The intensity of the game is higher than ever and every year it gets a bit higher, Ive heard commentators say this is Origin level a few times this year and they are right.
How can we keep this level week in week out, depth of roster does help especially when you add Origin into the mix.
We are 9 and 2 and that's pretty good, we do not have the depth in the forwards to win every game so we should expect some losses.
Harnessing junior talent like the Panthers definitely helps or having a sombrero like the roosters or just having a team with very good players coming through who see a winning culture and want to be a part of it makes a lot of difference.
We have a huge junior league, we have started a winning culture with players that juniors look up to, lets just hope and pray we utilise our programs, bring up talent who want to stay at the club because they want to win
In the meantime, with the game so bloody tough lets just accept there will be some losses, I don't know if BA is the man to take us to premiership glory but I do know he's better than the dipsticks that went before him, Kearney, Stuart etc
So yes no one likes losing and it is definitely not acceptable but given the current team list and hellish schedule its bound to happen.
I hate loosing we all do, but I see the game played with such aggression that I know with the squad we have that we are going to win a bunch of games against the best teams and the worst but we will have loses that's inevitable.
Lets just hope we time the finals right because we have a hell of a backend of a season.
GO THE MIGHTY EELS
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Well put mate, but let's just hope BA has learnt his lesson from last week and does something about our right hand side..
As long as we fix our right edge and peak during the finals time, I will be happy with BA. Storm and Panthers simply have better rosters. If we don't make the semi - final, than I will be disappointed.
Similar to Eelectric's comment, if the Eels don't make the Preliminary Finals - the two games where the winners go through to the grand final - it will be considered a failure. Obviously not an outright failure given that 12 teams won't get that far, but a relative failure given the Eels have fallen at the Semi Finals stage and need to show they can progress further and compete at that finals footy level of intensity.
But an open question is whether the issue is just the right edge? At this stage I truly think it might just be a right edge issue. It seems when the Eels get defensively vulnerable at right centre, it seems to pull the team out of shape and a defensive liability impacts their attacking shape as well. Hence they appear to lose the ability to counter-punch. I thus think the Waqa issue is the source of a cascading set of issues.