coaching and recruitment error then to put the team in that situation of only having one kicker.

The coaching staff thought one kicker was going to be fine, otherwise they would've recruited someone else to be able to be the second kicker