Game Day: Rd2 Eels v Sharks @ Commbank Mar 10, 2023

[Noise]

Blake also looked like he copped another arm injury to his left arm this time. He may need some time to let it heal... Hopefully another 25 weeks.

This might be the only blessing of the night. Fingers crossed it’s season ending

 

[ImTheMan]

Yeah disagree, there was far too much derp from the likes of Waqa and Simonson, I also reckon losing Gutho to the HIA f**ked our focus, and Simonson counting the numbers, we saw the result there.

That is true about Gutherson,where is the penalty?

 

[JokerEel]

Doorey is so overrated here as is Murchie and that other Moo moo guy. Hodgson is also past it. These 4 remind me of when we signed Muckert, Muspratt and some other plodders in 2003.

Steve Crouch!

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Coach said in the press conference our starting middles need to be on the field for long minutes, and doesn't intend on changing it.

I don't think this augers well for us for a successful season.

So you think the big mins from our middles lost us the game……

 

[Happy MEel]

We don't have 30 players in the Top 30, so if we want to put him in there then I'm sure we can play him.

That’s fair, but it doesn’t change my point that if we get dispensation, we’d still have a spot free which is kind of the same thing.

 

[Noise]

So you think the big mins from our middles lost us the game……

Lots of things lost us the game. 2 of our middles at least need a bit more rest , Hodgson and Hopgood.

 

[Bandwagon]

Theoritically, Sandow wins the same amount of premierships with the Eels as Moses. Moses earns five times as much over his contract. Is that a good result, or just a good result for a dick measuring contest on a forum???

Sandow was still shit, and couldn't tackle to save his f**king life. But most of all when we signed him we needed a half that could play as a genuine seven, and that never was Sandow.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Doorey isn’t even in the same post code as Niukore. It’s serious cope to suggest that.

Doorey will be a better edge then Marata….give the kid some time. Does a lot of good, has good aggression, runs a good line. Needs to work on his pass/offload and fitness.

he will be good!!

 

[Bandwagon]

You probably remember I was never a fan of his.
Even less so after he signed for us. I’ll never forgive Kearney for it.

Yeah same.

 

[Noise]

Doorey will be a better edge then Marata….give the kid some time. Does a lot of good, has good aggression, runs a good line. Needs to work on his pass/offload and fitness.

he will be good!!

Kid? He’s 22, not 18.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Lots of things lost us the game. 2 of our middles at least need a bit more rest , Hodgson and Hopgood.

They may/may not, but it didn’t lose us the game…..

 

[Bandwagon]

Huh? My response was to some idiot saying that we would have been better with Tim Smith at halfback tonight because he can throw cutout passes.

Yeah, I know.

I was agreeing mate.

 

[ImTheMan]

Sandow was still shit, and couldn't tackle to save his f**king life. But most of all when we signed him we needed a half that could play as a genuine seven, and that never was Sandow.

"shit"

Now show me your highlight reel, at anything, please. Couldn't tackle? shoulder charges more entertaining when legal than anyone you simp for

Even @3:48 show me a similar Eels halfback tackle from this decade

 

[Chipmunk]

So you think the big mins from our middles lost us the game……

Individually they're not the issue, but the need to have them on the field for that length of time is where the rot starts.

They always play well, but we're asking them to play too long of minutes. We're asking them to do too much and cover up all our other weaknesses. When they're fatigued, all our other weaknesses are duly exposed too much.

All our opponents all year are just going to have to do, is be patient and wait for our middles and 9, who we're expecting to do something he isn't capable of doing by playing 80, to fatigue in the back end of the first half and from the middle of the second half, then points will come their way.

 

[Eelogical]

Yeah disagree, there was far too much derp from the likes of Waqa and Simonson, I also reckon losing Gutho to the HIA f**ked our focus, and Simonson counting the numbers, we saw the result there.

Derp is our thing, we excel at it. I always used to think that North Sydney were the derp champs, but we’re taking it to a new level. BA presser “The effort was there”. Comments like that just don’t cut it with me anymore. We went missing at crucial times, at home, against a team that was not expected to trouble us. The team does look poorly coached, amongst other things, in my opinion.

 

[Chipmunk]

That’s fair, but it doesn’t change my point that if we get dispensation, we’d still have a spot free which is kind of the same thing.

I don't think it works that way I'd you have a spot available in your Top 30.

 

[Bandwagon]

That is true about Gutherson,where is the penalty?

It wasn't a penalty, good hit.

Gutho braced, protected himself, no head contact with the ground, should never have been pulled.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Ok. I’m sold. Hodgson is not up to NRL. His mind and body are not up to NRL.

But he was fantastic last week. Or was he?

 

[Bandwagon]

"shit"

Now show me your highlight reel, at anything, please. Couldn't tackle? shoulder charges more entertaining when legal than anyone you simp for

Even @3:48 show me a similar Eels halfback tackle from this decade

Shoulder charges were banned one season into his contract, from there he had f**king nothing.

Highlight reels don't make a career mate.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Kid? He’s 22, not 18.

The kid is only 23 this year and has only 20 NRL games to his career, because of major knee construction. Yet he had 18 games by the time he was 21.

Marata didn’t even debut until he was nearly 22, and hasn’t had a major injury yet…..

give the kid time, he will be good and a potential rep player….he has huge improvement in him, but his base is very good!

@Avenger @hineyrulz laugh away merkins, come and see me in a few years when Doorey has close to 100 nrl games….