Rumours and Stuff

[Bolgeel]

It's a mental thing though. You don't want to be the bloke who f**ks it. Lord knows I've been there, and under a shitload less pressure than these guys too.

There is no way BA is coaching them that way, you can see it for example in the start against Newcastle, or Souths. Or even St George. We are much more expansive when we start fast or when we do get momentum (eg Manly game). The problem comes later, when the players start to tire or the opposition starts to get back in the game. Their first thought is "come on, don't blow this."

But of course that often leads to a decline in the danger levels of your attack and you blow it anyway. See the 2018 Parramatta Eels.

I do wonder, though, when the pressure will be off in their minds. Realistically you're right in that who cares if we lose throwing the footy around as opposed to losing playing safe? These guys aren't set up to think that way, though, as professionals.

I agree good summation

 

[Eelementary]

He was having a shot at me being on the list mate, not at you. Lol.

Haha!

I can't keep up!

I probably shouldn't have singled people out - that was poor form, in a public forum.

But I know that you guys that I singled out, for better or worse, are able to keep a cool, calm, collected head, even when we are all calling for blood.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Haha!

I can't keep up!

I probably shouldn't have singled people out - that was poor form, in a public forum.

But I know that you guys that I singled out, for better or worse, are able to keep a cool, calm, collected head, even when we are all calling for blood.

Well I for one will never forgive you.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Well I for one will never forgive you.

I can’t forgive the merkin for having anyone other than me on his list.

 

[Incorrect]

Any merkin around here know if Jahrome Hughes is available any time soon?? Quality merkin that one

 

[IFR33K]

Is the coach out there playing?

You've missed the point.

Didn’t the coach say something along the lines of we didn’t capitalise we should of utilised Hayne more? (Read it somewhere). If that were the case why wasnt the instruction given during the game.

 

[Bazal]

Didn’t the coach say something along the lines of we didn’t capitalise we should of utilised Hayne more? (Read it somewhere). If that were the case why wasnt the instruction given during the game.

Who said it wasn't?

 

[IFR33K]

Who said it wasn't?

You think the coach is out of ideas?


You think he’s gone stale on the players?

 

[Bazal]

You think the coach is out of ideas?


You think he’s gone stale on the players?

You like assuming things based on very little?

The coach does not run the side once they set foot on the field, no matter how much people want to rant and rave about it. Especially in attack The halves do, mostly, along with the senior players if they happen to be in other positions.

BA could march out on the field himself in a stoppage and slap merkins Nathan Brown style, tell the halves to do this or that or the other. But it won't force them to do it when they are down on confidence the way they are and instinctively resort to what they feel is safe comfortable whenever there is risk.

 

[Bolgeel]

If @emjaycee is right and Normz won't be an eel in 2019 then that makes it easier for the rest of this season, drop the merkin and let's get on with it...

1. French
2. Gennings
3. Mennings
4. Guth
5. Hoff
6. Hayne
7. Moses

14. Salmon

Edit - FFS, Hoffman has a torn fanny muscle, so he's out. Throw the breakdancer in instead....

Hayne is NOT a 6 in anyone’s language

 

[Incorrect]

Hayne is NOT a 6 in anyone’s language

Maybe/Probably not. . But Hayne with his hands on the ball more often last night might have got us the win. . If he's in the halves, do we not maximise that chance, especially in the last 7 games of 2018 that mean jack shit for us??

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Hayne is NOT a 6 in anyone’s language

Hayne est un numéro six

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Hayne est un numéro six

Is that Kiwi?

 

[Bazal]

Is that Kiwi?

I think it's mexican

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Is that Kiwi?

Je ne sais pas.

The French don't really have word for 'six', so they copied ours. They don't have a proper word for 9 either, so they had to re-use their word for 'new.

 

[Gary Gutful]

he coaches them to play like crap you pelican

any decent coach with the same players wouldn't have them with only three wins

Absolute f**k puppet.

The coach coached them to play like crap? Give yourself a dozen you useless sack of grogans.

At what point do we make the players accountable?

 

[Bazal]

Je ne sais pas.

The French don't really have word for 'six', so they copied ours. They don't have a proper word for 9 either, so they had to re-use their word for 'new.

But they do have a word specifically for being an Eels fan, so there's that

 

[Gary Gutful]

He was having a shot at me being on the list mate, not at you. Lol.

I doubt the silly old merkin even read the entire list.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Je ne sais pas.

The French don't really have word for 'six', so they copied ours. They don't have a proper word for 9 either, so they had to re-use their word for 'new.

The French don't have words for 6 and 9? I find that hard to believe.

 

[El Diablo]

The coach coached them to play like crap?

he coaches them and they are playing like crap

fact