Rumours and Stuff

[gaffer]

no wakka this week maka and wiremu back in

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Billy back to being a merkin again.

 

[Twizzle]

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Can they celebrate their careers without pretending they won legit premierships? That describes most players, especially ones who only played for four years.

 

[Avenger]

Parramatta 2023 - A Diagnosis (Autopsy) Of The Season, Part One: An Incomplete Roster

The Eels 2023 season is on life support. With five rounds remaining, the club is sitting in 11th place on the ladder and away matches against the table topping Panthers and Broncos await. Forget looking at the mathematics of the remaining games and the bye. Across the Eels last four matches we’ve

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Anyone keen for a good read..?

Someone made a good point. No it wasn't me.

I think BA and Mark O’Neill need to take the blame for some poor recruitment decisions. I’m happy with our forwards and I think BA’s strength is to obtain the maximum amount of output from 2nd tier forwards. However BA and MON’s recruitment of outside backs to effectively plug the holes left by Tom Opacic and another winger that makes metres is a huge oversight. If we had a winger like Brian To’o we instantly become a top 4 team when you look at our pack and go forward when it’s supported effectively.

60's answer:

''BA doesn’t do the recruiting. Do you think he wants an incomplete roster with limited options in the backs?''




Is he serious? I know he sounds a bit like Pou but again I ask is he serious? I don't mind listening to these guys but seriously 60's has criticised BA as much as Paul Kent has to Ricky Stuart.

 

[Avenger]

I cannot stand these two pricks.

 

[Pazza]

What about the careers of the players that played on the opposing sides during those seasons?? They don't have a grand final win to their names thanks to the storm.

 

[Avenger]

What about the careers of the players that played on the apposing sides during those seasons?? They don't have a grand final win to their names thanks to the storm.

Great point. The Storm are the biggest grubs in the game. I have never hated a team more than them since I've been following the game.

 

[JokerEel]

Can they celebrate their careers without pretending they won legit premierships? That describes most players, especially ones who only played for four years.

This is the perfect take..

Those wankers want their cake and eat it too..

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Someone made a good point. No it wasn't me.

I think BA and Mark O’Neill need to take the blame for some poor recruitment decisions. I’m happy with our forwards and I think BA’s strength is to obtain the maximum amount of output from 2nd tier forwards. However BA and MON’s recruitment of outside backs to effectively plug the holes left by Tom Opacic and another winger that makes metres is a huge oversight. If we had a winger like Brian To’o we instantly become a top 4 team when you look at our pack and go forward when it’s supported effectively.

60's answer:

''BA doesn’t do the recruiting. Do you think he wants an incomplete roster with limited options in the backs?''




Is he serious? I know he sounds a bit like Pou but again I ask is he serious? I don't mind listening to these guys but seriously 60's has criticised BA as much as Paul Kent has to Ricky Stuart.

He's right that it's not Arthur's fault, but it's not O'Neill's fault either. Improving your roster isn't like going shopping where there's shelves full of everything you need and enough for everyone. There's no bidding war for the last loaf of bread. Every recruitment decision depends on competing factors, and the best way to avoid getting into cap trouble is to refuse to overpay. We have a pretty good roster, and have had for a few years. These merkins know what they're doing, but the salary cap and competitive nature of recruitment/retention means the roster isn't going to get better year after year after year. There will be peaks and troughs.

 

[Pazza]

Great point. The Storm are the biggest grubs in the game. I have never hated a team more than them since I've been following the game.

It's a shame, I just had a look at that team list and they're are some blokes in there that gave everything for this club.

They could have been immortalised in the clubs history but sadly we are still talking about stereo, kenny, price etc

 

[Avenger]

He's right that it's not Arthur's fault, but it's not O'Neill's fault either. Improving your roster isn't like going shopping where there's shelves full of everything you need and enough for everyone. There's no bidding war for the last loaf of bread. Every recruitment decision depends on competing factors, and the best way to avoid getting into cap trouble is to refuse to overpay. We have a pretty good roster, and have had for a few years. These merkins know what they're doing, but the salary cap and competitive nature of recruitment/retention means the roster isn't going to get better year after year after year. There will be peaks and troughs.

He said, BA doesn't do the recruiting. So who the f**k does?

 

[Tiger5150]

Someone made a good point. No it wasn't me.

I think BA and Mark O’Neill need to take the blame for some poor recruitment decisions. I’m happy with our forwards and I think BA’s strength is to obtain the maximum amount of output from 2nd tier forwards. However BA and MON’s recruitment of outside backs to effectively plug the holes left by Tom Opacic and another winger that makes metres is a huge oversight. If we had a winger like Brian To’o we instantly become a top 4 team when you look at our pack and go forward when it’s supported effectively.

60's answer:

''BA doesn’t do the recruiting. Do you think he wants an incomplete roster with limited options in the backs?''




Is he serious? I know he sounds a bit like Pou but again I ask is he serious? I don't mind listening to these guys but seriously 60's has criticised BA as much as Paul Kent has to Ricky Stuart.

I know its an outside opinion from a fan of a club dynabolted to the bottom of the table.....but......
Tigers chased Moses hard but fair play to Parra, you guys kept him for less than the Tigers offered (supposedly) but still north of $1M for 4 years, DBrown, same story, Guffo big bucks. Decisions have been made by your club that are going to have implications on the rest of your roster that might mean you cant just "sign a Brian To'o".

 

[Chipmunk]

He's right that it's not Arthur's fault, but it's not O'Neill's fault either. Improving your roster isn't like going shopping where there's shelves full of everything you need and enough for everyone. There's no bidding war for the last loaf of bread. Every recruitment decision depends on competing factors, and the best way to avoid getting into cap trouble is to refuse to overpay. We have a pretty good roster, and have had for a few years. These merkins know what they're doing, but the salary cap and competitive nature of recruitment/retention means the roster isn't going to get better year after year after year. There will be peaks and troughs.

We've sacrificed obtaining outside backs mid season, where we're exceptionally weak, in preference to purchasing mid season signings in positions where we already had plenty of players available, in the forwards.

These were poor recruitment prioritisation decisions.

 

[Tiger5150]

There's no bidding war for the last loaf of bread.

FMD you merkins have short attention spans...

 

[eels_fan]

Well BA is but 1 member of a 4 men recruitment committee. What weight he has in decisions we wouldn’t know

 

[Poupou Escobar]

He said, BA doesn't do the recruiting. So who the f**k does?

If you didn't have me on ignore you would've seen the thousands of words I've spent explaining this sort of thing. A club's recruitment staff do the recruiting. Coaches coach the team.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I know its an outside opinion from a fan of a club dynabolted to the bottom of the table.....but......
Tigers chased Moses hard but fair play to Parra, you guys kept him for less than the Tigers offered (supposedly) but still north of $1M for 4 years, DBrown, same story, Guffo big bucks. Decisions have been made by your club that are going to have implications on the rest of your roster that might mean you cant just "sign a Brian To'o".

Absolutely. If we're going to have a Brian To'o in our team we'll need to create or find one on the cheap. To'o is one of the best players in the game ffs. He would be on very good money.

 

[Avenger]

If you didn't have me on ignore you would've seen the thousands of words I've spent explaining this sort of thing. A club's recruitment staff do the recruiting. Coaches coach the team.

He has major input you f**king idiot. You reckon Sarantonis is telling him to buy Charlie Staines and that it may be forced upon him even if he doesn't rate him? f**k you are getting on my nerves lately.

 

[Avenger]

Absolutely. If we're going to have a Brian To'o in our team we'll need to create or find one on the cheap. To'o is one of the best players in the game ffs. He would be on very good money.

He's on less than $500K. I'd give him $650K.