So the supercoach has come up with run hard,tackle hard.The play book for any U13 dad coach.No shape,no defensive structure and no attacking plays at all.In the first time since watching the game 1977 I have turned a Parra game off.Ryles offers absolutely nothing on either side of the ball and definitely not attracting players to the club.Even the basket case Dragons have signed Keo, Drinkwater and Sami.WTF are we doing.Pretty much the same as Arthurs with no offloads.Rubbish.Not even close to adapting to the way the game is played now.Sack Ryles.
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He came up through the Bellamy system which was hugely successful but built upon the wrestle. Has the game changed too much for that to work any more? Judging by Melbourne's results that may be the case.
RV he also spent a few years at the roosters
Ryles needs to stop using the ' Run It Straight ' game and follow the panthers lead and use footwork before the line, otherwise we'll have zero outside backs left.
Look at how Russell was absolutely smashed yesterday. No footwork just run it straight into 3 tacklers. Milky Jenkins has never been smashed like that because the panthers have better systems. They use good footwork, make tge first tackler miss his target, then get a quick ruck, then it just snowballs from there. The run it systems has its merits, but without any footwork its just stupid imo
Also, Walker needs to reign in those short hard passes, he puts pressure on the catcher whose already under pressure. The panthers rarely use that technique also, where Yeo usually goes out the back or draws in the defender then passes. This is costing us
Chiefy, two things.
1) Are we sure that Walker's short balls inside are about creating a linebreak? I'm not sure they are, however counterintutitive that migth sound. I think they're about compressing the defence? The Walker short ball is setting up the next attacking play? My curiosity question is whether these short (inside) balls are an adaptation to having lost Doorey & Hopgoode, who were the two main beneficiaries of Walker, Paulo etc short balls to the outside (not inside). Remember those tip on plays amongst the forwards, late 2025, which often moved defences latterally? Take out those two middles and I think the goal has become to compress the defence and generate space the other side of the ruck?
2) Is it light stepping outside backs at Panthers that generate good yardage? Its seems this year the Panthers are using quick shifts to Talagi and McClean especially. Both are legit ball-running threats that drag defenders in. Defence has to commit to those two, generating either space to Jenkins if the on-pass, or space next tackle. On the other side To'o is two tree stumps at high RPM not twinkle toe stuff, and it's normally To'o generating a bit of space for Alomoti. If we look at the Eels stats, the past two weeks have seen both Penisini and Kelly run 20+ runs each game for 165+ (Dogs) and 200+ (Manly) each, and both with high play-the-ball speed. They're battering rams. But if we were making analogies with Penrith's backfield running, wouldn't it be that the Eels are just not playing as smart? Russell & Fox are not battering rams. They should not play as battering rams? To'o/Alamoti are not like Talagi/McClean and neither combination tries to be something they're not. They play to their strengths. I think the Eels have to be smarter: how to better capitalize on Penisini or Kelly getting post-contact metres? Right now the Eels basically try a 1-2 same-same strategy on their right flank and defenses are kind of reading it. On the left flank I'm convinced Fox is playing busted but once he is over that, Russell and Fox are quick and it's unclerar why the Eels are asking them to play battering ram not more evasively?
Yes agreed 100% professor daz . All great points you've made
Dang it, Chiefy, I wanted you to disagree! LOL. I'm not sure about No. 1 at all. The short passing amongst the forwards late 2025 looked different than these Walker inside balls. I figure Ryles is trying to keep an attack going that has lost most of its direct runners like Doorey, Hopgood, Tuilagi and KitKat.
With No. 2 I'm also not sure. I suspect Ryles has been forced to make so many changes, at both centre positions and at right wing, that we basically have nothing but an ad hoc yardage game?
The SIX Again are killing Parramatta,with three six agains in one set is a deliberate strategy by the ref ,probably by NRL instructions
There isn't a coach who could win every game with almost half the 1st grade side out with injuries.
Ryles showed what he could do with the team in the back end of the season last year with players being on the feild consistanly.
Can him and the Eels save this season?
We will know after round 13 when most are back. It is what it is and there isn't anything he, or anyone else can do about so many players being out and you can't say they aren't trying, they just simply aren't good enough. Too many newbies who need time in first grade to get use to it.
Mathew, Brisbane have 13 players out of there top 30 reported as injured.
We have 9 reported right now
The warriors have 7 right now.
There are others but Brisbane and the Warriors look a bit better then us I would suggest.
Round 13 can't come quick enough, and your right with this many injuries you can't win every game, but we simply must strive to be better then what we currently are.
Blue Eel, I think neither Broncos or Warriors have lost players right across the park like the Eels have? Broncos missing some forwards but kep most abcks (Walsh aside)? Warriors losing halves but had replacement halves and were able to move CNK around the backline to plug holes?
The Eels seem to have lost not just forwards or backs, but both forwards and backs, and it would be interesting to count "changed combinations" in addition to what they normally count (missed games and used players, etc). The Eels have had constantly new centre-wing combinations and contstantly new half-backrower combinations, on top of big outaghes in their middles and losing their fullback too.
PS: ultimately none of us are in the mood for more mediocre seasons, so we are inclined toward "no excuses". But the forced changes have been horrific. Also, the Eels gave negative narratives a giant legup by failing to come oout of the blocks in Round 1
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