Tonight will be the 100th premiership clash between the Parramatta Eels and Penrith Panthers. The two sides went head-to-head earlier this year with the Eels prevailing 16-10, dealing Penrith their only loss of the season to date.
BA on his media rounds tonight has said he takes full responsibility for the loss . We've built our season on defence and we went into the Souths game with an all out attack mentality which confused the players.
Gutho - tried hard but wasnt his night in attack today. His passing game was slightly off, giving the ball behind his players at times. Every pass from Ribbits were perfect. Grade C.
Sivo - OVERRATED. OVERRATED. Every try he scores is served up on a p
Attack "sells tickets but defence wins championships," was coined by the legendary, late Amercian football coach, Paul "Bear" Bryant. His teams' aggressive defences won championships. Apparently, he even wrestled with bears as a younger lad.
Well I suppose that was our best performance for quite a while, but only for our constant high energy. Still so much to work on with the ball, though I will admit we would not have beaten Melbourne if we didn't throw the ball around and wear them out
One of the key ingredients to a Premiership run is a little bit of luck, and then the ability and conviction to take advantage of the opportunity that presents itself.
The Parramatta Eels will get no better opportunity to take down the Melbourne Stor
I am as filthy as the next person about last nights performance. We had excuses, we had rough calls, we were probably fatigued from the heavy game the week before. Saints had things to play for, emotions were driving them. All of those things are fa
The Parramatta Eels come into this round 14 clash sitting in outright third position having won 11 games and lost two. They have won their last three in a row with triumphs over the Tigers, Bulldogs and Sharks. Meanwhile the Dragons sit in 12th with
"Wouldn't surprise me if Ryles bulks up Rhyley Smith more and becomes a Victor Radley role play hooker and back row player. Smith has mongrel. Move Hopgood into the front row "
"I see that mate; however IMO if Sheens was there we would not be seeing some of these issues; and hence the supposed Douehi dust up from training in round 16; that just should never happen. It is why you have shadow players / assistants. I think…"
"Bluey/Pops,
Over 2023-25 with Hopgood versus without — win almost 40% v 33%, concede 25.8 v 30.2pg, score 22 v 27pg.
Stats suggest defence, resilience, & win ratio improves with Hopgood, although our attacks suffers somewhat at times.
Hopgood seems…"
