Rd6: EELS v Tigers GAME DAY THREAD @ Accor 10/4/23

[T-Boon]

Don't over analyse, just enjoy the win. We are a bad team. Poorly coached, so just enjoy when we win.

 

[Eelogical]

Super coach says in his own words he doesn’t motivate the team.

It's quite obvious.

 

[Happy MEel]

As soon as Hodgson is on the field, we have a loose ruck and our other middles have to work that much harder. Hands is one of the fittest in the club. If Arthur needs to persist with his mistake, it needs to be no more the 25 minutes in the first half.

 

[Gherkin]

Dunster almost topped the missed tackle count, pretty good effort as a winger

 

[Gronk]

Haha. Lots of errors around newbies Russell and Dunster. They’ll be better for the run.

Good teams win ugly amirite.

#hiitscooperwelldoneonthewin

 

[Jake the snake]

Who is the worse coach BA or Pricky Stuart? You can’t tell me Flanagan would not improve our team. Get rid of this shit coach. Today was an embarrassment

 

[yy_cheng]

Carty surprised me and did really well.

We just played BAs long game that's what made the game so exciting

We really don't have the players for the power game anymore.

We need to change our game plan

 

[King-Gutho94]

How bad is Dunster

The kid tore every ligament in his knee last year.

You can't be expecting him to be Brian To'o from the get go.

Give him 6 weeks to get up to speed.

We gave waqa 4 years

 

[Noise]

Dunster almost topped the missed tackle count, pretty good effort as a winger

Embarrassing. Hodgson with 5 missed tackles and God knows how many ineffective is just as bad

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We only had two forwards run for over 100 metres, Hopgood and Matterson. Tigers had four, plus two outside backs with 200+

 

[Jake the snake]

The kid tore every ligament in his knee last year.

You can't be expecting him to be Brian To'o from the get go.

Give him 6 weeks to get up to speed.

We gave waqa 4 years

Never rated him before his injury. It’s on the coach then that has put him in to early

 

[Jake the snake]

Embarrassing. Hodgson with 5 missed tackles and God knows how many ineffective is just as bad

Yeah he needs to go. What a terrible player

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Dreadful team but a wins a win i guess

 

[Noise]

Never rated him before his injury. It’s on the coach then that has put him in to early

The plan was to bring him in week 9 or 10.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Never rated him before his injury. It’s on the coach then that has put him in to early

Well who do you want out there waqa ffs.

He had to come back at some point why not ease him against a reserve grade side like the Tigers.

 

[Happy MEel]

Ok. I’m scrapping that debacle. Moving forward Hodgson gets dropped to the bench for a 20 minute stint, Dunster replaced by Lumelume and Paulo back in for Murchie. I think we’d get most of the stupid out of our game and look a lot more solid across 80 minutes.

 

[DaveMc]

Our defensive structure goes out the window with Hodgson on. The middle is so loose and slow, and so many first contacts just not sticking at all. Imagine what this team would look like with Api in there.

Positive is that the halves were both pretty good, Moses especially. Dylan is still a monster in defence, and seemed to be looking to get more involved with the ball too.

 

[Mickyd39]

What happened to Old man emu? Was he injured or just kept off by Baldy.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Ok. I’m scrapping that debacle. Moving forward Hodgson gets dropped, Dunster replaced by Lumelume and Paulo back in for Murchie. I think we’d get most of the stupid out of our game and look a lot more solid across 80 minutes.

I think overall it's better to build into some form. We have a good run of games coming up. Keeps everyone in check.

We weren't great and looked happy to just go through the motions once we got to 16 in front.

It was very similar to 2021 Easter Monday game actually.

 

[Jake the snake]

We only had two forwards run for over 100 metres, Hopgood and Matterson. Tigers had four, plus two outside backs with 200+

What a useless piece of info. Who the f**k cares?