Positive Comments:
No injuries.
All other comments:
- After the first minute of the game I immediately knew that no matter how good we try to play that we would not win the game. The corruption was pretty clear. But wow we played awful.
- The sin bin was obviously a horrible decison by the ref
- The captain challenge was another horrible decison by the ref
- The number of 6 agains on 4th and 5th tackle just because Grant asked the ref for it was BS.
- Iongi getting a high tackle and than a crusher but not getting a penalty for it. Than being sent for the HIA was BS too.
- We lost control of the ruck because we would get pinged for a 6 again the moment we held on for a second. What were the eels meant to do. Two different games were beign reffed. Storm are the one team you CANNOT give loads of possession and a quick ruck too. We have zero match fitness since round 1, so that spine, our errors and refs but it impossible to defend under fatigue. We played 60min with 12 men too.
- Now enough complaining about the ref.
- Kelly and Penisni still cant defend 1 on 1 tackles consistently.
- Pezet is overrated. He is not a 6 and looked good at Storm in theri system. He is slow and a poor defender.
- Da Silva is a reserve grader. 1 year into a 4 year contract and I may have already given up on him. His service is putrid. He cannot control a ruck even though he didnt miss a tackle. His decison making is poor.
- Smith had the worst game of his career. Errors, missed tackle, etc. Really hope this was a one off
- Our bench rotation was completely fucked up because of the Iongi HIA. Our bench was a fullback (Papalii), hooker (TDS) and 2 small forward in Doorey and Walker. They had no chance in competing with Storms elite spine and big forward pack once they got a roll on (plus refs help).
No one is saying we played a great game or were not poor with our handing. We hurt oursleves for sure. But apply all the context. Refs fucking over from the start. The bench we had to use cause of the HIA BS. The countless 6 agains. Try to control the ruck and get pinged. Versing the best spine in the comp with all of that is impossible even if we completed well the refs wouldnt let us win I am certain of it.
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JAC will be awhile out and problem is NOS, we have really got no one to replace that's ready. Kelly ain't up to it defensively, pezet was just nothing tbh it's gonna take kahunas by Ryles to drop him if another coupla poor performance like that...he played like he didn't want to! JDS similar. Was Ryley's worst game by miles wondered if he was crook? Simmo atrocious worst game from him I remember for awhile. Junior played far too many mins in first half...Hopgood copping it but at least he tackled his heart out as did Williams.
how does a huge western Sydney club lack a decent bloody winger or two in junior ranks.,.find it simply unbelievable
omg where does Ryles start from?
I think JAC is round 3/4, Mace? So hopefully not too long.
Yeah, the outside back depth is definitely still an issue I hear you.
Maybe Russell to centre & Samrani to wing? Samrani always gives 100% and he does some really good things. Has great hands.
Obviously trust what JR does with team selection but we had a glaring weakness on the left last night, and we aren't good enough as a team to cover two weak links - feels like Russell is a must at left centre.
Yep Samrani is a must for next week Russel back to centre hopefully it'll help . Was surprised he was behind Simmo based on trials.
Good only 3-4weeks expected longer. Can't come quick enough.
Madge has called NRL hq and requested Todd Smith to ref next week
A few calls were bunker led too.
History says u cant win a premiership if 50+ put on you, then we are in for a long year. Start planning mad monday now
True but also remember the stat of no coach has won their first comp after coaching 250+ games? Cleary did that with about 360+
They can be broken. Though it is true doesn't mean it cannot be broken.
Also was anyone actually expecting us to win the comp? We can still meet our goals of being a good top 8 team by the end of the year despite this performance. Well that was my expectations at least.
A successful year for us this year was always Top 8. Obviously we always want to dream of a Premiership, but this year is about Top 8 as success.
Now with a points differential of -50 odd after one blooming game we've really made this season hard for ourselves.
The last 40 years of history also says you can't win a premiership if you're Parramatta. History is made to be broken. 😁
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