Some people need to reflect on their thoughts and comments on how much we would have been beaten by tonight.
I mentioned upon reflection that the disappoinment of last week was part of us learning. If we had won last week, we would probably not have won tonight. I am always gratefull for the lessons learnt, because when you think you have it right something always happens to change it. Lets hope for consistency. Only then, can greatness come.
We will have games like last week again. Everybody does. But what we learnt cannot be taken back.
If anyone doubts the genuiness of our renaissance, go back and reflect on tonight's game and the one before it.
It is always so with Parra. But the ability is there. Some of those players will not be there in future games. But they can reflect on one thing: We are good enough.
We will get better just the same.
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Yes, he is a physiotherapist and played a bit as well.
He basically was hidden to start with because I think he was setting up a business.
I agree he refs like he understands the intentions as well as the rules. I am a great believer in letting refs have the right to call "play on" players seemed to play the game more naturally when the discretion is had.
I wish they would change some of these technical things like the knock on when in a collision happens and its has never left the players hands but it has touched the tackler. Like wise the high jumps for the ball, who cares who got a finger to it, its where it ends up that counts.
I thought the Eels would be lucky to be within 20 of the Chooks at full time but instead the Eels were up by 20, so I got it diametrically wrong. But the other way to look at the fact that MANY of us suspected a cakewalk against us is that we are still waiting on the Eels to show consistency. Against the Bunnies the Eels lacked urgency in defense, not scrambling well and ceding territory and not quite having enough physicality to apply defensive pressure. The Eels also lacked polish in attack, and not just because they let opportunities slip (unconverted line breaks), but also because their follow up play after creating opportunities was kind of sleepy. Against Chooks the Eels fixed both those problems: lack of urgency and physicality in defense and lack of follow up polish in attack.
But the sheer amount of us who would be thoroughly unsurprised if the Eels played like busted grandmas vs Warriors next week is telling us the Eels are yet to nail down consistency. The Eels could go a long way to showing some consistency by, you know, playing well vs Warriors and Knights. A 2-0 woud be great, 1/1 acceptable, but 0-2 sorry where is the consistency?
I hear you Daz and that's why you can look at a sport like NRL that is played professionally to a level of uncontrollable abilities.
They surround both the players and referees and the human mistakes both /all parties make. There is no such thing as a perfectly even playing environment which gives a formula that should give the same result every time.
Then reality is that upsets happen every week and no team is invincible.
I stress to some on here that choose to listen that it is not a chess game with all pieces balanced and equal. Lose a Queen and your fucked. Sacrifice a few pawns etc etc. Its more like draughts, just get as many crowned as you can!
I waxed on last week once I let the emotional disappoinment disapate and rationalised what it meant. Essentially what did the lesson of losing provide in comparison to winning and moving on making the same mistakes that we only identified by the actual loss. As a Scientist how many times are you going to get it wrong before you finally get it right.
Some key and obvious difference was our completion rate was 91% against Roosters. Rylie Smith led up the speed of defence against the Roosters and he hounded the Roosters kicker's to a point of embarrassing their whole game plan.
Why did they not do it against Souths, because of "why does a dog lick his dick" because he can! when he needs/wants to! Crude but true!
Needs and wants is what frustrated Ryles, he thought he had it right, back to the drawing board and I think that will happen again, until they are so well regimented that it will become rare. As long as we have a personell process to feed that requirement.
We need to give due credit to the opposition in such/some circumstances and accept we may be down 5% on our game and compared to Souths previous performance they were probably up 10, throw the bad ref and bunker calls and we get the results that add up to your inconsistency. After all we are not playing with the creme of the NRL playing world. More like a rag tag group being moulded like a well drilled army.
Daz, you being a scientist have only one rule, evidence and proof. Football games don't provide for either unless you trained in such a way that it becomes second nature. We as a football team are going through that evolution, the equation is made up of abstract facts of player ability, and coaching to achieve those facts, the x factor will always be the man in the middle, luck, playing conditions, injuries and throw in the ability of the opposition on any given day.
The headlines said this morning that Roosters were ambushed by Parramatta.
If we played them again next week, what would the result be?
When we play Warriors next week, how will they prepare after seeing what we did to Roosters.
All these things hit the consistency button and how we respond to it.
I hardly write on here but I read what's on this site virtually everyday. I have been around to see all of the EELs grand finals wins. I don't know why but the current team build with Ryles just feels more real then ever like when we last won. One thing for sure I have always ( at least tried) to being a true believer.
Well put Joe, i love intuitive feelings.
The only thing that can sour this win is if Richie Penisini injury in reserve grade is an ACL. Very worried it is given how the injury happened.
Was that result as ugly as the score suggests EA and did Crosby get a run for the Warriors cup side.
Crosby was very strong off the bench. But not the best game to judge him on. He versed a bunch of RM and JF middles.
Yep it was a horrible performance. On the game day blog you will see our line up and we had 18 players !!! missing. We were no chance
Penisni was making a one on one tackle and the pkayer fell on his left leg. He fell awkwardly
That'll be a shame. He's been doing well Richie.
The previous injury was to his right knee
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