Rd6: Eels v Tigers GAME DAY THREAD @ Commbank Stadium 18/4/22

[King-Gutho94]

I hope we win next week.

We have to be certainties we are trotting out our glorious Anzac jersey against the Knights. They won't know what hit them coming up against that jersey.

 

[Leaguenutter]

Al Licmasak says hi

He’s only 19, still plenty of time to take Queen Gutho’s place

 

[Incorrect]

Copy and paste for team list Tuesday with Jnr being in and Zac Cini out of the 22?

Junior in for RCG. Poor Reg probably lost 8-10 kilos today after being flogged like that in the unseasonable late autumn heat.... Will need a couple of weeks to get himself ready to go again...

 

[Soto]

Junior in for RCG. Poor Reg probably lost 8-10 kilos today after being flogged like that in the unseasonable late autumn heat.... Will need a couple of weeks to get himself ready to go again...

Too right and then Jnr will get flogged on Sunday wanting him to play 78 mins.
Player load management is horrendous.
Why pick 17 players when you almost have no intention of using the lot.
Epic eff ups year in year out

 

[hindy111]

Junior in for RCG. Poor Reg probably lost 8-10 kilos today after being flogged like that in the unseasonable late autumn heat.... Will need a couple of weeks to get himself ready to go again...

He was gassed. Unsure what BA was thinking.
Cartwright in bench and Pappa in middle was a no brainer. Who carries a centre and hooker on bench

 

[eels_fan]

Rein shouldn’t be anywhere near the bench again, he offers nothing, unless Mahoney is out - he shouldn’t even be at the ground.

Perham had to start on the wing, I have no idea why it didn’t happen but surely will be rectified for next week. The bigger issue is if Opa is out.

and if RCG is out we are pushing shit uphill.

if there is a positive it’s how to bounced back after the last loss.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Snap out of it BA, its just one game!

 

[Soto]

The fact of the matter is if there's no Cartwright or Wiremu or Nuikore on the bench there is no punch or x factor.
The energy levels need to rise with the benchies. Our levels regress particularly if you're only using 15 players for the majority of the match

 

[Gary Gutful]

FFS BA!

 

[yy_cheng]

Basically he has no faith in any of the backups.

He only trusts the 13 plus 2 of the benchies

So the 15 gets more and more experience while the others just sit around waiting for an injury

 

[lucablight]

That was one of the most embarrassing losses in a long time. The coach has the shoulder a lot of the responsibility for that. In a team without our superstar prop he decided to pick Perham on the bench. He should have gone with Cartwright or Greig because we were short enough in forwards as it is. He’s going to run Paulo and RCG into the ground by playing them such big minutes every week. We are a bad team without our superstar props doing their thing every week.

 

[JokerEel]

What happened to Makatoa's big hits from last year? Smashed the Panthers then has since gone quiet.

 

[Gary Gutful]

What happened to Makatoa's big hits from last year? Smashed the Panthers then has since gone quiet.

Too risky to make big hits these days. Just ask Jnr.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Other site reckons that was the 100th loss of BAs coaching career at Parramatta.

Its a hot field but i reckon today may have unfortunately made the top 5 of the 100 losses under BA.

I suppose as they say in cricket if you are going to raise the bat do it in style.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Other site reckons that was the 100th loss of BAs coaching career at Parramatta.

Its a hot field but i reckon today may have unfortunately made the top 5 of the 100 losses under BA.

I suppose as they say in cricket if you are going to raise the bat do it in style.

Most of the early ones were unsurprising.

 

[JokerEel]

Too risky to make big hits these days. Just ask Jnr.

True but it seems to have also impacted his hitups as well he has been very soft this season.

 

[Eelementary]

Makatoa is not a First Grader.

Penisini is an absolute star. Our most dangerous player in a badly outplayed side.

Moses was not able to take command today.

Lane continues to be lazy (his effort on that short drop-out was deplorable; he'd have to be up there as the tallest man in the NRL, and he made a half-arsed effort to play at the ball).

 

[Eelementary]

True but it seems to have also impacted his hitups as well he has been very soft this season.

He's not a First Grade-calibre player.

 

[Avenger]

Why the f**k would you put Perham and Rein on your bench before Cartwright and Greig? Seriously some of Arthur's selections are so f**king stupid when you consider he has been coaching for nearly a decade.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Penisini was moved to wing a couple of weeks ago and his decision making was atrocious. Today was worse. Positionally he was an absolute disaster. Love the guy but its painfully obviously he aint no winger. Oppy would have been far better.