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Analysis: What went wrong?

In the 1Eyed Eel match report I posed the question: Was this the loss we had to have or are we gone?I still don't think I can answer the second part of that double-barrel query, but I'll go out on a limb and say that I don't think we would have been

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10 Replies · Reply by blueNgold Sep 8, 2009
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Loss

While everyone is busy blaming this and that, I believe that parramatta were always goin to lose this match.1. Dragons needed to win.2. After 7 weeks of do or die footy parramatta were physically and mentally drained. DA probably should have rested m

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5 Replies · Reply by blueNgold Sep 5, 2009
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HOW WE START IS IMPORTANT

All the theories of why we lost last Friday means absolutely ZIP. All the good we did to get to Sunday 4pm Means ZIP. Only fact is that we MADE IT and we have the opportunity to win a competition. We have a key that unlocks the main prize. What we do

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The Chicken List

After the Chicken's decision... ahem, sorry... The DRAGON' S decision not to move the semi to the SFS for fear of being belted by Parra, our friendly neighbourhood CEO Paul Osbourne had come up with a list of things that the Dragons could have done w

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3 Replies · Reply by EelMan Sep 7, 2009
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POST-MATCH COMMENTS

Daniel Anderson:''We will be ready next week, that's the bottom line. We have to brush ourselves off. They were very good tonight, they were hungry but we didn't do ourselves any favours. We dropped a lot of ball.''The season proper is over now, we w

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1 Reply · Reply by blueNgold Sep 5, 2009
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Who's going to cop it?

Alright, hands up all those of us who are going to deservedly cop it for the next few days after swanning around talking us up...I can hear Eels on Wheels saying I told you all so, now!I think I might just hide in a hole for a few days

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18 Replies · Reply by Darkie Eel Sep 7, 2009
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Who would you have gone with?

Ok, so as I said in another comment, I think DA really pulled the wrong string with Jono Wright. I don't blame him, he doesn't have enough experience to cope marking a bloke like Morris. I do wonder what Ando was thinking though, as his defensive ine

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10 Replies · Reply by iamnot Sep 5, 2009
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Is Bennett running scared?

Wayne Bennett has been talking tough as the Dragons face up to the Eels, claiming he can shut down Jarryd Hayne and that his team will turn their form around, however other comments suggest the Dragons coach is running scared.Bennett was highly criti

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3 Replies · Reply by Finchy Sep 4, 2009
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