I believe our old mate Ricky has provided us all with the game plan to upset the Storm. The green machine have travelled down to Melbourne twice in the past 5 weeks and have come away with the victory both times. I doubt many clubs, if any at all would have done this throughout the past 10 years. From what I can see the Raiders game plan has been as follows.
*Throw the ball around early getting the Storm pack covering plenty area. The Eels should do the same and also off-load the ball getting 2nd phase play.
*Once the Storm big men are so exhausted you then play them up the middle on the back of fast play the balls. This will also limit numbers in tackles resulting in much lees wrestle.
This all sounds very simple in theory, producing it on game day is something much more difficult.
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Not bad, Slip.
Throwing it around is our main weapon and strongest feature.
The Storm are beatable.
The way the eels played today, in many respects may be our undoing as the way we played is perhaps not much different to the way the Raiders/Storm game was played out, the big difference is we are talking about completely different teams than the mules though. No doubt that Bellamy will be reviewing todays match a few times and have his panel board up with pointing out the areas to concentrate in.
While the storm are beatable, its a matter of whoever plays them has to have the full and best team on the paddock, good relationships with the refs also would not hurt. Todays game overall had a lot less interference from the refs that in the normal season though.
The Eels will have to beat the Storm the same way the Raiders did, with Defence.
If the Eels can't win the ruck then the game will be lost.
The Eels have the hardest run to the Grand Final having to play the two best sides of the last Decade but what a story it would be if they did?
Bellamy will be ready
So will the touchies, lol
Well we’ve got the first one covered, if not superior to the raiders passing game.
We have shown we can play quick, let’s see if the refs and/or Storm allow us to.
I don’t know if this is right or wrong.
The Raiders played disruptive rugby league.
I think their line speed was great in defence and they won the game on agressive defence.
I agree, we need to move the ball early and have second phase play but we need to win the forward battle early and control the ruck.
you won’t tire the Melbourne pack out, you need to continually be more physical & you need some luck.
in attack we need constant support. Attacking in numbers needs to be 5-6.
We won’t beat them on anything other then desire. They are the best team in the comp.
in saying that, we can win by 13+ if we play with desire
I think our current game plan is perfect to beat the Storm. The question is can we execute well enough to get the win.
Our line speed and contact has to be top notch which is absolutely was against the Broncos and Manly.
Shift early to the edges (preferably from 2nd phase play) like we’ve been doing. The Storm hate it when you go to their edges often. They much prefer you grind 5 hit ups and a kick. They eat that up. But if you go to an edge and then to the other and back again it goes against how they prepare.
I’m sure The Storm will be ready for us but we’ll also be ready for them and we’re full of confidence with absolutely nothing to lose. If I was the Storm I’d be nervous.
Have a look at the weather forecast a cold wet night in Melbourne next Saturday ? This will put paid to the side to side 25 metre passing. Might have to grind it out with minimal mistake footy and clever kicks. It might make the game a 50/50 affair ?
At this stage there is only rain forecast for very early Saturday morning. So should be gone throughout the day and night. Still going to be a heavy track though. Going to be a lot different to the balmy conditions we had at Bankwest on Sunday.
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