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

Poupou Escobar

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Interesting statistic so far this season, no team has won a game this season without their forward interchanges playing at least 80 minutes. Our forward interchanges totalled 57 tonight.

Also, no team has won a game without using all 4 interchange players, with player 17 playing at least 8 minutes.
The Storm won a grand final with only 16 players. But also if Matterson and Lane were playing I'm sure our bench players would be getting more minutes.
 

Avenger

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Hodgson 2 errors, 8 missed tackles! Can not play 80 minutes effectively.
Waqa Blake, 3 errors, 2 tries conceded by not even laying a hand on his man
Bailey Simonsson, 3 errors, 3 missed tackles from only 7 attempts, and a try conceded from a poor effort on a bomb.
I thought he was ordinary last week too. This week Hodgson was even worse. His passes from dummy half were constantly dropped by our players because they were either too hard or up around their head. He's been a tragic buy so far. Huge favourite to next go on the shit list.
 

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The Storm won a grand final with only 16 players. But also if Matterson and Lane were playing I'm sure our bench players would be getting more minutes.
The minutes from the forward interchanges was 105 minutes though in that GF win.

Lane would start, I suspect if fully fit, Cartwright won't get any minutes.

Will we have the three starting middles off for a total of 80 minutes even if Matterson is in the team? Statistics say we will have to, but I doubt we will.
 

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I thought he was ordinary last week too. This week Hodgson was even worse. His passes from dummy half were constantly dropped by our players because they were either too hard or up around their head. He's been a tragic buy so far. Huge favourite to next go on the shit list.
Yep I bagged him last week too. His passing is shit. His defence is crap. And he has no running game.
 

Poupou Escobar

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"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
Great attacking player. But the loss of the shoulder charge killed his effectiveness in defence. The modern hit-and-stick style means nothing but hips and elbows in the face for midgets like Sandow.
 

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I thought he was ordinary last week too. This week Hodgson was even worse. His passes from dummy half were constantly dropped by our players because they were either too hard or up around their head. He's been a tragic buy so far. Huge favourite to next go on the shit list.

Could be our worst blunder in recent times, to lose rheed for this pensioner.
 

Poupou Escobar

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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.
Paulo was off from the 28th minute to the 50th. RCG was off from the 51st to the 75th. The return of Matterson and Lane will help.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Here we go... so advocacting for Blake to be picked unpunished next week then?
You don't punish blokes for playing injured. Yes he was poor but those defensive decisions were fine. If he came in Cronulla had numbers on the outside. It's the inside defenders who failed there, not the outside back.

Or do you think wingers score the most tries because they are being marked by wingers?
 

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So the Sharks scored in these minutes:
  • Briton Nikora 14'
  • William Kennedy 18'
  • William Kennedy 36'
  • William Kennedy 55'
  • Ronaldo Mulitalo 60'
The Sharks scored two tries in the first 18 minutes ffs! Should we have dipped into the interchange before the 20 minute mark? Then when Kennedy scored his third, RCG was off and Paulo had just come onto the field. Where's the fatigue damage on the scoreboard? Fatigue in the final 20 minutes didn't see us concede at all. In fact we were the only team to score in that period (Moses in the 72nd minute).
 

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