When Eels named their team list to play Storm on Tuesday in rd 2, BA listed Blake at center. However, before the list was even named, Blake tore his calf. After the game, Niukore himself admited that he knew he was playing center from Tuesday. So hop
Just heard on the news that Dragons have told Dufty he can look around.
Now, I am fully prepared to get pounded here, and I know Dufty has his defficiencies, BUT, I am wondering what people think of buying Dufty for his speed, and playing Gutho on th
Holy crap, I thought there were so many ineffective tackles tonight. It was not just our right edge. Manly were able to offload the ball so easily even when we had 3-4 players in the tackle.
Seeing as though I started the Jakob Arthur thread thought it was best to address the old boy too.
Even though they won't be reading this, Id have to implore Eels management to wait it out with Brad. The 360 boys , and the Telegraph boys will soon sta
If Arthur chooses Blake at centre against the rabbits on Sat night and they tear them apart on the right edge, as per last year, he is a bigger imbecile than I first thought. We will see what happens on Saturday.
I am sorry if I came down as very condemning and acted like an expert. I just wanted to clarify my position and the blog I wrote about Waqa Blake. I am in full support of playing Niukore at centre instead of Blake if we are any chance
Parramatta fans' deepest fears came true on Sunday afternoon as the Manly Sea Eagles exploited the nearly invisible defensive efforts of Waqa Blake to the tune of four tries and a sin binning, leading to a fifth try.
I'm not escaping the fact that the Eels were terrible in yesterday's game against Manly. Waqa Blake and that whole side were horrible and leaked tries like a broken water main. However, I'm not sure if anyone else noticed that Manly's tactics were to
We did OK at this for a while this year but have gone back to our old ways of trying to score on every set. I suggest that in the first twenty minutes, wearing your opposition down is more important than scoring. Scoring does deny them possession; ho
Why is sivo so terrible , , bloody right defence haunting us , this is repetitive , coach needs to not cuddle the team , successful coaches dont.not calling for ba,s head btw
I watched the horrible game today, and for the first time in many a moon, I thought I would watch BA's post match presser to see what he had to say. Since then I have simmered down somewhat but still dissapointed at the result. Listening to the coac
I'm not sure whats going on with our junior recruitment, but for mine in the past 20 years our most successful juniors came through when we had Brian Smith and Noel Cleal. I'm not talking about Matthews Cup or SG Ball winning sides full of islanders
The passing of Bob Fulton inspired the Manly side to a great win over Parra. Whilst I agree with the sentiments about Blake and to a lesser extent Jake Arthur please put the knives away and appreciate where we are as a club. One loss does not make a
I sat in the stands yesterday to see that nothing has been done to change the positional play of our backline on both sides of the field since the capitulation games of a couple of years ago. The coach does not insist that the whole 68 metres in widt
The Eels have been lucky with the first half of the season in that they played most of the bottom 8 teams and this second half of the season is going to show exactly how far off the pace we are.
I think the Rabbit's take full advantage of us and the S
When the big guys ie: our forward pack trample there way upfield just to watch Gutho have a brain snap or Moses drop it dead or just plain old what do we do now happens with the whole backline, it must be hard for them to stomach after you've just us
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We had Lussick and Hands in 2024 so having Smith and Da Silva now maybe feels like we have more depth, but we don't, just better quality players. It was a…"
