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

[Soto]

Simple...we have the nucleus of a good side...however move 10 players on sign 6 or 7 new players and back fill the rest with juniors.
The Dolphins fullback tonight who they needed to get permission to play him as he's outside their top 30 is better than most if not all our backs.
I'd get 2 new wingers, a centre, a fullback 2 backrowers and a hooker..
We have the worst and slowest hooker in the game.
I'd sign turuva for fullback or winger
I'd sign the best hooker in nsw cup or Q cup...in the meantime lussick would be chopped and Hands in.
I'd see if Papalli is interested in coming back...he looked settled and happy here.
I'd be moving matterson on and Lane..
I'm sure Guymer would do the same if not better job in the backrow.
His bench rotations still stink after all these years...
Season is done already I'm afraid. There is a silver lining here...coach will be gone or new players will be promoted...

 

[King-Gutho94]

The club finally worked out the Rouse Hill Rhinos contingent we signed (besides Penisini) were all garbage. Unfortunately it was too late

We all knew the Rouse Hill Rhino Bias was leading down this path but the TCT and the BA defence squad chose to defend Brad at every opportunity.

You only have to speak to people that are involved in JRL in the area and they will happily admit how Brad and his cronies have developed a little circle in there that no one can break into unless you played under Brad at Junior level.

It's truly a disgrace what he has done to our great club.

 

[Eelementary]

Man, Brad Arthur has it sweet.

Gets no results out of a decent roster, and is rewarded by being our longest-serving coach of all-time.

Joe Blows in regular jobs get no results in their jobs, and are sacked pretty quickly.

But, no - not at Parramatta.

Regardless of the culture he has instilled as top dog....regardless of his inability to extract consistency from his team...he is backed by management as the man to lead us to glory.

Do the people running the club not feel sick, and embarrassed, that we are now the proud bearers of the longest drought in the NRL?

The last time we were relevant, Germany was divided into 2, separate states FFS...

And, so, what does he do, leading up to season 2024? He signs a player who spurned us once, and is bog average, and was on the plane to the UK, before this desperate excuse for a football club went crawling back to him, begging him to sign on...

It's not good enough.

His recruitment policies are bewildering - Lomax's signing is a start, but it should not save this man's job.

His inability to craft a roster with decent depth, and with speed in our backs, is alarming, and after eleven seasons, he still has no clue how to get this team to defend like a Premiership-calibre team.

He must go.

 

[Soto]

We all knew the Rouse Hill Rhino Bias was leading down this path but the TCT and the BA defence squad chose to defend Brad at every opportunity.

You only have to speak to people that are involved in JRL in the area and they will happily admit how Brad and his cronies have developed a little circle in there that no one can break into unless you played under Brad at Junior level.

It's truly a disgrace what he has done to our great club.

Pom poms have been out far too long

 

[lucablight]

On a positive note I thought Simonsson was very good tonight. Ran for 162m in a well beaten side.

 

[Soto]

We all knew the Rouse Hill Rhino Bias was leading down this path but the TCT and the BA defence squad chose to defend Brad at every opportunity.

You only have to speak to people that are involved in JRL in the area and they will happily admit how Brad and his cronies have developed a little circle in there that no one can break into unless you played under Brad at Junior level.

It's truly a disgrace what he has done to our great club.

Pom poms have been out far too

Man, Brad Arthur has it sweet.

Gets no results out of a decent roster, and is rewarded by being our longest-serving coach of all-time.

Joe Blows in regular jobs get no results in their jobs, and are sacked pretty quickly.

But, no - not at Parramatta.

Regardless of the culture he has instilled as top dog....regardless of his inability to extract consistency from his team...he is backed by management as the man to lead us to glory.

Do the people running the club not feel sick, and embarrassed, that we are now the proud bearers of the longest drought in the NRL?

The last time we were relevant, Germany was divided into 2, separate nations FFS...

And, so, what does he do, leading up to season 2024? He signs a player who spurned us once, and is big average, and was on the plane to the UK, before this desperate excuse for a football club went crawling back to him, begging him to sign on...

It's not good enough.

His recruitment policies are bewildering - Lomax's signing is a start, but it should not save this man's job.

His inability to craft a roster with decent depth, and with speed in our backs, is alarming, and after eleven seasons, he still has no clue how to get this team to defend like a Premiership-calibre team.

He must go.

That's the biggest embarrassment ...he's our longest serving coach with zero to show for it...spineless management keep extending him...give yourselves a triple uppercut you epic imbeciles...you should be massively ashamed whoever you are and have ratified extensions to this bum

 

[Eelementary]

On a positive note I thought Simonsson was very good tonight. Ran for 162m in a well beaten side.

I thought he out-played Russell, tbh.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Man, Brad Arthur has it sweet.

Gets no results out of a decent roster, and is rewarded by being our longest-serving coach of all-time.

Joe Blows in regular jobs get no results in their jobs, and are sacked pretty quickly.

But, no - not at Parramatta.

Regardless of the culture he has instilled as top dog....regardless of his inability to extract consistency from his team...he is backed by management as the man to lead us to glory.

Do the people running the club not feel sick, and embarrassed, that we are now the proud bearers of the longest drought in the NRL?

The last time we were relevant, Germany was divided into 2, separate states FFS...

And, so, what does he do, leading up to season 2024? He signs a player who spurned us once, and is bog average, and was on the plane to the UK, before this desperate excuse for a football club went crawling back to him, begging him to sign on...

It's not good enough.

His recruitment policies are bewildering - Lomax's signing is a start, but it should not save this man's job.

His inability to craft a roster with decent depth, and with speed in our backs, is alarming, and after eleven seasons, he still has no clue how to get this team to defend like a Premiership-calibre team.

He must go.

Brad couldn't recruit a homeless man with no shoes out of pet barn.

 

[Eelementary]

Brad couldn't recruit a homeless man with no shoes out of pet barn.

Couldn't coach him, either.

 

[Chipmunk]

On a positive note I thought Simonsson was very good tonight. Ran for 162m in a well beaten side.

The fact that Bailey Simonsson has become the least of all our problems is telling.

 

[the phantom menace]

The Dolphins fullback tonight who they needed to get permission to play him as he's outside their top 30 is better than most if not all our backs.

It was embarrassing. I see that potential in some of our backline players as they come through, but I reckon the system they are coached into doesn't give them the freedom or confidence to play with that spark in the big time.

 

[Parra Pride]

It was embarrassing. I see that potential in some of our backline players as they come through, but I reckon the system they are coached into doesn't give them the freedom or confidence to play with that spark in the big time.

Why would it? The last few years have been pass it to Sivo and hope for the best. We have one of the best half backs in the game, parked on the right 90% of the time because Brad can’t wrap his head around the idea of halves playing both sides in attack who actually has a centre outside him who is at the very least serviceable yet our entire game plan has been pass it to the Fijian guy who doesn’t want to run the ball.

 

[DaveMc]

It was embarrassing. I see that potential in some of our backline players as they come through, but I reckon the system they are coached into doesn't give them the freedom or confidence to play with that spark in the big time.

I think this is the issue. They play such a bland style of footy that even when we’re losing, you can’t say “at least it was entertaining”. But that’s been Arthur since the get go. Front load and chase the collision. Forget about any flair to score some points.

 

[TheCrowe]

The really sad thing is that as dismal as things seem we are still have been in a better position in recent years then we have been since the late 80s. We have had dismal decades in the not too distant past.

 

[eels_fan]

I thought he out-played Russell, tbh.

That’s not hard. Russell was Sivo level bad tonight.

 

[eels_fan]

Our starting props combined for 127m.

good effort boys

Lussick ran for 5m in 80mins

 

[King-Gutho94]

Our starting props combined for 127m.

good effort boys

Lussick ran for 5m in 80mins

5m yet had about 15 darts at the tryline.

 

[Nutz]

We have a bye in 2 weeks.

You'll win that one for sure KG ;]

 

[The Predictor]

He knows he can’t fix it - so the only hope to stay employed is to convince his bosses that it is unfixable because the players can’t be coached - same argument Pou has been making the last week

Its a long shot strategy, which shows even Brad knows he should be gone really..,

That is one of the most embarrassing post match interviews I have ever seen, neither of them could string a sentence together, and Brad decided to absolve himself regarding his players rubbish performances, by the way Beaves and butthead come to mind every time I see these two idiots speak, apologies though to beave and butthead for comparison

 

[The Predictor]

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

Brown continues to be a massive disappointment, no leadership whatsoever