Given the raft of injuries across first grade I thought it best to collate it all together to see where we currently sit. Have sorted it into positions.
1. Iongi
2. Twidle
3. Russell (maybe back this week)
4. Samrani
5. Simonsson
6. Pezet
7. (Moses groin but still playing)
8. (Paulo carrying an injury but still playing)
9. (Smith carrying an injury but still playing)
10. Hopgood
11. Kautoga
12. Tuilagi
13. Doorey
14. Tuivaiti
15. (JAC ribs but still playing)
16. Ryan Matterson
17. Jake Tago
18. Richie Penisini
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Why the fuck did we hire this guy...it obviously wasn't his resume.
Who hired him...is he someones cousin?
Newcastle look much fitter and better without Jay, yet Sarantinos and O'neill purchase a spoon winning head of athletics absolutely fkn unbelievable. Haha what a huge joke
Super , is this a blog in defence of the recent talk that O'neill and Sarantinos have a lot to answer for?
In every match so far this season, our pack has been badly beaten, from R1 when injuries weren't an issue.
Have the three imports in Debelin, Kelly and Pezet looked like strategic signings super ?
Why have we lost the best centre at the club in Russell Super, why was his contract allowed to get to a stage where other clubs could negotiate??
Why was Matterson - signed for 3 seasons when it was well known he had serious head injury concerns and motivational issues Super ?
Why have we missed out on every marquee signing when it was well known we were after them Super
Super, why did the Dylan Brown contract have more clauses than any other player in history, that not only cost the club his services, but the bungled circumstances allowed other players to sign elsewhere because of the unknown nature of the contract??
Super, why do we have the worst defence in the comp
See, all these issues don't concern Super, as he produces this blog to exonerate the disastrous and bungled administration in which the Parramatta members will now have to suffer the consequences with. O'neill and Sarantinos must be held accountable by the Parramatta members who are paying their comfortable wages.
Start looking at the bigger picture, before blaming injuries for what's happening now. Its not all about who's injured. Our pack has one decent Prop (Sam Tuivaiti and its showing on the park.
All Super can do, is make excuses about injuries. Was anyone expecting 50 + put against the team by a team who are close to spoon favourites? Thats totally inexcusable. The roster is the problem thus Sarantinos + o'neill are the problem
That's a lot to infer from a single blog Chiefy.
See it's why I've beaten the drum for how long about where they look for talent if you can't land it in your own backyard why as a club recruitment strategy aren't we looking wider.We've had bugger all outside back depth for at least I don't no 2,3,4 seasons yet here we are.
We recruit the Kelly's Opacic's Harpers of the world.
The 2 best centres in the club are Penisini and Russell but since we don't develop outside backs they get a free ride and aren't dropped even if they aren't developing and to be fair Russell has improved but the kick in the nuts here is he's off to Perth so what else do we have another journeyman in Kelly to replace him with seemingly nothing coming through the pipeline worth a damn.
The club loses Lomax let's him walk hey fair enough but what are you replacing him with Simonsson a middle of the road player replacing a SoO and international yet we are expected to improve an area of weakness with lesser talent.See someone has to explain it to me the thought process behind this move.
Melbourne lose Coates and Warbrick is off to the warriors sweet they are in for Lomax spend millions in court costs lose but don't muck around they end up lining an equivalent talent in Issako with goal kicking to boot see that's a strategy.
Penrith lose Critta Tago replaces him as they have Maclean stashed then proceed to drop Tago recruit Alamoti and Maclean at 19 looks like the second coming of GI.
To very different strategies from the best in class where we are god knows but I know for a fact we are far from best in anything.We need a coherent executed strategy right now it feels like we are the kid sitting in the corner with the dunce hat on.It's all there to see now it's upto whoever is responsible to come up with a better plan because this BS clown show they've got going on now is joke central and is only going to get exposed further with this injury predicament we are in.
I'm going to throw some data into the mix here.
Below are the most games lost and least games lost for each season (MGL = man games lost by injury) by NRL teams and their ending ladder position (for the last 8 years to give a good sample size):
So apart from the Tigers who were able to suck with no injuries, and the Roosters who were able to do well with a massive injury toll, conventional wisdom does say that a high injury toll will absolutely derail your season.
Interestingly, the Panthers have the least injury toll for half of those years showing that having low injuries isn't luck. You don't get lucky that often. The Storm, Broncos and Roosters are all up there in terms of regularly having very few injuries to deal with.
First Point: Injuries DO absolutely impact your sitting on the table (surprise surprise...)
Second Point: Inuries are not just "bad luck" - they appear to be also bad management. Otherwise we'd see an even spread of teams dealing with injuries over time. But we don't. This is NOT an even distribution...so a high injury count over time is not bad luck.
Here is the data JUST for the Eels (position on table and our Man Games Lost per season:
As you can see - we had a blip in 2018 where we were ravaged but otherwise we stayed well conditioned up to the grand final...and then it's been a massive upward trend since then. Bad results and high injuries.
Let's compare this with the Panthers:
Sustained success means keeping players on the park.
Does this Panthers chart look like luck to you?? So the next time you think that this season is happening TO us and we're out of control of our injuries...have a look at the data. Well managed teams have less injuries over time (we all have the odd bad season, that is bad luck, but not regularly over time).
If it happens regularly over time, that's more bad management than bad luck.
We have been trending up for 4 years now and it looks like the trend continues...
Injuries play apart but we can't exonerate the inadequate roster management of the head if football
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