In my view after what is shaping as the worst year in Eels history the end of season review will see no one safe. The Board the CEO the coach and the players. Yes they have contracts but they all expire and clearly no one is peforming.
2010 started with such promise and 2011 now looks like being a year from the 1990s.
I can not remember a Eels side as poor as our NYC side and the much mighty wenty is also a rabble.
Time to stick tough again and any golden era from 2001 through 2010 never happened and we have squandered talent over this decade. For mine a club in crisis.
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Pat O'Hanlon will come up and replace Feleti Mateo in the backrow. He is potentially a better back-rower than Feleti, because while he doesn't have Feleti's skill he has a more rounded forward's game.
Jacob Loko truly is a freak and he'll be ready to take over from Timana at the end of next year. Jacob Gagan will follow behind him and either replace Burty or by that time, Hayne if he has lost a bit of pace may be ready to move up to five-eighth and Gagan will replace him at fullback.
Our problems remain at prop and in the halves. I see Tom Humble as our long-term five-eighth but he needs a dominant half with a great kicking game inside him. Honestly, if they can pull off the Cronk deal we'll be fine next year.
Prop also needs addressing. We need to talent spot another young 21-23 year old prop, we can bring in on average money that fills in the fourth prop position.
We have holes, but we're lucky enough that we have juniors coming up in the right positions. We don't have a whole bunch of them but I think there are some genuine high quality first graders.