I checked on some of the fitness of our boys earlier today and Darcy Lussick is in doubt but Tim Mannah could be a chance to play this week.
Lussick copped a massive cork in the first ten minutes of the Warriors game and apparently it still looks pretty bad.
Mannah is a real-chance of playing. Apparently desperate to get back for this game, which I think would be a massive boost.
Hoppa still struggling with his shoulder. Outside chance of being fit.
It will be interesting to see who is named in the side, but I think with a few of these blokes we probably won't know if they're good to go until the final training session.
However, with Hayne back and I'm assuming Sio as week we're certainly going to be in much better shape than we were last week against the Warriors.
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We'll beat the bunnies.
I really hope Hoppa is back, apart from missing watching his class ball handling skills, I think Morgan's ship has sailed.
Funny, Morgs and Lussick I thought were our best last year but neither have been real good this year with limited opportunities.
Morgan has potenital, he just has to work on a couple of things and he'll be dynamite. Lussick needs to string a few games together, he's had a bad injury season...
r you joking morgan shit!!!
Geeze, Phil's got all the good oil today.
So whats they mystery with him last week? He's up there next to Hayne as one of my favourite eels players.
Yep, Ken Edwards should be named this week. Someone said they spotted him wearing a moon boot in Auckland last week.
You love it Frankie
Phil, I've always been the eternal optimist with the Eels. Been watching them since I was a kid in the 60s. Had a cardboard season ticket for Cumberland as a teenager and used to travel by supporter bus to all the way games before I had a licence. That optimism has really taken a pounding over the last few years. It was back this year and I blogged about the great unknown factor that I thought could bring a level of success this year.
However, even though I will be at the game on Friday and hoping and cheering, I fear for the result. A couple of inclusions will be unlikely to bring a win. An improved showing, I hope so. What really concerned me was the type of capitulation of last week. I felt that Arthur had given up last week as a lost cause before the match and I think that the players played accordingly. Do I think that he didn't coach them to win? Of course not. But if supporters were thinking that was the case due to omissions and team selections, I worry about whether the players felt this way.
Two things that I paid attention to, besides the obvious inability to deal with adversity (that I blogged about earlier this week) were fiirstly the way players appeared to be arguing and staring daggers at each other and secondly the defence of Corey Norman. I have been a fan of Norman's defence this year. Seriously he has shut down many half chances and saved our line from being broken on numerous occasions. But against the Warriors he was diabolical and I just didn't see it coming. I know that there are people on this site that are not fans of his, but if you had been watching his defence up to last week it was far and away better than most halves in the competition. Something seemed like it was not right last week, something that to me seemed to go beyond poor play and injured players. I hope that I'm wrong.
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