Rd8 2024: Eels v Manly GAME DAY THREAD @ 4 Pines Park April 26

[lucablight]

Manly beat Penrith sans-Cleary by this exact same score.

Penrith didn’t miss the finals last season and aren’t going to be 3/8.

 

[JokerEel]

Penrith didn’t miss the finals last season and aren’t going to be 3/8.

But that's not the point ffs

 

[King-Gutho94]

nathan brown in his prime was a force of nature

A guy that bled for the club unlike a 1 or 2 still playing for us.

Was frozen out because of a personality clash.

What an embarrassing decision the club made when Nrown was on the outer we offered Matto a 4 year deal.

You reap what you sew as a club.

Anyone that says matto has repaid the club since his last contract negotiation are kidding themselves.

 

[hineyrulz]

So basically the same as the Manly pack……when we had all the ball they shit themselves and were behind 3 tries to 1…

Yeah fair enough discus how we lost that game…but don’t claim we are track bullies when the opposition is exactly the same…

of course manly looked good in 40 mins against 12 for 20 mins and a 8 to nil penalty count!

answer this …

why did manly look shit in the first half?

at what point did manly run away with it?

Manly’s pack are bog average. Hardly the Yardstick. We are a dumb team that when the going gets tough we get going. But not in a good way. There are so many passengers in the team it’s not funny.

 

[emjaycee]

So that makes you and 84Baby are the only ones on this forum that haven't yet woken up to Pou... I guess someone's got to get the lowest marks in any test.

Or @84 Baby and I are the only ones on the forum that aren't sheep.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Manly’s pack are bog average. Hardly the Yardstick. We are a dumb team that when the going gets tough we get going. But not in a good way. There are so many passengers in the team it’s not funny.

They are willing to die for BA though.

 

[JokerEel]

A guy that bled for the club unlike a 1 or 2 still playing for us.

Was frozen out because of a personality clash.

What an embarrassing decision the club made when Nrown was on the outer we offered Matto a 4 year deal.

You reap what you sew as a club.

Anyone that says matto has repaid the club since his last contract negotiation are kidding themselves.

Agreed

Though if I see Matto shifted from second row I will lose my shit it was his best game in a long time for us..

 

[hineyrulz]

They are willing to die for BA though.

They have been making me want to die watching them for years.

 

[emjaycee]

His main aim is to go against the grain for every f**king topic. He has no real opinion of his own. His opinion is to be in the minority, no matter the subject. And he does it to get a rise out of people.

I dont agree with that but that's ok.
We are allowed to have different opinions.

 

[DaveMc]

If Sivo gets suspended time to give someone else apart from Russell a go too...I'd be happy to give Cini or Ethyn Martin a go

I’m pretty happy burning everything to the ground at this point and starting again, but even I think this is too extreme.

 

[the phantom menace]

Sanders isn't the reason we lost. He had a great game first up. He had Olakoatou running at him all night.
The ppl who cost us were
A) Sivo - dopey play taking air and then the forearm
B) Lane - laziest player in the game bar none. He needs to be dropped and shown the door
C) Joe O - what a pot plant.

4 immediate changes for next game
Lane gone - Guymer in
Joe O Out - Wiremu in
Kelma out - Cartwright in
Lussick out - Moretti in

Hands to start.
Guymer and Cartwright lead the line speed.
Lussick needs to go as well.
If Hands needs to go off then spell him with Hopgood for about 10 mins each side of halftime. Then Hipgood can come off.
First and foremost defence needs to be fixed. Simple as that.

There is a method to the madness but mediocrity isn't acceptable anymore.
If Sivo gets suspended time to give someone else apart from Russell a go too...I'd be happy to give Cini or Ethyn Martin a go

Yep, BA has to ring the changes for our next game. Imo Sanders can stay until Moses is fit to return.

Sivo - if not suspended, needs to be dropped again. I don't care who gets a game in his place.

Lane - drop him and swap him. Agree Guymer seems worth a go.

Lussick - to the bench or Cup, and start Hands. Agree that someone else can spell Hands for 20mins if needed.

Matterson is on report... I don't think he'll pay the fine . But hopefully Cartwright is good to go in that spot. And if Matterson is available he can take up the middle rotation.

I really think RCG and Junior need to be rested too... but we've got f**k all really to bring in and who can effectively cover the 160mins in the middle rotation, even if Matterson does 60mins there.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Manly beat Penrith sans-Cleary by this exact same score.

If we have a time-machine take us back to 1984 and we are coming off a 3-peat then yeah sure let's embrace the fact we got beat by 14 against a decent but not great manly side.

 

[JokerEel]

His main aim is to go against the grain for every f**king topic. He has no real opinion of his own. His opinion is to be in the minority, no matter the subject. And he does it to get a rise out of people.

He basically is just explaining what the club is doing hence why I replied today that everything he says is how to run a club that doesn't win a premiership and is running in 14th place..

There is nothing new from his shit nothing better than what the club is already delivering

 

[the phantom menace]

I dont agree with that but that's ok.
We are allowed to have different opinions.

 

[Legal Eel]

Pou has been saying for weeks that our inside forwards and our leadership is the issue and has been getting slammed by everyone as being a troll. Yet, you just said the same thing is the issue.

Whatever you do, protect the coach…

 

[JokerEel]

Yep, BA has to ring the changes for our next game. Imo Sanders can stay until Moses is fit to return.

Sivo - if not suspended, needs to be dropped again. I don't care who gets a game in his place.

Lane - drop him and swap him. Agree Guymer seems worth a go.

Lussick - to the bench or Cup, and start Hands. Agree that someone else can spell Hands for 20mins if needed.

Matterson is on report... I don't think he'll pay the fine . But hopefully Cartwright is good to go in that spot. And if Matterson is available he can take up the middle rotation.

I really think RCG and Junior need to be rested too... but we've got f**k all really to bring in and who can effectively cover the 160mins in the middle rotation, even if Matterson does 60mins there.

I would keep Matto at Second row and put Carty on in place of Lane..
Move Lane to the middle

 

[the phantom menace]

Or @84 Baby and I are the only ones on the forum that aren't sheep.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

And that sort of good enough, excuse making is the reason why the club hasn’t won a title since 1986.

No it's lack of resources. We have sacked heaps of coaches since 1986. That's what NO EXCUSES FFS!!! looks like.

 

[King-Gutho94]

They have been making me want to die watching them for years.

Stability, stability, stability

Seriously the embarrassing performance last week has made people accept tonight was good enough.

Was it really we had a decent 50 mins but crumbled in the 2nd half.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Whatever you do, protect the coach…

*players