Starting to get excited

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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- - - fishbulb January 25, 2020 at 6:22am
      
      Thanks for the link - funny stuff!
      
      Loving Nathan Brown's white guy dance moves lol!
    - Brett Allen January 25, 2020 at 7:18am
      
      Oh fellas, do you want some ham with that cheese. BA looked thoroughly unimpressed in his one shot.
Alan Hunt January 24, 2020 at 8:33pm

We have a top 4 squad this season IMO, anything less bar a spate of injuries is a massive fail.
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- Brett Allen January 25, 2020 at 7:24am
  
  I was shocked how easily Mostert carved the Packers ground defence. The Packers run defence isn't great, but that was horrendous stuff for a championship game.
  
  Still, I just can't cheer for the Niners, go the Chiefs !!!
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    - Brett Allen January 25, 2020 at 4:58pm
      
      Yeah, he's their best Head Coach since Bill Walsh, maybe their only proper head coach since the great man.
Johnny B Good January 24, 2020 at 11:24pm

We'll l lose to either Cowboys or Dragons and be 4-1 to start the season.
Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown January 24, 2020 at 11:39pm

We should definitely be top 4, no doubt the teams goal is to win the comp like it should be.
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  - Brett Allen January 25, 2020 at 4:55pm
    
    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.
Brett Allen January 25, 2020 at 7:28am

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.
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  - HECTOR WONG January 25, 2020 at 8:59am
    
    My thoughts exactly Brett