They thought they escaped the nightmarish rut with a tense win over the Canberra Raiders but for a fourth straight game the Parramatta Eels have found themselves drowning in the same errors and defensive lapses. Tonight it saw the Rabbitohs ease out to a 32-12 victory in the second half as the Eels collapsed shortly after forcing the game back to parity at 12-all.
Sixties and Forty20 discuss the torrid loss and where it leaves the Eels ahead of the transfer deadline.
That was pretty bad!
Isaiah needs a few more weeks back in Cup to get his mojo back.
We need to get Rylesy to stop training them to throw intercepts.
The good news is that Mitch’s form has confirmed that he will not be selected for SOO 3.
Brian Kelly can hold his head high, Talyn was fine.
That was a putrid performance. But what do we expect with mostly Reserve grade players. Moses played one of his worst games for his 250th. And how does Kelma continue to keep his spot???
I tip my hat to TCT, having to continually talk about these performance’s, I can’t see any upside for this club, gee whiz we are bad, even Brian Kelly must be thinking what have I done.
I’ll take a listen in the morning.
If you are looking for some positive comments, scroll on.
Let it sink in folks.
We lost at home to Souths by 20.. 6 tries conceded (and not even including the obligatory Johnson try), we scored 2… off kicks. They had no Latrell, a halfback who is just a passenger and Brandon Smith could play 68 minutes straight and we didn’t fatigue him! We can’t break tackles or create line breaks. Our ball control is horrid, our one on one defence is just as bad and we have no football iq.
I miss cranky Mitch. Cranky Mitch plays with intensity. This Mitch doesn’t. Tonight he wasn’t just quiet, he stunk. Both sides of the ball.
BTW: those non Parra fans who used to use Gutho and Mitch yelling matches as evidence they didn’t get along, let them know 2 years after they last played together Gutho was there for his 250th.
Brian Kelly is our best player …. that should ring alarm bells.
JAC runs his decoy runs with more intensity than Big Sam has on his hit ups.
Kelma runs side on. It exposes the ball to be knocked out on impact….as happened multiple times.
Volkman and TDS make too many poor decisions for spine players
Katonga kicked the ball on the last tackle with the halfback standing right next to him. No tackle breaks for him tonight…
JDB isn’t a lock. Play him in the prop roll if you have to convince yourself we need some experience. But enough with the lock play.
We need a creative player. It’s stating the obvious but outside Moses (if he is in form), we have nothing. Iongi. Look good player. Will hopefully get better. But he will only be more threatening if the defence are worried about a dangerous 6, 9 or 13…. and we are poor in all 3 positions.
I don’t know the answer to getting an attacking, creative player unless one from another club becomes NRL teflon because of an off field incident or is a culture killer in house, because they are the only players we can sign…. So bring some rookies in and let’s see what they’ve got
This team and club are just pure average there’s no denying it. We re in no doubt a bottom 4 club everyday of the week and I have no idea how this is possible.
There’s a lot that needs to be aimed at the players but some serious questions need to be asked of our coaching staff and what direction they are attempting to take the players down. Errors have been at the forefront of our problems since day 1 and I would argue now it’s the worst they have ever been. Ryles looks visibly frustrated right now but I think something has to give it’s not working what there doing.
There is one player in form at the whole club in Brian Kelly and that’s it every single player has either flatlined or gone backwards. This is damming report card on the coaches because we re actually making players play below there potential.
Ryles has really one year in 2027 to send us in the right direction or I’m afraid he’ll fall on his sword and so should many others above him. I think he needs to shake up his coaching staff for next year and bring in some quality operators or winning experience. Nathan brown Sam moa and strength and conditioning should all be shown the door it hasn’t worked
Yes we were bad … but the quality of our play reflects the quality of our squad. Unless we improve the squad we will continue to be a bottom 3 team. Worryingly, we look like having basically the same squad next year.
There’s no way around it, this team is just not good enough.
Our fundamentals are so poor – first contact in defence, catch and pass, line running intensity to mention a few are reserve grade level.
I still don’t see where or how we get better.
What a sad state of affairs.
2 years ago the board and club decided to sack the coach whilst maintaining the staff that built the squad he had to train to get better. Fast forward to now and we’re in no better position than we were back then. I don’t believe in changing everything every season or 2 but we have to recognise that this isn’t working. Matthew Beach needs to move heaven and earth to either get Bernie Gurr back or bring in someone to the CEO position with a rugby league background. We’re too scared to make an elite purchase as to not disrupt junior pathways but we don’t even have those elite juniors signed up. It’s been painfully obvious to us plebs for years, surely those in positions of power can see this too?
As for the game, it was there to be won. Souths were awful, we were just worse. How can you throw 5 intercepts and not understand you need to put a grubber in behind to keep them from coming up and in? The only time we kicked in behind was not when Kosi who is as wide as he is tall was in the defensive line, instead we kicked in behind when he was subbed off for a young but extremely quick Dayne Jennings.
Things need to change and they need to change quickly. We cannot go into another season with only 1 recruit. I’d honestly be embarrassed if I were in charge of our recruitment and retention.
You’re 100% right Hamsam. It is so plainly obvious what the problem is to us plebs.
But what can anyone do? Head of Football can’t hold coaches accountable unless he is held accountable. He isn’t held accountable unless the CEO holds him accountable. And the CEO needs to be held accountable but who so going to do that? The Board? They’re not held accountable because the footy club Directors effectively can’t be voted off.
Unless someone pulls their finger out at the top of the tree, nothing changes…. Oh we’ll get a new Social media intern – they seem to advertise for one of them every week… Maybe they will help….
I’ve had a look on the Parra Eels website for an email for the chairman Matthew Beach and yet there’s nothing. Unfortunately for those at the reception desk they will be first to see my first ever email complaining about anything to do with the club.
We are just a poor team currently
There is nothing else to it – a weak roster & limited playing style
Moses is not in form either this year
Eels may go into 2027 as near favourites for a wooden spoon if this continues
Especially if the dragons have recruited far better than we have
Just wanted to thank Jim Sarantonis, Mark O’Neill and Ben Rogers for the demise of our club and the insipid effort in recruitment. Hang you collective heads in shame.
Why so angry, I’ve called since start of season our squad is a reserve grade quality. These are the most likely results so stop stressing people as it ain’t going to get better soon. Thank the saints for no spoon but next year we are in trouble