Rd2: 530pm Eels v Sharks GAME DAY THREAD @ Shark Park 19/3/22

[T-Boon]

Gutherson so far this season would be close to the worst fullback in the comp. If he has dropped off the intesity he should go over to England and free our salary cap up.

 

[Noise]

I don't think it was a cannonball tackle.

Then you don’t know what a cannonball tackle is.

 

[strider]

We played like shit apparently ... but we only lost by 2 on the bell ... its round 2

Stop whining bitches

 

[Poupou Escobar]

LOL sharks celebrating like they won the grand final

It was obviously very important to them. Their first home game in how long? They were fired up from the first minute. It happens.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Lol scapegoat!!!

We aren’t winning shit this year, and it’s all the playing groups fault right?

What did you think of the playing group today?

 

[strider]

Three cheers for ash brie and box wine!

They still sell wine in a box?

 

[84 Baby]

I wonder if Dolphins are willing to take Stone this season

 

[Incorrect]

Kaufusi is off to the Sharks, needs to do better. Can’t afford Makatoa and Stone as replacement fwds, need some size off the bench.

Agree 100% . One, but not both of Maka and Stone.

Anyway, if and when we have Matters in and Marata available you'd think it won't be an issue

 

[Happy MEel]

Rodwell, Greig must come into serious contention because Kaufusi and Makatoa should not be in the 17.
Cronulla despite scoring off 4 fwd passes were the better side

Makatoa was good and when both he and Nrown came on we started to make some metres and stopped theirs.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Got what we deserved with those penalty goals. It's an 80 minute game, who knew?

Penalty goals won us last week's game and nearly won this week. It's part of building pressure against a motivated defence. We lost the Panthers final on a penalty goal.

 

[Chipmunk]

We were dreadful the entire game.

We were utter garbage from start to finish.

I would've posted the same things if we'd won

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Talk about robbed..

2 tries of forward passes..

Line ball. You have to expect it playing away.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We played like shit apparently ... but we only lost by 2 on the bell ... its round 2

Stop whining bitches

Yep

 

[Angry_eel]

Our playing group just aren’t good enough once again apparently……….

not creative enough mate, needs to be Jakey Arthur creative.

Our playing group is fine. Our underbelly is soft. We won't win the comp with this coach and Captain.

 

[hindy111]

I thought we where rubbish untill N.Brown come on. We looked better the 2nd half.
Still don't see us anywhere close to the better sides but it is rnd 2. Shit happens.

BA will need to start fine tuning the squad. Rather have all our weaknesses exposed early then late in the season when no time to fix things.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Woooohoooo. The women won. How did Parra go?

 

[Eelementary]

In my opinion we had plenty of ball in the last ten minutes to control the game and slow it down enough to win it.
Mahoneys pass to Moses just was never on. We only needed to control the ball and stay down that end of the field.
Dylan the set prior losing also poor.

A special mention to Waqa. He was exceptional tonight. A shining light.

Simmonson looks garbage.

Dylan looks very sharp but why is nobody sniffing around? 4 or 5 times he needed support and it may be try time but nothing.

Gutherson is to slow to give us any spark at the back. I was vocal about moving on from him. Great player but a slug at the back. Doesn't break tackles. He does save tries however. I just like fast fullbacks.


Opacic defends well but isn't a first grader based on attack. We do have 3 guys injured so not much can do there.

N.Brown made a big difference when he come on. We looked a far better side.
We still lack composure compared to the better sides and we also lack spark in the backline. I've seen enough already to question if we are a legit top 4 side let alone premiership side.
From what I have seen early I think we are in the range of 6th-10th

Hang on...Mahoney's pass wasn't on (even though it was fine, and almost ended in a try), but Waqa was exceptional?

Blake came offers wing u necessarily, and let in two tries...

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Our edges got carved up. Great idea having a reserve grade half on the bench when we could have given paps a spell.
BA has had no idea how to manage a bench and he still doesn’t. f**k that bald merkins eyes.

Who would've given Papali'i a rest? If Cartwright was fit he would've played. He was picked in the 17 ffs

 

[Delboy]

To be honest, tuned out a bit from the game, Blocker and Ginnane are absolute dribblers. Say one thing, reverse it when something happens without a thought. Ended up watching from the kitchen to get away from their absolute drivel.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

They still sell wine in a box?

Yes. My tip is not to get the 5L ones.