Rd17: 530pm Parra v Dragons GAME DAY THREAD @ Win Stadium 28/6/25

[Grigor]

If there's a positive out of tonight it has to be Dylan brown won't be with us next year, he truely looks a dumb footballer with a bit of skill

 

[Delboy]

Hawkins is actually a very good back up halfback. His kicking game is surprisingly accurate. Lomax just needs to pick his moments, rather than going for the hero play every time.

There were obvious escorts almost every time he went for a high kick the dopes in charge don’t give him any penalties as they see him as elite in the air.

Officiating , like the touchie is just difficult to like across the board.

 

[Soto]

Brown is toxic to this team

 

[JokerEel]

This season is neither here nor there, we were out of finals contention at half time of round one, so I don’t see the point in even contemplating bringing him in now. But I reckon he’ll do a job next year, even if he is a prick of a bloke.

Of course you don't..

But getting him here early gives him half a year to get used to the system and develop combinations.

 

[Chipmunk]

Sucks to lose, as always.

But gee, we are missing a lot of our First Graders at the moment...

And we still almost tied the game up.

But, yeah - we need a lot more quality than we have right now.

Besides Moses, Smith and Penisini, who were we missing?

 

[Joshuatheeel]

That loss is on Lomax - didnt need to force the pass and we lose it from there.

I agree it was an error that cost us big time at that moment.

But JAC defence for a dragons try was poor to. Didn't trust Russell

 

[King-Gutho94]

I reckon if JAC stayed in and Russell scores we win that

Would have been 26-all with 17 mins to go.

We do it easily from there with all the momentum

 

[T.S Quint]

Lost it in the first half. Disgraceful.

Great effort to get back into the game but still to dumb to take full advantage. We need to have more than the kick to Lomax every set. Although the amount of times he was run off the ball there should have been a sin bin.

Zac was enormous all game but that blunder at the end just overshadowed it all. Second tackle. Get the quick play the ball and get on with it. We had them going backwards.

We looked a much better team when Papalii was at dummy half. Lussick is done. He is lazy in defence and slow in attack. Hands ain’t the best but I reckon he’s probably a better option than him.

There was half a millimetre in that game. JAC has his foot just a little further to the right on that break and we may have taken that game. Such a shame.

Didn’t get any love from the refs. I saw plenty of stuff that both teams did that only we got pinged for. Purposely not packing the scrum should be a professional foul. The second time it happens someone should be binned.

Ah f**k. I’m sad we didn’t win this. We get this one and we likely don’t get the spoon. Now we are still a chance. We have a shitload of very difficult games coming up and all of them likely to end in either floggings or “fought bravely but just got pipped at the post”.

 

[senior]

Poor decision from Ryles to sub Lussick on for Papalii

 

[Noise]

I agree it was an error that cost us big time at that moment.

But JAC defence for a dragons try was poor to. Didn't trust Russell

Suli had Russell beat. JAC needed to help.

 

[Avenger]

Don’t get it twisted
We lost to aside that had no one left on the bench, that’s the reason we’re able to get a good run on them. And we still couldn’t finish them off.

Our middle defense in the opening 25 minutes was disgraceful, and I blame it mostly on one’s slow ass brother-in-law

Lussick was poor, no doubt, but Hopgood wasn’t any better. In fact, he had a shocker. Dylan Walker completely exposed his limitations — he’s just not the elite lock some make him out to be. If this is the standard he offers in big games, then the club really needs to think long and hard about his long-term role. Personally, I’d be moving him on and shifting Jack de Belin into the No. 13 jersey come 2026. At least with De Belin, you get toughness, effort, and defensive steel — three things that were sorely missing.

 

[JokerEel]

That loss is on Lomax - didnt need to force the pass and we lose it from there.

We lost it by our first half performance..

Lomax would not have needed to throw the dumb pass if we weren't chasing points

 

[Soto]

Sad reality is that we will battling super hard to avoid the spoon...
We need to get Ryley Smith, Tuivaiti, Moretti, Moses and Simonsson back asap...maybe even Will Penisini

 

[Soto]

Plus our draw is fkd...big concerns

 

[eels_fan]

That loss is on Lomax - didnt need to force the pass and we lose it from there.

It’s not, unless you want to put it on Paulo too for knocking on and costing us momentum at 10-4.

without lomax we don’t score those tries

 

[Avenger]

If he wasn’t in his first season I’d be putting Samrani on the shit list. He is a park footballer.

 

[Noise]

Lomax would not have needed to throw the dumb pass if we weren't chasing points

Needed to? It was the second tackle with more than 5 minutes on the clock. There was no way he needed to throw that moronic offload.

 

[Tooooks]

Pretty funny Gutho said he didn’t think JAC’s foot was out.

Not sure what happened in the first half but it was a tough watch. JR’s spray woke them up. If Lomax holds that ball we probably score and tie it up. One of those “what couldve been” games.

Bye next week, Moses looking to return Rd 20. Hopefully a strong finish to the season.

 

[DaveMc]

Of course you don't..

But getting him here early gives him half a year to get used to the system and develop combinations.

It’s just not going to happen.

 

[Delboy]

Some poor defenders were obvious in this game, Lussick, Kelma and Semrani are not NRL level defenders, a couple of them can run the ball hard in attack , but unfortunately have the footwork of someone in wet cemented in defence.

Lussick had his one good game last week, Hands outplays him most times. Actually underlines the need for another better than average 9 for 2026. Williams is a good forward , just not a big enough Body to play middle all the game.