GRAND FINAL: Parramatta v Penrith GAME DAY THREAD at Accor 2/10/22

[hineyrulz]

Nothing but the beautiful gleam to our bald heads mate! Keep ya head up @hineyrulz you’re a good man

One day mate one day.

 

[Snoochies]

Pre Season Starts tomorrow.

 

[Gary Gutful]

They’ve wanted it more than us. You can’t treat these games as just another game. That’s the line that was trotted out the whole week. WRONG.

we haven’t even turned up

We turned up. We were just blown away by what will become the best team since the eels side of the 1980s.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

You were the only side who could have beaten them, everyone else would have been flogged beyond recognition.

Twas not to be.

 

[strider]

Look at what they did immediately after getting thw trophy ... all the families into thw celebration .... thats a tight group

 

[IFR33K]

Well I guess the season ending now, it’s time to reflect on the year.

Overall it was interesting yet enjoyable season. We broke the hoodoo of progressing past week 2. Maybe with the monkey off our back, we’re in a position to give the comp a shake in coming years.

certainly interesting times ahead considering the cattle we’re losing and replacing them with.

 

[Cumberland Eel]

It would be one thing if it was some hard fought loss, but we aren’t even in the f**king games. Never looked like winning in
01 or 09 either until it was too late to change anything.

The worm will turn one day mate, it’s just being alive go to see it! The next six months will be shit but you’ve just gotta look the hope that will no doubt be back this year and the fleeting amounts of joy supporting the Eels brings year after year.

 

[oldmancraigy]

Questions need to be asked on why he was not brought on earlier, ffs Bea!!

All season long the fans have been demanding him earlier.

By the time BA subs him on it is normally too late, and so the fans boo the late decision

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I turned it off after the siren sounded.

Missed kick off?

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Look at what they did immediately after getting thw trophy ... all the families into thw celebration .... thats a tight group

Wife swapping.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I fist pumped and yelled Jakey!

Did you see how shocked he looked? You could almost see him thinking “how the f**k did I just do that?”.

 

[Jake the snake]

Agree 100%

Always said BA had issues motivating the team.

 

[yy_cheng]

Did he turn to to joey and asked how did i go in a gf?

 

[EelsFan05]

Well that was depressing. Writing was on the wall really early. I know we were outclassed all over the park, but wtf happened to our props in that first stint? Jnr looked he was scared to have a decent crack. Anyways, maybe next year.

 

[Eelogical]

Had no momentum in th first half as Klein reffed the ruck differently to NRL, Panthers held down, pushed back and flopped almost every play the ball,and didn’t get penalised. Smart play realising it was Bill Harrigan rules , not helped by Atkins running the bunker decisions like an episode of Penn and Teller Fool Us.

When our forwards are held down and can’t get momentum, we saw the result. Need to approach games in the finals differently .

We should have done the same after seeing the Panthers getting away with it. However, I doubt it would have changed the result.

 

[84 Baby]

Absolutely gutted. The one thing I took away from 09 was the bus ride home. As I sit here, for all the good times we had earlier, I’m in the exact same position. That hurts

At least we know who to blame and have pics what they look like. I’d stay on that bus if I were you

 

[hineyrulz]

Surely questions need to be asked of our prep?? No captains run and the team didn’t see each other for 48 hours before today. Surely that’s not normal??? We were blown away from out of the blocks and we never looked in it. As soon as we kicked on the first I knew we wouldn’t get in the grind and they had our measure.

 

[Bandwagon]

Proud of the boys

Gave us a good year even though we fell short.

Despite their dominance in the first half there's plenty to like about our performance. We still had a crack, and even before we scored I reckon we were winning that second half, it just didn't come together and we couldn't take advantage.

I really think pretty much nothing went our way tonight, which is what it is, but overall Pennies were just better and took it to us, and we needed the rub of the green to win. It didn't roll our way.

Next year.

 

[Pugzley]

You are a good man @Pugzley ... celebrate your win. Your team is very good.

Here’s hoping you win next year

 

[yy_cheng]

I still think it's our tactics which is poor. We try to play honest and nice guy like ba is.

But we try to minimise our penalties and get off the tackled player as quick as possible

Look at the top teams, panfers, melb, chooks, they niggle and niggle and lay all over. They get 3 in the tackles so no quick play the balls