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Rd22: EELS v Storms GAME DAY THREAD @ Marvel Stadium 28/7/23

yy_cheng

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we are really not that good... only against the teams outside the top 8 we are.

We basically have to play almost the perfect game to beat the top 8s.... and we are not consistent enough to do that.
 

Parra Pride

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RCG played for Fiji.
Yeah but that was in 2014 when he was a trackhead who played for Penrith. Also I was going to specify outside backs and I guess I should have, I know you’d just chuck in Hayne then but he’s a lazy f**kwit who should’ve been better than he was if he actually gave a shit about the game.
 
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Poupou Escobar

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Our win / loss against top 8s

PenrithW
BroncosL
WarriorsL
StormL
StormL
RaidersL
RabbitohsW
SharksL
CowboysW
CowboysL
I'm sure every team wins more against the worse sides than the best sides. That's why the ladder looks the way it does ffs

Circular logic? Or are you dopes putting the cart back in front of the horse?
 

yy_cheng

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I'm sure every team wins more against the worse sides than the best sides. That's why the ladder looks the way it does ffs

Circular logic? Or are you dopes putting the cart back in front of the horse?
It means we are not a good side. The good sides wins more against the good sides.
 

Angry_eel

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It means we are not a good side. The good sides wins more against the good sides.
My thought is that we were better with good sides last year. What's changed are some personnel and Barrett becoming our Assistant Coach. BA's tactics were boring as shit but defence is what you need to win in the NRL. Getting to a grand final is no joke.
 

yy_cheng

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My thought is that we were better with good sides last year. What's changed are some personnel and Barrett becoming our Assistant Coach. BA's tactics were boring as shit but defence is what you need to win in the NRL. Getting to a grand final is no joke.
i agree with you.

I cant remember which year, but one year our defense was really good. I think it was 2021.
 

Parra Pride

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i agree with you.

I cant remember which year, but one year our defense was really good. I think it was 2021.
Our defence was stupidly good in 2021, it fell off massively last year despite being largely the same side and has continued that way this year.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Our defence was stupidly good in 2021, it fell off massively last year despite being largely the same side and has continued that way this year.
What changed last year was Matterson moving into the middle. Also Ferguson left the club. For all his faults, he was a premiership winning winger.
 

Eelogical

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What changed last year was Matterson moving into the middle. Also Ferguson left the club. For all his faults, he was a premiership winning winger.
Fergo was done like a dinner, more likely a Sunday roast. I'm surprised he could still inhale with that splattered nose. I reckon we broke even with his signing.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Yeah he wouldn't have been cheap. If Waqa Blake was on $600k having achieved nothing, imagine how much we were paying Ferguson, who had scored over 100 tries, played nearly 200 games, including half a dozen Origins, and had just come off a season where he topped the NRL in runs, metres and PCM, and came second in line breaks and fourth for tries. Ferguson must've been on well over a million.
 

Gary Gutful

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Circular logic? Or are you dopes putting the cart back in front of the horse?
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