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Eelogical

Referee
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Allowing more offloads would be a good thing for the game.

Making players tackle lower, or reducing the amount of players in a tackle would benefit the game by reducing high tackles and also create more enterprising attack by speeding up the game.
The game is fast enough as it is, imo. At the end of the day bigger, faster, stronger players are still human. The game is already designed to physically fatigue them with six agains, seven tackles and sin bins. Look how opposing teams get a roll on from a simple dropped balled or a penalty for shoulder charging an earlobe.
 

Johnny88

Juniors
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FACING THE AXE
St George Illawarra coach Shane Flanagan is surely running out of patience with his struggling halfback Lachlan Ilias. Even Ilias’ manager Braith Anasta recently conceded on NRL 360 that the halfback needed to lift to save his spot in the team. Expect a change for the Wests Tigers game next weekend. Flanagan’s replacement options are Lyhkan King-Togia or Jonah Glover, two highly regarded NSW Cup halves.

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SHOOSH
Bulldogs’ hooker Reed Mahoney got only 44 minutes of action against the Broncos on Thursday night before he was replaced by Bailey Hayward. The previous week he got 55 minutes against the Rabbitohs. It’s interesting in that Mahoney normally plays the full 80 minutes. Being the most penalised player in the competition is not helping. On average he gives away more than three penalties a game.

LOWLIGHT
Four-time champions the Penrith Panthers on the bottom of the NRL ladder. An almost impossible scenario after their first-round win in Las Vegas. Any side that has Nathan Cleary, Isaah Yeo, Liam Martin and Dylan Edwards should be doing better.

 

Eelogical

Referee
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11 days between games for us, and just 5 for the sharks, who will only get one training session in prior to Friday night. There will certainty be no excuses for us to not dominate energy wise in the contest. Moses kicking game can win us the match by simply making their forwards keep turning around and working it back off their line.

we have a horrible record at magic round, and when I go to games - hopefully both of those turn around on Friday
It would be nice to win two in a row.
 

T-Boon

Coach
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16,422
there is a lot of talk that this is the worst standard of halves in the history of the game of RL and I agree with that talk. What can we glean from this?
 

Poupou Escobar

Post Whore
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93,952
Yup. I wished we had a tight defense, chased the collision every hitup and tackle. And attacked with offloads behind moses kick

If consistently could win with that i would support ba being here still
We were playing to our strengths. Now we seem to be recruiting a squad that can play Panthers ball, at a time when other clubs are trying to sign the same types of players. Supply and demand won't be doing us any favours there. Hopefully the recent increase in pathways investment (poaching) can offset the fact that we are trying to sign the same players that are in demand everywhere else. Otherwise we'll just become a poor man's Storm or Roosters.
 

JokerEel

Coach
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there is a lot of talk that this is the worst standard of halves in the history of the game of RL and I agree with that talk. What can we glean from this?
Here is the list of all the club's best halves..

Not sure about the worst standard in the history..

Eels Brown/Moses
Panthers Cleary/Talagi
Manly DCE/Brooks
Broncos Reynolds/Hunt
Dogs Sexton/Burton
Roosters Smith/Walker
Dragons Ilias /Flanno
Warriors Metcalf/Harris-Tavita
Knights Cogger/Sharpe
Storm Hughes/Munster
Bunnies Walker/Dodd
Cowboys Clifford/Dearden
Titans Campbell/Brimson
Raiders Fogarty/Strange
Phins Katoa/Nikorima
Wests Luia/Galvin
Sharks Hynes/Trindall
 
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