RD 4: Eels v Tigs - Game Day Thread

[Noise]

We need to be much faster at getting up slowly.

I know you are taking the piss but that is what the teams that are good at winning the play the ball do. They wrestle then appear to be making a movement to get up (which is what the ref looks for) but release or peel off slowly

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We gifted our opponents cheap possession, which never gave us much of a chance.

It's all very well to say that if we get an even amount of possession that we will go better, but the style of play that we want to play, by getting off the line quickly, is now virtually outlawed in the game. So wanting to play that way is counter intuitive.

I think you're right. We defended better when we let them come to us, and gave away fewer penalties. We're better off using our superior workers to push hard laterally and fill space rather than getting up quick and forcing errors.

 

[strider]

I can feel it Gronk. He has had his time. He has been here for long enough. He is the John Peard of this generation.

Time to find our next Jack Gibson.

So are you sacking him or findinghim help? ... i cant keep up?

 

[Gronk]

Well Pou alluded to it being a like for like replacement...I was only asking the question did he really think that?

No he didn’t. We all knew that he was signed as a centre never as a like for like replacement as the best winger in the world. He was a bargin and anyone who writes him off after a few games where we averaged 35% of the ball doesn’t know much about the game. FFS I have been his biggest critic, but I am prepared to cut him some slack.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I know you are taking the piss but that is what the teams that are good at winning the play the ball do. They wrestle then appear to be making a movement to get up (which is what the ref looks for) but release or peel off slowly

True.

 

[strider]

BA doesn't make mistakes mate.

Thats right it is ALL BA's fault ... all the plyers are going great

 

[Avenger]

So are you sacking him or findinghim help? ... i cant keep up?

I'll let you know in the morning. But thinking sack now. He won't take Toovey as an assistant because he knows deep down that Tooves has forgotten more than he knows.

 

[strider]

I don't think so Gaz, We also have money up our sleeve. No chance Austin would be on as much as Norman.

So you think canberra will agree to swap the players AND their salaries? ... i dont think so - we'd be paying part of norman's

 

[Gary Gutful]

So are you sacking him or findinghim help? ... i cant keep up?

He was sacking him and replacing him with Des.

Then he was offering him assistance.

Then he was sacking him and replacing with Des AND Tooves or Jim Dymock and Brian Smith.

Now he appears to be sacking him and replacing him with Jack Gibson.

 

[Avenger]

He was sacking him and replacing him with Des.

Then he was offering him assistance.

Then he was sacking him and replacing with Des AND Tooves or Jim Dymock and Brian Smith.

Now he appears to be sacking him and replacing him with Jack Gibson.

What would you do Gaz? Serious question. I'm so angry now and need to take some viagra, I mean Valium.

 

[hineyrulz]

Thats right it is ALL BA's fault ... all the plyers are going great

They need a massive f**king rocket up their arses as well, but this is the squad he put together. This is the style of football he has us playing, it's not his fault by a long shot but at the end of the day he is the head coach and the bucks stops with him. Can you honestly see him and this playing group getting us out of this??? I can't, it's mind boggling we don't have a defensive coach or a head of football name me another club without either of those things. If it's a money issue it's on Max and Bern but if this is what BA want's he has brought it on himself.

 

[Cloeel]

I'll let you know in the morning. But thinking sack now. He won't take Toovey as an assistant because he knows deep down that Tooves has forgotten more than he knows.

I really do get where your coming from as 0-4 is unacceptable I just can’t help but think BA can turn this around. I feel like BA has already shown so much good that he will get the boys going and where just having a slow start. We showed a lot of grit last year and made the top 4, that couldn’t of just been a fluke.

 

[Avenger]

So you think canberra will agree to swap the players AND their salaries? ... i dont think so - we'd be paying part of norman's

Not if we take on Boyd and Austin.

 

[strider]

No he didn’t. We all knew that he was signed as a centre never as a like for like replacement as the best winger in the world. He was a bargin and anyone who writes him off after a few games where we averaged 35% of the ball doesn’t know much about the game. FFS I have been his biggest critic, but I am prepared to cut him some slack.

Shuddup ... he's past it

 

[Gary Gutful]

I don't think so Gaz, We also have money up our sleeve. No chance Austin would be on as much as Norman.

I don't think so Avy.

That's our problem for overpaying Norman. The Raiders wont help us out in that regard. In an open market Austin and Norman are worth about the same. Austin may actually be more valuable.

Any other good ideas to pull us out of the shit?

 

[Noise]

I think you're right. We defended better when we let them come to us, and gave away fewer penalties. We're better off using our superior workers to push hard laterally and fill space rather than getting up quick and forcing errors.

Yep. And if you, me, chipmunk and a bunch of other punters can see this works better than rolling the dice with our line speed (given the new rule interpretations) then why has it taken our team 3 and a half games of football to work this out

 

[Gronk]

Ok so after this week

BA has NFI - out
Bernie signed the AFL guy - out
Norman lazy - out
Hayne shouldn’t be injured - out

Who else ?

 

[Noise]

Ok so after this week

BA has NFI - out
Bernie signed the AFL guy - out
Norman lazy - out
Hayne shouldn’t be injured - out

Who else ?

I think BA wanted the AFL guy

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Ok so after this week

BA has NFI - out
Bernie signed the AFL guy - out
Norman lazy - out
Hayne shouldn’t be injured - out

Who else ?

Everyone was pure garbage apart from Gutho and Semi

 

[hineyrulz]

I remember Gronk used to stick up for his mate Steve Sharp the same way, look at how that turned out.