Rd15: EELS v Bulldogs GAME DAY THREAD @ Accor Stadium 12/6/23

[Eelogical]

My birthday is on Saturday so i hope we don't get flogged next week. Otherwise it wont be a great day.

I have been excited for 9 months once the draw came out thinking its going to be a great birthday we are going to bash a depleted Manly at home without there stars now its possible we are going to be worse off then them.

Even the club were thinking the same way as they have organised old boys day next week and have a big celebration of the 1980s premiership teams.

I was originally going to be in the box next week but Dad has gone away so I upgraded & have taken his Cumberland lounge tickets for the game better seats there around halfway.

Another milestone game.

 

[lingard]

I think it'll be a tough game for us.

It will. Go Mitch Moses!

 

[Matty Bhoy]

I am thankful i wasn't old enough to remember that game.

My first ever memory of the Eels was at the Double header at the olympic stadium opening when we played the Dragons the following year I think was 1999 sitting with Mum and Dad up the top behind the goal post.

I think i dodged a massive bullet and further PTSD not being old enough to remember 1998.

I was 17 or so when that game happened. Without exaggerating, I only managed to bring myself to watch the extended highlights of that game again in the last three or so years. PTSD inducing and probably cast a shadow on our club that we’ve been unable to shake ever since.

That could well be a stretch but that’s how it feels to me.

 

[Avenger]

Really looking forward to this game. Our forwards should be too strong.

 

[hineyrulz]

We need to wear boiler suits today and smash through them!! No excuses FFS!!

 

[oldmancraigy]

Try driving home from a wedding in 1998, with a Dogs fan in the back seat, and the semi-final playing on the radio.

That would have been 75 minutes of joy

Followed by the worst 5 minutes in living memory for any Eels fan...
How did Carige not get a public flogging in the mall??

 

[Incorrect]

We need to wear boiler suits today and smash through them!! No excuses FFS!!

*birthday

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Big love from Naxos boys!!!

And from Perf too! It’s not even a public holiday here ffs

 

[Poupou Escobar]

That isn't as easy to do when all of your success comes purely from the brilliance of the individual, whose brilliance is just simply impossible to replicate by a replacement.

The more brilliant players you have the less you are impacted by the loss of one of them. Do we really have a wealth of attacking stars that we can afford to lose one?

The Storm played two games without Munster this year and lost both of them. If you have brilliant players then you’re going to rely on them. If you have very few of these you’ll feel it when they’re out.

 

[JokerEel]

Penisini Hat trick today get on it!

 

[King-Gutho94]

And from Perf too! It’s not even a public holiday here ffs

1pm knock off today pou

 

[Gary Gutful]

3.50pm knock off for me. That’s the goal anyway…

 

[The EELiminator]

mitch needs to put the trick bag away today
if he tries to woo over the selectors by going for flashy low percentage plays instead of just kicking long and completing his sets he'll lose just ask nicho hynes

 

[T-Boon]

Happy birthday king. Hope you have a great game today.

to the imposter, your mum should of swallowed you. You’re a disgrace

Sorry man.

 

[JokerEel]

I think it's funny the dogs aren't playing Reynolds in first grade usually plays well against us

 

[84 Baby]

Who’s taking the T7 party train?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

1pm knock off today pou

We have Fox Sports in the office. The BBC will just have to take a break for two hours. Not a euphemism.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Hodgo ruled out again against the Dogs.

Moretti onto the bench.

Hands to play 80

 

[Happy MEel]

Hodgo ruled out again against the Dogs.

Moretti onto the bench.

Hands to play 80

We instantly look stronger.

 

[Gronk]

Hodgo ruled out again against the Dogs.

Moretti onto the bench.

Hands to play 80

It gets worse. Dig deep Brendan.

Dunster as 18th doesn’t inspire me. He’s under done, but all we got I guess. Shit is grim.