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

[hindy111]

We have always struggled against nippy merkins through the middle. It's why Souths kill us.

Exactly and BA hasn't been able to fix it

 

[hineyrulz]

No one is blaming anyone for our loss tonight. We won. It just so happens that some players were not first grade standard.

Neither was the coaching, imagine almost getting out coached by Tommy Shines, he's been senile for over a decade.

 

[Eelogical]

Does anyone think Hodgson isn’t our biggest problem?

He's part of our problem, just like the coaching staff. On top of that our COE is nothing but. Maybe I'm expecting too much.

 

[yy_cheng]

What is BAs job, rotations and being a good mother to the players so they have a balanced life.

I mean, team list, cut and paste, team motivation, nope,. Game plan, 1 out and kick to the right and front loading effort.

I think my mum is the best mum in the world. She could do all that and learn the other stuff in a couple of weeks and do a good job

 

[JokerEel]

10 years and the bloke still can't rotate a bench, total potato. Only at a club with poor standards like ours would this turnip last as long. But but but but but we are just a poor club with no money

I actually thought he got the bench rotation right in the first half.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

They Tigers seemed to grow another leg when Hodgo came back on in the second half...

Just coincidence that's when Utoikamanu and Klemmer came back for their second stint? You merkins are so desperate to blame individuals for a team result.

 

[hineyrulz]

Exactly and BA hasn't been able to fix it

I mean a complete Houso like Levi carved us up for years and years. You knew it would happen but the team and coaching staff always looks shocked. It's time for a change.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

They had 4 actually

No we had 4. They had one: https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiership/2023/round-6/wests-tigers-v-eels/

 

[hineyrulz]

He's part of our problem, just like the coaching staff. On top of that our COE is nothing but. Maybe I'm expecting too much.

We have a COB, centre of baldness.

 

[the phantom menace]

It points to something that was very different today (and last week) compared to previous weeks. Something that wasn't different is your endless whinging.

Stats thread...

 

[the phantom menace]

No we had 4. They had one: https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiership/2023/round-6/wests-tigers-v-eels/

Stats thread...?

 

[the phantom menace]

He wasn't blamed for our losses. He was dropped to give an opportunity to someone else who had earnt it. That's very different from blaming him for the losses.

Source ?

 

[Noise]

Just coincidence that's when Utoikamanu and Klemmer came back for their second stint? You merkins are so desperate to blame individuals for a team result.

So maybe we should keep our better defensive hooker on

 

[hindy111]

It was a shit game and a shit performance but I really think Easter weekend is always full of these types of performances. Its a long weekend. Nobody wants to be playing footy. Why we see so many scrappy games and blow outs every Easter weekend. It's easy to say they are professionals and all that but they are also human. It would be hard for everyone this whole weekend bar perhaps Thursday night being really up for it.

Our issues are simple. Hodgson may come good buts looking less likely each week. Moves slow. A quality prop off the bench who bends the line and a better Wing or Centre option. Haze had an absolute stinker. I'd say he cost us 12 points and at times where we may of broke them. If we scored first at 22-6 we probably go on and win by 40. We just kept letting them off the hook.
The side looks a bit bored and lazy. We seem to often get nervous and stop playing footy with far to long to go. To many sets where it's nothing but 5 hit ups and kick. No real NUTS or sting in defense. I don't recall one big hit all game.

Tigers however had a dig. They deserved to win and if Staines doesn't drop that ball I reckon they do.

 

[Happy MEel]

Just coincidence that's when Utoikamanu and Klemmer came back for their second stint? You merkins are so desperate to blame individuals for a team result.

So the same time our best middle RCG was on and second best middle defensive in Makatoa just came on?

 

[hineyrulz]

So maybe we should keep our better defensive hooker on

It's a shame our 23 year old 3 game dummy half is our best defensive hooker.

 

[Happy MEel]

We place far too little importance on getting in good positions defensively in the ruck. It kills us

 

[Noise]

Another issue we have (and have had for years) is that too often when we make a tackle our defenders end up on the back side of the person they have tackled, which allows the dummy half to have a field day. I reckon this has been an issue for almost a decade.

 

[Happy MEel]

It's a shame our 23 year old 3 game dummy half is our best defensive hooker.

To be fair though, he goes ok.

 

[Incorrect]

So maybe we should keep our better defensive hooker on

*f**king Amen. Took the well-measured, irrefutable retort right out of my mouth...