Look I know it's tough to watch, especially with the effort that was put in against the titans but as a fan base need to stick solid behind the group of players we have left. Yes injuries have decimated the team but also the effort yesterday was unacceptable both can be true. Expecting a much better effort against the dogs this week but we can't really make many changes to the 17 due to injury. Terrible effort yesterday but it's a new week so we move forward. And yes our recruitment team is horrible and needs to go lol.
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Captain, every first grader knows that there is always something knocking at the door of their position: father time, lower grader, incoming recruit, poor form. Thus what's happening accountability-wise to some club manager or football operations staff is simply not directly connected to how a player views their position. I just don't buy the validity of loose metaphors that imagine seamless flows of culture. It's a disjointed flow at best.
I am simply unconvinced by almost all the outbreak of sack the club talk that has accompanied the Eels poor play. For a specific reason: loose cultural flow metaphors are not picking out direct causal chains. An example is many are pushing for Su'A to arrive early, thus simultaneously lambasting recruitment while positing a recruit as a fix. JFC is it too much to ask for coherent critiques of the dismal Eels performance?
Been on similar mindset for about the last 3 years now.
Put simply there is no championship dna in the building so I guess they don't understand how big a culture shift is or what it looks like so the powers that be stick with what they no and are.
The power brokers we have now are by design Parra were run like a rabble for so long we are now just moved to another version of it without all the governance drama.
Make no mistake though I know the DNA isn't in this club to build a champion read it how you will.If we aren't looking at improvement across the board excuse the pun then we are short changing ourselves and we'll continue this well travelled road of mediocrity.
If you don't fix a culture problem from the top as soon as it starts, it'll spread...like anti-kaisen. You incrementally get crappier & crappier 'til you are nought but a steaming pile of platitudes
maybe hannay should have been our option? look what he has done in his first year? i was on the ryles wagon, and i know we have alot of injuries but we had a full side round 1. Just so disappointed after yesterdays game, i know alot of us are. With more injuries and a confident dogs side on sunday, this could get real messy! im on the got nothing to lose so throw the young future stars in. But maybe thats why im not the coach....he probably knows the players alot better and been in and around high level football for years. Guess i just have to trust in ryles and trust the process.
Im telling you the coach is not the issue. Swap Ryles and Hannay and the Eels still have the same result. It's the administration. The Titans roster isn't amazing but it's way better than ours. I know nothing about their juniors but I'd imagine they'd have some weapons waiting in lower grades. Did you see Cooper Bai? He's 19. He recently re-signed with the Titans even when his Dad was telling him to go to Melbourne. He's a beast and he's 19. If he was an Eel you'd bet your house on him leaving. The Titans now have Matty Johns and Gordon Tallis as owners. There's no way they're letting rep quality talent walk out of the club. They'll find a way to keep them. Whereas we have MON and co and seem to enjoy watching rep quality walk out. All our problems stem from the administration. They're all culpable for the state of our roster. Injuries have just made a dud roster even worse.
This is the same Titans who also conceded 50 in R1 and lost last week to Broncos whom the Eels beat? Also the same Titans playing Brimson at centre and discard Illias at 6, and who had their marquee Fifita walk out last year?
It's just cherry picking at that point to talk admin and team. The Eels were terrible but Eels, Titans, Dragons will compete for the Spoon. It's not long ago that R&R was being praised for Walker or Tuivati, and the club for sticking it to Lomax. Our roster has issues, compounded by injuries, but I'm already over the return to every second post talking about admin not team
You're complaining about cherry picking then proceed to cherry pick players. I said the Titans roster is not great but it is better than ours.
I'd take Ilias over Pezet, Volkman. Brimson over Kelly or Nanva or Samrani or Joash.
Have you watched Fifita lately. He's average at best. He's not what he once was. Let's compare starting front rowers.
The point is none of us are paid to assemble a premiership winning roster. But there are those within the club whose highly paid job it is to do just that. They've had enough time now and the proof is undeniable. Jagging a decent player here and there doesn't make up for the Debelins, Hodgsons, Harpers whilst allowing our home grown talent to walk.
Personally I want to win a comp. And these clowns running the show have shown conclusively that they do not know how to do that. We're getting further from that goal, not closer. It really is as simple as hiring people who have done it before. Then and only then can a proper rebuild begin.
What I am asking for is direct arguments from "admin did it" to why, for instance, the right side attack played too deep and the left side attack too flat.
And you're right. I cherry picked. Because we all are as soon as the topic is linking admin to performance on field. Were admin having a good week when the Eels rolled Broncos? Were admin having a good start to the week when Su'A was confirmed? And just imagine the tongue biting if Eels rolled Dogs?!
The thing that stands out to me each week is how we get steamrolled through the middle and we don't make any dominant tackles. This results in either quick ruck speed or getting a set restart for holding on too long. The whole team gets fatigued pretty quick and we end up with a result like yesterday. The thing that concerns me is that we seem much weaker and less fit than the other teams. The fatigue is causing these injuries too as structures and techniques break down.
I think the strategy with the new rules was to use smaller more mobile forwards. Storm did the same and look how they are going now. Remember BA used to say front load your effort - this seems to be where the game is at currently. Get really physical and fast at the outset, get the set restarts with quick ruck speed and fatigue the opposition. Dogs did this very effectively against Penrith, and look how their handling and decision making deteriorated under fatigue.
For us, we need forwards who have big motors and can bend the line. We've been getting away with it for years with Moses long kicks but this just isn't enough anymore. I think Ryles recognises it and has been in the market for forwards. But the R&R team cannot get the job done.
A much better effort against the Bulldogs yep probably 50 - 10 instead of 52 - 10. Pathetic effort, pathetic leadership, pathetic coaching, pathetic recruitment equals loss of supporters eventually
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