Tonights performance against the Melbourne Storm was an absolute disgrace for a supposedly professionally coached NRL team! I dont think anyone in their right mind would have expected a scoreline like that. The Eels have now dropped from 5th position to 8th position on the NRL ladder by the result of 1 game. Its totally unacceptable and coach Brad Arthur MUST be held accountable! It was not that the Melbourne Storm were that great (although they were good) but that the Eels were not coached appropriately to win against the Storm or to even make a competition of the game! The Eels defence was absolutely like kindegarten kids playing touch football or like a game of Austag! At times over the past 30 odd years since the Eels last Premeirship its been difficult being an Eels supporter and having the embarrassment of insults due to dismal performances from Eels teams BUT after tonights game against the Melbourne Storm Im actually ashamed to be an Eels supporter after their disgusting, apathetic, dismal display. Questions need to be asked by the Eels board and they need to make very quick decisions regarding Brad Arthur and numerous players in the club and their contracts as its obvious that IF the Eels are ever to be a serious Premiership force in the future having the use of a tremendous state of the art homeground in BankWest Stadium then they need to make a huge improvement in both their coaching ranks and their player recruitment ranks. I still do not understand WHY Mahoney was on the bench at the start of this game and why Mannah was not brought on the field and the only conclusion is that Brad Arthur has no idea what he is doing.
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But tigers got belted by us. And won few games after that. With no players dropped. Apart from Reynolds.
It hurts. But we played against the storm and the refs tonight. This is not such an important game. Only two points lost. Just show that we don’t have good players. It’s not the coaching issue. It’s the fact players are not as good as everybody seems to think.
Coach kept telling them every away game. Ok boys you have to aim up in defence and with attitude. Because opposition will come in strong. They knew this was coming tonight. They just can’t stop it cause they r not good enough. Start getting rid of players. Starting with terepo. Mannah. Salmon. Taka. And morea. Not good enough.
Spot on manu, but then that brings us back to the salary cap and the fact that only one in a hundred NRL players would want to play for Parra...
I think this performance has confirmed that the management are doing the right thing by holding off resigning ba. Another big loss next week which is definitely possible and ba should be sacked. He still might be resigned but next week is make or break. The tactic tonight just didn’t make any sense and then leaving Mannah off for the whole first half compounded the error as he has the fastest play the ball of the whole pack. It wasn’t just wrong it was diabolical. The 10 minutes Sivo was in the bin was the worst 10 minutes of “professional” football that I have ever seen. They were scoring at will, we showed no heart nothing.
The dogs have a no name side and they took it to the storm and again to the knights yet their supporters want pay sacked, I don’t think anyone can make a case for why we shouldn’t sack ba
sack ba now.