Sometime the pigeon, sometime the statue

Watching the midnight replay of the Titans game in Melbourne was heart wrenching. I knew we lost but I wanted to know why.Firsly, all eels fanatics forget what the media and doomsayers will say. Sure the Titans played with gutso, but the effort was there from the eels and we didn't play that badly. The stats back that.Tackles: Titans 270 v Massive Eels 370. Possession: Titans had massive 33 possessions. However, missed tackles were about equal at 25 ish each. Errors 13-6 against us cost us with repeat sets Titans had on our goal line.Secondly, the Titans didn't rip the eels apart through massive fractures in our defence. Linebreaks favoured the eels says nrl.com.Most of the Titans tries, I counted 4/6, were scored off kicks. Most involved a ball bouncing nicely, wickedly rebounding, rickeshading off different players to fall the Titans way. To illistrate have a look at the 2 Thomson tries or the 2nd Minichiello 2nd try, benefit of the doubt.For more evidence of lucky barrel draw night for the Titans watch the Rogers kick 40/20 kick that landed half and inch from the side line. Perfectly. See Prince kick from 60m out and the ball wickedly in goal at the last inch before being out for Hayne to get mowed down in goal.In a nutshell - that's footy. The league gods shined brillantly on the Titans second half and Roosters last week.Sure has been a frustrating year 2010 and we haven't been able to build momentum. The good news is it's still 2010.If the footy gods play fair, if referees don't make too many gaffs, if we make the semi's and If we play anywhere near our potential - You never know. Big IFs for a big team.It's not over yet and we are the eels.

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  • Always good to hear the posts after the dust has settled and the pain of defeat has eased a little, nice post indeed
  • Yeah Titans got every lucky bounce, but they kicked well and chased well and when you do that the luck seems to go your way.
    You make your own luck, we gave away a couple of silly penalties, Hayne didn't get any penalties for being hit after he kicked because he didn't take a dive unlike other players on the other team.
    WE defended well most of the game but the weight of possession against in the 2nd half was too much and we should have scored more with what we had in the 1st half.
    Pure and simple we need a creative organising Half, we don't have one at present and that is what is killing us when we seem to have plenty of possession in side thier 20 we don't score the points we should, even last week against the Roosters we should have scored more points we had some good possesion but could not create anything.
    THere have been times like that all season, v Newcastle, v Sharks, v Broncos and there are other games as well where he had field position and posession but just can't score points and put up a dumb kick on the last.
    There is no point changing that halves now but next year we need a good half who can control games if we don't we won't make the 8 simple.
  • absolutely 100% agree
  • EXCUSES EXCUSES THE WORLDS NOT FAIR BLA BLA WE ARE TERRIBLE!!!!
  • The reason other teams find it dead easy to score from kicks is the complete lack of trust the Parra players show in each other.

    Two and three Parra players contesting the same ball is a joke.

    Reddy and Inu fighting over one high kick,
    Reddy had his back to Inu and was on the job so Inu goes over the top of him
    Bloody lucky Reddy didn't get called off side because he took ball from Inu who was behind him.

    Tries were scored on at least 2 occassions because Parra players crowded each other OFF the ball.

    Only shining light was Burt who got the dropped ball from Hayne. Stayed out of contest and saved a try by doing so.

    Roosters, Titans, have posted 82 points on us in 2 games by exploiting this lack of trust the Parra players demonstrate in each other.

    Don't they call for the ball anymore?
  • Insightful point Colin. Also, I don't think there's been a match all year that we've played to our potential or with the confidence we had 2009.

    If anyone has the solution to get us playing near our potential as a team - let's earn some serious dosh.
  • Thanks Muttman and MagicMan.

    We're probably all a little biased towards the eels, but what the heck, I'm sure the Titans fans will be talking up their team as the next best thing.
  • Terrible or not, fair or not, world's perfectly imperfect and so is footy.
  • Parra matters, yeah it's been an interesting ride.

    We seem to be either: unable to score points and defend well, score points and defend not so well, or experience poor fortune helping to bring out the best in another team.

    Re the half issue - isn't it funny how we got to the GF last year with Robson and Morts at the helm ?

    imho top shelf halves that have some degree of consistency in the creative class of say Thurston, Prince, Cronk and even Carney are rare breeds. But they can't do it alone.
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