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Post by Electric Eel on Mar 2, 2020 19:16:27 GMT 10
I am worried about the game against the dogs. The dogs always lift against the Eels and I was highly unimpressed with the Eels defense in the trial. It looked exactly the same as last year. No improvement at all. Yes, it was only a trial but you can see a lot in a trial game. The game broadcast showed a lot of the janitor standing behind the fence and right beside him was the pretender defensive coordinator David Kidwell, the janitors assistant shit cleaner, maybe even more worthless than the janitor. Good to see some fans on 1Eyed know the truth about the janitor. In 5 years he's achieved nothing, not even a grand final appearance. And those second half performances, what the hell is he saying to them at halftime? This mop and bucket dunny man has not improved any of those players. Game against the Dogs should be a win only because the Bulldogs are one of the worst teams. It won't be a convincing win because you have to allow negative football with the Eels because of the coach. |
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Post by crow on Mar 3, 2020 1:56:15 GMT 10
The biggest problem the Eels had last season was very poor defense, the trial proved that nothing has changed. David Kidwell is a disaster, and even a second rate shit cleaner, follow the janitor and you go nowhere.
I hope the toilet cleaner is fired by mid season and we have a chance to do something great.
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Post by Electric Eel on Mar 3, 2020 11:04:02 GMT 10
The biggest problem the Eels had last season was very poor defense, the trial proved that nothing has changed. David Kidwell is a disaster, and even a second rate shit cleaner, follow the janitor and you go nowhere. I hope the toilet cleaner is fired by mid season and we have a chance to do something great. The toilet cleaner will not be sacked. The Eels are not premiership hungry!! He would be sacked at Manly after 3 years and all other clubs 5 years. Some of these past players like Kidwell that find themselves coaching in the NRL is an embarrassment. Just because they played the game doesn't mean they have anything to offer. Coaching is different to playing, you also need people skills and people motivation as a coach, not just knowledge on how to kick or pass a football. |
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Post by crow on Mar 4, 2020 0:42:57 GMT 10
they should have kicked Kidwell to the curb a long time ago, but the Eels are expert at getting things wrong.
Getting a great team together and nothing to show for it, what a waste of time. Can the grave digger see that is a problem?
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Post by crow on Mar 4, 2020 12:35:39 GMT 10
For and Against: Will Eels finally break title drought?
For
NRL.com senior journalist Martin Lenehan
When Parramatta won their first premiership in 1981 after 34 years of trying, their jubilant fans made a bonfire out of the old Cumberland Oval grandstand and danced around it all night long.
Don't expect anything quite so extreme when the Eels deliver their long-suffering fans a fourth premiership in 2020 but you can guarantee it will be one hell of a party.
Omens don't win you titles but it seems more than fitting that if Clint Gutherson can raise the Provan-Summons Trophy skyward on October 4 it will end a drought that has lasted 34 years, just like the first one.
Apart from that piece of symmetry, the ingredients are all there for the Eels to make a run at the title on the back of one of the game's premier playmakers in Mitchell Moses, tryscoring machine Maika Sivo and a powerful pack led by ex-Panther Reagan Campbell Gillard, ex-Tiger and Ryan Matterson and x-factors like Nathan Brown and Shaun Lane.
The potency Parra can deliver when it all clicks is second to none.
Moses led the NRL in try assists in 2019 and Sivo scored more tries than any other player.
Dylan Brown at No.6 has the speed and vision to pry open even the tightest defences and veteran Michael Jennings still has plenty to offer out wide.
Hooker Reed Mahoney made the most tackles in the NRL last year, plugging holes and cutting bigger forwards down to size with some copybook defence.
This was already a very good team coached by one of the best in the business in Brad Arthur but the addition of Matterson and RCG makes them even more formidable.
They saved their worst for last in a blowout loss to the Storm in last year's finals but that gut-wrenching defeat will have motivated them all summer and the time has come to set the record straight.
A relatively soft draw against the Bulldogs, Titans, Cowboys and Dragons in the opening month will provide the perfect launching pad for a top-four finish and a September charge to evoke memories of that glorious night back in 1986.
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Post by crow on Mar 4, 2020 12:37:11 GMT 10
Against
NRL.com reporter Chris Kennedy
Will 2020 be Parramatta's year?
Now let's clear this up right from the start: I think the Eels will be good in 2020. They should improve from last year, they should definitely make the finals and they really should make the top four.
I just don't see them winning the premiership, and this is why.
As a (very) long-suffering Eels fan, I have seen plenty of false dawns. The 2001 grand final feels very fresh in the memory. The 2005 prelim loss to North Queensland hurt almost as much. Ditto the "Paul Carige" prelim of 1998. The Broncos 2000 and Storm 2007 prelims weren't fun either.
Meanwhile 2009 was more about enjoying the very unexpected ride rather than any genuine expectations of a premiership; even once a grand final berth was confirmed it always felt like the might of Melbourne would prove a bridge too far.
Which brings me to the current crop.
I'm one of the few who tipped the 2019 roster changes to bring a return to the finals and with the team looking even stronger this year, expectations are high.
But expectations have not sat well on blue and gold shoulders for as long as I have watched.
The young playmakers will be even better, the forwards look powerful, the backs have skill and speed, Bankwest Stadium will be a fortress again.
But ...
Their last game was a 32-0 semi-final loss to the Storm in Melbourne. They collapsed 64-10 against the same side in Magic Round, went down 42-22 in Cronulla, 32-18 against the Roosters in round three long before they hit their stride, 19-0 in Canberra.
They have just two wins from their last 10 away games.
The Eels haven't won away against a top-eight side since 2017.
So I think the Eels are on a good path and should improve from last year but to win a comp you have to be able to beat the best teams on their terms.
There is such a huge improvement needed against the top sides and away from home that it is too soon to be talking of an end to Parramatta's premiership drought.
But I'd be happy to be wrong.
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Post by crow on Mar 4, 2020 12:41:41 GMT 10
Martin Lenehan is a fool. He thinks the janitor is a good coach. Expert my ass.
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Post by Electric Eel on Mar 4, 2020 19:09:55 GMT 10
Martin Lenehan is a fool. He thinks the janitor is a good coach. Expert my ass. Good coaches don't win spoons and get smashed in the finals 32-0. Eels will definitely make the finals, but nothing will come of it. It's not like they had strong defence last season and lost to the Storm 18-16, with potential to improve next season. I really don't see the point to this season if the Eels are going to be the same. I wouldn't bother reading to many of those articles, they're all the same, full of promise and hope with desperate expectations. Eels haven't won since 1986 for a reason that even goes beyond the coach. |
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Post by crow on Mar 5, 2020 2:21:18 GMT 10
Funny that the Warriors persist with Kearney, the champion of spoons. He proved his worth at the Eels, now this current deadbeat is an extension of poor to no coach at all. Even all the fools that support the Eels are starting to realize, surely the grave digger will have to start realizing? Even if the grave digger has no knowledge of Rugby League it must to become obvious that such a good team lacks a person that can lead them. I am not even sure the Eels will make the playoffs this year, the shit cleaner was trying to get an extension on his contract last season, he is on easy street this season.
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Post by crow on Mar 5, 2020 7:12:49 GMT 10
Who'll be best buy of 2020? NRL.com experts have their say
Margie McDonald (NRL.com senior reporter)
Ryan Matterson. He's a different style of player to Manu Ma'u but he'll feed off the halves just as well as the Tongan International. And he adds more ball skills, since he played around a dozen games at five-eighth (and some at centre) in his three years at the Roosters. Don't forget he was 18th man in Brad Fittler's Origin team last year.
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Post by Electric Eel on Mar 5, 2020 11:02:49 GMT 10
Who'll be best buy of 2020? NRL.com experts have their say Margie McDonald (NRL.com senior reporter) Ryan Matterson. He's a different style of player to Manu Ma'u but he'll feed off the halves just as well as the Tongan International. And he adds more ball skills, since he played around a dozen games at five-eighth (and some at centre) in his three years at the Roosters. Don't forget he was 18th man in Brad Fittler's Origin team last year. Stephen Kearney is a complete dud!! The concept of coaching in the NRL is "just having played the game". The janitor played lower grades at the Eels which qualifies him. If there was a course for coaches most would fail. Question - you demolished the Broncos in the finals, but lost convincingly to the Storm the following week. Why did this happen? Answer from the janitor - the players didn't dig deep enough!! Further Question - but you still haven't answered the question?? Why?? Ryan Matterson was let go by the Roosters. That concerns me, because they don't let go of great players, because there is no salary cap at Bondi. Probably let him go, just to make it look like they're playing by the rules. |
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Post by crow on Mar 6, 2020 7:43:25 GMT 10
Matterson was basically a reserve grader at the Rooster. There is nowhere that he could have fitted in to be a regular first grader. He did well at the Tigers but clashed with the coach, I wonder if there will be a repeat of that at the eels and who will be the one to go? Lets hope the janitor? There maybe a problem with Matterson and authority, that could be bad? Matterson probably already realizes that the shit picker is incapable of doing his job and maybe sorry he joined the Eels.
In a course for coaching the Janitor would only get 1% correct and that was because he spelt his name right.
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Post by Electric Eel on Mar 6, 2020 19:32:22 GMT 10
Matterson was basically a reserve grader at the Rooster. There is nowhere that he could have fitted in to be a regular first grader. He did well at the Tigers but clashed with the coach, I wonder if there will be a repeat of that at the eels and who will be the one to go? Lets hope the janitor? There maybe a problem with Matterson and authority, that could be bad? Matterson probably already realizes that the shit picker is incapable of doing his job and maybe sorry he joined the Eels. In a course for coaching the Janitor would only get 1% correct and that was because he spelt his name right. If Matterson clashes with the toilet flusher, Matterson will be the one to go. Remember Shane Shackleton? In 2012, Shackleton was dropped to the Wentworthville Magpies, the Eels NRL feeder team. When asked on Facebook why he was not playing first grade, he replies, because, "Kearney's a ****er." Ricky Stuart conducted a massive cleanout in 2013 by telling numerous players they weren't wanted for the following season, but then he departed. Basically the coach always has the last say, unless the player they're clashing with is a superstar. |
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Post by crow on Mar 7, 2020 14:14:07 GMT 10
Kearney was definitely one of those.
I would regard Matterson as a lot more worthwhile that a coach that cant coach. It would be a good way to get rid of a shit cleaner and hopefully get someone that can coach and is worth the money paid to him or her?
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Post by Electric Eel on Mar 7, 2020 19:21:51 GMT 10
Kearney was definitely one of those. I would regard Matterson as a lot more worthwhile that a coach that cant coach. It would be a good way to get rid of a shit cleaner and hopefully get someone that can coach and is worth the money paid to him or her? Season kicks off in just 5 days!! I'm tipping the Eels by 8. Eels should beat the Bulldogs by a much bigger margin, but it's only Round 1 and the Eels could be rusty. Oh, and the coach is a janitor. |
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