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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3132987, member: 1899"] If we're talking about the Eels specifically, they were still a very young team in terms of combinations. Moses had just completed his first pre-season with the club, Gutho was coming back from a knee reconstruction and hadn't secured his place as fullback and Mahoney was still coming through the grades at that stage. They had the right core, they just needed time to work through the kinks and hire the personnel to fill the roles. Arthur has a very similar approach to coaching as Craig Bellamy where he has an ideal vision of his team and will cast players in his role. He lost Junior Paulo, so he settled on Siosaia Vave at a cut-rate deal. He loves a back that can work it out from inside his own half, he threw bags of money at Ferguson, but before then had to settle on Auva'a and G. Jennings. Arthur had the structure in place, he just had to open the cheque book and bring in the players that fit his vision. It's been far from smooth sailing, they suffered some terrible losses in 2019 but the combinations have improved and in this Covid interupted season, the teams with the most familiarity with one another have prospered. [/QUOTE]

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