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

[hindy111]

You’re the one who tells us the Dogs are closer to a premiership.
When teams destroy other teams it’s partly because yes they play well but a big factor in professional sport is that the other team played terribly e.g. last night.
Against the Dogs we played pretty well but the Dogs still put in.
And then there are moments in games where you do everything right but there’s some smart defence or desperation tackle to stop you scoring. Shit happens. As long as you play right and are ahead at fulltime, who cares, there’ll be better scores during the season if you’re a good team

They are on the up and we have peaked and on way down. Old players with years on contracts left.

 

[Gronk]

Listen here pou, as I and many others have stated on many occasions before, stats don't always tell you or show you the real picture. Use your eyes and brain a little.

You're being mean again.

 

[hindy111]

Listen here pou, as I and many others have stated on many occasions before, stats don't always tell you or show you the real picture. Use your eyes and brain a little.

Yes, clown. Until he shows he can use all the God given skills and talent he has been given by displaying game management in basic areas that he should know and be capable of doing, like when to kick, where to kick, count numbers, when to go direct or run wide, when to play conservative or expansive, work with the other spine players as a unit, or other such basic traits for a play maker that is a student of the game, then he is a clown to me.

He is a running play maker, but at present he is a dumb dumb in the 7 jumper that was clueless out there two weeks in a row and the whole team responded accordingly.

I am not excusing our pathetic reserve grade defensive patterns and lack of aggression and cohesiveness in this department, but when players sense a lemon in the 7 jumper, them psychologically whether they know it or not their performance generally also suffers and drops too. You just have to look at any team bar the Panthers when they lose their main playmaker, how they tend to drop off defensively too and the longer that play maker is missing the worse it get too.

Brilliant post and 100%
One charge or hit can change a game yet that same hit will go down as 1 tackle made in the stat column.
Our forwards are severely overated. No sting in defense. Lane and Matterson have gone backwards and have no punch in attack or brut I'm defense. Soft.

 

[Soto]

Brilliant post and 100%
One charge or hit can change a game yet that same hit will go down as 1 tackle made in the stat column.
Our forwards are severely overated. No sting in defense. Lane and Matterson have gone backwards and have no punch in attack or brut I'm defense. Soft.

Nathan Brown on the weekend was a perfect example...we don't have anyone who wants to go kamikaze every now and then to change momentum...we are too predictable...

 

[Chipmunk]

60's on TCT reckons Sanders and everyone shifts across, with Sivo the loser.

His reasoning is that maybe having a real halfback, will shock the f**kers into some sort of a regroup. I am not adverse to this, but Sanders not been that guy in cup. The opposite actually. What choice do we have right now ?

Sanders and Talagi in the halves and Brown at left centre. Surely his taking the piss...

 

[Gronk]

Sanders and Talagi in the halves and Brown at left centre. Surely his taking the piss...

No, Brown at 6.

 

[Chipmunk]

No, Brown at 6.

Well that isn't "Sanders and everyone shifts across".

 

[Noise]

Sanders and Talagi in the halves and Brown at left centre. Surely his taking the piss...

Nah he is saying put Brown back to 6.

You would only move Brown to centre if you had the Blacktown Workers half in your squad.

 

[84 Baby]

They are on the up and we have peaked and on way down. Old players with years on contracts left.

Oh ok so we definitely should’ve won by 50 then

 

[84 Baby]

Gary from newtown sounds like 1 or 2 posters on here.

At half time I was thinking that was a shit 1st half and we were being a different type of lazy to last week, but if we shook out of it we could take something away from the game at least.
But apparently we got really tired from not actually doing our jobs. If I were the bus driver, I’d have left with 20 to go and let the team walk home.
There was of course the talk of firing up the 50 points thread. I’m going to do a review of premiers and how shit their attitudes have been at any point in their winning seasons. It’ll probably tire me out too much to do my actual work though.

 

[Gronk]

Parramatta's Reagan Campbell-Gillard also faces a fine of between $1800-$2500 depending on plea, after he was charged for a Careless High Tackle.

NRL Judiciary Report: Kiwi games counted in NAS ban

Storm prop Nelson Asofa-Solomona will only miss one game at the start of the 2025 season after it was ruled that three of New Zealand's Pac Champs game would count as part of his ban.

www.nrl.com

 

[Soto]

Gary from newtown sounds like 1 or 2 posters on here.

Calling out Pou here or was it BA?

 

[yy_cheng]

They haven't had any quality on that side of the park since Moses has got injured.

The ball mainly goes left to drown
When blaize gets it, he goes himself or dumps it to a forward

 

[Happy MEel]

Premierships are won on defence.

Has there ever been a head coach that has had his side concede 40+ points as many times as BA.

I suppose when he says it didn't even feel like 40 points out there says a lot about his mindset as coach.

Times conceded 40+
2012 - 1
2014 - 5
2015 - 1
2016 - 0
2017 - 1
2018 - 4
2019 - 2
2020 - 0
2021 - 3
2022 - 0
2023 - 3
2024 - 1

21 times in 11 seasons & 260 games which equates to 1 every 12 matches we concede 40 under BA.

That is an astounding stat. Unbelievable.

 

[hindy111]

Oh ok so we definitely should’ve won by 50 then

My point was we had zero creativity and looked putrid in attack

 

[Twizzle]

I wonder if Lomax is having second thoughts

 

[hineyrulz]

Morgan Harper is having second thoughts ffs!!

 

[Noise]

Premierships are won on defence.

Has there ever been a head coach that has had his side concede 40+ points as many times as BA.

I suppose when he says it didn't even feel like 40 points out there says a lot about his mindset as coach.

Times conceded 40+
2012 - 1
2014 - 5
2015 - 1
2016 - 0
2017 - 1
2018 - 4
2019 - 2
2020 - 0
2021 - 3
2022 - 0
2023 - 3
2024 - 1

21 times in 11 seasons & 260 games which equates to 1 every 12 matches we concede 40 under BA.

Disgraceful. But this is all MON's fault.

 

[TheRam]

Brilliant post and 100%
One charge or hit can change a game yet that same hit will go down as 1 tackle made in the stat column.
Our forwards are severely overated. No sting in defense. Lane and Matterson have gone backwards and have no punch in attack or brut I'm defense. Soft.

Your post lately have been on fire Hindy. I just haven't been able to like them due to this stupid site disappearing my like button and not having time to sit and post lately.

I have started dating a new las and things are getting real good. She is quite a quality traditional kind of girl. We are very much in sync and having a ball. Touch wood, I don't want to jinx it, but at my ripe old age I was thinking it was all over in that department for me and was looking at resigning myself to a single old curmudgeon life of loneliness.

Well at least now when Parra play like a crap reserve grade team I can switch off and focus on my new gorgeous and exciting sweetie pie and she loves being a girly girl too. Arrrr....

I know, pathetic, right? But I can't help it. She is awesome!

I said, Love, I said, Sweetie, I said toots....WA WA WA!!! Who loves ya baby? I do!

 

[yy_cheng]

Your post lately have been on fire Hindy. I just haven't been able to like them due to this stupid site disappearing my like button and not having time to sit and post lately.

I have started dating a new las and things are getting real good. She is quite a quality traditional kind of girl. We are very much in sync and having a ball. Touch wood, I don't want to jinx it, but at my ripe old age I was thinking it was all over in that department for me and was looking at resigning myself to a single old curmudgeon life of loneliness.

Well at least now when Parra play like a crap reserve grade team I can switch off and focus on my new gorgeous and exciting sweetie pie and she loves being a girly girl too. Arrrr....

I know, pathetic, right? But I can't help it. She is awesome!

I said, Love, I said, Sweetie, I said toots....WA WA WA!!! Who loves ya baby? I do!

HahaH ok u are not ray price