Hey all, After a long time reading, laughing, cursing and sitting in confusion after reading others opinions I have decided it was time to finally join in the madness. Firstly yes i am like most on here think and believe i am a genius and could fix all of parra's problems. I will also most definitely offend some or many with my future post and opinions. That said i also hope to write footy related blogs and take part in real discussion on the eels that we all love.
I will be labelled a unicorn for writing this but i don't think parra were that bad over past few weeks. Despite playing badly we stayed in the game today on back of improved handling and we also had more variety in our attack. If only 1 of the missed opportunities (gutho offside when semi made kicked infield, semi go over in corner or obstruction no try) went our way and we went on to win the negative blogs would have been very different. It is not time to panic yet considering the teams we have played and due to closeness of comp it is highly possible that 7th and 8th spot may include teams with a negative win %. Yes our handling has been atrocious and our defence is not as good as last year, but the new look warriors with foran are now a genuine danger in the comp. We also faced a red hot raiders side. The raiders will score plenty of points and embarrass more then half of the teams in the comp with huge scorelines this year. If you go back to the success over the first 2 weeks when some were already celebrating our top 4 spot we won plenty of field position with repeat sets and goal line drop outs. I am not sure why but norman and gutho haven't been able to replicate that success. I think in part it was due to the handling errors over past 2 weeks and our lack of ball. It is also due to teams wrestling and holding us instead of allowing quick play the balls. We need a new strategy against better wrestling teams.Today showed an improvement from past 2 weeks with effort and handling so hopefully the eels going forward continue to improve and shut up the haters on here.
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you are the only genius slugg hahahahahahaha
Welcome aboard mate, nice first post, dont be shy to share your opinions FM, looking forward to hearing more
Good 2nd half today but did lack variety in attack. Last 20 mins of first half terrible. Your right today wasn't that bad and an improvement on last week. If we improve again next week we will begin to get some wins. We did complete at 80% so handling much better and I thought the forwards ran hard. As has been pointed out the concern is Cory Norman just not really being in the game - not setting up his outside men, kicking game non-existent and just jogging into the the defence when he is running. And our hooker can't play for 80 mins with the amount of work he is doing - starts to miss tackles.
I'll step out on a limb and say we will win the next two. We will not be 2nd last this year!
our team was a lot better today, but still not good enough. The warriors were on, I don't think I have seen them complete sets like they did in the first 40 in years..
Foran has made a huge impact on them.
Like others have said on here, I have lost faith in the Kaysa Pritchard at 9.. I think he is a 20 min hooker off the bench. He is being found out.
A little suss on our conditioning, however don't know if it the fact we have had 6-8 sets less completed sets then our opposition over the past 3 weeks..
all down hill since the 18th minute of the Titans game.
I'm hoping we can turn it around, but confidence is not something that u can just magically make appear.
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