Rd5 2024: 615pm Eels v Raiders GAME DAY THREAD @ GIO Stadium April 7th

[Bandwagon]

Our forwardss where gash. Ran ball ok but there's hammered us in defense

Yeah ok.............Gash, but ran ball ok? Ran ball ok but hammered in defense?

You understand the contradiction here yeah?

 

[DaveMc]

BA's presser was as embarrassing as the performance.

Effort was there didn't really feel like 40 points out there conceded. We weren't soft.

Just need to get the fundamentals right and flush the performance down the drain.

That just shows he’s got nothing left. Any suggestion that this was anything approaching an acceptable performance is so far off base, but that seems to be the tenor of it. He’s truly clueless now, it’s time to go.

 

[Bandwagon]

Our forwards have no aggression in the D

Yeah nah, sorry but this is fantasy shit.

 

[Angry_eel]

BA might get sacked before Moses gets here. I don't think the team looked like they have a win in them.

 

[Bandwagon]

You stink

Yes, this is true.

 

[King-Gutho94]

And congrats to Pou.

I’m happy for you. Put the leave request in, send the family to the in laws for a week and stock up on trucker speed and blister treatments - this may be the week you have been waiting your whole life for!

It is going to be like a grand final every day for you.

This game day thread will reach 75 pages by Wednesday.

It's already sitting on 40.

 

[hindy111]

I’d like to flush the last 11 years of his coaching down the drain.

He's taken between 5-10 million dollars from the club. Crazy to think about.

 

[84 Baby]

I would say Dylan as well because he never stopped trying - but only a soft serve

I’d buy him some and just before I handed it to him, remind him of last week then throw it out the window onto the highway

 

[King-Gutho94]

I’d buy him some and just before I handed it to him, remind him of last week then throw it out the window onto the highway

And last year

 

[Bandwagon]

Defensively terrible, again.

Yep, I'd accuse him of arm grabbing but he often didn't get close enough to even do that.

 

[84 Baby]

And last year

OMG last week even made me forget last year

 

[hindy111]

Yeah ok.............Gash, but ran ball ok? Ran ball ok but hammered in defense?

You understand the contradiction here yeah?

Not at all. Our froward ran ok but did not hammer them in defense. A good pack does both.

 

[Jake the snake]

He's taken between 5-10 million dollars from the club. Crazy to think about.

I’d like to consistently fail And be rewarded as well.

 

[Bandwagon]

Not good enough to control field position and possession. Fogarty did a Moses to us.

His long kicking game was better than I'd expected, short and medium no where near Moses' quality. Which isn't to bag him I don't think. It just is what it is.

 

[Enamoured Eel]

If they weren't making an effort they wouldn't be gassed. The problem is our game relies on completing sets and kicking long, and we are doing neither thing well.

If long kicking is our win condition, it makes zero sense running with Talagi, especially on the right or whatever way you want to skin it.

Sanders may be one of only a handful of players that have a long kick like Moses. Not only this, it opens up playing Brown on the right to have kick options either side of the ruck to mitigate pressure.

Also, Browns kick chase effectiveness has been drastically reduced by having him float from left to right, kick, try to chase (when even the best in Moses sits back) and then return to his defensive position.

Moses kick is the ying to Browns’ chase yang.

If the long kick was the win condition as you suggest, you play Sanders left and Brown right.

The problem with your take is that the long kick wasn’t our win condition. Sanders would be a more astute selection than Talagi but we lost that match in a multitude of other areas.

I also don’t agree with your take on the team being gassed. It was a 16 degree night where they didnt display any line speed. Getting run over may have led to fatigue later, but it certainly wasn’t the catalyst.

 

[Tooooks]

BA's presser was as embarrassing as the performance.

Effort was there didn't really feel like 40 points out there conceded. We weren't soft.

Just need to get the fundamentals right and flush the performance down the drain.

Seriously, is he scared of upsetting his players? Why the f**k is he mollycoddling grown men?

 

[TheParraboy]

This game day thread will reach 75 pages by Wednesday.

It's already sitting on 40.

Barely reaches 20 when we win

Cows by 20

 

[Gazzamatta]

We changed our technique after 2018 when we won the spoon.

In 2017 we had Brett O"Farrell as our wrestling coach and we slowed the game a lot which was Melbourne like.

In 2018 we caught out with the crackdown that season and became the most penalised side.

So BA has had this mantra ever since I have heard him mention 40 or 50 times since then to be displinced around the ruck and not give penalties away which in turn means we don't lay all over them and push the envelope in the ruck.

There are many more penalties given when the attacker is on the ground than when hes held up and being pushed back. Our technique is old hat. Nothing ever changes. Anyway only 2 more years of BA is probably the best we can hope for.

 

[Tooooks]

Barely reaches 20 when we win

Cows by 20

After 20 minutes.

 

[Enamoured Eel]

Seriously, is he scared of upsetting his players? Why the f**k is he mollycoddling grown men?

He has the dressing sheds. They haven’t shown him respect the last two weeks, but he is the one they want in charge. Their support may be the only thing that’s keeping him at the helm.