PONTIAN SEA EAGLE
Bencher
Wankdell should not see 1st grade again.
Post-Game Discussion Eels V Manly [Round 12, 2025]
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Yes JA is a reserve grader and I've always thought that ,but I think the best half would struggle behind this pop gun dads army pack of forward sloths.
Eagleheart
Bencher
I totally agree with you Mick.
Game plans don't win games, the players do.
That was 100% **** housery from back to front. Garrick had a go but ffs that was a moping heap of dog ****.
Coaches game plans are worth about as much as the game sheet.
We weren't up for it, no one really cared and it just plays into DCE narrative.
**** happens. **** will happe next week and the week after.
This year is a fizzer and we will lose our "every decade" record.
I can't cheer tonight's effort on it was like watching the barret teams again but we had the Manly bug. Take the foot off for bottom teams and go all in for our analogs
This is not a premiership team, we have forwards that im pretty sure like getting paid, and not playing.
Crap show mate absolute crap show all over the park
Michael Clare
Reserve Grader
I honestly feel the same. Been a supporter since 67.
17 other blokes will, why not hin
Jerry1
First Grader
It's started
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NRL Press Conference: Eels v Sea Eagles - Round 12, 2025
Parramatta Eels and Manly Warringah Sea Eagles captains and coaches chat to the media after their Telstra Premiership Round 12 clash.
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The Indian
Bencher
Our biggest problem is the passive, pop gun, slow, lethargic, timid, immobile, lazy forward pack.
I honestly don't think k the backs are where the problem is. We have the worst pack in the comp now Paseka is gone. FFS buy some young forwards with some legs. It's as obvious as dogs balls to everyone bar our recruiters
I honestly don't think k the backs are where the problem is. We have the worst pack in the comp now Paseka is gone. FFS buy some young forwards with some legs. It's as obvious as dogs balls to everyone bar our recruiters
Michael Clare
Reserve Grader
Yep, yep yep!
Thewestisbest
Bencher
What should we expect. Every single forward we have except for Ola is reject from another club. Not good enough for another club but 1st graders for us.
I know all coaches are different and what I'm about to say isn't a reflection on why we are playing like this, just an observation but even when they do a shot of the coaches box, seibold doesn't even look like he believes in us, he is usually sitting there and staring off into the abyss meanwhile you've got Bellamy winning 50 nil and he is pacing back and forth, nearly breaking the glass, swearing his head off after a simple error and then you've got Ricky down on the sideline sometimes in terrible conditions, kicking chairs across the field, even Ryles was on his feet for majority of the game. I know he could just be like Ivan who sits their very poker faced but that's excusable for Ivan with 4 peat champions. All I'm saying is sometimes Seibold doesn't fill me with much hope or passion.
Something positive to look at, I’ll accept what I can.
Just back from a nice dinner out , with zero internet reception until I got back to the caravan with my Starlink connection.
Wow , pleased I missed all that.
We are ****ed for 2025, and probably years to come, a new coach won’t make any difference we need to sack 95% of the players and start again.
We won’t win the spoon but we’ll go close
Wow , pleased I missed all that.
We are ****ed for 2025, and probably years to come, a new coach won’t make any difference we need to sack 95% of the players and start again.
We won’t win the spoon but we’ll go close
HK_Eagle
First Grader
Just finished watching the reply of the game (couldn’t watch it live). What an embarrassment watching those Parra breaks right through the middle in the first half. But even more embarrassing was watching what turned up in the second half.
Turbo was embarrassing in that second half after a promising first. Saab was MIA all night after his great last game (to be expected, he is a soft butter soft cork). JA was serviceable but his kicking game is well below par. Not a single kick that allowed Saab to compete. Fog would have been handy tonight.
Koula with some poor defensive decisions tonight. Simpkins failed to nail his elevated opportunity after being punished previously with demotion. Ola still not utilised with any structure bringing him into a pass with full speed. Brooks did ok, but is not the man to step up when there is no dominant alpha half.
The ref was a joke with his random applications of rules when it suited the home crowd… is this the guy who has been rewarded with SOO 1?
Just initial knee jerk responses
Turbo was embarrassing in that second half after a promising first. Saab was MIA all night after his great last game (to be expected, he is a soft butter soft cork). JA was serviceable but his kicking game is well below par. Not a single kick that allowed Saab to compete. Fog would have been handy tonight.
Koula with some poor defensive decisions tonight. Simpkins failed to nail his elevated opportunity after being punished previously with demotion. Ola still not utilised with any structure bringing him into a pass with full speed. Brooks did ok, but is not the man to step up when there is no dominant alpha half.
The ref was a joke with his random applications of rules when it suited the home crowd… is this the guy who has been rewarded with SOO 1?
Just initial knee jerk responses
Dingo
Member
Saying it way too often now, yet again they didn’t seem interested. Attitude is a serious issue this year and I’m not sure there’s a fix anytime soon. I refuse to believe it’s DCE, yes he’s the captain but that was 9 weeks ago now and it’s 1 guy leaving in a massive team. 1 guy doesn’t make you play like you’ve never met.
Paseka’s injury doesn’t get enough attention. Our forwards are absolutely gone without him, we can’t compete in that department. All we have are ageing forwards (most of our signings in recent years) having to try and carry this team up field, obviously it won’t work. Bully had some solid carries as he always does but he can’t do it all, that’s not his typical role. Tonight I watched the vast majority of our sets being hit ups and us barely getting past the 50, while they made countless breaks and easy metres through the middle which allowed their backs to do what they needed to do. Unfortunately you can’t help injuries but this will just be the way things go until Paseka can hopefully return for our last 3 games. Jurbo certainly won’t be a fix, he’s getting old himself and Burbo is improving but is also not going to be a fix. Aloiai back next week is at least something, same with Tof perhaps although again, I don’t think he’s been all that great himself thus far.
Certainly on track to miss the 8 at the moment because the attitude issues and the lack of connectivity and fluidity in anything we do is not changing. Having said that, we all know we aren’t doing anything great this year anyway so maybe missing it is actually for the better, give us the “what on earth happened to them this year?” treatment so we at least have some sort of motivation to improve into next year 🤷♂️
Paseka’s injury doesn’t get enough attention. Our forwards are absolutely gone without him, we can’t compete in that department. All we have are ageing forwards (most of our signings in recent years) having to try and carry this team up field, obviously it won’t work. Bully had some solid carries as he always does but he can’t do it all, that’s not his typical role. Tonight I watched the vast majority of our sets being hit ups and us barely getting past the 50, while they made countless breaks and easy metres through the middle which allowed their backs to do what they needed to do. Unfortunately you can’t help injuries but this will just be the way things go until Paseka can hopefully return for our last 3 games. Jurbo certainly won’t be a fix, he’s getting old himself and Burbo is improving but is also not going to be a fix. Aloiai back next week is at least something, same with Tof perhaps although again, I don’t think he’s been all that great himself thus far.
Certainly on track to miss the 8 at the moment because the attitude issues and the lack of connectivity and fluidity in anything we do is not changing. Having said that, we all know we aren’t doing anything great this year anyway so maybe missing it is actually for the better, give us the “what on earth happened to them this year?” treatment so we at least have some sort of motivation to improve into next year 🤷♂️
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