Week 1 finals eels v storm Team List Thread

[hindy111]

By best, I assume you mean 'most likely to win the premiership'?

Penrith have been the best team so far this year which is why they won the minor premiership.

Storm had a tone of injuries.

 

[hineyrulz]

Its a brilliant idea. The Storm will come out like they've been blasted out of a shotgun. Best to play slow and defense. Kick for touch, fake injuries etc.... Make it scrappy and stop start for first 25.

I think it’s time you put your resume in as BA’s assistant coach. You’d be an 85% improvement on Steve Murphy.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Storm had a tone of injuries.

What did it sound like?

 

[Bandwagon]

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What did it sound like?

The Brown note.

 

[Gronk]

I think his point is that the season isn't yet over and he does expect them to have won more games by season's end.

You’re both confusing current form with results over 20 rounds. We are clearly the 3rd best team over 20 rounds, which is a more than adequate sample size.

 

[Gronk]

Storm had a tone of injuries.

You mean that they weren’t at their best ?

 

[hindy111]

I think it’s time you put your resume in as BA’s assistant coach. You’d be an 85% improvement on Steve Murphy.

BA would be foolish to go in and play his same old style. Would get lapped.
You play shock tactics. We have nothing to loose.
The key is to take them off there game plan first. Why I say make it slow and scrappy and plenty of stop starts. Fake injuries,Talking to refs,grub shots etc.... It will frustrate them. Then you go into fast mode and ramp it up when Jnr is on.
And vary the defense. 2 sets a fast line speed. Then a slow one. Change it during tackle count. Rush up on perhaps 2 tackles a set now and then to throw then off...

The same old tricks are silly.

 

[hindy111]

What did it sound like?

f**k of merkin

 

[hindy111]

You’re both confusing current form with results over 20 rounds. We are clearly the 3rd best team over 20 rounds, which is a more than adequate sample size.

You are being silly. A very silly man

 

[Gary Gutful]

BA would be foolish to go in and play his same old style. Would get lapped.
You play shock tactics. We have nothing to loose.
The key is to take them off there game plan first. Why I say make it slow and scrappy and plenty of stop starts. Fake injuries,Talking to refs,grub shots etc.... It will frustrate them. Then you go into fast mode and ramp it up when Jnr is on.
And vary the defense. 2 sets a fast line speed. Then a slow one. Change it during tackle count. Rush up on perhaps 2 tackles a set now and then to throw then off...

The same old tricks are silly.

Silly post.

 

[Oscarman]

How many penalties and set restarts will that merkin Klein give the Scum on Saturday? I am thinking 8-2 penalty count and 7-1 set restarts. That does not even include the ones #cam5000000000 will award himself.

 

[Incorrect]

Like most pundits I don't really see how we beat Melbourne this week. What I most want to see is an Eels side that is ready play the up tempo style I'm sure the Storm are going to bring. I don't want it to be one of those games like last years semi against them where were never in the fight and the result was a fait accompli 15-20 minutes in.

Those games where the opposition look 1.5 to 2 times quicker than us in everything they are doing and killing us up the middle before taking advantage on the edges as our structure gets pulled apart. Where the opposition offload at will and we're basically KO'd on our feet and waiting for the siren to end the suffering. We saw that against the Bunnies 5 or 6 weeks ago. Watching that game at the ground, all over the park we looked slower than them, more predictable than them.

Our club has made a habit of producing those sorts of games for a long time now. Going from near-things like we were in Week 1 of the 2017 finals v the Storm, to being completely outplayed a week later v the Cows. This year I want to see us turn up and be the ones ready to dictate and not react. We're due, surely?

 

[Gronk]

Like most pundits I don't really see how we beat Melbourne this week. What I most want to see is an Eels side that is ready play the up tempo style I'm sure the Storm are going to bring. I don't want it to be one of those games like last years semi against them where were never in the fight and the result was a fait accompli 15-20 minutes in.

Those games where the opposition look 1.5 to 2 times quicker than us in everything they are doing and killing us up the middle before taking advantage on the edges as our structure gets pulled apart. Where the opposition offload at will and we're basically KO'd on our feet and waiting for the siren to end the suffering. We saw that against the Bunnies 5 or 6 weeks ago. Watching that game at the ground, all over the park we looked slower than them, more predictable than them.

Our club has made a habit of producing those sorts of games for a long time now. Going from near-things like we were in Week 1 of the 2017 finals v the Storm, to being completely outplayed a week later v the Cows. This year I want to see us turn up and be the ones ready to dictate and not react. We're due, surely?

We'll need to put together the perfect game to win. Our D will need to be flawless and we'll need all our X-factor players to produce. Simply put, Storm's X-factor players WILL produce their 1%ers, will ours ?

 

[hindy111]

Silly post.

f**k of to Yemen merkin

 

[hindy111]

We'll need to put together the perfect game to win. Our D will need to be flawless and we'll need all our X-factor players to produce. Simply put, Storm's X-factor players WILL produce their 1%ers, will ours ?

Captain obvious stating the obvious again?

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Just try harder and don't drop the ball.

 

[Gary Gutful]

f**k of to Yemen merkin

Silly post. There are currently no international flights to Yemen.

 

[lingard]

Well I think Storms the best. Roosters next. Then Penny

I think, right now, Canberra, then Storm, then Penrith.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You’re both confusing current form with results over 20 rounds. We are clearly the 3rd best team over 20 rounds, which is a more than adequate sample size.

I'd say form at this time of year is more closely related to a team's ability to win its next game than form over the entire 20 rounds.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Just try harder and don't drop the ball.

Trying harder has a massive impact in the areas of defence (kick chase, scramble and just getting numbers into the tackle) and support play in attack.