The only thing standing between a premiership with the current squad, and a making up the numbers every year with a pass mark "top 8 finish" is a coach who can not get the errors out of individuals & the team up for must win games.
8 years and still riddled with the same fundamentel errors.
A massive milestone game tonight. Win and we made history for the longest stretch being number 1 on the ladder. Choked yet again.
How many games in BA's tendure have we lost when we are the VERY short priced favourites?
Frankie Fong bangs on about this every year. I know, because i have lost so many multis because i put the $1.30 favourite eels in the my bet.
How many of you truly thought we would win & aim up tonight? Everyone saw it coming deep down, BA's inabilty to get the team up for a win that the top sides simply bank the 2pts, even allowing for injuries.
A lacklustre Rooster & Storm still win that game every day of the week.
Again, before the unicorns spew their bullshit about the players we had missing tonight... compare it to the players Manly had out. The reason we still started the game as firm favourites.
All week is was going to be a typical Des Hasler ambush with a heavily depleted squad and again BA can not get the win. Never does.
We are very much a touch football side that looks great when the off loads stick etc etc but deep down our DNA under BA is weak and inconsistent.
IMO opinion the very worst thing the club can do is the pull the trigger early and give BA a contract extension before the next 6-8 weeks play out. What his manager is pushing for.
We all saw what happed in 2018... it was the individual brillance from Semi that put a band-aid over the massive issues & inflated the tyres of a team that was no different from the perofmance we put in tonight.
10 games, 8 wins and the perfect BA storm is brewing.... stumble our way to a top 4 /6 finish and get 40 put on us in a semi v Storm or Roosters or anyone we are favourites to beat.
Lane needs to be dropped full stop
Dylan "chewing gum" Brown always kicks from the wrong side of the ruck & ego needs a massive reality check. A long way to go young man.
Mahoney needs to stop the crash ball play after play on the line. It has worked once in 10 weeks. A suicide ball we all cringe at when thrown.
Niukore killed it when he started for N Brown.... but lets keep him on the bench and start with the love child Taka.
There is so many common and consistent mistakes the team and individuals make that seemingly never get addressed or the coach knows how to change.
Waqa Blake & Fergo's defence has been atrocious for 10 weeks... when does it get fixed? or does the coach persist with the same old same old it until we play a semi and the Storm put 30pts down the ride side?
The top coaches have a feel for the game live. Unfortunately BA has an under 12's coach mentality when it comes to the interchange. " Little Johnny I will put you on after 30 minutes" Its like clock work and one of his biggest flaws.
BA has done a great job lifting us from the ashes.... credit where it is due.
BUT he will burn any chance we have to to win a comp with this current squad if the club and fans are happy with B+ results and the inconsistency that comes under his tenure.
Ps- The eels were the only leg that fucked my multi AGAIN. $1.35 favourites. All too familiar.
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This shit is just boring. Hope no one else wastes their time reading it
I have to hand it to you brissyeel.
I honestly wish i had your blue and gold unicorn DNA but i am unapologetically a realist who wants to win another premiership in my life time.
Not make excuse after excuse after excuse, game after game after game like you do. It really is nauseating.
The reason you and Brett Allen are not invited to my xmas party each year.... or anyones for that matter.
We are both long time members & i have read your posts for years but I often wonder if you are related to Brad Arthur or just have a choc top with his DNA all over it.
Should I call SVU?
Go for it brissyeel.... just like Brett Allen you ALWAYS need the last word so go for it, unload on me.
It will be met with the reply is deserves....NO REPLY..... crickets.
Probably not a smart bet taking Eels at a$1.30. We were going to struggle tonite if everything didn't go right for us.
Jia and Dylan have been struggling to put a footprint on our last 3 games, and agree Taka is a bench player at best.
With both our halfs ordinary, we did well to take it to the wire. And i agree Niukore shoul be our starting left backrower.
of course we were going to struggle against manly - our arch enemies. Parras injuries were always going to bite us eventually against the top teir teams. On the plus side , we are not at the winning end of the season when a loss ends the season.
Great to see you posting bro, i respect your opinion as always mate.
Im not taking too much out of tonights game, BAs got some points on the board atm for mine so i shant be bagging him.
When we got the spoon he deserved everything he got, im sure even he would agree that thats all part of the game.
But he's turned us around since then to his credit but theres still lots of improvement there to make.
Most of the games this year weve had good resolve, weve been consistantly better so i can only support BA atm.
Regardless you may turn out to be right mate, its all down to opinion.
Hope youve been well bro.
Agreed Snake.
The first 20 minutes of the game tonight reminded me of the nightmares of 2018. But, despite that, the team did try very hard to get back into the fixture. Dylan Brown and Reed in particular looked like they felt that it was 'up to them' to win it for us and, in doing so, made the sort of mistakes that young and inexperienced players make.
RCG was absolutely huge! Worthy of Dally M votes in a losing game - and for a prop!
I like Field, but, I think we all secretly suspected that he lacked 'game management' - and that's okay. He's only played a handful of first grade games and was up against one of the best halves in the comp in DCE.
Seasons past, we'd have taken a complete bath. Tonight, we actually could have won the fixture had Gutho kicked his goals and RCG scored that try from Reed's grubber.
To me, the fact that we clearly lacked mental aptitude tonight and 'played tired', the team still fought to the end. This is new and I credit BA for that.
A blip, but overall, I still think we're doing okay.
The test will be how we bounce back against a resurgent Tigers, at home, and with a stronger team.
The team has no 80min toughness.
Boys, you have to think like a rock!.
NO PAIN ,
I CAN DO THIS FOR 120MIN IF I HAVE TO. I WILL KEEP GOING UNTIL THE OPPOSITION HAS HAD ENOUGH AND THEN I WILL GIVE THEM EVEN MORE
YOU HAVE TO BECOME THE TOUGHEST/FASTEST PLAYER OUT THERE
THE HARDER YOU PLAY YOUR FOOTBALL THE TOUGHER AND FASTER YOU WILL BECOME.THE ONLY LIMITING FACTOR IN YOU BECOMING A SUPERSTAR OF THE GAME IS YOU. THE ONLY REASON YOU ARE NOT THE SUPERSTAR OF THE CLUB IS YOU
DO YOU TRAIN TO PLAY THE GAME OR DO YOU TRAIN TO BE A SUPERSTAR. THE ONLY LIMITING FACTOR IS YOU.
THINK TOUGH.BE TOUGH ON YOURSELF. EXPECT A LOT MORE FROM YOUR TIME/PERFORMANCE ON THE FIELD.
YOU ARE PARRAMATTA. YES PARRAMATTA. YOU ARE NOT A PLAYER WEARING THE BLUE AND GOLD. YOU ARE PARRAMATTA.
YOU WILL MEET ALL CHALLENGERS AND OVERCOME. YOU ARE PARRAMATTA.
Well said Snakey & Bourbon. I agree.
We all know we've had a soft underbelly DNA for aeons. Decades before Arthur.
Time will tell what this loss & mental drop means but we've shown signs of change in 2020, building on 2019 (& 2016-17).
We only have one option: get off the canvas & fight like men possessed. If we don't then we may need to look at new directions.
IMO, Bert's inferred easy-one-step solution isn't a reality right now, any more than him getting a refund on backing the Eels (despite inferring he knew all along he knew what would eventually happen).
Thanks Hells Piper. I am going ok. Still kicking , lol
Hi Donny!
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