GAME THREAD: Eels v Sea Eagles - Round 3 (16th March 2023)

[84 Baby]

Junior! You’ve literally just come back on! Just run the f**ken ball!

 

[the phantom menace]

Attack the ball Waqa, don't hang back! That was there for the taking.

 

[84 Baby]

Trying to score on every set.

*tackle

 

[Chipmunk]

We're taking the f**ken piss making no interchanges until the 28th minute. Trbojevic scored because our f**king middles we're exhausted. Clueless. Just f**ken clueless, but also predicted.

We've at least got ourselves back in the contest.

Moses lack of focus on relatively simple goal kicks is now unacceptable.

They've clearly got us easily covered when we go wide so we've at least worked out there must be gaps back on the inside if they're sliding so well. On the other side, they look like scoring every time they go wide.

I suspect too many minutes for our middles though is not going to be our friend in the second half.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

For the third week in a row the difference is a couple of goals.

 

[the phantom menace]

lol Mitch kicking has gone to shite this year

Maybe it's the distraction of not having signed his deal by Christmas / Round 1 / whatever his new tiemframe is...?

 

[Gronk]

Haha how’s everyone. We’re in this and playing shit.

If we actually hold the ball and complete at 80% we’re morals.

 

[84 Baby]

Well the good news is it’s one less half we have to deal with this season

 

[Avenger]

For the third week in a row the difference is a couple of goals.

And for the 3rd week in a row Blake and Simonsson have been f**king garbage.

 

[hineyrulz]

Score line absolutely flatters us, we hold the ball and play smart we should win this. But holding the ball and playing smart is not in our DNA.

 

[JokerEel]

Man that was 30 minutes of Ennis blowing smoke up Manlys players...

 

[hineyrulz]

And for the 3rd week in a row Blake and Simonsson have been f**king garbage.

Simonsplod catches the ball runs sideways and gets smashed every time. Even on the last set he totally killed momentum we should have been pressuring them on their line.

 

[JokerEel]

It must have been hard for BA bringing Jnr off... 6 whole minutes!

 

[the phantom menace]

And for the 3rd week in a row Blake and Simonsson have been f**king garbage.

Penisini hasn't impressed me in the slightest either, just quietly.

 

[the phantom menace]

It must have been hard for BA bringing Jnr off... 6 whole minutes!

Maybe he needed the shitter - otherwise would have been made to play the whole 40?

 

[Eelogical]

Gutho showing the way in an otherwise lacklustre, bumbling, impatient, clueless, ill disciplined display for the majority of the half. Also, Moses should have thrown that over. It's a whole bunch of stupid, little things that are killing us.

 

[Eelementary]

I'm proud of how we fought back, but damn - we seem to be caught with our knickers around our ankles a lot...

 

[hineyrulz]

Penisini hasn't impressed me in the slightest either, just quietly.

He’s been our best back tonight. The only one that runs hard.

 

[Gronk]

Man that was 30 minutes of Ennis blowing smoke up Manlys players...

The merkin makes me angry

 

[Eel2reel]

How many years, how many players blamed... our idiotic edge defence remains a constant. Guess who else is the constant.