RD 19: Parramatta Eels v Souths at Pirtek stadium 7.40pm 18/7/14

[yy_cheng]

but we have like 5 players out

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Won't win another game all season this team

 

[strider]

wow - quality pass that kenny

 

[El Diablo]

refs with the usual last minute square ups

 

[COUNTRYEELFAN]

What is BA going to say tonight ?

 

[Eelogical]

12th would be a realistic regular season position after 2 wooden spoons. Injuries aside, they have played some reasonable footy at times this year.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Trust our luck to play Souths with all our tight forwards out. Smashed through the middle as usual.

 

[jayjayselmes]

Vai toutai...... lol

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Vai and halves cost us any chance tonight. Thought the forwards were good

your f**ken kidden!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

that 1 extra metre per hit up is so much more important than scoring and stopping tries

It's the tackle breaks that are the difference. Anyway, Toutai is a better defender than Sio. That's why he's able to play centre.

 

[yy_cheng]

Trust our luck to play Souths with all our tight forwards out. Smashed through the middle as usual.

and sliced through on the right wing

 

[strider]

It's the tackle breaks that are the difference. Anyway, Toutai is a better defender than Sio. That's why he's able to play centre.

ummmmmm yeah ok

 

[Poupou Escobar]

and sliced through on the right wing

Just outnumbered because of the compressed defence.

 

[jayjayselmes]

It's the tackle breaks that are the difference. Anyway, Toutai is a better defender than Sio. That's why he's able to play centre.

better defender? Are you high? Or have a genuine disability?

 

[Far Canal]

Meanwhile Sio is languishing in Wenties. Sio is a finisher and decent under the high ball - two crucial traits Toutai lacked tonight. He has been exposed - not first grade material.

 

[yy_cheng]

Titans win and we will be only above Knights, Raiders, Sharks

 

[Forty20]

Trust our luck to play Souths with all our tight forwards out. Smashed through the middle as usual.

Isaac Luke and Sam Burgess destroyed us up the middle. Brutal stuff.

We nailed Souths around the ruck a few times with some good short balls but got caught up in the grind far too often and we simply couldn't slug it out with their superior pack.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

better defender? Are you high? Or have a genuine disability?

He's obviously coached to come in and shut down the play. That's why all the wingers at the club (except Hunt and Sio) are big.

Toutai makes plenty of good tackles coming out of the line.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

but we have like 5 players out

Does hurt, especially 5 top 17 forwards against one of the premiership top sides with every player available

Also our pack had a 18 and 20 year old starting and 19 year on the bench - 3 rookie forwards against one of the best packs in the game.

Through the pack did ok but our halves let us down - we had a few chances on their line but finished it off each time with a terrible kick.

 

[Eelogical]

Just outnumbered because of the compressed defence.

Chew it any way you want. In the end, as a team the Eels aren't up to finals scratch yet. A lot of hard work and soul searching yet to be done. Hayne looked disinterested playing behind a 48-0 flogged team from last week. I can't blame him.