An embarrassing inability to complete a multitude of premium attacking opportunities has cost the Eels dearly in Magic Round. While the Melbourne Storm eventually ran out easy winners on the scoreboard, Parramatta squandered an infuriating amount of chances to seize both the initiative and the momentum on Saturday night. Sixties and Forty20 debrief on the incredibly frustrating loss as the Eels now move into a bye and look to reset with some key players hopefully back in the fold in Round 13.
Ryles needs to commit to the rebuild. This half arsed rebuild is not going to work when new teams are coming in and existing teams are already ahead of us.
In my opinion doorey, moretti, volkman, Richard penisini, Jake Tago, matto, Kelma, jdb should all be cut. Guymer and will penisini are expendable. Whether pryke and mataele are worth resigning is a wait and see.
The cows look revitalised with young, fast, skillful centres and backrowers. Manly has strike at backrow and backline with one alpha prop (paseka). We have no alpha prop, the softest forwards and the slowest backs. Historically bad defensive team and inconsistent attacking team
Ryles needs to be better as he is responsible for the roster at the end if the day (O’Neil and co shouldn’t be in their positions but the club seems incapable of change in that regard and do not seek to recruit better head of football or recruitment team)
The Storm made 15 or so errors. Unheard of.
AND still lapped us.
We have had some insipid performances over the years and considering how bad the Storm played, that might just have been the worst of them all.
Perhaps it’s time to look in the mirror and realise that some of the players , no matter how much we pump up their tyres, are just not NRL quality.
Why did both Moses and lomax stop bringing able to goal kick under ryles & co?
Is it over coaching, goal kicking coaches? Why not let Volkman or Papalii goal kick both are better than Moses?
That was honestly one of the worst performances I’ve seen in attack from a parra side. Endless opportunities against a weak storm team who’s below us on the ladder.
I’m going to go full on doomer here unfortunately because I predicted how this game would go in the last post regarding grant crying to Gough to milk 6 agains and all the rest of the garbage like them being able to slow down the ruck but we can’t.. and I won’t bother to say the rest because we all saw it happen in the game.
I predicted when Brad Arthur left that winning starts at the front office, and that I didn’t think we would see huge changes until that happens. I thought ryles alone might be enough, but unfortunately my initial instinct was correct. I now predict if Jason ryles can’t get roster – cattle for 27’ our club will have him under high pressure or on the chopping block in 2027.
Because the people above JR & are also above BA at our club themselves will be under pressure if this current roster and coaching staff cannot deliver by next season. My guess is Jason ryles might end up being another one used as a scapegoat for our shortcomings.
I hope I’m wrong here – but I have a feeling that Jason doesn’t and will not have the cattle at parra to succeed. Only about 3-5 of our NRL players would get a starting role any other NRL clubs (and that’s being generous)
You can’t expect to compete in the NRL with a weak roster – about 50% of our team even at full strength could play reserve grade and not look like huge stand outs. Not bad players.. just very inexperienced, or past 30 years of age. We don’t have 1 single gun player who is in his prime.
A wise man once said you need about 3-4 top players close to their prime to compete for the comp in the NRL then they can drag the young and old players along.
I can’t even see 1 player in the Eels top 30 that comes to mind who’s in their prime or is in good form at a personal level for their own standards.
The squad is just a bottom three squad, plain and simple, even with the players that are due back, our recruitment and retention team needs to be blown up, every player signed in the last few years will be retired or gone on performance apart from iongi and samrani you feel, or we are going to be bottom three side for the next decade unless something changes
That’s easily the worst performance Melbourne have had against us in 5+ years and we still got beaten comfortably.
Many in the squad are just not up to NRL standard. We are a long way from being a finals team let alone a premiership threat, yet I see no signs of us genuinely reshaping our roster.
You could argue the Dragons have spent a lot of cap on a few guys in recent weeks but they are showing conviction to land players and change their situation. We are not.