Rd14 2024: Eels v Bulldogs GAME DAY THREAD @ Accor Stadium June 10th

[Jake the snake]

Today also proved why we need a complete coaching overhaul.
I'm now convinced it has to be Ryles...need that winning attitude, approach and hard edge.
If not Cheika.
Unable to shift a player to centre when Asi was getting a bath showed how dopey our coaching staff is. All of them need to go.
Blind Freddy could see it. The defensive coach is the first who needs to go as well.
New coach needs to change the defensive structure and needs to sign 4 speedy outside backs.
I hope Barrett starts wielding the axe now and promotes young blokes.
I think Cini, Doorey and Guymer come into calculation.
Cini on the wing and Russell in the centres today would've been better. (Or Harper)
Asi tries hard but he's a half...

How bad that Barrett could see the issue yet still left him out there. At least try to hide him.

 

[emjaycee]

Could be the amount of posts made seemingly defending everything the club or board does...?

(I know you say that is not the intention with many of your posts, but is just a thought.)

Been here before and not going there again.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I don't buy into centres being specialists on only one side or the other

I’m sure they can all play both sides if they have to, but I believe combinations are considered an important advantage. So Penisini’s defensive combination with Moses would’ve been lost if he’d moved to the left, for example. It might’ve been worth it to have a better defensive centre marking Crichton but the fact is we’ll never know.

 

[Gronk]

That's not controversial.
Anyway, we are f**ked this season.
If we can't beat a shite Bulldogs today, we ain't winning anything, let alone making the 8.
We're toast.
Cheika.

The Dogs were pretty good today.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The TCT podcast was strange, anger at how we played but no real blame on the clubs admin.

Can we not blame the f**king players for once? They’re not your childhood heroes ffs. You’re a grown ass man.

 

[eels4life87]

Moses need to own that 10 min period...he didn't.
He was very good but crucial moments like missing that field goal in front, passing that ball/dropping it to RCG and putting up a lolli pop kick to Treacy...
He needs to ice these moments...
There really is no killer instinct in this club

It’s literally his second week back after 10 weeks out. Geez

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The Dogs were pretty good today.

No we must never give credit to the opposition. We need to look within and find the scapegoat that resides there.

 

[the phantom menace]

I’m sure they can all play both sides if they have to, but I believe combinations are considered an important advantage. So Penisini’s defensive combination with Moses would’ve been lost if he’d moved to the left, for example. It might’ve been worth it to have a better defensive centre marking Crichton but the fact is we’ll never know.

We'll never "know", but we can still point out the problem statement (Crichton is reaming Asi) and rue the lost opportunity (of the coach not doing something else about it, even mid-game).

 

[Poupou Escobar]

To be fair, I did f**k all.

I left work at lunchtime and ‘worked from home’ for the rest of the day.

 

[eels4life87]

They do work for the Leagues club. Says heaps. How can they be partial?

Source?

 

[Enamoured Eel]

The difference between this performance and round one was that in round one we completed our sets.

The Bulldogs had an even worse completion rate. We had all the run with penalties. 50/50 calls (luck). Goalkicking. HIA's. Injuries. Playing vs 12 yet again and managing to f**k it up. More time in possession. Fatigue with the Bulldogs having to make 60 more tackles with essentially three less men to share the workload. Mitchell Moses kicking game that was apparently the issue.

How about we just weren't f**king good enough? We aren't good enough.

 

[the phantom menace]

Yep, the Pou comment that the difference was in Round 1 we completed our sets fails to delve any deeper, to look at why we may not have done that today even with all of those other advantages to draw on.

All surface no feeling - both Pou's comments, and the Eels' performance in the second half today.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The Bulldogs had an even worse completion rate.

Their strength is their edges, so they need to move the ball and take risks. We don't. We can wear teams down if we hold the ball. We wear ourselves down by handing it over.

We had all the run with penalties. 50/50 calls (luck). Goalkicking. HIA's. Injuries. Playing vs 12 yet again and managing to f**k it up. More time in possession. Fatigue with the Bulldogs having to make 60 more tackles with essentially three less men to share the workload. Mitchell Moses kicking game that was apparently the issue.

How about we just weren't f**king good enough? We aren't good enough.

We definitely weren't good enough. We needed to complete high and we didn't. Against a good enough opponent (not the Bulldogs) we need to complete high and hope the opposition don't also complete high.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We'll never "know", but we can still point out the problem statement (Crichton is reaming Asi) and rue the lost opportunity (of the coach not doing something else about it, even mid-game).

We took Crichton out of the game in round one by limiting his opportunities in our half.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yep, the Pou comment that the difference was in Round 1 we completed our sets fails to delve any deeper, to look at why we may not have done that today even with all of those other advantages to draw on.

All surface no feeling - both Pou's comments, and the Eels' performance in the second half today.

Set completion is the thing teams have the most control over. When you're in front on the scoreboard there is no excuse for not doing so.

 

[lucablight]

I am so tired of watching this team give away a 6 again or penalty and virtually guarantee the opposition a try. It’s been happening every week for the last year and a half now.

 

[eels_fan]

The lack of roster/squad management is alarming

to be halfway through a season and only have a 26 man squad (4 vacancies) and then consider from within that 26 we have Dunster, Simo, Matele, Matto all out indefinitely or end of season. They add Sivo. Doorey who seems to have a line through him for whatever reason.

We have 20 players. We had a similar issue last year. It’s beyond reprehensible that it’s been allowed to happen again, especially when looking at our backs. Then in nsw cup we have 3 backs that are not even cup contracted coming up from RMC.

it’s a joke, and as head of football - O’Neill is squarely to blame

 

[the phantom menace]

We took Crichton out of the game in round one by limiting his opportunities in our half.

So nothing to do with your previous comment about the difference being completion rates then?

#simplisticpou

 

[the phantom menace]

Set completion is the thing teams have the most control over. When you're in front on the scoreboard there is no excuse for not doing so.

Tell us something about the actual game you and we all watched today though, not just these same empty devoid statements...

 

[the phantom menace]

Their strength is their edges, so they need to move the ball and take risks. We don't. We can wear teams down if we hold the ball. We wear ourselves down by handing it over.

We definitely weren't good enough. We needed to complete high and we didn't. Against a good enough opponent (not the Bulldogs) we need to complete high and hope the opposition don't also complete high.

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