LIVE GAME Round 5 versus Eels

[1eyetiger]

We played ugly at times, however we stayed in it and won,

 

[TigerNeddyK]

He’s a winner man . Whenever the game is on the line he steps up . Same with TDM . They just wanted it . Great win . Not the footy . But the mentality.
Some of those 6 agains were bananas . There was one when Luke was off , where event he eels players were asking what that was for . That was Z grade ref performance . Should be dropped for that for both teams . The Luke bin was complete nonsense . Binning someone for injuring someone is bullshit times a million . Complete accident . That’s simply not a sin bin offence . If he doesn’t injure him it’s barely a penalty . Anyways we won . That’s all . If I’m Benji I’m going in hard against the video ref . That was shocking .

Surprise surprises it was Ash KLOWN 🤡 in the bunker

 

[Blooey]

I really hope luai doesn't come back early next week. Chance of reinjury is very high and not worth bringing him back if we're humming like we are. AD and Madden 2 from 2 and it creates an unnecessary forced change. If we did though, It's gotta be Luai 6 Madden 7 with AD at centre, Makasini wing and Luke Lauli'i first trip to perth. Twal is too good at lock to move right now

Only option. Gonna be fuming if benji drops Madden as soon as Luai is fit.

 

[Vicious]

Yep. Toa back, Mak on the wing and Luke L left right out

You obviously didn’t watch To’a play NSW Cup today ?

 

[GNR4LIFE]

As.long as theyre thinking they played poor....it doesnt matter what we think here...glad theyre seeingnit for what it is

There’s zero evidence to suggest we are all the way there. Our first 20-30 mins need to be a lot better.

 

[Betterdays22]

Would love to know how many of our tries we have conceded have been down the left edge, and how many of them are poor defensive reads. Got to be 70-80%

 

[hammertime]

Was at game didn't see the penalty to let Madden tie the game was it high? Eels fans here blowing up.

Same amount of force mate. Bit of a tap on the face. Was TDS actually and probably worse given the other tackle was on a falling player, ao had mitigating circumstances.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

recovering from the defibrillator holy hell
we didnt deserve to lose that one

 

[Moh]

Just on LL's sin-bin; clearly the injury decided the punishment there?

The explanation was an act with a high risk of injury - so you're now saying every tackle in the air should be a sin-bin?

Very unfortunate and wish Simonsson a speedy recovery, but that's no sin-bin unless they all are now.

 

[stevied]

I think douiie can take right centre spot madden is playing just too well

1.bula
2. Makasini
3.may
4. Douiie
5. Tavana / Turuva
6. Laui
7. Madden

Or is the Turuva / tavana combo can't be changed ?

Hard to drop Tino and Turuva defended well but bombed second half try.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Yep. Toa back, Mak on the wing and Luke L left right out

I’d rather Roycey on the wing at this point.

 

[Tucker]

We hurt them.
They'll remember this game.
Nursing their wounds for days after this.

One of the things I wished for over the past few years was to have a squad who hurt their opposition. I want teams to go “damn, the Tigers game is next”. It seems we are getting there. The Eels got smashed today physically.

 

[Lestronge]

Surprise surprises it was Ash KLOWN 🤡 in the bunker

Wow … at what point do we file a grievance against this bloke ?

 

[stevied]

We don't win these games.

Something is brewing.

That's right, we don't normally win these ones. Has the tide finally turned???

 

[Tucker]

Only option. Gonna be fuming if benji drops Madden as soon as Luai is fit.

I’m wondering if there is some way we can medically retire Luai 😏

 

[gregjm87]

Just the resilience .they were up against it that game .

Disagree they were up against it. I don't agree with the sin bin and it was undoubtedly the biggest call of the game but outside of that I thought we got the overwhelming majority of decisions fall our way. Eels had players dropping left right and centre and were forced into multiple reshuffles of their backline. If anything I would argue Eels were up against it.
Yes the bin was a big and in my opinion poor call. But need to react better to adversity. We were running downhill before it so can't blame being gassed during that 10 minutes. It was one reshuffle to the backline for 10 minutes compared to the 4 different ones they had to make.

 

[Tom Shines]

Geez … now I’ve cooled down a bit … thank whatever God you like we got that win … we would all be fuming otherwise … let them fume for a change 👍

 

[hammertime]

Just on LL's sin-bin; clearly the injury decided the punishment there?

The explanation was an act with a high risk of injury - so you're now saying every tackle in the air should be a sin-bin?

Very unfortunate and wish Simonsson a speedy recovery, but that's no sin-bin unless they all are now.

I think it was fair. If it happened to us, we'd expect the same. They always say injury shouldn't be a factor, but they lost a player for the match.

Maybe with the 6 man bench you could argue differently.

 

[Tucker]

We don't win these games.

Something is brewing.

Been saying it all year. This squad is different.
If you arent on them to play finals this year, you will miss out.

 

[Demps]

One of the things I wished for over the past few years was to have a squad who hurt their opposition. I want teams to go “damn, the Tigers game is next”. It seems we are getting there. The Eels got smashed today physically.

Yeah man, you and me both.
Been asking for this for years.

Win, lose or draw... we make our presence felt.
This was it today.

They were dropping like flies.

Russell, he kinda knocked himself out.
JAC, he'll have sore ribs for weeks now.
Bailey, that was ugly... wow. Poor guy.
Moses and Pezet copped some damage.
So did the hooker, Smith - he looked dusty.

Hard game for them.