Team list Tuesday ! Trial vs Raiders

[Poupou Escobar]

Parry looked a class above Dunster tonight

Dunster looked nowhere near ready for first grade.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Dunster = Wont play first grade. Physically small and battered in hit ups.

Alvaro = Looked slow

Tepai = Ran hard but hammered a few times

Lane = Added some second phase

Jnr = Looked good

Niakuore = Looks like he is in top 17 based on tonight.

Attack = Nothing short of putrid for me. Same crap. Trying to create space outside and not a whole lot of creativity in the middle. I hope they have a bit more for when round one comes along. What I saw was a team that will only score of bombs or mistakes...
I just dont see anyone explosive. No x factor. A peachey or Jimmy the jet , ado car, teddy etc...It is a very workmen like team. We may be good at grinding wins. I dont expect attractive footy.

You don’t think Moses, Brown or Mennings are explosive?

 

[Gary Gutful]

Replay of the live feed is up on NRL.com

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/02/13/live-stream-2019-pre-season-trial-games-on-nrl.com/

Thanks Gronk. I might just watch the first 33 min.

 

[IFR33K]

But that would be mean so Timmy gets to stay and somehow be captain.

That’s the problem right there. Timmy as a player for the past decade was fine, but he’s no leader or captain. But we’ve opted to build our pack (with just as soft merkins) around him. Hopefully the new breed stand up, or we still manage to pick up another pig worthy of a top 17 spot.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

You don’t think

You could've stopped there tbh

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Last night's game furthered my opinion that our fortunes won't change until we get more players that've come through our system into the first grade team.

 

[hindy111]

Dunster looked nowhere near ready for first grade.

Maybe never. He looks small in person. Fragile. Belted in collision.

 

[hindy111]

You don’t think Moses, Brown or Mennings are explosive?

Not really. MJ can be. Moses and Brown are playmakers and organisers.

 

[hindy111]

You could've stopped there tbh

I don't get it?

 

[hindy111]

Last night's game furthered my opinion that our fortunes won't change until we get more players that've come through our system into the first grade team.

Meh...It is a trial. A few tning where wprrying but nrl is a diff game when not putting 100% It is more a training run.

 

[Avenger]

We still look a little clueless from 20 out.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Yeah. We do. Its been a problem for a long time.

 

[Kornstar]

After witnessing both sensational and much, much less than sensational trials over many years i am never willing to make a prediction of what they actually mean for a season.

No injuries is all that matters.

Getting upset now is pointless. I will always particularly refer to 2008. We played the Roosters in Gosford and Hayne had switched to centre and he was unstoppable in that game we destroyed them and i thought it was our year.......that was the last time i ever actually gave a shit about a trial result!!

I was there last night and the thing i was impressed with the most was the crowd. Well done Eels fans!!

 

[hindy111]

After witnessing both sensational and much, much less than sensational trials over many years i am never willing to make a prediction of what they actually mean for a season.

No injuries is all that matters.

Getting upset now is pointless. I will always particularly refer to 2008. We played the Roosters in Gosford and Hayne had switched to centre and he was unstoppable in that game we destroyed them and i thought it was our year.......that was the last time i ever actually gave a shut about a trial result!!

I was there last night and the thing i was impressed with the most was the crowd. Well done Eels fans!!

How many you think? It was quite full

 

[Eelogical]

How many you think? It was quite full

I think they said 4,000 during the commentary.

 

[Gary Gutful]

After witnessing both sensational and much, much less than sensational trials over many years i am never willing to make a prediction of what they actually mean for a season.

No injuries is all that matters.

Getting upset now is pointless. I will always particularly refer to 2008. We played the Roosters in Gosford and Hayne had switched to centre and he was unstoppable in that game we destroyed them and i thought it was our year.......that was the last time i ever actually gave a shut about a trial result!!

I was there last night and the thing i was impressed with the most was the crowd. Well done Eels fans!!

Spot on Korny.

If we can come out without injuries and more importantly stay injury free for the season that’s what matters.

If we can have a better run this year with injuries you can easily add 4-5 wins to last year’s tally.

 

[T-Boon]

Hopefully the new breed stand up, or we still manage to pick up another pig worthy of a top 17 spot.

Nice. Have you coined that? Could take off.

 

[Bazal]

Spot on Korny.

If we can come out without injuries and more importantly stay injury free for the season that’s what matters.

If we can have a better run this year with injuries you can easily add 4-5 wins to last year’s tally.

Paulo might help account for another couple too. He looked awesome last night, and unlike at the Raiders he has a bloke in Alvaro (and Brown) who will work his balls off in defence alongside him. So Jnr can just run like a train and smack blokes

I think he's in for a massive year. But of course there are heaps of other factors

 

[T-Boon]

Last night's game furthered my opinion that our fortunes won't change until we get more players that've come through our system into the first grade team.

Interesting, we have not had any junior development to speak of in a decade so this is a bit left field. I say we need to go to the market a lot more.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Paulo might help account for another couple too. He looked awesome last night, and unlike at the Raiders he has a bloke in Alvaro (and Brown) who will work his balls off in defence alongside him. So Jnr can just run like a train and smack blokes

I think he's in for a massive year. But of course there are heaps of other factors

Fingers crossed.

He seems like a bit of a head case so I hope he remains focused for the entire year.