Rumours and Stuff

[EelsFan05]

Sorry to hear you feel that way.
Being passionate about a sporting team is a rough road. You get to experience some amazing highs, but then you've also got to suffer through some awful lows. Some teams have more of one or the other, and unfortunately ours is probably closer to the latter throughout our lifetimes.

I am invested in this team (and a couple of others...but not to the same degree as the Eels) and I ride the emotional rollercoaster like everyone else. Years ago I would be like how you are right now, taking every loss hard and being miserable for a week until we got to lose again so I could be miserable for another week.

Things have changed a bit for me these days. I still get sad over losses. I get cranky. I look for someone to blame. But I try to understand why it's happening and get on with my life until the next week. I've got a partner and two kids, I can't be cranky all day any more. Do I think Arthur should be replaced? Maybe, I don't know. But I do understand why he is still there. I don't think he's a bad coach at all, just maybe a little limited.

This season sucked, with only a few meagre highlights for us. Hopefully next year will be better. It may end in disaster again...but you know what? We've been there before, and come out the other side eventually. We arent the same club that finished last two years in a row just over a decade ago. Hopefully we never become them again.

All I know is that when we eventually do win the whole thing - and I do believe it will happen eventually - then it's going to be the best f**king feeling ever! And I'm not about to tap out and give up on that. I hope you don't as well.

Enjoy the off-season, mate.

Post of the year.

 

[hineyrulz]

Some people can’t help themselves, this is true. I mean if you didn’t shit bag the club n coach for a week, we’d be sending out a search party for you. It’s very exciting!!

Dude if you don’t post at least an hour after I’ve bagged Baldy or the club we’d have to send one out for you. You are my own forum haemorrhoid, only more painful and harder to get rid of.

The Lisa Simpson of LU, the answer to a question no one asked. It’s very exciting!!

 

[Gronk]

Dude if you don’t post at least an hour after I’ve bagged Baldy or the club we’d have to send one out for you. You are my own forum haemorrhoid, only more painful and harder to get rid of.

The Lisa Simpson of LU, the answer to a question no one asked. It’s very exciting!!

More precisely, you are the haemorrhoid and I am the diligent guy with the laser trying to tidy up all the mess.

You're welcome.

 

[Avenger]

Anyway the Sharks have an excess amount of backs that are surplus to their needs. We should look there.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

I didn’t realise you could watch next to no games and still be able to have strong opinions about the roster, game plan and coach in here. This will be liberating next year although I’m going to have to find a new Friday night hobby. Any suggestions?

The bloke who reckons he's Dostoevsky turns out to be nothing more than Todd Noy? Who would've thunk it?

 

[Gronk]

Anyway the Sharks have an excess amount of backs that are surplus to their needs. We should look there.

There was talk we were signing Connor Tracey ?

 

[hineyrulz]

More precisely, you are the haemorrhoid and I am the diligent guy with the laser trying to tidy up all the mess.

You're welcome.

I expected a little more, but don’t worry that’s on me. Always expecting more from other’s with my glass half full attitude. Oh well!!

 

[Gazzamatta]

yep, that's exactly what I thought.

People can support the club however way they choose fit, but I'm loathed if I'm going to be a miserable merkin about it for the rest of my life..

this club has given me more pleasure than the 4 premierships that I witnessed, it's given me a a shit load of good times and many many lifelong friends, in fact half my wedding guests were Parra fans including my best man and groomsman and I would not of met them had it not been for this place and in particular the club we support.

I get as shitty and as emotional as the next bloke after a poor performance and poor year but always heartened at the hope that we'll be back on the field in February doing it all again.

We planned our wedding around my support of our Eels so as disappointed as I get sometimes, Im f'n rusted on. For better or worse or richer or poorer.
Engaged after the 1976 GF, beaten by Eadies boot and bloody Niftys hands. Surely 1977 would be our year.
Lets set the date one week after next years GF.
9 f'n all. Lets do it again next week.
FFS.
First steps out of the church as Hubby and wife a smart ass mate yells. 22 to Nil. Go The Dragons.
Still married so I guess thats something. 81, 82, 83 & 86 helps.
Already committed to 2024 season tickets. Yeah! Im crazy but I love em!

 

[TheRam]

I didn’t realise you could watch next to no games and still be able to have strong opinions about the roster, game plan and coach in here. This will be liberating next year although I’m going to have to find a new Friday night hobby. Any suggestions?

That's because I'm a f**king genius you Pollock!

 

[TheRam]

I wonder what our softcock powerbrokers will do if we miss the semis next year ?

Tattoo victory on baldies head and give him a bonus 3 year extension.

He made the GF in 2022 after all.

 

[King-Gutho94]

We planned our wedding around my support of our Eels so as disappointed as I get sometimes, Im f'n rusted on. For better or worse or richer or poorer.
Engaged after the 1976 GF, beaten by Eadies boot and bloody Niftys hands. Surely 1977 would be our year.
Lets set the date one week after next years GF.
9 f'n all. Lets do it again next week.
FFS.
First steps out of the church as Hubby and wife a smart ass mate yells. 22 to Nil. Go The Dragons.
Still married so I guess thats something. 81, 82, 83 & 86 helps.
Already committed to 2024 season tickets. Yeah! Im crazy but I love em!

Who was the smart ass did you brush him after that haha.

 

[TheCrowe]

I didn’t realise you could watch next to no games and still be able to have strong opinions about the roster, game plan and coach in here. This will be liberating next year although I’m going to have to find a new Friday night hobby. Any suggestions?

Drugs and sex

 

[Poupou Escobar]

@Poupou Escobar @T.S Quint when your employer pays you on a regular basis do you tell your better half you got paid or paid out?

If it was my former employee paying me, I would describe it as a payout.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

There was talk we were signing Connor Tracey ?

*Broadhurst

 

[T.S Quint]

Haven't you been listening. I have.

The amount of games I have actually watched in the last 2 seasons is probably around 6-7. I just don't bother anymore. I fast forward and if the ruck is porous I just keep fast forwarding.

Games last 10 mins in my household. We suck. Defense is just not good enough. We will win nothing while our defense is sh*t. Not hard to see. Takes two three mins and you get the feel of what's coming and it is rarely good.

We are losers and we will always be.

You don't watch the games. You don't care.
Yet you spend hours on here discussing the team and its faults (never its positives).

Once again, I ask why?

 

[T.S Quint]

No it’s not. A payout implies a lump sum.

Sorry, but no it doesn't. It only implies an agreed amount being paid to someone who is leaving their place of employment. How it's paid out is irrelevant.

You think that Manly gave him $600k which comes off the cap in one hit?

I don't know. They might have or might not have. Once again, it's irrelevant. ALl that matters is that both parties have agreed to a payout.

How can it be a payout if he is still under contract?

He is under contract to get paid a certain amount of money. He is not under contract to play. As soon as the agreed-to amount of money is received by him then the contract is concluded, whether it be immediately or spread over an amount of time.

@Poupou Escobar @T.S Quint when your employer pays you on a regular basis do you tell your better half you got paid or paid out?

My better half has received a payout from her previous employer.
It wasn't a lump sum. It was paid over a 4-month period. It is the exact same situation as the one we are discussing in this thread.

 

[Noise]

I wonder what our softcock powerbrokers will do if we miss the semis next year ?

Send out an email telling us about our potential after beating a top side in a meaningless end of season game.

 

[Avenger]

Sorry, but no it doesn't. It only implies an agreed amount being paid to someone who is leaving their place of employment. How it's paid out is irrelevant.



I don't know. They might have or might not have. Once again, it's irrelevant. ALl that matters is that both parties have agreed to a payout.



He is under contract to get paid a certain amount of money. He is not under contract to play. As soon as the agreed-to amount of money is received by him then the contract is concluded, whether it be immediately or spread over an amount of time.



My better half has received a payout from her previous employer.
It wasn't a lump sum. It was paid over a 4-month period. It is the exact same situation as the one we are discussing in this thread.

You raise some valid points. I was impressed with how you set everything out. I’d almost be tempted to hire you.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

This team has broken so many of us. They really don't deserve our loyalty anymore. I Wouldn't support them in a million years if I was a young kid just starting to pick a side.

Loser of North Sydney Bears proportions. I would welcome a spear through the head if the NRL sore fit to do so at this point.

Really the biggest waste of my time and energy I have ever spent. Massive regret I ever followed these losers.

Oh well to late now, but definitely lost my real love for them a while ago now and just going through the motions till I croak it.

Will never spend another cent on them though. Just leaches that eat way more then they ever produce in happiness for me.

Just telling it the way I feel too.

More like bottom feeder club amirite

 

[T.S Quint]

You raise some valid points. I was impressed with how you set everything out. I’d almost be tempted to hire you.

Thanks, but you couldn't afford me.

I cost 90k a year, plus a $1m TPA for the Parramatta Eel of my choice.