Pressure mounts on SuperCoach

The NRL Tackle: Parramatta Eels coach Brad Arthur under fire after South Sydney defeat

After yet another mystifyingly poor performance from his Eels, it’s coming to a point where Brad Arthur needs to justify he’s the man to end Parramatta’s epic premiership drought.

Lost in the celebration of Latrell Mitchell’s stunning return for South Sydney was the fact this was another serious setback for Parramatta’s premiership campaign.
And Brad Arthur just can’t continue to escape scrutiny for these ridiculously inconsistent performances that are tearing apart the Eels’ best chance to win a title in more than a decade.

We’ve seen over the weekend how Justin Holbrook is the latest NRL coach fighting to save his job with Gold Coast on the bottom of the ladder and going backwards fast.

But for different reasons Arthur’s position is also coming to that point where he needs to justify that he can be the man who can lead this club to that long awaited premiership.

And it’s no good having a team capable of beating heavyweights Penrith and Melbourne when they can’t back it up against the Bulldogs and Wests Tigers, or a Souths team that was admittedly pumped by Latrell’s return but nevertheless humiliated in their most recent game against St George Illawarra.

You also can’t ignore this is Arthur’s ninth season and Parra are yet to make it past week two of the finals on his watch.

Arthur said after the game that effort wasn’t the issue against Souths.

But how does he say that when in the next breath he pretty much blamed the performance on a lack of effort from certain individuals, saying “on different weeks we’ve got different blokes owning their jobs”.

-Paul Crawley

After sitting through that deplorable effort .... our clubs 2nd such effort in the first 7 weeks of the season you referred to the group as a 'part time team' , a team that 'looks for the soft option ' and doesn't compete on plays within the 80 mins…

"It's pretty sad though, he has completely lost the dressing room. Or Moses is that valuable and inspiration able on the field we can't win without him. "

"Eh doesn't matter now. I was always a BA supporter but his lost the room, I think all us fans need a change and it's time for one. Unless something dramatically changes in coming weeks a care taker needs to take over and sign another coach. I would…"

Replies

- Raptor Jesus > SEQld Eel (formely NZ Eel) July 3, 2022 at 6:33pm
  
  We hit our ceiling for win percentage in 2020.
  
  The fans didn't realise until 2022 that the team hasn't just plateud, they are sliding backwards now.
  
  He should have been shit canned after 2018. That win percentage is vomit. The improvements we made after 2018 were largely roster based.
  
  Maika Sivo replaced Kirisome Auva
  
  Waqa Blake replacing an old Jarryd Hayne
  
  Blake Ferguson replacing Bevan French
  
  Dylan Brown replacing Corey Norman
  
  Junior Paulo replacing Siosia Vave
  
  Shaun Lane replacing Tony Williams
  
  It's so wonder the team improved with player swaps like that.
  - SEQld Eel (formely NZ Eel) > Raptor Jesus July 3, 2022 at 7:39pm
    
    Whilst stats probably show the story pretty well for me the ceiling seems to be reached on how much these guys can learn from BA. The Bunnies and Sea Eagles beat us on the edges last year and we have imprved there but its still an issue. I doubt there is anything these guys can learn from BA anymore accept motivational things.
    - Frank The Tank > SEQld Eel (formely NZ Eel) July 3, 2022 at 10:16pm
      
      Nup there's actually zero they can learn from him.
      
      Forget skills, tactics and motivation - he's shot.
  - Muttman > Raptor Jesus July 4, 2022 at 12:14pm
    
    2016: Trent Robinson at the Roosters had a 25% win percentage and finished 15th. It's like anyone in Eels colours is uselss and anyone at literally any other club is infallable.
    - Raptor Jesus > Muttman July 4, 2022 at 12:52pm
      
      Yes Trent had one dogshit year Muttman. You need to look at his entire context though. 2013, 2018, 2019 premierships. Sure, they bought some excellent players to get those titles. But we also bought some excellent players with nothing to show for it.
      
      Trent Robinson is also far more of a heavy hitter in the league. He gets what he wants. When he speaks, people listen. Can you really say the same of BA? When Wayne Bennett speaks, people hang on his every word. When Bellamy speaks, people sit up straight. When Brad Arthur speaks, people furrow their brow in confusion.
      - Muttman > Raptor Jesus July 4, 2022 at 2:32pm
        
        So it's one rule for BA and another for Robinson?
        You said BA should have been punted after 2018 becuase of his dogshit winning percentage. I just showed you that Robinson had the exact same situation.
        Who's a better Coach? Well obviously Robinson has the better record and he's a GF winner. No question.
        But also right now he's outside the Top 8 in 10th with a 43% winning record this season. BA is in 6th with a 60% win record. Probably just an easy draw I guess.
        
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        Mick > Raptor Jesus July 4, 2022 at 3:08pm
        
        Nice rant brisseyel, thoughts on the performance on Saturday night?
        
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        Mick > Raptor Jesus July 4, 2022 at 3:45pm
        
        shockingly bad bunker calls? Which ones ?
        
        Nightmare Off-Season > Raptor Jesus July 4, 2022 at 3:50pm
        
        Brissy, what are your thoughts around a coaching change for 2023? You'd prefer to stick with BA, or do you have any preference on a replacement?
        
        Cʜɪᴇғ - > Nightmare Off-Season July 4, 2022 at 4:07pm
        
        Nightmare, brissy will be following Wayne and the dolphins in 23. Just to update you. After 40 years Brissy has dumped the eels for redcliff go figure