Take 3: Should Eric Grothe be dropped??

[jason taylor]

Move him to Souths

 

[JOB 3:14]

I actually think that if he is dropped for the season he will give the game away.

Good.
I'm sick of the baby sitting.
He has been nothing short of pathetic and has cost us another 2 points.
Enough is enough. I have stood by him for a while now but his form is too pathetic to ignore.

 

[varion]

Grothe to the bench as an impact forward...10-15 hitups per game and bring him on after the heat has gone out in the early engagement e.g 20-25 mins in to each half to see if we turn him into a gamebreaker rather than heartbreaker.

Make the best of a bad situation - some of our powderpuff forwards arent cutting the mustard so he would definately move us forward and Hagan can avoid the hard decision of dropping him.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

The people have spoken

 

[ParraDude_Jay]

I actually think that if he is dropped for the season he will give the game away.

Sums up Eric Grothe Jr. for me.

No heart, no passion, doesn't care, it's his job and as long as he's paid he's happy.

If music is his passion, best of luck to him, but for ****'s sake go and pursue it, stop being an absolute passenger costing us games.

 

[JTB]

Sums up Eric Grothe Jr. for me.

No heart, no passion, doesn't care, it's his job and as long as he's paid he's happy.

If music is his passion, best of luck to him, but for ****'s sake go and pursue it, stop being an absolute passenger costing us games.

 

[Freak2]

I would give anything to see Eric at his absolute best again!!

I am trying to not be too hard on him for his inconsistant form thus far this year but he needs to get his head right for an entire 80 minutes or the impact is too harsh on everyone else that does have their head on for the entire 80 minutes.

Plus he is now an easy target as everyone knows he fails to drop deep enough late in the tackle counts and he is an easy target to kick in behind everytime!!

I would not drop him this week with Hayne out, however I think Wagon needs to play inside of him in defence as he obviously has zero confidence in Reddy.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

I would give anything to see Eric at his absolute best again!!

I am trying to not be too hard on him for his inconsistant form thus far this year but he needs to get his head right for an entire 80 minutes or the impact is too harsh on everyone else that does have their head on for the entire 80 minutes.

Plus he is now an easy target as everyone knows he fails to drop deep enough late in the tackle counts and he is an easy target to kick in behind everytime!!

I would not drop him this week with Hayne out, however I think Wagon needs to play inside of him in defence as he obviously has zero confidence in Reddy.

I said this a while back, why can't Wagon hover out wide when defending out wide? you know inevitably the opposition will go towards Grothe.

 

[dazeely]

drop him, but i think he might go all right as a backrower

Move him to Lock.

not as silly as it sounds. Jam him in the middle where he has no choices re defending.

I actually think that if he is dropped for the season he will give the game away.

thought the same. Would not be surprised

 

[The Engineers Room]

So who replaces Grothe?

 

[Parra]

So who replaces Grothe?

Grothe. Try scoring machine, and it seems he is a useful scapegoat for every loss we have - he takes the pressure off the other players. This is very important now that Tim Smith is gone.

 

[Strangenuts]

Who are they going to blame if we loose this week?

 

[Fathead]

He had to go - even Hages conceeded it (finally)
He has been told by Hages to stay on his wing but continually jumps in. He will have a few games for Wenty to work on it. If he does it in Wenty he will stay there.

 

[Stagger eel]

Who are they going to blame if we loose this week?

I think you'll find that Finch is rostered on for this saturday night...

 

[Redback71]

ive gone with no. but think he should be moved off the wing and further in feild where he would be a less of liability in defence. hopefully.

he is to good of an attacking player as was witnessed verse the broncos especially in the first half and i think if Reddy had caught those 2 off loads from grothe then we may of scored.

 

[fish eel]

ive gone with no. but think he should be moved off the wing and further in feild where he would be a less of liability in defence. hopefully.
.

I think he arm grabs too much to be moved infield.

 

[Ike E Bear]

I think you'll find that Finch is rostered on for this saturday night...

Haha. True.

Maybe Riddell ... or possibly Reddy.

Some of our guys just have targets painted on them.

If we had a half decent kicking game and a coach who was a bit quicker to drop out of form players, then I think the Eels would be in much better shape.

We're not far off ... we just need some spark off the boot and to knock some of the complacency out of certain players.

The only other thing I'd change if I had a magic wand would be to have a bit more variety in our forward pack, but I think Paulo and Hauraki, while still green and far from perfect, are a step in the right direction and it seems that MAYBE Hagan is slowly learning how to use them better.

 

[Delboy]

Not sure that it's the right move, Reddy is a turnstile and seems Grothe placed little faith in his ability to read and defend.

When Big Ben was in the side, then Guru's defence was much more solid, this weekend will tell I guess, we lose a fair bit coming off the line and speed when he is not there.