Rd7 2024: 8pm Eels v Dolphins GAME DAY THREAD @ Tio Stadium Darwin April 19th

[Nutz]

Saw the presser. Coach is toast surely.

He certainly looked like Vegemite on toast.

 

[Happy MEel]

Yea. Gutho should have taken more responsibility too. I'm expecting they get flogged next week. If BA goes I wouldn't be too upset if Gutho and a few others left. We need a reset in the leadership group.

As long as we keep Moses and build around him. It’s his team.

 

[Avenger]

Darwin is closer to BAli.

 

[TheCrowe]

This is going to be a hard season to watch...the game plan is non existent, there is no structure, no dissecting the opposition, no effort in ruck defence, no pace, no immediacy in anything we do...we play like we are stuck in quicksand most of the time..
We need to blow this up and start again...it's broken..I repeat it's fkn broken

The upside is its motivated me to renew my passport and piss off somewhere and not sit through another dismal winter watching this joke of a team.

 

[Legal Eel]

The more we get beat by the more Retreaded Pou gets, the worse we play the more hilarious he gets.

This is his dream.

Gronk genuinely and misguidedly wants to find anyway to defend the coach and the club at all costs and would back them if they droned his house….but Pou has no genuinely held opinion on anything, he is just here to play contrarian and pick a fight

 

[DaveMc]

Yea. Gutho should have taken more responsibility too. I'm expecting they get flogged next week. If BA goes I wouldn't be too upset if Gutho and a few others left. We need a reset in the leadership group.

I think that’s right, we need wholesale changes at this point.

 

[Soto]

Yea. Gutho should have taken more responsibility too. I'm expecting they get flogged next week. If BA goes I wouldn't be too upset if Gutho and a few others left. We need a reset in the leadership group.

Honestly we haven't had a top leader for a long time...rudderless

 

[Chipmunk]

You sure about that Marrara Oval is a 15 min bus ride back to Darwin CBD where parra are staying.

That's double the amount of time for Bea to think about changes then the drive home from Memorial ave at Kellyville.

Surely we're on the Red Eye at 12.30am

 

[hineyrulz]

BA is too stubborn to fall on his sword.

The way he managed Jake was a disgrace.

Nothing against the Kid. But Brad did the wrong thing by him.

All the loonies whinging about poor old Jake being booed out the club were in LA LA LA land.

Brad has been the problem since day 1 of Jake's career.

And he has wrecked the club turning it into a family business.

But but but but but no NePoTiSm at PaRrA!!!

 

[Happy MEel]

As long as we keep Moses and build around him. It’s his team.

Keep Moses, Penisini, Drown, RCG, Cartwright and Hopgood. We’ve also got Lomax coming. The rest are free to look elsewhere.

 

[hindy111]

3 of our last 4 performances embarrasing. I called ourbwin against the Cowboys kinda lucky. Everything went out way and some arsy tries. They looked far more polished a side. If we lose our next 3 bottom 4 is likely.

 

[blue bags]

Corner was painted 8 years ago but the hack kept getting contract extensions

Wayne Bennett

 

[Chipmunk]

Yea. Gutho should have taken more responsibility too. I'm expecting they get flogged next week. If BA goes I wouldn't be too upset if Gutho and a few others left. We need a reset in the leadership group.

Gutho looks pretty busted to be honest. I'm not sure he can play fullback next year.

With Lomax coming he might be the option, Gutho at centre maybe.

 

[hineyrulz]

Darwin is closer to BAli.

time for a permanent holiday Bea

 

[lingard]

Ill give BA this. He called out the team, well most of them. Accused them of quitting and bring part time footy players. That's the last step. He's painted himself into a corner. I'd say his head will be on the chopping board before the players. But there's plenty of players that should follow him out the door.

He's just about to completely lose the dressing room.

 

[Avenger]

This is his dream.

Gronk genuinely and misguidedly wants to find anyway to defend the coach and the club at all costs and would back them if they droned his house….but Pou has no genuinely held opinion on anything, he is just here to play contrarian and pick a fight

It's not Pou's fault. He eats pancakes with a toothpick and is great at counting cards.

 

[Legal Eel]

Have to say, I have sat through some dismal parramatta games and indeed seasons in my 48 years following this club, but this one really hurts….its just made more bleak with the knowledge that there will be no repercussions and, without a trace of irony or comedy, I can honestly say that Brad getting a contract extension is as likely as Brad getting sacked

it’s the lack of confidence in any solution or action that is killing me

 

[84 Baby]

Yea he's not right. He was sprinting out of the line trying to make hero tackles but kept missing. And that was early on before he was tired.

Not just tonight is the problem. He hasn’t quite been Reg since his brother died. He had a great game vs Manly which we can’t repay him for, and I don't like forcing my perspective on people’s feelings but it just seems to me that it’s all still kind of there for him emotionally.

 

[JokerEel]

Not sure of the numbers but was told that with Hands at hooker we won 8 from 12 last year, then Lussick was signed and the end of the season was poor

Slow, below average passing dummy half and a turtle when going from dummy half in each set in their 10. Well , if there aren’t massive repercussions then the club isn’t serious, the NRL is the equivalent of the EPL so imagine what would happen to a club and its staff if they had a series of results like we have had recently.

Custom Match List - RLP

List of matches played by Brendan Hands in Australia/NZ for the Parramatta Eels.

www.rugbyleagueproject.org

Won 5 from 8 as starting hooker.

 

[Legal Eel]

Not just tonight is the problem. He hasn’t quite been Reg since his brother died. He had a great game vs Manly which we can’t repay him for, and I don't like forcing my perspective on people’s feelings but it just seems to me that it’s all still kind of there for him emotionally.

Agreed - if he were your employee you would insist on some personal or bereavement leave to get himself right