Rd11: 735pm EELS v Raiders GAME DAY THREAD @ GIO Stadium 13/5/23

[Chipmunk]

Tonight really exposed our over reliance on Moses long kicking game, as we just get f**k all from our outside backs coming out of our end. Jake tried hard, but his well out of his depth at this level.

When you're that blaze about things and continue to run through the motions half the time, your opponents will just keep scoring tries on you and winning the moments when it matters. We really lost most aspects of the game.

Some of our key players just aren't performing. Paulo was rubbish, Brown was poor. Sivo is a lazy merkin, Penisini can hold is head high. Greig is improving, but you can't leave it all to Gutho to get it done.

This is just a waste of a season now, but at least hopefully it exposes to those responsible for recruitment that we need better reinforcements to be contenders again.

Dunster in the team ahead of anyone is just an embarrasment to all concerned.

 

[T-Boon]

I swear I called Parlaw shit-house then looked back on prior posts a saw 2 others used the exact same word.

 

[DaveMc]

This is obviously turning out to be an exceptionally underwhelming season. Strangely, and sadly, it doesn’t feel at all unexpected. The club needs some real change. I think it has to start with the coach, though I suspect the administration won’t contemplate it.

We’re just totally pedestrian. No focus, no leadership, no tactics. Poor recruitment, poor discipline, no cohesion. Team selections are perplexing - Dunster should have a line pencilled through his name for at least the rest of this season, Jake is simply not up to playing first grade, and why the f**k did we sign Andrew Davey? Junior is way off the pace, and let’s not even mention Hodgson. The collective footy IQ of our team looks like it’d be smaller than my shoe size.

We fully deserve a bottom 4 finish, and weirdly, I hope we get it, because that should focus attention on how far backwards we’ve gone in the space of about a dozen games.

 

[Noise]

We are conceding 4.8 penalties per game but tonight we concede 10. Canberra have conceded 5.1 per game but tonight only 3. Whenever we got a sniff that f**king merkin just kept giving them back the ball.

But more often we just dropped it.

 

[Happy MEel]

We are conceding 4.8 penalties per game but tonight we concede 10. Canberra have conceded 5.1 per game but tonight only 3. Whenever we got a sniff that f**king merkin just kept giving them back the ball.

We did that ourselves.

 

[84 Baby]

Absolute f**ken shit merkins

 

[yy_cheng]

Tonight really exposed our over reliance on Moses long kicking game, as we just get f**k all from our outside backs coming out of our end. Jake tried hard, but his well out of his depth at this level.

When you're that blaze about things and continue to run through the motions half the time, your opponents will just keep scoring tries on you and winning the moments when it matters. We really lost most aspects of the game.

Some of our key players just aren't performing. Paulo was rubbish, Brown was poor. Sivo is a lazy merkin, Penisini can hold is head high. Greig is improving, but you can't leave it all to Gutho to get it done.

This is just a waste of a season now, but at least hopefully it exposes to those responsible for recruitment that we need better reinforcements to be contenders again.

Dunster in the team ahead of anyone is just an embarrasment to all concerned.

Just to save a dollar and lose out on Kapau and we knew we had nrown going.

 

[King-Gutho94]

We are conceding 4.8 penalties per game but tonight we concede 10. Canberra have conceded 5.1 per game but tonight only 3. Whenever we got a sniff that f**king merkin just kept giving them back the ball.

Well most people on here including myself said Atkins would give us nothing tonight.

So it wasn't totally unexpected.

 

[Tooooks]

I didn’t watch the game tonight. Mostly because I’m at work, but also I was expecting to lose.

This season is a write off. We need a hooker, two wingers, a centre and another middle. And it’s not like there’s any young talent coming for a year or two. Pretty deflated at the moment to be honest.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Oh well souths then north qld to come nice

We've got the Cowboys at home at least. They won't be getting all the penalties in that one.

 

[hindy111]

Imagine not being able to make the top 8 with this squad lol.

 

[T-Boon]

We just don't have a very good group of players.
I always go to blame Brad Arthur for that but apparently that lazy f**k isn't even responsible for recruiting which does my head in.

 

[yy_cheng]

We've got the Cowboys at home at least. They won't be getting all the penalties in that one.

We'll still lose

 

[hindy111]

We've got the Cowboys at home at least. They won't be getting all the penalties in that one.

They did have a guy in bin for 10mins you tit

 

[yy_cheng]

We just don't have a very good group of players.
I always go to blame Brad Arthur for that but apparently that lazy f**k isn't even responsible for recruiting which does my head in.

Yeah always go for the cheapie

 

[Noise]

We just don't have a very good group of players.
I always go to blame Brad Arthur for that but apparently that lazy f**k isn't even responsible for recruiting which does my head in.

Yes he is. There’s 3 or 4 of them in the recruitment team. BA is one of them.

 

[King-Gutho94]

I think the worry atm is the side seem unworried about the situation they find themselves in.

Drown, Gutho and BA were pretty casual about it. Drown basically was laughing at the prospect that we won't make the finals.

Well hello we are 4-7 and likely to go 4-8 next week. Basically have to win 9 from last 12 to make it.

Our F/A is the only saving grace atm if it come down to that.

 

[DaveMc]

Imagine not being able to make the top 8 with this squad lol.

It’s actually worse than just not making the 8. This is the year where the club should’ve been building to winning it all. Penrith have come back to the pack, Melbourne and Easts are relatively weak, it’s actually quite an open competition. Instead, we won’t even play in September. It’s really underwhelming.

 

[T-Boon]

We'll still lose

If Moses is out we will definitely lose

 

[Bandwagon]

We did that ourselves.

Yeah mostly.

63% completions, you're gonna put yourself under pressure and you're gonna concede penalties.