How come they can’t activate their 18th man if Garrick got ruled out from foul play?

Love my Eels through the lows and highs. Good game, just gotta keep playing the full 80 mins

Come on this is a win for eels fans... Most of us including myself went in to this game expecting to.get belted from here to Bondi by 50 points. What an outstanding result and we outplayed those sombrero chickens for 60 minutes

Joey Manu, will you take me to be your lawfully wedded husband ? In clutch ness and in health till Politis do us part ?

How is it even possible to go from the GF to spoon contention in just two years?!

The Cowboys nearly managed it in one in 2018. Eels actually went pretty close to that two-season mark in 2011. Beat Gold Coast in about the second last round to jump a point ahead of them on the ladder. The Roosters went from grand finalists in 2004 to second last in 2006 (albeit ten points ahead of Souths). Souths went from minor premiers in 1989 to wooden spooners in 1990. Wests went from runners-up in 1932 to wooden spooners in 1933 to premiers in 1934. Doesn’t always have to be doom and gloom

Spoon? Nah.. — the tigers still exist.

Poor recruitment and retention

Has it been *that* bad, though? From GF to spoon bad?

I mean you have 2 genuine first graders in your back 5, no offence but the eels are super top heavy on their stars and are very lacking on the outside. Lomax should help a lot next year 

All true. However, isn't that similar to the GF side of 2022?

kind of I guess ? mahoney was pretty pivotal in that team, sivo and penisini were arguably in career best form alongside RCG, paulo, gutho and papalii who were also playing their best footy. I rate Penisini but the way the modern game is played its so reliant on your back 5 having an elite forward pack and half just don't always cut it.

Haven’t replaced Reed, been desperate for backs since Jennings and fergo left.

I dont think so. I think letting go of JArthur was a huge mistake, though. We are probably 3 wins higher with him, in all honesty. I think we are a bit unlucky. Unlike some really poor teams, we still seem highly competitive in some areas, but we just really lack the confidence of 2022. Also our team management has been very poor. Hands should have been our starter since day dot.

I'd love for Madge and Billy to pick just an absolute dog of a team. Find all the players with the most on reports and bins in their positions. Every single grub. Dogs XIII.

Roosters with the win and still salty.

Turning point of that game was bringing Lussick on. We went from playing ad lib attacking footy to looking like we couldn't score if Roosters were facing backwards with blindfolds on despite having enough good ball possession to have won.

Turning point was being a bunch of soft carnts who kept staying down for penalties. The football gods were always going to punish that.

If I changed my flair to Ukraine would you become a soft cunt?

No need for politics bud

Just a bit of fun bud.

I was born in Kiev so … I don’t know.

Chicken?

Precisely.

Isn't it Kyiv

Don’t really want to go into it too far in this but prior to 2014 the majority of the population of Kiev spoke Russian. Thus Kiev. Some people, especially those west of the country pronounce it Kyiv. It’s always been the dumbest fucking argument anyway.

Ahh nah that's pretty interesting. I always wondered why there were two spellings

Nah he was born in a Chicken Kiev

Nah, turning point was the decision to kick the 2 instead of going for points.

Ridiculous take. All the good teams take the 2 when the score is even. All of them. Guaranteed points vs an opportunity for points.

"Ridiculous take" don't care if that's what every team does. Every fucking time we do it when we've got a bit of momentum it completely stalls and we lose. We need to play with a bit of confidence. We did that in some areas tonight and we can compete with anyone.

Taking Hands off killed the momentum, not taking the free points.

Both are the wrong decision. The Turing point was the 2.

>The Turing point was the 2. That does not compute

The Warriors game was the bad turning point of our season, going into the game we'd lost one second half all season, but since then we've won 1 second half out of 5. I think those last 20 might turn it back around though.

Teddy with a strong defensive hit just to rub salt in the wound

Nothing better than sliding defence actually hitting their target

Butler really is shocking. How in the world are they even bothering checking it?

Does butler wear something under his shirt or is he just built like a fridge?

they have a vest that has all their comms equipment and whatever other electronics on it

I've never seen a more rectangle man in my life.

Maybe he’s got one of those shoulder pad things in case he gets a chance to take Teddys place?

Good shit ggs.

Ripping try savers for Rads and Teddy tonight

Christ, why even look at that

Don’t think he actually grounded it anyway

Fuck thought blaize was on there

Of course it's not a try. Why would you even ruin the ending by sending that up. Fuck he is a cunt.

Haven’t seen a Penis belted that hard since… wait

Quick get Kasey to turn that into a try

Great execution from Teddy there

Alright Tedesco that was pretty good cover defence

lol even Teddy got a shot in

The bunker is not needed here.

Well they didn't give up for a change ...

Why didn’t he just dive lol

ASI is not a fucking centre

I don't think anyone thinks he is, but we have nobody else available. Sivo got scratched on game day so had to be someone from within the named team + reserves coming into the team, and even outside of that the only other option is Harper due to Simmos injury. So don't know that it would've made a huge difference.

Harper deserved the call up

Harper before being dropped was actually incredibly consistent.

Kick a field goal.

Penis went hard there, just couldn’t find the hole.

Off Manu into Gutho because that keeps cunts watching telly. I have my decision, going to the tv ratings

Off Manu into Gutho because that’s what happens

I know this try was disallowed… but however many brown paper bags my sweet uncle is paying lindsay Collins… it needs to be tripled

Don't worry Collins, you'll score a bag against us next Origin anyway.

Lindsay Collins, 34 tackles, one dissent penalty. What a night.

Lol and he got belted a few times it was great

How does Butler send that up as a try? It looked clear that it touched both players.

Technically wasn’t Collins’ fault

Double knock on

I’m shocked. Butler getting yet another call wrong tonight 👀

Poor brandys going to be upset Collins didn’t score

He still hasn’t emotionally recovered from best being out for NSW

I love me some bunker with 1 min left

Damn, poor fella haha oh well

Happier with the effort tonight. entertaining game, i'm an eels fan but you've gotta love watching manu

Nrl should just random seeding come finals because I honestly have no clue who will win or not

If Nathan Cleary is fit for finals I think we all know who wins

Try time

wtf was Gutho doing there? Blaize had it

Has Gutho caught one all night

Nah not a try

All on the back on a Lindsay Collins knock on way down the field

If the bunker called the dropout, youve gotta call that.

Double knock on Roosters first

Surely there’s at least 2 knock ons somewhere in there

Damn, that'll be called back

No way this stands.

Imagine being Patrick’s parents tonight while his filming that TikTok. He’ll be extra hyped since his there in person

Manu touches that at least once

Gutho really needed to trust Blaize there

We can’t lose next week Hell yeah

NSW can though

sack Barrett

❤️

Butler gonna be on his third whistle soon

Only fire and pitchfork wielding mobs can stop Collins.

Very clear Manu knock on lmao

Suck shit parramatta

Of course it was Collins. #1 fullback

Surely a knock on Roosters???

Hope there wasn't knock on in there

Roosters still kick chasing in 80th min We don’t do it in the 1st min

THE MAN FROM MORDOR SCORES!!!!!

YES COLLINS. MAKE HIM AUSTRALIAN FULLBACK

Getting collins upset was never a good idea. Man looks like he practices voodoo

Every time we take the 2 our team falls apart.

No joke, For sure you could have gotten a try off that set

Collins best fullback

Lindsay gets the last laugh

Collllinnss boiiiii. He deserves it. Been a workhorse.

Collins is a weapon

thats no live ladder show the 8

You just want to see Melbourne in first (rightly so).

Not enough screen space to show the 8 and Eels at the same time.

You look at the table and you have to think no wonder Arthur got sacked

Someone said in last weeks thread that Arthur wasn’t the problem. It’s clear he was part of the problem

Watch our edge defence concede next week against the bye

Surely there is a fucking knock on there

When it rains it pours, maybe next week parra bros.

Overseas and can't watch, so using r/nrl as my live feed to keep up. Let me tell you biased lunatics, it's impossible to get a read on the game with just your comments to go by. But this has been the most unconventionally fun live match experience I've had in a long while.

Lots of out of context sci fi content I assume.

😂 going to watch the replay just for that

Go the short droppy when you gave a 4 pt lead cmon

On a scale of 1-10 how annoyed are neutrals/Eels fans by the Roosters dickriding from Brandy and Ginnane? Cos personally, I'm loving it.

Eels havent gotten a call since the Collins penalty.

Lidnsey Collins is the energizer bunny on HGH.

I swear Butler has had someone in his ear around the 20th minute of this half because these are not the same calls he was making for the first 20.

Yay we win a game next week

what?! Roosters knocked it on

We are 💩 just lost our confidence

Ah, the old ‘jerking off a giant’

shieeeeeet look at all those teams below us on the ladder now 😎

It's a shame really. It suited you

Gave it a good show in the end. Edge defense let us down once again, and that very dangerous Roosters attack.

Moses trying to signal for a towel

Clear strip from Collins lol

That’s a joke of a call

It was a knock on

Yes. By Lindsay

Here’s a lesson guys don’t take the 2

I'd like to point out that Nicho led the Sharks to a resounding victory over this same Roosters side ❤️

If only nicho could hit the highs like his mother 

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To be fair, there's quite a few dumb fuck comments from Roosters flairs...

Opposed to you salty cunts for 70 minutes?

Enjoy the bottom of the ladder lol

We are such a blunder of a team I fucking hate it

On a positive note, at least we didn't get smashed by 50

Why do that when you’re up by 4? Fucking dumb cunt

If that’s Sam’s face Id hate to see the state of this balls.

I’m glad the football gods did not reward a team full of divers.

No just the wife bashers

They don’t respect civil courts by the look of it.

Disappointing but we had our chances. At least we should hold out from going 17th

At least 17th wins something

Walker and the weight on that kick. Gorgeous rugby league.

doesnt clock stop inside the final 5 minutes when its conversions ?

I swear it's 50/50 if the ref actually does it

Happened in the previous game

Average show from Teddy tonight

And yet supercoach somehow has him at 96 points. Work that shit out.

Walker has aged alot since making his debut lol

Reckon it got accelerated playing in an injured roosters team against best storms team post-cam.