Rd14: 4pm Parra v Bulldogs GAME DAY THREAD @ Accor 9/6/25

[Jake the snake]

Why didn't you mention Lomax? 2 poor errors too in crucial moments, kicks dead, drops it from 20 m tap...

Because you can forgive a player that rarely makes a mistake.

 

[The Predictor]

If we held the ball....

U can’t have the ball if u keep dropping it ffs

 

[85 Baby]

Defence was improved until the last 20.
What we’re lacking are momentum shifters. We played the whole second half hoping Dogs would do an Aryna Sabalenka. Just like in attack sometimes you have to do something risky to break up the status quo. We see incapable of having those types in our club who do it and do it successfully

 

[T-Boon]

Not our problem come November 1

More concerned about our number 7.

Our highest paid player.

Keeps us in games yes.

But what is his impact.

I'll refer back to the Dolphins game up 12-6 and Moses went missing. And got beat in a contest that was there to be won.

Outside of the tigers game has Moses dominated the way he should on games he should on his money.

He might as well depart the club if we are going to give him the sort of go forward we have had. It is a fair criticism of him that he does not play great behind a smashed pack.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Who we signing? if not marquee, then doesn’t matter who is signed

Jack Williams seems to be going ok. Yeah top shelf signings would be nice, but I reckon 2 Williams playing ability level players makes a big difference....

Anyhow, give it to round 1 2026, if we don't sign anyone, will agree with you!

 

[Pazza]

Who called him Hercules again? Is he at Vivid tonight? Nowhere to be seen.

Pou thinks hopgoods effort is Herculean...

I said if he didn't drop the ball every game he wouldn't have to make so many tackles.

You can imagine what happened....

 

[senior]

Need 3 props

one starter to push Williams to an edge and two on the bench

that was such a boring watch in the 2nd half we couldn’t get out of our half

Curran would be nice

 

[The Predictor]

Outside of keeping us in the contest with his long kicking game, Moses is going to do f**k all with this squad of players we've got.

We have very f**ked and shit forwards for mine.

Moses isn’t and will never be a gamebreaker

 

[Pazza]

Need 3 props

one starter to push Williams to an edge and two on the bench

that was such a boring watch in the 2nd half we couldn’t get out of our half

We kept making errors, hard for a prop to make metres without the footy....

 

[Eelogical]

We had 46% of the ball at HT

40% of the ball for the match

Woefull second half, ton of unforced errors

Death by 1000 mistakes. But they weren't disgraced in my eyes.

 

[Avenger]

Pou thinks hopgoods effort is Herculean...

I said if he didn't drop the ball every game he wouldn't have to make so many tackles.

You can imagine what happened....

Apologies in advance I thought it was @Gronk, another great judge of football talent. How was Vivid, buddy?

 

[Noise]

Not our problem come November 1

More concerned about our number 7.

Our highest paid player.

Keeps us in games yes.

But what is his impact.

I'll refer back to the Dolphins game up 12-6 and Moses went missing. And got beat in a contest that was there to be won.

Outside of the tigers game has Moses dominated the way he should on games he should on his money.

Yep, only one game where he dominated. Goes missing. It’s piss poor. Hes turned into Dylan Brown but kicks a bit better

 

[ElectricEelMan]

The reaction in this thread to this loss are just plain moronic , but I expect it from some of you because you are just plain clueless.

Look at the stats. No team wins when the opposition has 47 tackles in the oppositon 20 compared to 5

We lost this game with our mistakes.

Fix up the mistakes AND with fair officiating, we would have better than 50/50 chance of beating the Bulldogs

 

[T-Boon]

Outside of keeping us in the contest with his long kicking game, Moses is going to do f**k all with this squad of players we've got.

We have very f**ked and shit forwards for mine.

We need Tuivaki and Moretti back and we need an upgrade on poor old Hopgood and then another middle.

 

[JokerEel]

Going to give a Rap to Russell and Doorey both are not top 17 at another club but have done a job for us..

 

[T-Boon]

Jack Williams seems to be going ok. Yeah top shelf signings would be nice, but I reckon 2 Williams playing ability level players makes a big difference....

Anyhow, give it to round 1 2026, if we don't sign anyone, will agree with you!

I've got WIlliams down as a butter fingers for now.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

I think the lack of go forward during the second half really cost us, we rarely got out of own half and so many times Moses kicked from our own 30m. The Dogs got good field position and had more possession.

I cant fault the Eels effort, this team last year wouldve imploded with 20 minutes to go. The defence has been pretty good and we're in the contest most of the games we've played this year.

Little errors certainly arent helping and they need to fix those areas and I think another forward off the bench shouldve happened today. Not sure when Matale or Tuivati are coming back.

I think having the week off would help us and we'll get back and regroup against the Titans.

 

[Eelementary]

Losing always sucks, but the final scoreline did not reflect the quality of the game.

We competed with them for most of the game.

We had some really dodgy calls go against us.

We ran out of puff, and they sailed home.

For 60 minutes, the game was a genuine contest.

I'm disappointed we lost, but as soon as Ryles can fine-tune our roster, we will be looking good.

 

[Eelementary]

We need Tuivaki and Moretti back and we need an upgrade on poor old Hopgood and then another middle.

We missed Moretti, big time.

And big Sam would have been handy, too.

 

[Timana]

Not our problem come November 1

More concerned about our number 7.

Our highest paid player.

Keeps us in games yes.

But what is his impact.

I'll refer back to the Dolphins game up 12-6 and Moses went missing. And got beat in a contest that was there to be won.

Outside of the tigers game has Moses dominated the way he should on games he should on his money.

It's why I don't think moses is elite. He doesn't take the game in his hands. Cleary wouldve.

Moses needed to spread it a few times when we were trapped in our own half. We still don't know how to use jacs speed and iongi is a hog