Rd11 2023: Non Parra games

[King-Gutho94]

How much is Brandon Smith on.

He just stood there and watch yeo kick it.

Bellamy and storm nailed it again not getting in a bidding war to keep him.

 

[lucablight]

How much is Brandon Smith on.

He just stood there and watch yeo kick it.

Bellamy and storm nailed it again not getting in a bidding war to keep him.

It was a pretty easy choice when choosing between him and Harry Grant. It would have been harder to get it wrong tbf.

 

[Gazzamatta]

It was a pretty easy choice when choosing between him and Harry Grant. It would have been harder to get it wrong tbf.

Which one do you think Our Eels would have kept?

 

[lucablight]

Which one do you think Our Eels would have kept?

I doubt any club would willingly let go of Harry Grant. He’s the best hooker in the game.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Just noticed suualli on the field taking the conversion.

He will get used to catching a cold once he joins union.

 

[Gazzamatta]

I doubt any club would willingly let go of Harry Grant. He’s the best hooker in the game.

Brandon loves chasing the collision though.

 

[lucablight]

Brandon loves chasing the collision though.

Haha fair point.

 

[TheParraboy]

Luia back in origin contention

 

[King-Gutho94]

Luia back in origin contention

Fittler was always going to pick him

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Wheels have fallen off for the Chooks. Is Robinson suddenly a shit coach or is something going on behind the scenes out of his control? NRL clubs are full of big personalities and there would be plenty more influential than the coach, at every club. They have a lot of merkins without contracts for 2024.

 

[King-Gutho94]

So after 10 games each between us and the chooks.

We are 97 points better on for and against.

89 points better on attack and 8 points better on defence.

Chooks have one more win but an extra bye.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Wheels have fallen off for the Chooks. Is Robinson suddenly a shit coach or is something going on behind the scenes out of his control? NRL clubs are full of big personalities and there would be plenty more influential than the coach, at every club. They have a lot of merkins without contracts for 2024.

Might be down to something as simple as lack of resources.

Uncle Nick had to fund a bit of his money into the Greek team for the WC last year.

Maybe it's eaten into his budget for the
Chooks.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It's a fair point. Their junior reps have taken a bit of a dip this year, though they are still leading the comp in Flegg.

 

[TheParraboy]

Wheels have fallen off for the Chooks. Is Robinson suddenly a shit coach or is something going on behind the scenes out of his control? NRL clubs are full of big personalities and there would be plenty more influential than the coach, at every club. They have a lot of merkins without contracts for 2024.

After 10 years at the helm is now stale and predictable, needs to go

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Of the merkins contracted for next year, only five of them were there when Robinson won his second premiership in 2018 (and only four of them played in the grand final). NRL clubs have a fairly high turnover in the space of five years. Look at the Storm, only six merkins still there from their 2020 grand final side, plus four backups. That is two thirds of the squad gone in less than three years (we have 11, including Blake, who were in our NRL squad in 2020).

Unless relationships sour with the key players there's no 'getting stale'. This would be a big part of which players the club vigorously fights to keep and which ones they don't. You need your playing group to get along as well. Dudes who don't fit in get rissoled pretty quick. Many of these never really fit in anywhere and become 'journeymen'.

 

[Bandwagon]

Watching Robbo in the presser he seriously looks like he's been on a three day bender.

 

[Avenger]

Brandon Smith is no hooker. His service is shit.

I’d take Robbo as coach but can you really see the Roosters sacking him? Maybe if he has another season like this one he may walk.

I’m enjoying their decline. Pricks have been self entitled for over a decade.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Pretty funny seeing Reed slam his team mates in the presser.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Pretty funny seeing Reed slam his team mates in the presser.

Were Rheeds eyes always that close together or is it the blue & gold, oops blue & yellow, oops ffs Gazza!

 

[strider]

Were Rheeds eyes always that close together or is it the blue & gold, oops blue & yellow, oops ffs Gazza!

his face is definitely too small for his head

he'd make a terrible coach ........ amirite pou?