Round 1 - Eels v Manly

[hineyrulz]

Tense finish? 8 point lead with 3 to go and them not getting within our red zone?

Any game when we are not up by 3 tries with 3 mins to go will always be tense with this team

 

[forward pass]

Poor Semi is going to Rugby but he still doesn't even know league rules. How will he learn their bloody rules.

 

[hindy111]

Get stuck in mate!!! ... take that bee sting face

Doesn't reply to my twitter comments either

 

[hindy111]

Look so far 3 different people on 1eyed Eel have chosen Norman-Matagi-Kaysa as their 3-2-1.

What do you think Strider?

 

[Gronk]

Timmy 173m
Matagi 148m
Brown 144m
Alvaro 138m

https://matchcentre.nrl.com/match/2017/111/20171110180/#player-stats

 

[strider]

Look so far 3 different people on 1eyed Eel have chosen Norman-Matagi-Kaysa as their 3-2-1.

What do you think Strider?

What would those merkins know

Norman - Matagi ... fo-shizzle

Kaysa ..... hmmmmmmm dunno .... no one on this supremely intelligent forum is going there

 

[The EELiminator]

Turning point - Normans 40-20

how that kick didn't go out on the full is a mystery to me he was jammed up on the sideline and somehow kicked it straight as a ruler

 

[hindy111]

What would those merkins know

Norman - Matagi ... fo-shizzle

Kaysa ..... hmmmmmmm dunno .... no one on this supremely intelligent forum is going there

Pou needs to give the final word on this.

 

[strider]

Pou needs to give the final word on this.

Pou will just gibber some mumbo jumbo to try nmake himself look intelligent ... but we will be none the wiser

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Murdering us up the middle.

Funny how it turned around. At one stage there Taupau had more runs than tackles. No wonder we were on the back foot.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Windscreens and Alvaro are not running straight like Tim and Matagi. Makes a huge difference in our sets.

Not everyone should be running straight ahead. 'Spaces not faces'. Alvaro and O'Brien are in the team for their defence.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Manly with little ball had looked far more dangerous. Our tries have been both lucky and not properly constructed.
Havent seen any inroads from our team. And attacks been worse then i imagined.
Forwards been tough in defense but bar Manu the hit ups have been soft.

If we walk away with 2 points id be happy but we arent doing a lot.

Don't forget we are a team that attacks on the edges. Or at least the left edge anyway. Today wasn't the weather for that sort of game.

 

[miatch]

good win first up - hope you guys are enjoying all the crap we're dishing up on The Cumberland Throw.

here's my post game grades
http://thecumberlandthrow.com/2017/03/05/post-game-grades-round-1-at-manly/

and Forty is about to drop his Whiskey Musings blog.
get involved.

ps - kaysa played 80 today, but Brown most certainly is the back up hooker in times of trouble.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Refs want a Parra premiership

Fix is on boys

Fix is on

Yeah because the refs give a f**k about any of that.

 

[Eelementary]

Our forwards' hit-ups were soft?

What???

I counted half a dozen times when Matagi, Brown, Mannah, and Alvaro were BELTED running the ball up, but they held their ground.

I think it's very harsh to say that our forwards ran the ball softly.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

good win first up - hope you guys are enjoying all the crap we're dishing up on The Cumberland Throw.

here's my post game grades
http://thecumberlandthrow.com/2017/03/05/post-game-grades-round-1-at-manly/

and Forty is about to drop his Whiskey Musings blog.
get involved.

ps - kaysa played 80 today, but Brown most certainly is the back up hooker in times of trouble.

When is Alvaro's brother eligible for selection?

 

[84 Baby]

Refs want a Parra premiership

Fix is on boys

Fix is on

I said that last season with Cronulla and let's not forget Cows and Souths.
Reckon this season is between us and Worriers

 

[ParraSteve]

I thought Gutho was just as important as Norman today. Came up with some real nice plays.

Our game is built on defense winning us games, if it comes to a points shootout i dont think we'd be able to match it with other teams

 

[Djay]

Our defense is what our game is built on yes but I think it's far to early to be dismissing our attack.

We have plenty of attacking weapons in our side, I won't cast judgement on our attacking prowess until about round 10.

Once Normy and Guth along with French and kaysa keep playing better we will grow and grow. Throw in Semi, Jennings, Hoffman etc points will come slowly.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

For everyone talking up Matagi (and he played bloody good!!) he made 149 metres and 19 tackles ........... ....Mannah made 173 metres and 29 tackles!!!

I think Mannah is an excellent all round forward, mostly due to his mobility and workrate. But Matagi is a better attacker, despite fewer metres. He had three tackle breaks in 14 runs - a measure of how much he disrupted the defence. It's not easy to break tackles in the middle. Mannah only had one in 18 carries.

But Mannah is massively important to our team. He is the only middle forward who is a big contributor on both sides of the ball.