Parramatta Eels Holden Cup & Junior Reps Thread Part III

[Forty20]

Speculative stuff at the moment but I believe that Jason Vidal and Jack Anderson have been future endeavoured in recent weeks to help open up space for our four new recruits (Josh Grant, Fairouz Elkander, Frank Salu and Mason Cerruto).

 

[Gazzamatta]

Vidal was mooted as having a big future at one stage wasnt be Forty?

 

[Forty20]

Think he nabbed some decent gongs in the Parramatta district but he (to my knowledge) wasn't as hyped as Doolan and Dargan comparatively.

With the Eels sitting on two strong same-age half pairings of Doolan/Dargan and Turnbull/Seve I guess he was seen as surplus to needs given holes elsewhere in the roster.

 

[Forty20]

2015 NSW Under-20s State of Origin Team

1. Latrell Mitchell (Sydney Roosters)

2. Brian Kelly (Gold Coast)

3. John Olive (South Sydney)

4. Robert Jennings (Penrith)

5. Brent Naden (Penrith)

6. Jackson Hastings (Sydney Roosters)

7. Drew Hutchison (St George Illawarra)

8. Alex Twal (Parramatta)

9. Grant Garvey (Sydney Roosters)

10. Liam Knight (Manly)

11. Joe Stimson (Melbourne)

12. Tyrell Fuimaono (Parramatta)

13. Luke Yates (Newcastle)

14. Jacob Liddle (Wests Tigers)

15. Oliver Clarke (Penrith)

16. Addison Demetriou (Manly)

17. Hame Sele (St George Illawarra)

18. Matt Woods (Wests Tigers)

Coach: Dean Pay

Clicky

Twal and Fuimaono picked for NSW as expected after their Australian Schoolboy honours.

Bevan French possibly a bit unlucky not to earn selection. Latrell Mitchell is billed as the next wunderkind but he hasn't set the Holden Cup alight just yet.

 

[Parra47]

Clicky

Twal and Fuimaono picked for NSW as expected after their Australian Schoolboy honours.

Bevan French possibly a bit unlucky not to earn selection. Latrell Mitchell is billed as the next wunderkind but he hasn't set the Holden Cup alight just yet.

Yeah massive wraps on Latrell Mitchell. His brother who I think is a forward has some good wraps too.

 

[IN THE KNOW]

Clicky

Interesting movements in the 20s this week. We have two new additions to the club in Mason Cerruto and Fairouz Elkander. Eagle-eyed forumites spotted the additions of Elkander and Frank Salu last week but Cerruto is a brand new surprise. Mason joins the Eels by way of the Tigers and has experience at fullback as well as in the centres. Has some leadership chops as well after captaining the Balmain SG Ball squad in 2014.

Cerruto makes his club debut in place of Nathan Davis. No clue on the status of Davis who slotted an 80th minute conversion against the Dragons last week.

Izzard shuffles into the halves with Michael Doolan dropping out of the team which in turn opens up the slot on the bench for Elkander.

James Gammidge is 18th man but will presumably be the individual to drop off the bench seeing as he provides no cover in the forwards.

Parra scraping the barrel with Cerrutto , was rubbish with Wests SG ball and did nothing with tigers 20S,who recruted this one ???

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Mason Cerruto might be good, but he's no Connor Broadhurst.

 

[Gronk]

Mason Cerruto might be good, but he's no Connor Broadhurst.

:sarcasm:

 

[Casper The Ghost]

Mason Cerruto might be good, but he's no Connor Broadhurst.

Mason Cerruto might be good, but he's no Connor Broadhurst, who is no Billy Rogers.

 

[Stagger eel]

Parra scraping the barrel with Cerrutto , was rubbish with Wests SG ball and did nothing with tigers 20S,who recruted this one ???

DA...

He apparently contacted most clubs in Sydney for players, our depth this year is abysmal to say the least

 

[Gronk]

NSW under-20s @ Suncorp Wed:

1. Latrell Mitchell (Sydney Roosters)

2. Brian Kelly (Gold Coast)

3. John Olive (South Sydney)

4. Robert Jennings (Penrith)

5. Brent Naden (Penrith)

6. Jackson Hastings (Sydney Roosters)

7. Drew Hutchison (St George Illawarra)

8. Alex Twal (Parramatta)

9. Grant Garvey (Sydney Roosters)

10. Liam Knight (Manly)

11. Joe Stimson (Melbourne)

12. Tyrell Fuimaono (Parramatta)

13. Luke Yates (Newcastle)

14. Jacob Liddle (Wests Tigers)

15. Oliver Clarke (Penrith)

16. Addison Demetriou (Manly)

17. Hame Sele (St George Illawarra)

18. Matt Woods (Wests Tigers)

Coach: Dean Pay

http://www.titans.com.au/news/2015/...tml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Thanks Gronk, but that was already posted by Forty.

 

[Forty20]

Two changes for the Eels with Alex Twal and Tyrell Fuimaono out of action due to representative honours on Wednesday. Tepai Tepu-Smith and Craig Field come into the team for them.

 

[Forty20]

First points for the Tigers today as Abbas Miski spills an uncontested bomb. The loose ball is then scooped up by the chasers for the Tigers and they spread the ball two passes wide to Obeid Kharwan who is able to score despite French's best efforts.

The conversion is unsuccessful.

Tigers lead Parra 4-0

4min gone.

 

[Forty20]

Tigers drive it past halfway from the kick off set and they actually have a good chance to open us up down our right edge as they have a decent overlap but they focus on a crash ball for their backrower. They then run it on the last and catch us out as our energy in defence looks pretty low before a pass back on the inside is grassed and we get the ball back.

 

[Gronk]

Pifeleti Pifeleti is on the Tigers bench.

 

[Forty20]

Solid set in reply now as they work the ball down their right edge and roll the ball in behind on the last to trap the tigers 9m off their goal line.

We finally lift in defence and do well to lock the Tigers inside their own half but an excellent kick from their half finds touch 1om out from our line. He hoofed that hard and flat.

 

[Forty20]

Good work from our hooker josh Grant now as he catches the defensive line offside with a smart run. Penalty to Parra.

We attack down our right edge early in this set but are repelled by the Tigers. We go back to the posts and then back to the right but are again held out. On the last Zach Dockar-Clay puts in a very nice grubber towards the posts and it looks like French has scored! But no, the ref is coming out for a 20m restart. But no again! We are going back several tackles when Jeff Markus was hit late for a penalty.

We again go down our right and there is definitely a chance for Atini Gafa if izzard can get a clean cut out ball to him but the pass is horrid and Gafa has to slide to catch.

Coming back to our left on the next play we set up for a sweep to French but the ball gits the deck. Savvy play from French sees him toe it ahead and earn a line drop out.

 

[Forty20]

Oh dear Izzard again. Throws a hospital ball to newcomer Fairouz Elkander at the line now and the ball hits the deck. Wasted chance.

 

[Forty20]

Dangerous throw from Tepai Tepu-Smith and Tui Oloapu now. Clear penalty and fortunately the Tiger is ok.

A good shot from the tap restart jolts the ball loose.

Bit of second phase play from the Eels at the start of this set but we are going to far sideways. Zach Dockar-Clay looks to trying spark a play down the right edge short side with a quick burst from a standing start but drops the pass from Grant cold.

Quality affair this so far...