Rd4: EELS v Panthers GAME DAY THREAD @ Commbank Stadium 23/3/2023

[Gronk]

On what planet was Waqas defence good? He was the worst defender out there.

I'll leave it for others to respond to that, however he shut down a lot of raids. He did the same thing last week. I am not defending his brain fart fumbles or giving away penalties BTW.

If the majority disagree, then you will be right I guess.

 

[parra pete]

Do you reckon Foran will be playing for the Broncos or Dolphins tomorrow night?

Foran...No..signed with Wests Tigers..will be with them!!!!

 

[hineyrulz]

On what planet was Waqas defence good? He was the worst defender out there.

He’s an arm grabber and his first contact is shithouse. Penisini is an excellent defender he shut Tago right down last night.

 

[hineyrulz]

I'll leave it for others to respond to that, however he shut down a lot of raids. He did the same thing last week. I am not defending his brain fart fumbles or giving away penalties BTW.

If the majority disagree, then you will be right I guess.

You are the one who made the comment on how good Wankers D was, oh maybe you weren’t talking about defence??

 

[Noise]

I'll leave it for others to respond to that, however he shut down a lot of raids. He did the same thing last week. I am not defending his brain fart fumbles or giving away penalties BTW.

If the majority disagree, then you will be right I guess.

I posted before. He made 7 tackles, 4 missed and 2 ineffective. As bad as it gets. That's a tackle efficiency of 53%. I don't think I've ever seen a player get lower than that in 80 minutes. He was responsible for a heap of their attacking raids.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Genuine question how many other fullbacks would have stopped JFH the way Gutho did last night.

That was incredible one on one tackle. One of the best I have seen from a fullback in a long time on a front rower so close to the tryline when JFH had all the momentum.

 

[The EELiminator]

who's your daddy now bitches?

 

[Gronk]

I posted before. He made 7 tackles, 4 missed and 2 ineffective. As bad as it gets. That's a tackle efficiency of 53%. I don't think I've ever seen a player get lower than that in 80 minutes. He was responsible for a heap of their attacking raids.

OK stats are cool, but their two tries were scored up the middle.

Anyway, the whole Waqa thing is moot. He won't be here next year and will be in FG until such time there is a better option. By the sounds of it, we need to "waste" a top 30 spot on Cini or you're going to have to wait until after June when Dev players can be selected.

 

[hineyrulz]

OK stats are cool, but their two tries were scored up the middle.

Anyway, the whole Waqa thing is moot. He won't be here next year and will be in FG until such time there is a better option. By the sounds of it, we need to "waste" a top 30 spot on Cini or you're going to have to wait until after June when Dev players can be selected.

Ummmm the second try was scored on an edge.

 

[IFR33K]

I posted before. He made 7 tackles, 4 missed and 2 ineffective. As bad as it gets. That's a tackle efficiency of 53%. I don't think I've ever seen a player get lower than that in 80 minutes. He was responsible for a heap of their attacking raids.

Mate, you can’t take credit for the 2 ineffective, because u left that out initially

 

[Gronk]

Ummmm the second try was scored on an edge.

You mean Yeo at first receiver in front of the posts to cleary who put Hosking in next to the posts ?

 

[Noise]

OK stats are cool, but their two tries were scored up the middle.

Anyway, the whole Waqa thing is moot. He won't be here next year and will be in FG until such time there is a better option. By the sounds of it, we need to "waste" a top 30 spot on Cini or you're going to have to wait until after June when Dev players can be selected.

Huh? One of their tries was scored between Drown and Waqa. They both missed the tackle.

Waqa not being here next year is going to be a huge positive for us.

 

[Snoochies]

Sorry haven't read the whole thread but Hands! What was stopping him getting a run last year? After last night he did more than enough and looked a pretty decent player. Dare I say why was JA picked over him last year?

 

[Gronk]

Huh? One of their tries was scored between Drown and Waqa. They both missed the tackle.

The first one ? Straight up the guts. The miss was Hopgood and Hodgo.



The second one, next to the posts. Who's call was that you reckon ?

 

[Sensei Cobra]

My favourite part of every eels game is waiting with excitement to get the half time report “from the sheds”
always interesting and variety in BAs message

 

[King-Gutho94]

Sorry haven't read the whole thread but Hands! What was stopping him getting a run last year? After last night he did more than enough and looked a pretty decent player. Dare I say why was JA picked over him last year?

Another Pre-Season and year older probably helps.

He was probably a casualty through covid by losing a year or two of development.

No one can explain the JA decision last year the defenders will say we got to a GF last year but in reality outside of the Brookvale game where JA set up 2 tries he was a non-event last year.

 

[84 Baby]

OK stats are cool, but their two tries were scored up the middle.

Anyway, the whole Waqa thing is moot. He won't be here next year and will be in FG until such time there is a better option. By the sounds of it, we need to "waste" a top 30 spot on Cini or you're going to have to wait until after June when Dev players can be selected.

Ummm literally the last person to touch Hosking on his try was Waqa

 

[Gazzamatta]

Exciting game , huge relief in the end. I still can't believe how well they executed that field goal.

At least we have learnt how to set up and execute our own.

RCGs run was huge in the set up of the field goal. I managed to watch the last 20 mins on the cruise ship and even in that short period of watching RCG was incredible. Fantastic game.

 

[Incorrect]

Whenever a try scorer puts the ball down under or next to the posts = middle defenders fault

Got it.

 

[eel01s]

On Waqa, he was moving quite gingerly in the pre match warm up. Leg/glute issue. Did not look comfortable the whole game.

Interesting too how gassed the Penrith forwards were after 15-20 minutes. Two or three back in the Eels defensive line on plays 2 and 3. They really only put in in defence. Our forwards were gassed towards half time.

One other point on Moses continually kicking to the left winger. Late in the second half Edwards was positioned to the left of the posts, and To'o didn't bother getting all the way back. It would have been a great tactic to kick to all that open space.