Was just watching the silly promo on the Eels website with the boys dancing about,and I thought to myself , wow thats actually a really good group of players, there is not one at least in the best 13 that is not a pretty handy player.So we should go okay right.Comparisons have been made to our 2018 team coming from 4th the previous season but really that team was pretty bad on paper compared to this one,plus we lost semi and Guth had done his knee.From memory (I've tried to forget)our best forwards were Timmy and Polar and our strike weapon was French,then we had our lucky charm Jarryd The Spoon Hayne back.Any wonder we was shite.
The common consensus was that we lost our season after the capitulation in the second half of game 1 against Penrith and lost our first 6 i believe.Which brings me back to the importance of getting off to a good start,to hit the ground running and take confidence from the first 5 or six games and get entrenched in that top 4 early.
So here are our first 5 games of 2020.Early days I know but after 5 games what points can you see us sitting on?Dogs. Titans. Cowboys. St George . And Tigers.
For me I'd say losing any of those would be disastrous. 10 points 50 plus for and against and sitting in 1st would be the only forgivable outcome.
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We'll l lose to either Cowboys or Dragons and be 4-1 to start the season.
I see the cowboys being a danger but we really should beat the dragons, they have a decent starting 13 but not much else and Norman/Hunt in the halves.
We should definitely be top 4, no doubt the teams goal is to win the comp like it should be.
We should win all those games in isolation, but the back to back road games against the Titans & Cowboys will test us. If we do manage to win both those games & start 5-0, then I will really start to get excited.
The Cowboys game will be the danger. We have both the Titans & then the Cows on the road back to back. Even though the Cows struggled at home last year and we are a better team in general, that game will be the danger for us I sense.
I think we'll be 4-1 after round 5.
Plus they have a new stadium which could give them a lift similar to what the eels got from Bankwest, this is the danger game in the first 5 rounds imo.
My thoughts exactly Brett
They have some handy forwards but their backs are ordinary and thier spine is new and will have to hit the ground running, I say they will struggle for the first 5 or 6 rounds.we need to be a ruthless polished machine this year , our team is all class and needs to show it against the lesser teams.By the time we play the Storm in round 10 we need to be on fire.
But in saying that, our record on the road must improve this year as going on previous away form you would just assume it's a loss.That has to change.
No question.
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