Rumours and Stuff

[gaffer]

Wrong thread but I get ya

comes under stuff friggin stupid stuff

 

[Poupou Escobar]

MA could be a very good dummy half of he goes to a successful club and develops rumours he is going to Newcastle because of family shows he doesn't have the mentality to knuckle down and make it on his own ...

BA basically f**ked up both his kids careers.

Their careers are doing fine. The oldest is still 21 and got an NRL contract until he turns 23. The youngest has played first grade while still eligible for SG Ball. If neither of them make it it’s not because of how their dad treated them. It’s because they lack talent or the right attitude.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Can’t wait for a new scapegoat!! It’s very exciting!!

Don’t let us down merkin

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Ryles will sacked mid 2026 with a 3-31 record

Has any coach ever left the Eels and won a premiership? In my lifetime Brian Smith and Ricky Stuart got closest.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

In a professional environment they shouldn't have been allowed. It's not bring your kids to work day FFS.
Management should've been awake to that. Imagine there was a serious injury to one of them because they shouldn't have been anywhere near the 1st graders training.
Thick as 2 fkn planks

Family club bro. That’s the vibe they’re going for.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Luck.

Maybe we’re just unlucky now?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Good resources

Maybe we have no resources now?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Also Lane played like the 2nd coming of Paul Sironen that year.

I'm sure it also didn't hurt that Papalii was the turd that had been polished up beautifully, and 16 of our top 30 played 20+ games. It was a total gift of a year on the injury front, and the draw did us a few favours too (including opposition players out).

To be fair, I truly do think luck was our strongest ally in 2022.
We came back looking disinterested in the early parts of 2023, and the fitness was goooorne in 2024


(Brad is a solid coach, and it was the scenario of just about everything going right for us in 2022. It possibly broke him? He fell off a cliff and all his fresh ideas were crud).

I think we were definitely lucky in 2022. The team was better in 2020 and 2021 but didn’t have the same luck. The 2020 side especially was crippled with injury and suspension in the finals.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I think BA actually had them overachieving in those 3 years but it was stealing from the future

I think there’s definitely an element of this. Most of our big name forwards were signed in the off season after 2021. Imagine if we had started our rebuild then and told a bunch of 27-28 year olds it was time to move on. We had to keep the band together. At other clubs the likes of Mahoney and Papali’i wouldn’t have decided to chase the money. It probably didn’t help that the Dolphins started recruiting at that time.

 

[lucablight]

What he says to the media and what he does are two different things. Don’t you know that by now? He signed off on the player options. He knows how they work.

I’m not sure what that has to do with anything. He’s saying this after reflecting upon the choice to have the player options in the contracts. It sounds like a concession that it’s not ideal and something the club is looking to move away from.

 

[lucablight]

I think we were definitely lucky in 2022. The team was better in 2020 and 2021 but didn’t have the same luck. The 2020 side especially was crippled with injury and suspension in the finals.

I think we would have been beaten by the Rabbitohs even at full strength. They were a bad matchup for us for whatever reason.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I’m not sure what that has to do with anything. He’s saying this after reflecting upon the choice to have the player options in the contracts. It sounds like a concession that it’s not ideal and something the club is looking to move away from.

It’s not ideal after the fact but we took our benefit from it during negotiations. It needs to be considered in that light. In any case he just seems to be answering a leading question from a journo looking to stir up the fans.

 

[Incorrect]

Koroisau would’ve cost twice as much as Hodgson. There would have been massive demand. If we couldn’t afford to keep Mahoney there’s no chance we would’ve been able to afford Koroisau.

Reece Robson was available and would have been a cheap option. I mentioned at the time we should have gone after him. He's now the incumbent NSW Origin hooker FFS...

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Reece Robson was available and would have been a cheap option. I mentioned at the time we should have gone after him. He's now the incumbent NSW Origin hooker FFS...

What are you on about? He signed with the Cowboys in August 2019 for the 2020 to 2023 seasons. Then he extended at the end of 2022.

 

[Incorrect]

What are you on about? He signed with the Cowboys in August 2019 for the 2020 to 2023 seasons. Then he extended at the end of 2022.

I seem to recall both he and Verrills were on the market before we signed old man Hodgson...

And anyway, contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on FFS....

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I seem to recall both he and Verrills were on the market before we signed old man Hodgson...

That's because you've fabricated memories to fit your narrative together.

And anyway, contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on FFS....

I think we can all agree on this.