With just two rounds left to play, Parramatta are at the bottom of the table after they went down to the Tigers 31 to 12.
The Eels had all the running in the early minutes but just couldn’t land the first blow. The Tigers made early mistakes but were still looking threatening and as soon as they managed some field position Robert Lui was able to push off first Jarryd Hayne, then Reni Maitua and finally Luke Burt before offloading for Blake Ayshford to score.
The next Tigers try came out of the Storm playbook with Tim Moltzen doing a fine Billy Slater impression busting through via an inside ball to set up the try. Marshall converted, having missed his first from touch, leaving the Tigers up 10 to nil. The Tigers then extended their advantage to 16 when Casey McGuire somehow lost control of a ball on the ground with the pill squeezing back to Benji Marshall who then beat three or four cover defenders to race away and score, in a brilliant display of his magical footwork.
Wests had the first opportunity to score in the second half but Ben Smith did tremendously well to hold up Matt Utai and then with some possession under their belt, Jarryd Hayne fired a sweet long cut-out pass to Chris Hicks who gathered in the ball out in front of him before diving across in the corner to put Parramatta on the board. Burt converted from wide and the Eels were back in the contest at 16 to six.
The deficit was further reduced to 16 to 12 when Hayne put up a pin-perfect cross-field bomb which was spilled by the Tigers into the hands of Ben Smith who dived over for the try. Burt kicked the conversion from a similar spot to the first.
While Hayne looks threatening in attack, his biggest area of weakness as a five-eighth at this stage is his defence. He missed a simple one-on-one tackle against Blake Ayshford who shrugged off the tackle and raced away to score. Marshall converted to make it 22 to 12 and then added another two through a penalty goal.
In the last five minutes the Tigers raced away with the game, first Farrah landed a field goal to guarantee victory before Marshall layed on a try for Beau Ryan with a splendid cut-out pass.
The Eels competed as best as they could, but they just have no alternative point of attack to Jarryd Hayne, who is still coming up with a mixed bag of plays as he learns the pivot position. Matt Keating had a nice game out of dummy half and our props rolled forward well, particularly at the start of the match making good metres.
However, you can’t win games in the NRL competition without a high-class number seven and that’s something that the Eels won’t have until 2012.
The Eels had all the running in the early minutes but just couldn’t land the first blow. The Tigers made early mistakes but were still looking threatening and as soon as they managed some field position Robert Lui was able to push off first Jarryd Hayne, then Reni Maitua and finally Luke Burt before offloading for Blake Ayshford to score.
The next Tigers try came out of the Storm playbook with Tim Moltzen doing a fine Billy Slater impression busting through via an inside ball to set up the try. Marshall converted, having missed his first from touch, leaving the Tigers up 10 to nil. The Tigers then extended their advantage to 16 when Casey McGuire somehow lost control of a ball on the ground with the pill squeezing back to Benji Marshall who then beat three or four cover defenders to race away and score, in a brilliant display of his magical footwork.
Wests had the first opportunity to score in the second half but Ben Smith did tremendously well to hold up Matt Utai and then with some possession under their belt, Jarryd Hayne fired a sweet long cut-out pass to Chris Hicks who gathered in the ball out in front of him before diving across in the corner to put Parramatta on the board. Burt converted from wide and the Eels were back in the contest at 16 to six.
The deficit was further reduced to 16 to 12 when Hayne put up a pin-perfect cross-field bomb which was spilled by the Tigers into the hands of Ben Smith who dived over for the try. Burt kicked the conversion from a similar spot to the first.
While Hayne looks threatening in attack, his biggest area of weakness as a five-eighth at this stage is his defence. He missed a simple one-on-one tackle against Blake Ayshford who shrugged off the tackle and raced away to score. Marshall converted to make it 22 to 12 and then added another two through a penalty goal.
In the last five minutes the Tigers raced away with the game, first Farrah landed a field goal to guarantee victory before Marshall layed on a try for Beau Ryan with a splendid cut-out pass.
The Eels competed as best as they could, but they just have no alternative point of attack to Jarryd Hayne, who is still coming up with a mixed bag of plays as he learns the pivot position. Matt Keating had a nice game out of dummy half and our props rolled forward well, particularly at the start of the match making good metres.
However, you can’t win games in the NRL competition without a high-class number seven and that’s something that the Eels won’t have until 2012.
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WE ARE DEFENATELY THE SLOWEST ON THE FIELD BY FAR
SLOW INTO POSITION , SLOW PLAY THE BALL , VERY VERY SLOW IN ATTACK
DEFENSE IS SLOW TO REACT
AHHH YUP WE ARE THE SLOWEST
CUT IT SHORT ( THIS IS THE WORST EELS TEAM SINCE 1947 )
AND ***** CHOOK HERRON ISNT EVEN IN IT ******
just stick together guys. this happens to every team once in a while.
look forward to 2012 with new signings we will get better or even brilliant'
I do love the blind optimism that our fans have and this has never been more obvious than the hysteria about our prospects for 2012.
Hindy Fui and Burt still in the side and another year older. Hayne lost as a player. He is a 1 not a 6. Either One Eyed has a ghost writer or he has gone tropo during 2011. Again stating "as he learns the position" in this game review. The guy cant tackle in a line. If you dont know that by 23 you are never going to learn. He simply is not a line defender. Never will be.
We look rubbish. we need to watch that our excuse story of losing so many games by low margins does not trick us that we had a good year. We are running last and look rubbish. Sandow, whose own side is yet to get into the 8, will not make the difference.
SK under massive pressure in 2012. Perhaps its time for him to do a Rocky Elsom captain switch
*sigh* and double *sigh*
FFS give Humble and Mortimer a shot next week in the halves. Yeah they will run all day at Mortimer but we may just look a bit sharper. And some of the Wenty backs included too. SK is using 2nd rowers for centres for there defence. But it aint working.
As the weight of losing every week takes its toll, we now lack enthusiasm.
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