Rd6: 735pm Eels v Raiders GAME DAY THREAD in Darwin 12/4/25

[JokerEel]

2017 SG Ball was under 18s. However we were also strong in the under 20s that year, finishing runners up.

Yeah the Year Brown was 7 lost on the Bell to f**king Manly in the last ever GF

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Matto showed tonight he should have been in first grade. I can’t stand the merkin but he’s a first grader and we have very few of them. If he’s on our books, you play him. Cartwrights a sook but he’s worth trying over Lane or bloody Kautoga. That merkin is a legit NSW Cup player. People were giving him wraps last week, I thought he was dreadful. Don’t get me started on Guymer. He’s a boy playing against men.

far too many shit calls from Ryles.

Kautoga's in the team for his defence and I thought he was good tonight.

 

[JokerEel]

Kautoga's in the team for his defence and I thought he was good tonight.

Lazy tonight. A few times he could have cleaned up but decided it was this job

 

[emjaycee]

Kautoga's in the team for his defence and I thought he was good tonight.

Individually he wasn't bad (I wouldn't say he was good)... unfortunately it is a team game and when a team puts 50 on you, your overall defence needs to be questioned.

 

[Jake the snake]

Just saw the highlights and wow. This team needs to be absolutely blown up and go again. It will be 10 years before we see top 8. Thanks Jim.

 

[Noise]

Why? What did Kearney change when he came in as coach? Or did he just accept the side the was given? Because Ryles didn't

Why? Because they are both out of their depth as head coaches. Spent their lives as assistants without ever being a head coach in the lower grades.

 

[Noise]

We have had 50 points put on us twice in 6 weeks. That is a team giving up. They aren’t buying into what ever the coach is selling.

 

[JokerEel]

Why? Because they are both out of their depth as head coaches. Spent their lives as assistants without ever being a head coach in the lower grades.

6 games is a small sample to be honest..

I agree 5 loses this year and only 1 win isn't great at all and hopefully Ryles thinks the same.

But as I said (I think) Ryles has cleaned out players and assistant coaches what did Kearney do when he became head coach?

 

[Chipmunk]

We have had 50 points put on us twice in 6 weeks. That is a team giving up. They aren’t buying into what ever the coach is selling.

The remaining experienced players, outside of Moses, have been rubbish for a while. Well before the current coach arrived.

They contributed heavily to the previous bloke getting sacked.

If you let experienced players go, they need to be replaced with as good or better options. We chose to let influential players leave, which was fine, but we're always going to be f**ked until we eventually replace those players.

 

[Noise]

6 games is a small sample to be honest..

I agree 5 loses this year and only 1 win isn't great at all and hopefully Ryles thinks the same.

But as I said (I think) Ryles has cleaned out players and assistant coaches what did Kearney do when he became head coach?

It’s the nature of the losses. Most of them by a big margin

 

[Noise]

The remaining experienced players, outside of Moses, have been rubbish for a while. Well before the current coach arrived.

They contributed heavily to the previous bloke getting sacked.

If you let experienced players go, they need to be replaced with as good or better options. We chose to let influential players leave, which was fine, but we're always going to be f**ked until we eventually replace those players.

You only let them go if you can replace them with quality. Ryles decided to replace them with reserve graders / bench players and now we are seeing the worst eels side in a very long time.

 

[Chipmunk]

6 games is a small sample to be honest..

I agree 5 loses this year and only 1 win isn't great at all and hopefully Ryles thinks the same.

But as I said (I think) Ryles has cleaned out players and assistant coaches what did Kearney do when he became head coach?

You need to be able to replace players when you get rid of them though. We've let two extremely influential players leave and failed to replace them. It appears they won't be replaced...we'll be f**ked until someone finally works out we should finally replace them.

Lomax will eventually get sick of being underpaid, and Isaac knows his cousin is on unders going forward...

 

[Chipmunk]

You only let them go if you can replace them with quality. Ryles decided to replace them with reserve graders / bench players

You were happy a few months ago to see the back of the two key players who we let go though, and seemed fine with the replacements.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Well at least the Darwin experiment is finally finished.

I went up and we won in 2021 when we flogged the broncos 46-6.

I might start calling myself Mr Top End 100%.

Sayonara Northern Territory thanks for the debacle of the last 4 years

 

[JokerEel]

You need to be able to replace players when you get rid of them though. We've let two extremely influential players leave and failed to replace them. It appears they won't be replaced...we'll f**ked until someone finally works out we should finally replace them.

Lomax will eventually get sick of being underpaid, and Isaac knows his cousin is on unders going forward...

Iongi has done an ok job at fullback he isn't Gutho but Gutho wants Gutho in 2016 either....
Lomax probably will either resign as we have turned into a top 4 side when his contract is up or decide to leave and go to a side that will win a premiership.
Moses is signed till the end of 2029.

Honestly it would have been great if we had players ready to come in when we lost Reed Ice Marata

 

[Chipmunk]

Iongi has done an ok job at fullback he isn't Gutho but Gutho wants Gutho in 2016 either....
Lomax probably will either resign as we have turned into a top 4 side when his contract is up or decide to leave and go to a side that will win a premiership.
Moses is signed till the end of 2029.

Honestly it would have been great if we had players ready to come in when we lost Reed Ice Marata

I don't care if Lomax and Moses are signed for 100 years. If someone wants to pay them more money they'll be gone.

Lomax still had two years to go on his Dragons contract when he left, and he took a pay cut to do so.

 

[Soto]

Saw the presser...about as impressive as the play out there...I agree with @Noise
name 1 thing Ryles has improved?
Sorry the coaching staff he's assembled are just as insipid as him and the players.
Don't give me this BS about not experienced.
You don't need to be experienced to defend in 1 line, you don't need to be experienced to not give away stupid penalties, you don't need to be experienced to Hold the ball...
This is an abomination...the club should not charge the monthly membership fees...this is a club which should be trialled for impersonating a 1st grade rugby league team. First class disgrace and embarrassment

 

[JokerEel]

I don't care if Lomax and Moses are signed for 100 years. If someone wants to pay them more money they'll be gone.

Lomax still had two years to go on his Dragons contract when he left, and he took a pay cut to do so.

Not sure what the response is here..


If my Aunty had balls she would be my uncle?

 

[The Predictor]

L

Probably not a great idea we never know what the future holds the Ryles may change and we are playing touch soon ..

Like today?

 

[JokerEel]

Saw the presser...about as impressive as the play out there...I agree with @Noise
name 1 thing Ryles has improved?
Sorry the coaching staff hes

Dropped Kelman after his shit defence that's about it on the surface our defence is worse PPG same as our attack PPG and our wins/loss column is worse.

But as mentioned enough times now do you want to be the Dragons who went out and bought older player just to be in the 8 with no players coming through or would you rather be rebuilding the club from the bottom up hopefully with years off success?