How many times! do we see Parra scored against the right after a scrum. Its sooooooooooo common for us. Someone please pull up the stat. We are terrible at MATHS!!
Can the coach not teach the players on this?
Are we not picking this up in review guys?
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Still a couple of months til the season starts but our recruitment is shocking compared to all the other teams. Broughton and Taufa were probably our best last year but has been scooped up by other teams. Hopefully we get some good news soon
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I just finished reading Hoe's KSS and of course earlier in the week Daz's statisical masterpeice.
I don't bother reading other clubs fan sites or equivalents of our own, so it is with that admission that I cannot imagine anyone coming up with the mast
Read more…We are coming off a win, and coming up against the Dogs with the same brand of defeatism that plaques our post match commentaries by the same Nellies every week.
I believe we are reading this all wrong.....lets start on the Moses/Reed interaction....
Read more…I remember watching 6'6'' Shaun Lane's debut for the Dogs, nine years ago in 2015, when he was a spirited 20 year old.
Back then, Brad Arthur was just in his second year into his debut head-coaching role at the Eels.
At the time, I thought to myself
Read more…He rang me earlier in the week and he had a fall and wacked him into hospital, Subsequently they found he had a blood sugar problem and its effected his kidneys.
I have refrained from letting anyone know, but this morning he rang me and said he was qu
Read more…I rarely write a blog on an upcoming game but I felt that no one was making the point of how Tigers will be so up for this game. "well they are making that point, but saying it wont be enough"
"We seem mostly to be complacent" and that Parra typically
Read more…Something that has been going around in my head lately has been how the players interact with fans and, from a wider lense, how the club interacts with its fans.
The club recently had its Easter visit to Ronald McDonald House which was undoubtedly ex
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JA looks like he is becoming a good reserve grade half - last year he seemed an average reserve grade half.
For me his fixable weakness was not taking the line on
Read more…This is a slightly different tack to the same old questions, but at the same time, I think it identifies with Parra's need to be more visionary with our development squads and recruitment.
Last night I was at the annual presentation of a senior distr
Read more…In saying that I am sure that we all would be happy to be half the athletes that we consider our most modest players to be..
This game was always going to be the hardest for us to win because we do not like playing against the Easts/South styles that
Read more…Lazy, half assed, uninterested, plodding, one handed defence, walking around hands on hips off the ball, not much talking, passed his used by date, no urgency, zero intensity.
Just some of the things that come to mind watching him since he's been here
Read more…Can someone explain to me how we are allowed to play Hands? We seem to have gotten the ok from the league to play a non top 30 player but on what grounds? I thought it had to be fairly special circumstances but we have plenty of fit top 30 players, i
Read more…It was always going to take a real tough oppenent to snap us out of our malaise. We looked totally different than any of our other games this year. Hope the boys have learned their lesson.
3. Gutherson
2. Campbell-Gillard
1. Moses
Read more…I think Bernie Gurr did a great job and always felt that he maybe he had designs on the NRL CEO's job, not sure of the politics there post Villandys and Abdo.
He would have made a great one IMO. I know Fong didn't have much time for him and he would
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Eels are at the 8:35 min mark
Ethan Sanders is 6
Matt Arthur is 9
Do not know how much can tell from highlights but both Ethan and Matt look promising. Ethan looks in contr
Read more…This concept of IQ and footy smarts has become popular in recent times and I'm starting to wonder if we recruit from the other end. i.e. like picking a monkey, because you know you can train him....in Parra's case it seems that in terms of defense, t
Read more…Now the question is rhetorical I know.....but quiet simply the coach should be answering it.
Putting Makatoa, Greig, Murchie and they make no running metres....why cant we just put on tacklers? Who etc
Finally how many tries to we give up through our w
Read more…Grand final centre Waqa Blake is in danger of being squeezed out of Parramatta by salary cap pressure.
Blake is coming off contract at season's end and rival clubs are circling, realising the Eels will find it hard to retain the tall outside back.
With
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