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

[emjaycee]

You don't win football games with those stats, regardless of the reason.

 

[King-Gutho94]

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

Depends we will probably only get 10k to that one.

Not really a home crowd that can influence a ref.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

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.

Poor discipline, poor attitude. They blew it last week against the Titans went in the game with a poor mindset and tonight their heads went down once Canberra scored that last try.

I dont know what to expect against Souths, just hope they dont get flogged.

 

[Bandwagon]

If Moses is out we will definitely lose

Moses won't be out. He's only out this week with protocol due to the grading.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

How can you have a one-on-one hip drop ffs

 

[Delboy]

Recruitment is an obvious issue.
No NRL winger recruited since Fergo went
No decent back up prop
Hodgson recruited, he goes off and we look a different team , line speed improved and service was better

Dylan Brown looked much better when Hands came on, as he received much better service , he can’t run into space with shit slow dummy half play.

That one prop who can run hard at the line would help,

Again looked like we would score same amount of tries and lose, till that last bomb.

we are a big club and yet in recruitment we don’t act like one, which is frustrating.

 

[T-Boon]

Depends we will probably only get 10k to that one.

Not really a home crowd that can influence a ref.

Another thursday night?

 

[Noise]

How can you have a one-on-one hip drop ffs

The Broncos player got 10 in the bin and suspended for such a tackle on Doorey earlier in the year.

 

[DaveMc]

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You don't win football games with those stats, regardless of the reason.

And a good football team doesn’t have those stats

 

[Bandwagon]

How can you have a one-on-one hip drop ffs

Lose your feet.

Lose control.

 

[Homo man69]

BA seems to have certain love children he refuses to drop. Buying a player of Davey's standard and slotting him straight into the starting line up is the stupidest move of all time, poor Cartwright and Doorey would be be scratching there heads. I'm starting to think BA's a stubborn prick similar to Griffen.
We need someone like Bellamy that holds players accountable and has the balls to drop them. Some players know there safe and don't worry about being dropped

 

[emjaycee]

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

NRL have already announced Atkins as the ref and K Badger in the Bunker for that game.

 

[yy_cheng]

Recruitment is an obvious issue.
No NRL winger recruited since Fergo went
No decent back up prop
Hodgson recruited, he goes off and we look a different team , line speed improved and service was better

Dylan Brown looked much better when Hands came on, as he received much better service , he can’t run into space with shit slow dummy half play.

That one prop who can run hard at the line would help,

Again looked like we would score same amount of tries and lose, till that last bomb.

we are a big club and yet in recruitment we don’t act like one, which is frustrating.

So why did ba leave him on for so long?

 

[DaveMc]

Recruitment is an obvious issue.
No NRL winger recruited since Fergo went
No decent back up prop
Hodgson recruited, he goes off and we look a different team , line speed improved and service was better

Dylan Brown looked much better when Hands came on, as he received much better service , he can’t run into space with shit slow dummy half play.

That one prop who can run hard at the line would help,

Again looked like we would score same amount of tries and lose, till that last bomb.

we are a big club and yet in recruitment we don’t act like one, which is frustrating.

I think tonight was the first time I’ve been able to look past how slow Hodgson is in both attack and defence, to appreciate how utterly shit his service is now. What a f**king bust he is. I can’t imagine anyone would call Hands a superstar, but the only time we look like we have a first grade quality dummy half is when he’s on the ground.

 

[emjaycee]

We just don't have a very good group of players.

We have a good 9 or 10 players but a pretty weak squad so when we are missing some, we struggle.
I think I mentioned this last year and was told it was all the coach and that our squad was fine.

 

[hindy111]

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You don't win football games with those stats, regardless of the reason.

We where playing money ball because if we played our normal safe game and completed at 85% we don't score. When your down 20-8 you have no choice. We had to amp it up and take risks.
Good sides can play good footy with risks and still complete at a high rate. As soon as we try and playbwith some flair we make errors. To.many unskilled players

 

[Rocket man]

It's disappointing when the team list come out and I look to see who's the referee.

 

[Noise]

So why did ba leave him on for so long?

Our win rate when Hodgson plays more than half a game are terrible.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Jake gets a pass mark

I think Lane going off didn't help.

Paulo was garbage he must have been part of the Old Boys day celebrations for Canberra.

Russell has to play wing next week instead of Dunster.

Davey is showing why he didn't play FG until 29.

Hudson Young is a c.nt but made for Origin and Freddy should pick him.

 

[yy_cheng]

BA seems to have certain love children he refuses to drop. Buying a player of Davey's standard and slotting him straight into the starting line up is the stupidest move of all time, poor Cartwright and Doorey would be be scratching there heads. I'm starting to think BA's a stubborn prick similar to Griffen.
We need someone like Bellamy that holds players accountable and has the balls to drop them. Some players know there safe and don't worry about being dropped

We've known that for a long time