Round 5 v Parramatta Eels

[RedV72]

Unfortunately I've watched this movie play out with our fanbase since 2017 when Dufty began... Sloan is 1 maybe 2 tries away from having his fans back onboard again.. but as ive said a million times, if he thinks hes a winger, go back to NSW Cup, and prove it for a solid month.. but he doesnt push thru contact i.e. out of tackle attempts, so its never going to work in any position.. I thought Saab was the same sort of cat, he was scared of contact for the first 6-12mths... and tbf most wingers would look good outside a cracking manly backline.. but he atleast runs it hard...

The dilemma is Ramsey is really going well in NSW Cup.. but who is the fullback backup if Gutho gets injured? Surely its Sloan.. so therefore Sloan should be the NSW Cup fullback in waiting.. thats where I wanted him to start the year.. but Ramsey is braining it, hes the reason the team is travelling so well.. so I dont think removing him from fullback helps the nsw cup team at all.. and he is so light weight, despite his bravery he might struggle on the wing or at ctr.. but anyway.. we shall see.

Bravery is the word. From a previous article Ramsey got to around 90kgs in late 22 then lost 28kgs in just under two months when he got really sick. Watching him this year he has stacked some weight back on but would be lucky to be 80kgs dripping wet. Yet still runs hard and tries to run through the line every time. And a cracking young kid as well.

 

[GC Dragon]

Unfortunately I've watched this movie play out with our fanbase since 2017 when Dufty began... Sloan is 1 maybe 2 tries away from having his fans back onboard again.. but as ive said a million times, if he thinks hes a winger, go back to NSW Cup, and prove it for a solid month.. but he doesnt push thru contact i.e. out of tackle attempts, so its never going to work in any position.. I thought Saab was the same sort of cat, he was scared of contact for the first 6-12mths... and tbf most wingers would look good outside a cracking manly backline.. but he atleast runs it hard...

The dilemma is Ramsey is really going well in NSW Cup.. but who is the fullback backup if Gutho gets injured? Surely its Sloan.. so therefore Sloan should be the NSW Cup fullback in waiting.. thats where I wanted him to start the year.. but Ramsey is braining it, hes the reason the team is travelling so well.. so I dont think removing him from fullback helps the nsw cup team at all.. and he is so light weight, despite his bravery he might struggle on the wing or at ctr.. but anyway.. we shall see.

I like many have been waiting for Sloan to become "something special ". The two steps forward one step back scenario has been going on long enough . The excuses like " He is only young " well he is about to turn 23 , So that excuse is done . Or " He is to light give him time " Well he is playing at over 90kgs now they say , Another excuse done . The bloke is a myth .He simply doesn't have the mental fortitude to be a consistent NRL level player .

 

[redandwhite4evr]

I like many have been waiting for Sloan to become "something special ". The two steps forward one step back scenario has been going on long enough . The excuses like " He is only young " well he is about to turn 23 , So that excuse is done . Or " He is to light give him time " Well he is playing at over 90kgs now they say , Another excuse done . The bloke is a myth .He simply doesn't have the mental fortitude to be a consistent NRL level player .

 

[redandwhite4evr]

As a former fan of his, it gives me no pleasure in agreeing with you but, as I said earlier, he is just in the wrong sport.

 

[Daptodragon]

I always find it hard to talk about it when we lose and this one was harder than most because I thought we had it. Sitting right in front of the post surrounded by Parra fans for that first try from Gutho was genuinely one of my favorite sporting moments. The way he got up, meters away from us and celebrated a massive try was so good and it set the tone for the first half. He looked over at me and my son surrounded by green jerseys, locked eyes with us and just screamed. What a moment.

So to go comfortably ahead and still lose was heartbreaking. As many have said our forwards could not make meters for the last 25 minutes or so they were all over us and we were hanging on. That includes the young guys who whilst they do have energy and skill were unable to break the line at all in the last part of the game. We probably need to temper some of this well-meaning insistence to solve the problem by just throwing in more juniors. And yes when the chips were down our halves did not have enough control over the game to play smart and see out the game. However with the way our forwards were under the pump they really didn't have much time to make their decisions.

Towards the end I was getting annoyed with the constant use of our outside backs to run the ball up the middle in the early tackles. None of them made much impact as you'd expect but we kept doing it. That tells you how bad it was getting for our forwards at the end. I think Tui had an early run in 3 consecutive sets and barely made 5 meters in each of them.

I have a lot of time for JDB as a defender but I can't remember the last time he broke a tackle. Need to be cautious if we do offer him a new contract with the length and price.

I guess I'm happy that we've been in all the games we've played so far, no one has blown us away yet. And we've had our moments where we look very good. So that means there's a chance we can turn it around. I hope so. I really want a top 8 finish.

There's no way they should offer De Belin another contract, he'll be 35 at the start of next season, the same goes for Eisenhuth.

 

[RedV11]

There's no way they should offer De Belin another contract, he'll be 35 at the start of next season, the same goes for Eisenhuth.

Copped another Concussion on the weekend and will be talking some time off i heard.

 

[TheRev]

JDB is our best middle.. I think for sure we can get atleast 1 year out of him.. even if its not the huge minutes and at prop.. the problem is we have free spots now (more to come soon), can we actually get some props that are better than Guler, Klemmer, Sele at short notice? Even for 2026? Cant be more fringies though.. gotta be 1st graders, and leave some bench spots for ur Stewart, LPT, Latu etc..