Rnd 18 Eels v Knights Game Day Thread.

[T-Boon]

Its BA's fault that I just had a 3-putt!

Well no its not. But if you were paying him to coach you how to putt and you weren't improving I bet you would be putting your wallet away.

 

[Bazal]

Sam Kasiano has gone backwards at Melbourne.

f**k that Bellamy is a shithouse coach!

 

[strider]

*Mortdale

f**k i better get the heater out

 

[strider]

Its BA's fault that I just had a 3-putt!

nah thats definitely the AFL guy's responsibility

 

[Kornstar]

Firstly mate, I hope you reach out for help with your own demons. You have friends here and we stand beside you at all times.

I think the club is in good hands and that Bernie Max and Co will make strong decisions for the betterment of our club.

Thanks, Gronk.

I’m not brave (in that twisted way you have to be to do something so painful) enough to do anything but i don’t have any attachment to life. There is nothing i am living for as such. I was ready to go at 20 to be honest......

I wish i had an ounce of your positivity but this club has destroyed me too much in the past.......

 

[Happy MEel]

I must admit this gave me a bit of a chuckle this morning.

 

[Eelementary]

Thanks, Gronk.

I’m not brave (in that twisted way you have to be to do something so painful) enough to do anything but i don’t have any attachment to life. There is nothing i am living for as such. I was ready to go at 20 to be honest......

I wish i had an ounce of your positivity but this club has destroyed me too much in the past.......

For what it's worth, brother, I think you're pretty damn brave for opening up on the forum.

While a lot of us may be faceless names, it is still a commendable thing to trust people that way.

Lord knows this forum has helped me through some rough times, and helps me still.

I sincerely hope things get easier for you soon, mate.

 

[Bazal]

Thanks, Gronk.

I’m not brave (in that twisted way you have to be to do something so painful) enough to do anything but i don’t have any attachment to life. There is nothing i am living for as such. I was ready to go at 20 to be honest......

I wish i had an ounce of your positivity but this club has destroyed me too much in the past.......

Mate, I mean no disrespect by this, because I used to let it get me down too so I know where you're coming from...it wasn't that the NRL played a big part in my life, it was just another source of negativity on top of others.

It's just a game. It's literally just a game. Parramatta winning or losing has absolutely no real effect on day to day life.

I had a shocking year with my depression and such in 2016, so you can imagine how everything that went on didn't help. Thankfully I have good mates who realised that ribbing me about something as trivial as footy wasn't really what I needed too, but I stopped watching entirely for a good chunk of that season. And I sure as shit stayed away from this cesspit of misery. Might be worth a try? You'd be amazed how quickly you realise that it's not that important after all.

I think the Aussie sporting psyche is really weird, and unbelievably parochial, and I think that when things aren't going well it's just one more thing in life that you feel sucks...and when there's so much misery and negativity surrounding it from others as well it can be very easy to get dragged down into that, which is obviously no good when you're already feeling miserable.

Break the cycle bro.

 

[Eelogical]

how many f**king games have we lost on penalties this year ?

To date this year. We have lost 8 games and the penalty counts.
We have lost 6 games but won the penalty counts.
We have won 2 games and the penalty counts.
We have won 1 game but lost the penalty count.

All up, 7 games where we won the penalty count, 10 games where we lost the penalty count.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Well no its not. But if you were paying him to coach you how to putt and you weren't improving I bet you would be putting your wallet away.

Not necessarily. If I can’t execute what he is suggesting that is on me rather than him. He isn’t hitting the ball for me.

 

[Gary Gutful]

No. That that error means you lose every week.
If your team is going to be making those errors every week which ours obviously is then you cannot try to play a grinding disciplined game plan. That brain dead complete sets Arthur is fixated on is useless for these players. The only time we looked good last night was when Hayne made things up on the run.

If players keep making stupid errors there isn’t a game plan in the world that will work.

 

[IFR33K]

*Mortdale

Close. About 240 kilometres north west from there

 

[Gary Gutful]

Close. About 240 kilometres north west from there

*Mortdale West

 

[T-Boon]

Not necessarily. If I can’t execute what he is suggesting that is on me rather than him. He isn’t hitting the ball for me.

Yeah well you would keep the wrong putting coach on so good luck with that.

 

[T-Boon]

If players keep making stupid errors there isn’t a game plan in the world that will work.

Are we going around in circles. The coach is in charge of all of it so is responsible for all of it. Yes if a player misses a tackle it is very much the coaches fault.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Yeah well you would keep the wrong putting coach on so good luck with that.

Or I could just keep blaming the coach for the fact that I am a tard and continue to shop around looking for a solution to my lack of discipline and execution. That will work won’t it!

By the way - I am getting a little uncomfortable with this analogy as I am actually a demon on the greens.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Are we going around in circles. The coach is in charge of all of it so is responsible for all of it. Yes if a player misses a tackle it is very much the coaches fault.

That’s dumb. What responsibilities do the players have then?

 

[Twizzle]

To date this year. We have lost 8 games and the penalty counts.
We have lost 6 games but won the penalty counts.
We have won 2 games and the penalty counts.
We have won 1 game but lost the penalty count.

All up, 7 games where we won the penalty count, 10 games where we lost the penalty count.

appreciate the stats mate, but what I was getting at is the amount of games that we have score as many tries as our opponent and lost because of a penalty goal like last night

 

[T-Boon]

That’s dumb. What responsibilities do the players have then?

Total. Drop them. Tak should have been dropped months ago. But in addition to being a coach who likes discipline he also likes to stay loyal to guys who don't have any and he cant coach them to be disciplined. He is in short a totally confused coach.

 

[Twizzle]

Total. Drop them.

for whom ?

our u/20s team ?