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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 19, 2020 15:32:16 GMT 10
MONDAY 3rd AUGUST: Parramatta Eels v Gold Coast Titans at Cbus Super Stadium, 7.00pm
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 19, 2020 15:32:43 GMT 10
NRL.com
Titans
1 Josh Hoffman
2 David Mead
3 James Roberts
4 Nene Macdonald
5 Kevin Gordon
6 Aidan Sezer
7 Kane Elgey
8 Luke Douglas
9 Beau Falloon
10 Nate Myles (c)
11 Ryan James
12 Lachlan Burr
13 Greg Bird
Interchange
14 Agnatius Paasi
15 Eddy Pettybourne
16 Matthew White
17 Daniel Mortimer
18 David Taylor
19 David Hala
Coach: Neil Henry
Eels
1 Reece Robinson
2 Semi Radradra
3 Will Hopoate
4 Brad Takairangi
5 Ryan Morgan
6 Joseph Paulo
7 Luke Kelly
8 Junior Paulo
9 Nathan Peats
10 Tim Mannah (c)
11 Manu Ma'u
12 Tepai Moeroa
13 David Gower
Interchange
14 Pauli Pauli
15 Darcy Lussick
16 Daniel Alvero
17 Isaac De Gois
18 Cody Nelson
Coach: Brad Arthur
Daniel Mortimer returns on the bench for Chad Redman, while Eddy Pettybourne and Agnatius Paasi revert to the interchange for prop Nate Myles and back-rower Lachlan Burr respectively.Latest odds at Sportsbet.com.au.
Unchanged despite their heavy loss to North Queensland last weekend.Latest odds at Sportsbet.com.au.
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 19, 2020 15:33:04 GMT 10
NRL.com
Gold Coast Titans v Parramatta Eels
Cbus Super Stadium
Monday, 7pm
Forget completion rates, time in possession, missed tackles or most penalties conceded late in tackle counts, the most important facet to any football team is confidence.
When you have it your brain feels clearer, your feet feel faster and everything that you and your teammates do seems to come off even better than you could possibly have imagined.
When you don't have it you lose all sense of what it ever felt like to have it in the first place.
So, as the Titans prepare to host an Eels team coming off a similarly heavy defeat against a competition heavyweight last weekend, which team goes in more confident?
Which team after a succession of off-field dramas that have compounded poor performances on it can muster the self belief to start strongly, execute well and inject just enough confidence in their play for the other team to lose theirs altogether?
Both teams have scored a total of 13 tries in the first 20 minutes of games this season but the Eels have conceded 19 tries in that same period compared to 12 for the Titans. As such, the Titans have won seven of 18 opening quarters of their games compared to four out of 18 for the Eels, making the start to this one absolutely critical.
The inclusion of former Eel Daniel Mortimer on the bench for Chad Redman is the only change to the Titans team defeated 34-0 last week by Brisbane but Nate Myles and Ryan James both remain in doubt with shoulder injuries.
Eels coach Brad Arthur has named the same team that lost 46-4 to the Cowboys on Monday night. Former Titans Brad Takairangi and Cody Nelson have both been named in Arthur's extended squad of 18.
Watch Out Titans: He may not say much on the field but it is impossible to look at the Parramatta Eels in 2015 and not be drawn to the influence of Fijian winger Semi Radradra. Despite missing a big chunk of the season with a knee injury Radradra has crossed for 17 tries in 12 games and along with Roosters centre Blake Ferguson is the only player averaging more than one line break per game. His runs from dummy-half often get the Eels out of trouble, he ranks in the top 10 in the NRL for average running metres (168m) and has dished up five try assists, including a spectacular pass for Reece Robinson's try against the Cowboys on Monday night. Not your average winger, that's for sure.
Watch Out Eels: Although it was James Roberts who burned the Eels with a hat-trick in Round 6 it is the man on his left who shapes as the danger man on Monday night. Aidan Sezer made a somewhat successful return from a hamstring strain against the Broncos last Friday night and is yet to taste defeat in three clashes with the Eels to date. Roberts has been unable to cross the stripe in Sezer's absence and if the Titans are to rediscover their attacking spark it will be at the hands of their five-eighth on the right side of the field. Sezer was the only Titan to conjure a line-break assist against the Broncos; he may have even more luck against the team that leaks an average of 24 points per game.
Key Match-up: Beau Falloon v Nathan Peats. The two former Rabbitohs have both had injury-interrupted seasons and whoever can take control of the ruck area will set their team on course for a morale-boosting win. Falloon will be playing just his eighth game of the season and in a poorly-performing team in recent weeks he has been one of few players able to hold his head high. Playing his 82nd NRL game Peats gets the big Eels forwards over the advantage line more often than not and opens up space for his outside men and has contributed significantly to the Eels' 2,211 run metres from dummy half. Whoever gets the better of this battle will likely be on the winning team.
History: Played 12; Titans 8; Eels 4. The Titans enjoy their best winning percentage against the Eels over any other team in the NRL and on a number of occasions they have gone big. The biggest win in the club's history was a 42-4 win over Parramatta in Mudgee and they gave that a nudge in April when they won 38-16 at Pirtek Stadium. Four of the Titans' six biggest wins have come against the Eels.
Did You Know? Despite their team's lowly positions they sit near the top of the try-scorer's list and both Semi Radradra and James Roberts dominate their respective teams' try tallies. Radradra's 17 tries represent close to 28 per cent of the Eels' total tries in 2015 while Roberts' 14 is more than 25 per cent of Titans four-pointers scored this season, the two greatest try-scoring contributions to a team in 2015.
What Are The Odds: Titans $1.60; Eels $2.35. Punters with Sportsbet have been rushing to back the Eels to win by 13 points or more. It's a similar story in head-to-head betting, where Parramatta have attracted three times the number of bets in comparison to the Titans. Latest odds at Sportsbet.com.au
Match Officials: Referee: Henry Perenara. Assistant Referee: Alan Shortall. Touch Judges: Jeff Younis and Nick Morel. Video Referees: Shayne Hayne and Luke Phillips.
Televised: Fox Sports – Live 7pm
How We See It: This could go one of two ways; it could be a dour struggle between two teams trying to rediscover some confidence or they could throw caution to the wind and produce a high-scoring thriller. As the Titans have welcomed back their key playmakers the Eels have seen theirs head to the casualty ward and to England. The Eels have scored single tries in their past two games as the Titans have been kept try-less; time to break the shackles boys. Titans by seven points.
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 19, 2020 15:33:26 GMT 10
NRL.com
By Tony Webeck, Chief Queensland Correspondent
Mon, Aug 03, 2015 - 08:48PM
It may end up being the win that prevents the Titans from collecting a second wooden spoon which was reason enough for Gold Coast to celebrate a 24-14 win over the Eels at Cbus Super Stadium on Monday night.
A 45-metre solo effort from James Roberts after an Eels error on halfway sealed just the Titans' third win at home this season, marking his 15th try of the season with a rabbits ears post-try celebration and by signalling to the Aboriginal colours worn proudly on his wrist.
It was the first time of the night that Roberts had been able to find space of any significance and he evaded two Eels defenders before running around Semi Radradra to score in the corner and break his side's five-game losing streak.
If it was Roberts who sealed the two competition points that lifted the Titans off the bottom of the Telstra Premiership table, it was five-eighth Aidan Sezer who engineered the win with a superb kicking display that set up tries for his teammates and provided polish to the end of Gold Coast's sets that was so obviously lacking in his month out injured.
Trailing 10-6 at the break, the Titans were able to strike the first blow of the second stanza when Sezer threaded a grubber kick in behind the Eels' defensive line for Nene Macdonald to steam through and ground the ball just to the left of the posts after four minutes.
Macdonald chanced his arm from dummy-half eight minutes later with the on-field decision to award a try based on the advice of the touch judge rubber-stamped by the video referee and Sezer's conversion pushed the Titans' advantage out to eight points.
On the back of a Macdonald bust from the ensuing set the Titans poured down the field playing a style of football they hadn't produced for more than a month, David Mead denied a try in the right corner when he was tackled by opposite Radradra a fraction of a second before the ball was in his grasp after a Sezer grubber to the corner.
Having absorbed plenty of pressure on their own line the Eels clawed their way back into the contest courtesy of an individual show of strength from winger Bureta Faraimo in the 69th minute.
A late inclusion, Faraimo cut back on the inside after a quick pass from Vai Toutai to power through attempted tackles from Ryan James, Kierran Moseley, Josh Hoffman and Kalifa Faifai Loa to bridge the gap.
But as they had started the game errors again cost the Eels with the Titans – and Roberts in particular – making them pay for their eighth turnover of the game.
There were significant changes to the 17-man squads for both sides prior to kick-off with the Titans going in without skipper Nate Myles but welcoming back both Kierran Moseley and Dave Taylor while the Eels lost both centres Will Hopoate and Brad Takairangi to injury.
After the two teams resembled a pair of seals trying to juggle a slippery cake of soap in the opening exchanges, Titans halfback Kane Elgey posted first points in the seventh minute when he followed through on a Greg Bird grubber kick into the in-goal.
Elgey had hoisted the bomb that was spilt by Radradra 15 metres out from Parramatta's line, Bird quickly snatching the rebound and dropping the ball onto his boot almost immediately to set up a foot race that Elgey easily won.
The Eels went close to scoring twice in the first 12 minutes but David Gower and Tim Mannah both spilled the ball with the try-line within reach before Junior Paulo charged over the top of Elgey to get the Eels on the board after 13 minutes.
Parramatta had gone on the attack courtesy of a searching kick return from fullback Reece Robinson and capitalised when Agnatius Paasi was pinged for being offside on his goal-line four tackles later.
With seven errors and six penalties in the first 23 minutes of the game neither side was able to mount any sustained pressure or even construct an attacking set that had purpose and direction, a dive over from dummy-half by Eels hooker Nathan Peats in the 30th minute putting the visitors in front for the first time on the night.
The Titans looked as they may strike back through another Bird-Elgey piece of interplay four minutes from half-time before Faraimo came from the clouds to diffuse the situation just metres out from the Eels' try-line.
The half-time margin may have only been four points but the Eels were the team with most of the running, easily winning the territory battle and racking up 300 metres more than their opponents with 58 per cent of possession.
Gold Coast Titans 24 (Nene Macdonald 2, Kane Elgey, James Roberts tries; Aidan Sezer 4 goals) defeated Parramatta Eels 14 (Junior Paulo, Nathan Peats, Bureta Faraimo tries; Reece Robinson 1 goal) at Cbus Super Stadium. Half-time: Eels 10-6. Crowd: 7,496. Holden Cup: Eels 33-22.
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 19, 2020 15:34:13 GMT 10
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 19, 2020 15:35:02 GMT 10
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 19, 2020 15:35:46 GMT 10
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Post by Electric Eel on Jul 19, 2020 15:36:47 GMT 10
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Post by Electric Eel on Sept 8, 2021 13:34:49 GMT 10
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