Rd6: Parra v Canberra LIVE game day thread

[hineyrulz]

You guys need a prop ever so badly.

We will give you jeremy latimore for the frenchman?

Or perhaps leeson ah mau for the frenchman and gutherson

We will swap you Timmy Mannah and Manu Mau for Vaughan and Frizzell???

Seems a fair trade to me.

 

[lingard]

What a sad sad state of affairs it is watching this footy team. We have regressed more in one off season then I have ever seen a team before.

We are just a weak club with a weak mentality and now this current crop of players have joined in on the weakness.

It’s so hard to watch because I thought after years of utter shit we have turned a corner, a corner where we stopped presenting and putting out shit performances like ones this year, performances where we look like a team with no cohesion, performances where we forget how to win. They were all starting to leave our club and we were building something special but not anymore, we look like a rabble, we look most of any ideas, we don’t know how to win we can’t even find the try line anymore for f**k sake.

What has happened in one off season for this team to be so diabolical? There is so much wrong with this team currently and it starts with our mentality and culture. One good year in 8 years and we can’t even back it up with virtually the same team? I don’t even expect us to be 6-0 or 5-1 but we are 0-6, what the f**k?

BA sounds defeated, he looks lost of ideas himself, just everything is a mess.

I don’t even get upset anymore cause I am so used to this, but what I can’t fathom is what has gone so wrong.

We have way to many plodders and players who just simply not good enough, our recruitment was poor as we have highlighted numerous times this year but that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Some very dark days ahead, again it wasn’t all that long ago was it, but that’s Parra for you.

The coach's forwards recruitment has been diabolical. This preoccupation with signing 'value for money' players has left us with a pack of hard-working but average players. Are there any other clubs serious about winning the premiership who don't have any current origin-level players?

 

[Joshuatheeel]

The coach's forwards recruitment has been diabolical. This preoccupation with signing 'value for money' players has left us with a pack of hard-working but average players. Are there any other clubs serious about winning the premiership who don't have any current origin-level players?

Panthers?
Warriors?
West Tigers ?
Souths ?

They are all currently top 8 without a current origin player

 

[Noise]

Panthers?
Warriors?
West Tigers ?
Souths ?

They are all currently top 8 without a current origin player

Souths have gagai and inglis.

Panthers have Maloney

Warriors have about 16 blokes who aren’t eligible for origin

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Souths have gagai and inglis.

Panthers have Maloney

Warriors have about 16 blokes who aren’t eligible for origin

Sorry thought it was referring to current origin forwards

 

[Chipmunk]

Panthers?
Warriors?
West Tigers ?
Souths ?

They are all currently top 8 without a current origin player

He said serious about winning a Premiership. I suggest the last two won't be anywhere near a GF to be able to win one this year.

I'd say the Panthers will have a few picked this year, prior to any team having an opportunity to win a Premiership.

The Warriors are a little different with Origin.

 

[Chipmunk]

Papali looks less fat than I've seen him over the last couple of years. Can't have lost it all in a week.

I noticed this as well. Perhaps they sent him to a fat camp for the week. To be honest Junior looked slimmer also.

 

[IFR33K]

is there any point making changes now?

the time for that was two weeks ago when our season was still alive now it just feels like shuffling the deck chairs on the titanic

Is it too early to think about 2019? Or should we hope BA pulls a rabbit out of his ass and gets the players almost resembling a team.

 

[Happy MEel]

He said serious about winning a Premiership. I suggest the last two won't be anywhere near a GF to be able to win one this year.

I'd say the Panthers will have a few picked this year, prior to any team having an opportunity to win a Premiership.

The Warriors are a little different with Origin.

Souths also have 2 international forwards in the Burgess’ and at least Sam would walk into origin if eligible.

 

[Chipmunk]

We played Penrith in round 5 last week. Or do you mean the final last year? Our attack was bad in that game too.The only tries we scored in that final were length of the field run away tries against the run of play.

In fairness, this was the basis for a large amount of tries for us last season on the back of either Semi or Gutho brilliance.

 

[Chipmunk]

We will swap you Timmy Mannah and Manu Mau for Vaughan and Frizzell???

Seems a fair trade to me.

Funnily enough combined they're probably paid the same.

 

[Gazzamatta]

Are you Paul Kent ?

That would have to sit at No.345 in the crisis list right now.

Taka is back training with the group. Pics posted by the club this week.

Hayne has hip and quad injuries so maybe 6 hours in a bus you leave him at home ?

So you didnt see them? Neither did I. No not Paul Kent. Just a genuine question. Id expect experienced team members like Hayne and Taka would be there to support and encourage particularly in these desperate times. If they wernt there obviously the coach thinks otherwise.
Like the players it appears the supporters are now turning on each other as well.

 

[Noise]

So you didnt see them? Neither did I. No not Paul Kent. Just a genuine question. Id expect experienced team members like Hayne and Taka would be there to support and encourage particularly in these desperate times. If they wernt there obviously the coach thinks otherwise.
Like the players it appears the supporters are now turning on each other as well.

Was Nathan Brown there?

 

[Gazzamatta]

Was Nathan Brown there?

Great point. I didnt see him either. Seems strange to me. Like someone said, maybe saving hotel costs. Ffs Max.

 

[Djay]

The coach's forwards recruitment has been diabolical. This preoccupation with signing 'value for money' players has left us with a pack of hard-working but average players. Are there any other clubs serious about winning the premiership who don't have any current origin-level players?

No, and there lies the problems.

We have to many of the same players, of the same plodders and it is now starting to show glaringly.

Even teams who don't have origin players either have rep level internationals or future rep players, we have none plain and simple.

 

[Gronk]

No, and there lies the problems.

We have to many of the same players, of the same plodders and it is now starting to show glaringly.

Even teams who don't have origin players either have rep level internationals or future rep players, we have none plain and simple.

2018 emerging blues camp

Bevan French (Parramatta Eels)

Tepai Moeroa (Parramatta Eels)

Mitchell Moses (Parramatta Eels)

Kyle Schneider (Parramatta Eels)



2018 emerging maroons

Corey Norman (Parramatta Eels)

 

[Noise]

2018 emerging blues camp

Bevan French (Parramatta Eels)

Tepai Moeroa (Parramatta Eels)

Mitchell Moses (Parramatta Eels)

Kyle Schneider (Parramatta Eels)

And none of those players are anywhere near origin selection

 

[Gronk]

And none of those players are anywhere near origin selection

Well nobody is going to argue with you that they are out of form.

But just to remind you that Djay said we have no future rep players. Walters and Fittler don’t agree with him.

 

[Djay]

Panthers?
Warriors?
West Tigers ?
Souths ?

They are all currently top 8 without a current origin player

RCG, Tamou, Merrin have either played origin or will play origin.
Warriors have a fair few international forwards who run extremely hard.
Tigers have recruited up front and got what they needed whether they origin or rep players they have recruited diversely and added where they needed to.
Souths have the best forward in the game for me in Burgess he alone wins they're forward battles.

We don't have anyone bar Brown who can do anything like that and it is showing now.

 

[Djay]

2018 emerging blues camp

Bevan French (Parramatta Eels)

Tepai Moeroa (Parramatta Eels)

Mitchell Moses (Parramatta Eels)

Kyle Schneider (Parramatta Eels)



2018 emerging maroons

Corey Norman (Parramatta Eels)

And how many of them are actually going to play origin?

They can be emerging all they want, when are they gonna be the guys?