I don’t enjoy writing critical posts. It’s far too easy to fire reactionary shots after a loss, and all of us have different takes shaped by our own biases, prior knowledge and understandings.
As a Parramatta supporter with a platform I have a greater opportunity than most to express my opinion to an audience.
I consider that to be a privilege.
It also carries the responsibility of providing balance in my opinion. There’s a conscious effort to strive for composure and logic when the mind is riddled with emotional expletives after certain performances.
Eels defeats are usually accompanied by accusations that I’m a Parra apologist. For the most part, it’s water off a duck’s back for me.
After losses I look for reasons. On the odd occasion that might stray to excuses (see officiating errors) but the reality is that excuses don’t solve anything. Therefore, I hope that the reasons allow for logical takes on how to remedy problems.
Which brings me to this defeat at the hands of the Rabbitohs. It’s left me devoid of reasons or solutions. If this was a one off performance, anyone could break down what went wrong and how to address it. But this losing dance card has had multiple partners in 2022.
Parramatta’s inability to find any semblance of consistency isn’t about execution or form. It’s about what’s between the ears, and maybe it’s even found in the chest. Do the players have the heart and desire to be winners?
Perhaps I’ve been watching games through rose coloured glasses. Maybe I haven’t been as critical as I should have been.
Treated in isolation, there were enough errors on Saturday night to divert the attention solely to football execution, but that would be missing the wood for the trees. As I see it, the lack of execution or the errors are the manifestation of attitude.
Mitch Moses
So just as the fine wins have been worthy of my praise so too must I address the manner of recent bad losses.
But I will go no further than referencing that attempted tap-on from Mitch Moses just before half time against the Bunnies. Why? Because that moment epitomised the 2022 Parramatta Eels.
Too many short cuts in too many games.
After that play, as a supporter, I went from being confident that the team could run down the Bunnies to thinking “here we go again”. I wondered aloud about how the other players would have responded.
Judging from Gutho’s comments in the presser, it’s likely that the players felt similarly.
Consider these two key leaders/playmakers in the team. One attempts the unnecessary play, the other admits it damaged their prospects.
Can there be any better example that the attitude is simply not that of a premiership contender?
This is not meant as a targeted criticism of Moses. He’s not the only member of the spine to make critical errors. The bloke is a skilled, courageous match winner and I believe he has Blue and Gold coursing through his veins. At his best, I wouldn’t swap him with another half. In fact, I could even defend his play as an attempt to be creative in a largely bland first half.
But it was high risk, poorly conceived and costly. It was an error that the team couldn’t defend. Worse still, it exemplified the inconsistent football plaguing the Eels. The failure to fulfil roles needs to end now. No excuses.
Words about not turning up or the opposition wanting it more should be the reddest of red flags. When sub standard performances are delivered in every alternate match, such comments become insulting rhetoric.
During each and every preseason, I document the grind that the players endure in preparation for the season. I do this to keep supporters in the loop and I also want them to be aware of just how hard the squad works.
Gutho leading the way at 2021 training
Once the season commences, the reports stop but the hard work doesn’t. I don’t publish the specifics of sessions, but variations in days, times and structures ensure that the team is best prepared for each opponent and for the long season.
This is where it becomes frustrating as an observer, and I’m going to reference recent times and hope that I don’t cross any lines.
Last week, I watched the defensive systems being drilled ahead of the Souths clash. We all know why this would be done. Yet, to my eyes the players fell out of the systems very early in the match leading to line breaks and a try.
I’ve also observed training changes that BA has made to keep the players fresh in the mind and the body. Given the recent performances, I’m not convinced that the players have responded as they should have.
What lies ahead for our Eels?
The best version of Parramatta has the capacity to make this premiership more than a one or two horse race. They have the systems and processes in place that provide the path to success.
The worst version of Parramatta would rank in the bottom four of the competition. They are that bad, and the more frequently “bad Parra” appears, the more habit forming it will become.
Make no mistake, right now the Eels are standing at the crossroads. They can take the road to success or the road to abject failure.
Each and every Parramatta player has to look in the mirror and ask themselves what they want from this season.
Because right now, supporters have no idea what to expect.
Eels forever!
Sixties
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Thanks mate
Great insights and reasoning.
Nothing in there which doesn’t make sense to me.
The ‘between the ears, and found in the chest’ part nails it for me.
I think the club needs a fresh approach of how they instil this in the players.
BA has shown he can coach them to being world beaters from a skills perspective; I do not think it is his job alone to bring the want and the mental toughness
I hope the club is looking at fresh ideas in how to support his efforts here; and also hope these mental/effort deficits are not borne by cynicism around what the players see and hear of the fallout from any politicking around the club/player managers etc, which we seem to have been quagmired amongst more than other organisations in recent memory.
Thanks for reading and replying Chris.
we have a group of players who have described themselves as being tight knit. A number are moving on. They’ve all talked about the motivation around how they bowed out against the Riff last year. If that drive exists it shouldn’t be manifesting intermittently. It just isn’t good enough.
The Eels can beat anyone on their day. The Eels can lose to anyone on their day. See, this is why I am losing my hair
“Losing my hair“ could be a song title – expressing midlife football supporting angst.
Good stuff 60s, always enjoy listening to your perspectives on the eels and footy in general.
I reckon our season is cooked, can’t see them turning things around from here. The losses we’ve had have been embarrassing, not hard fought battles you can be proud of, or take anything from.
I agree the Moses tip on was a poor error, but I do wonder whether Paulo should have thrown the pass to Mitch in the first place. If he caught it, he was going to get belted so it was a complete Hail Mary ball.
Cheers Mick. I can see your point. Should we have just hit it up until half time? And half backs often decide to wear a hit rather than throw a risky pass.
Again I could defend Moses. He rolled the dice against the Sharks and produced a try. But that was nothing as risky as the tap on. It was just poor play.
We need a change in leadership, you only have to look at Collingwood who got rid of their long term coach, let go a few stars and were predicted to come last. With a new coach and voice they will play finals.
Brad needs to own up to his mistakes first, look for better assistants or fall on his sword
Balanced,reasoned and objective sixties. I’m not plucking this out of the clouds, I’ve always harboured thinking about 2 areas. 5 forwards waiting 18 months for higher salaries and the club’s commitment/attitude to an appropriate, professional and integrated sports psychology program. Each requires a thesis, but this is a blog not an essay forum.
Like your thoughts Sixties.
Last year we had that bad period of 5 Losses In a row. We were all saying that they are done… But they managed to get back on track. That tells me it’s an attitude problem. There’s something lacking in the leadership of the team.
My Bulldogs mate thinks we are too arrogant and afraid to get our fingernails dirty. The Bulldogs brought in that father to speak to them before they beat us. We need to get another voice another message to get through to these guys. Get them to help out some flood victims and clean up some homes and see what other people are putting up with and get their hands dirty.
I also think Mahoney needs to get back to NSW cup and work on his speed of service. He’s too slow and erratic.
Look at Teddy. Now look at Gutho. Gutho if he leads by example and effort he needs to be faultless. He’s not and players cannot follow inconsistency.
Go Eels!!
Fair calls Pete.
I have mulled over this game and am blowed if I know what caused the slackness of the team, while the wet weather can play a part in the game, begs a question though did we not win against the Riff on a similar track?
Watching the game on Kayo, I thought when when the eels got to within a converted try in the first half, I believed we could have won but, I was totally wrong.
Reflecting on what I saw before the box was turned off, I believe that we were sadly let down in some key departments by the respective players.
The primary area where we lost was with the smart rabbits plays, high kicks of the ball across to the other side of the field, very obvious was with the smart outside backs and the kicks, they also knew the key to wet/soaked ground and how to play under those conditions.
I looked at our players who were totally outplayed in the same areas as where the rabbits excelled there. Again we lost through the outside backs coming too far in from the sideline, where our winger was dufted by that as he was too far in and slow to get out and lack of ability in marking up against the opposition wingers.
We also have a player in the forwards that makes some terrible kicking skills at crucial times in the game.
One late cumma,I thought had a fair game and that was Rodwell, he’s somewhat green in what I saw of him but in those areas he was an improvement on some of the usual regulars.
I only saw the full first half and half of the second half before switching off.
Colin, I decided against identifying such areas because there wasn’t really one aspect of the game that we matched Souths. But though they improved on recent performances, it was hardly an imposing game from them.
Thanks mate for your post.
It was a wonderful read.
I could go on about bench selections and the other glaring problems we have but I’ll concentrate on the one facet of play we just can’t fix and that’s out defence out wide.
Personally I knew that we were dead in the water when they scored that first try. It’s basically the only play the Rabbits have and is available for detailed analysis on video but yet the very first time they ran it, we fell apart – and thousands of Eels fans held their head in their hands ! They didn’t do it differently, there was no magic involved yet no one falls apart on the flanks like the Eels !
It pains me to think that we trained and trained and trained to combat it but couldn’t stop it.
The million dollar question is why ? And don’t forget that we haven’t stopped it the last 4 times we have played them either.
It’s the old definition of insanity- we go through the same processes and get the same results.
If we can stop them scoring on the edges we would beat Souths every single time but again, it’s not just Souths that expose our edges and run through it like confetti – Every team does it.
It just appears that we cannot fix it.
Sad times are on the horizon and putting my Nostradamus hat back on I will declare here and now that the Eels WILL NOT make the final 8.
I would be extremely happy if they do but we are just not good enough and there is going to be a mass of soul searching going on after this season and that’s for sure.
I firmly believe you are not the only one wearing the Nostradamus hat. I feel that we need to not make the 8 for people to realise that changes need to be made. Also that try proved that video sessions are not part of the training regime
I won’t accept that line of thinking anonymous. Wanting failure (the team not making the 8) is the opposite of supporting the team, no matter how you dress it up.
To be fair I don’t think he/ she was saying that they want failure. They were
just pointing out that if we don’t make the 8 then it will be a turning point.
I’m sure he/ she is still hoping things will go well for the team like we all are.
Thank you, yes. I’m not sure how else people will accept changes need to be made
My constant concern is the lack of problem solvers in our team. When things go pear shaped, as they inevitebly will for even the best teams, we simply do not have the on field brains trust to figure out on the fly what is going wrong, and more importantly, how to fix it in real time. I actually think BA is holding the reins too tight now, trying to control every outcome rather than letting them figure it out for themselves. Even little things like whether to go for two on a penalty or to keep going, they don’t seem to be able to figure it out themselves, they rely on BA to tell them.
Time to cut the apron strings and find out who are the real leaders in this team.
Is it Gutho or is it Mitch ?
I’m seeing some subtle issues between Mitch & Gutho that happened between Mitch & Corey Norman. Not as bad or as obvious maybe, but there is something not right.
BA is definitely dumming down the game plan and that’s a fact. Unfortunately you cannot win games against good teams by being one dimensional. A case in point was Moses kicking against Souths. After the 20th High kick to their back three perhaps, just perhaps it’s as time for something else but it appeared that Moses was just sticking to the plan of 5 hit ups and a kick downtown. It just won’t cut it.
Sadly Spark your right, it won’t cut it. Probably Mahoney doesn’t run under the game plan as well. Until somebody brings some footy nous to our team we’ll continue to be hit and miss.
HI Brett, I have said it at times that the on field leadership is not strong and to me, each big loss has showed this for me. It seems that they are not on the same page and or not following the game plans. Something does not seem right here i agree, and our 9 has also been avg for part of the season. The slow service hinders our FR
Brett, I’m not going to disagree about on-field leadership but you’re imagining other issues (Moses/Gutho).
I’m not saying there is anything personal 60’s, they are obviously great mates, but so were Mitch & Corey. I’m saying when things aren’t going our way, those two seem to have different ideas on how to fix the problem. The problem as I see it is that Mitch has a much greater understanding of the game than Gutho, but Gutho’s got the C against his name. Let’s be honest, this is Mitch’s team, not Gutho’s, maybe it’s time to make that official. I’m not saying that’ll magically fix what ails us, but I do think it’s a contributing factor, and I say that as a huge Gutho fan.
I’ve commented before on fan page posts the coach should never be fronting up at the presser saying the other team want it more. That to me is a massive issue that clearly needs addressing. The other one that got used the other night was not everyone is putting in 100% or to that effect. Drop them. Simple. Non performing players need to be accountable. Right now there is no consequence for a shit go. Penrith basically have a first grade squad ready to go in NSW cup so any sub par performance is at risk of being dropped. We need that fear and with the current coaching staff we don’t have it.
To drop players you need others ready to go, or ready to do better. So who would you drop, who would you bring in, and why?
What really pisses me is the way we lost those last few games we basically just threw in the towel.There’s no fierce defence pack mentality to try and turn it around.No very aggressive running.No one barking instructions or reving the team up behind the tryline.We just go into our shell and subside into oblivion.
They always talk about the best defensive teams are the ones who finish at the pointy end of the season and I agree with this sentiment.
Our edge defensive systems don’t look to be working. There is a lot of outside coming in and teams know this and will structure their attacks to create an extra man. It leaves us chasing points.
We have the capability to score points when we have opportunities and we can get into the grind (see 2nd half against roosters) but we need to make opposition teams work harder to score points than they currently do.
I don’t know the answer for our edges and it’s too late now to change the way they play defense. I’d prefer a slide style but I’m just wishing on answers now
Like your reasoning Craig it definitely is a between the ears thing which has been prevelant for the last 10 seasons or more.Pizzas at Hindys I also think we overhype a lot of our players.
Well said. I think that the way it is, there is no leadership from any of the spine or forward pack. There were too many stupid moments. Parramatta should not be making these errors.
I don’t think that Gutherson and Paulo should share the captaincy. I think that Gutherson should be the captain and not take the mediocrity displayed by the whole team.
We have the team, but we need the mindset of winners. Sure, we have weaknesses in defence, but why is it that those weaknesses seem to come and go? Why does our attack come and go?
I want to see accountability from Gutherson, Paulo, Moses, Brown and Mahoney. When the most positive play came from a player who isn’t one of the leaders such as Lane, that should at least wake them up, but it didn’t.
We can win the Premiership, but the players need to look at themselves in the mirror and ask the tough question of how hungry they are for a premiership. If we win it, we win it. If we don’t, we don’t, but if we aren’t hungry for it, then this season means nothing.
Unfortunately, we don’t really have a true leader that would be a respected captain. Gutho is all effort but no capt. I look at Jake Turbo each week, then look at our squad, do you really think anyone of the 17 are captain material?
Josh Hodgson would be our best leader next year and thats clutching at straws
Your last paragraph about hunger is spot on.
A lot of fair points there. It’s sad but of every team in the NRL, the Eels are the one team you can live bet on or against after 5 minutes because you know which team has shown up.
As big a Gutho fan as I am, as the leader he has to show up every week and he just doesn’t unfortunately. I’m a Moses fan too but with his status and on a rainy night, I don’t get how he can be out kicked by Illias, but he was.
And while we are looking into the woods through the trees and looking for honesty; We all like a Sivo try, but he had zero kick return metres on Saturday and there is a reason teams don’t kick to him; because they know he won’t come in and look for work rucking it out. And when he does, it’s ordinary hit ups (9 Saturday night), no tackle breaks and slow old play the balls.
Brett, I agree with you about the first five minutes. Because although we have come back from conceding an early try, you can still see the intent in that first five minutes.
Hi 60s
Although I admit we weren’t at our best. Even at 18 six I thought we could get back in the game. I thought South played exactly like Queensland did in game one. They laid all over us and Cummins refused to waive the six again flag.
I always admired Arthur‘s refusal to play the dirt game and cheat to victory. In fact I’ve never heard him wine about a referee other than the semifinals. Sometimes I wish we would just fight harder for the penalty as you really need to exaggerate the fact that they’re holding you down otherwise the ref just aren’t smart enough to see it. Can’t wait for next week. A win over the Tigers will certainly turn this frown upside down. A loss will be unbearable as their fans are almost as bad as Panthers.
Luke, there were aspects of the officiating that pissed me off, but not as much as our performance did. As for fighting for the penalty, perhaps we need to bring in Michael Hancock as a specialist coach 😁
Sixties, old three knees was the best; he has the record for the fastest play the balls. He was also one angry bloke, and must be related to P Kent… 🙂
🤣 🤣 🤣
Sivo needs to run like Semi did into the line and fight hard.Semi won a penalty nearly every carry.
Luke, I reckon it was their line speed where Cummins let the game run. They were getting 3 in the tackle pretty well all night because our rucking out was predictable. A consistent 3 will always slow things down but I watched closely and they weren’t dwelling in the tackle too often. I think the stat on play the ball speed favoured us for a rare occasion. They just cut down our thinking time with the ball and we didn’t respond well. Cummins blew a couple of 10mtr penalties but didn’t put Souths off their mission.
THE WORST aspect of Moses’ “high risk, poorly conceived and costly”, “unnecessary play” and “tap on” was lack of commitment to sacrifice – taking it – a hit for the others within the team…beyond desperate … I still had hope and trusted the coach might strategically re-group and inspire a rally … except with reports the coach was “happy” with their first half defence of permitting THREE FUCKING TRIES and they return back again for the second half with players out of the play uninspiringly moping around … indifferently lolling around at their own leisure I just could not believe ANYONE believed they might score…and then when they.scored they just wound down the ticking of the clock!…compare the difference to the Melbourne SHIT STORMS with only several minutes of play to come back from behind…beyond the weather it is lack of attitude…
Just look at the blues first game they picked our 3 best forwards and leaders . But they were bad and sjowed nothing but as soon ss they eere replaced look and lisyyen to what all the experts say about the players that replaced them.
Pride, passion, toughness, never give up, will to win,
There is the answer
And the coach cannot fix it vause he is the one that cant get the fire in there bellys, there is nothing he can do or say nonmore
Ee need fresh ideas , new defensive structures and to take the brakes off the players
Agree with a lot that has been said – first 5 mins we can tell which team has turned up / leadership issues / calmness under pressure.
But I also feel that there may be a lack of confidence in the defensive structure or lack of confidence in their team mate.
Matt Elliot analysing Parra’s defensive system – from 2016!!!. Watch the 2.45min mark and around the 8min mark. The 2.45min mark example could be from any game in the last 6 years.
The big observation is that there has been no noticable improvement in 6 years – or an unwillingness to change the structure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvzBryjHiBM – watch around the 2.53 mark and the 8 min mark
And a comment last week from a junior coach to me –
Same thing every week on the edges. They want to play a compressed defence but continually either jam, sit on their heels or over defend the same player leaving space out wide. If they are going to play compressed they need to get up hard first and slide together keeping spacing.They don’t trust each other and the man on the inside to make the tackle.
Some very good points here Greg; and Gee where has those 6 years gone? Wow, some of those parra players…gee clubs turn over players.
You are right, its all about the execution of it, whether it be defence or attack; you must win the ruck area first and foremost.
For me what is the most frustrating is the lack of enthusiasm and execution from one match to the next; its just not consistent and the on field leadership has to be accountable along with the coaches.
I was also trying to show that our defensive structure and system system has had issues for a while – especially tries being scored outside the wingers. As Sixties said, when we are mentally on – we can control it, but as soon as we are a bit off in attitude, then all the bad habits return.
As an example, 2 weeks back Roosters scored the same way after 4 mins…and I am sure a lot of fans were not surprised. Bt that night – mentally we were on – and our energy and hustle stopped tries ( rather than structure) but a lot of times that is enough.
Hopefully we can get a few wins in a row to get some momentum
Greg, that’s why I said they had fallen out of the system. Changes have been made and they aren’t executing.
So let me ask you this 60’s. How long would Craig Bellamy have tolerated this ?
ABSOLUTELY
I just saw the poor attempt to tackle Lattrell by speed bump Mahoney. He barely made contact just pittiful just easy Meters through him. Latrell offloading, then Cook burst through our attempts and scores.
Guess who tackled Cook the hardest?
Lattrell!! He tackled Cook twice as hard after he scored the try than any Parra player.
Says something about our attitude to defence.
You can always tell if they have turned up to play from our defensive line speed. Against Souths it was non-existent we were actually waiting for them to get to us. The reason everyone has been beating Souths and they have been dropping so much ball is quite simply because other teams have quick defensive lines that put pressure on them and without Reynolds they collapse. But we did none of that.
I think the most painful moment of the game was when they scored a try straight after there was a stoppage in play. I think they were reviewing a captains challenge and souths were allowed to play the ball. We had plenty of time to get set in defence and Souths just passed it out along thieir backline and once again we were caught short a man and they scored. it was embarressingly easy. It is hard to believe people can be paid to play and train full time and yet look like they have never seen each other before in defence.
We have really become a boring team to watch lately. No passion, no exciting backline movements just one out hit ups followed by one out hit ups over and over and then kick and pray for a mistake because we certainly aren’t forcing any with our line speed.
MB – you can hardly say that we were boring against the Roosters a couple of weeks ago. The tries were scintillating. But I have no dispute about our attack being boring to watch during our sub standard performances. And again that speaks to the two Parras. The challenger and the bottom four team. Same players, varied attitude. If we have no energy in defence, we will also have none in attack. This means the opposition aren’t put under any pressure with the ball or without and it becomes a vicious circle.
Jack Gibson would say “It’s in the woodwork”. To give it a more contemporary description our DNA is not ideal. Unfortunately it’s been the case for many years now. People say we are inconsistent. I disagree we are very consistent. That’s the sad thing about it. The losses to lowly ranked teams are predictable. It always amazes me that a team like Melbourne that has a relatively young history can continually produce regardless of who plays. They don’t always win but you know they are all going to front up on game day.
Astute analysis yet again. I wish our team was as consistent as you
You know who is frustrating? SIVO…all that power and potential …a little more energy and a sense of urgency wouldn’t go astray. Sean Russell showed more effort in his brief stint in top grade
Imagine if Sivo hit the line like Watene-Zelezniak.
Can’t disagree Ajax.
Good read.
I’m not going to beat my sack BA Drum today.
I mentioned a few weeks ago about a conversation I had with a family friend who works in the NRL I spoke to him yesterday and he said that it is a mentality issue with us. When the chips go down they turn into a unch of individuals trying to save a game not a team with a goal to fight together. He thinks we lack a mentality leader someone who holds the standards and holds players accountable this player isn’t always the captain it’s a role Beau Scott was signed to perform and did maybe that’s what the recruitment team need to look into.
Long story short were all frustrated the glimmer of hope is gone and most of us see how this season will play out again.
Onto the next game heaven help us if we let the tigers win again.
Beau was finished when he came to us like Watmough.
Yeah but unlike what whatmough he played a role in helping change the mindset of the team
Totally agree with your summation 60’s. However I think you lay BA off lightly. What Parra supporter thought having a centre on the bench was a good idea?? It was a silly selection devoid of all reason. Nathan Brown had starred in the Cup that weekend. An inspired Brown could have got us on the front foot. This is after a series of bewildering selections dating back a fair while. Like the continued selection of JA even though it was not working. It actually became embarrassing.
I also don’t get why Greig is not given a run. Maka is Parras Hardwick. I have only watched Greig twice this yr and was very impressed. I know it’s easy to be a sideline selector but I am losing faith with the coach.
Selections today will be interesting…
Well its more of the same this week Sec 50.
Sec – two things.
Did you actually watch Brown play last weekend?
Secondly, please let’s not go down the JA debate because we have completely different views and this has nothing to do with him.
Browns stats were excellent sixties. So no I am not one of the lucky ones who can get to the ground since I live 800 kms away. That is just a cheap shot. But I have watched him in every first grade game this year and he is by far a better bench than Opacic.
I was not promoting a JA debate I was merely referring to BAs selection which has been repeated this week. So please don’t lecture me because you are totally misrepresenting my views. You basically left BA with no blame and yet lambasted half of the team.
In 60s defense he is a BA supporter he knows that it doesn’t help him to call out BA it just leads to more sack BA chat.
I’m in the no faith in BA camp but i now believe the problem is deeper then just him our mental weaknesses are a club wide issue it has to be when you consider it keeps happening.
Thats an interesting “in Sixties defence” comment Offside. 🤣🤣🤣 Glad you wouldn’t be my representative in court.
Yes, I have faith in BA. I have that faith because I watch his coaching in action and I can see when the players adhere to what they train to do and when they don’t. There are a couple of other people who are regulars at training and they can offer similar takes about prep/coaching vs performance. And there is no special privilege in being there. Kellyville is an open park. Last week the space was filled with Bushrangers teams training on the other fields while Parra trained. People walk dogs or run laps while they train. Anyone can watch.
But outside of that, I write my opinion. I don’t think about how people will reply here when I write. And you have seen there are people replying here who aren’t fans of Brad. That’s their opinion.
Where is my cheap shot? I didn’t see Brown play last week. I was asking because when I got feedback on the game he wasn’t mentioned by people who saw the game. So I had no mail on his form from his last game. In fact, I was having a discussion with someone on the Instagram account yesterday and said I would have selected Brown this week. I believe he’d have a point to prove. PS – I don’t know where you live.
And where is my lecture? I said “please don’t go down the JA debate because we have completely different views”. How is that a lecture?
Mate you’ve added some sauce to my reply that just wasn’t there. It’s not me doing the misrepresenting.
The worst part about all this is that last week I couldn’t really allow myself to enjoy the win against the Roosters because I fully expected what the team dished up against the Rabbitohs.
As Bart Simpson would say, “I didn’t think this was physically possible, but that both sucks & blows at the same time !!!”
BA is too nice a bloke but the truth is he is a coach from a previous generation (Johnny Peard would go well in his team structures). Some of his calls this year especially around his use of the subs and his constant reference as Parra being a blue collar team such that they only play football when the game has got away from them has resulted in me struggling to watch them play. Sad to say it but there has to be a coaching change unless the club is happy to finish 5-8 each year.Swampy