Execution costs Eels

Hope everybody got a good sleep and can now look at yesterday's game with open mind.It was a great but we let far to many opportunities slide. All in all far more promise in yesterday squad.Bring back junior Paulo and we got a good team.The Eels ruined any number of attacking opportunities and handed their opponents free chances far too often, especially in the first half.Winger Semi Radradra was denied a try when his foot scraped the touch line in the act of scoring in the second half and the same player was an instant too late onto a Brad Takairangi tap-on in the first half that should have led to points.A series of kicks from Corey Norman, as well as from Luke Kelly and Isaac De Gois, went dead in goal handing their opponents seven-tackle sets and a 20-metre restart rather than building pressure, and the club had made 50 more tackles by half-time as well as 12 more missed tackles and five more errors."I'm proud of the boys, I thought they tried very hard, same again I think at half time we'd made 70 more tackles, we're just making it very hard for ourselves with some fundamental errors," Arthur said."We probably bombed two or three tries and we can't afford to do it at this level, you've got to take your opportunities."He also lamented Parramatta's 10 from 18 completions in the first half and 40 per cent share of possession."We just knew if we could try and get 50-50 in possession [in the second half] we'd be a chance."Once the Eels levelled up the scores and looked like finishing stronger Arthur said execution again let the side down."We had all the momentum, we got down the other end of the field and made an error and gave them reasonable field position," he said."That was our problem in the first half, we gave them good field position and I think on one occasion we had back-to-back sets in the first half where it started in good ball, we dropped it on tackle one or two. They had consecutive sets at times at us. You just can't build any pressure making silly errors."Eels not fussed by no stripping callIn the 74th minute with the scores locked at 12 apiece the ball came loose from Eels captain Tim Mannah with his side on the attack.There was a suggestion of a strip with two men in the tackle as Sione Lousi came up with the ball; a penalty there in front of the Warriors' posts would have almost certainly handed the Eels the game.Instead the visitors got down the Eels' end in that set and kicked a crucial field goal.It was at the very least a loose carry from Mannah, who refused to blame the call for his side's loss."Mate I'm not sure [if it was a strip] but I don't think it's an excuse for us," Mannah said."We still had our opportunities and we could have taken them but I think we just continue learning our lessons and just getting better because that second half I thought the attitude was good, we just got to keep putting in for another week where we can put in a full effort for 80 minutes."

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Dan May 17, 2015 at 8:48am

It all comes down to attitude, if we show up with that kind of attitude we win most games. Then it's a matter of execution, Semis two bombed tries simply weren't good enough. Promising but Christ I'm disappointed.
josh jones May 17, 2015 at 9:29am

Storm started the game v Souths worse than us. Their completions in first 10mins were terrible and had to defend repeatedly. However the better teams can still win when off their game. The crappy teams can't afford mistakes.
FME May 17, 2015 at 11:57am

But these kind of things happen every week. When does it stop becoming bad luck and become bad play?

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