Game Day: Eels v Manly [Round 3, 2024]

[frank stokes]

SANDWICH!!!!?!??!

 

[voicefromthehill]

SO, clearly we need players with a white cane so they can't be deemed to look at a "chasing player". Damn he was 1.5 m away when the kick was put in, what can you do but turn and chase

 

[Buughes]

Our backs are trash. Both wingers constantly running in. Just stay on your wing I really don’t get it. Jaxson is hopeless

 

[mickqld]

We are still poor defensively out wide. Just too easy to score on us

 

[Nordburg]

Mosses the cat cons the ref..ffs

Garrick did move into him.Minimal contact but why give Moses even a slight chance to take a dive.He was never getting to TomT

 

[XV-1]

That's f#$king BS.. Moses ran into the back of Garrick and DCE and flops over.. gets up with his hands spread wide complaining

Refs a cheat..simple

No. Plain and simple bonehead Garrick changed his line into Moses. Penalty every day of the week

 

[Dion Johnson]

Yeah because Moses was 5-8 metres in front of him and posing no threat. If Paulo doesn’t bite, Garrick has plenty of time to adjust.

Maybe, though the cut out from Brown was very good, you see Garrick take the inside option again even though DCE was there on Harper try.

 

[Technical Coach]

Yeah, I get that. Seibold and the players have shouted that to the rooftops. But you still have to know when to dial it back a little. That inside pass to Turbo that Jake threw, when everyone on Earth could see it coming, was never on - especially after we'd scrambled to defend two previous sets. We barely saw the ball after that till the dying minutes of the half. Given that all the momentum was against us, the smarter play there would have been to prioritise completing a set.

Loving the shapes we're showing in attack, but we are still defensively suspect, especially on the DCE/Rueben/Paulo side, and we need to take all of our opportunities. When you are good with the ball and not so good without it, possession is always going to be the key.

Garrick hasn't been impressive at all in the centres, plays too stiff, is hesitant at times, other times over commits and he lacks a turn of footy speed off a stop start that can create points or get across in cover if the attack gets around him.

That side in defense with Paulo is what i was referring to in a previous post, in fairness though defending on the right against right to left passing is the more difficult side to defend as it is more crisp attack off most players natural passing side with high quality line running and plays.

DCE so often places Manly under pressure in terms of haphazard kicking at the wrong times (especially in the Souths game) and why would you strip a ball late in the tackle count near your red zone, brain explosion and a half.

 

[danny-boy]

That was Garrick’s fault by going on to help DCE tackle - when he didn't need to!!

100% and you’ve got people here calling for Pauli’s head.

 

[XV-1]

100% and you’ve got people here calling for Pauli’s head.

Plenty of clueless boneheads here on Silvertails 🤣

 

[HoldenV8]

 

[HK_Eagle]

FFS, Garrick and Jaxson are a nightmare for us

 

[max]

Evening up penalty at tackle 0

WOW

 

[eagleron]

Mosses the cat cons the ref..ffs

The officials fall for that little cat's bullsh*t every game

 

[Nordburg]

Paulo shows no urgency other than when he rushes up in defence to take nobody

 

[eagleron]

The officials fall for that little cat's bullsh*t every game

Paulo is a z grade winger

 

[frank stokes]

Garrick not having his greatest game… the kick for a try was good but it has been downhill since…

 

[HK_Eagle]

FFS, directionless this half

 

[bob dylan]

Players rushing in

Paulo is a z grade winger

He was before signed him.

 

[The Royal Soup]

game over, we are ****er