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Message: [QUOTE="Brotherdu, post: 2871222, member: 9226"] Well, that was a shocker. I got the impression that everyone was so keyed up to 'Teach those Eels a lesson' after the drubbing they gave us last time that we forgot what had been working for us. Hold onto the ball for the first 20, keep it tight, then play some footy. A few observations - [LIST] [*]Our senior players apart from a couple, were really bad. Boyd, Blair and Thaiday were loose and set the tone for everyone else to. [*]We were out thought........again. They threw the ball around at every opportunity and our defense couldn't adapt. [*]Someone needs to pull Boyd aside and have a gentle word in his ear about how to be a leader. Step 1, don't be a whiny bitch every time you get tackled, have some intensity and focus on rallying your troops. Worst game I've seen from him in a long time...........that cut out pass for Mead was a beauty though. [*]We failed to do the basics like get to the end of your set after a try (3 or 4 times). [*]I didn't notice Hunt's or Niko's running game much. Niko had a couple of decent kicks from memory, but that was about it. [*]Moose and Oates tried their hearts our. Oates got some seriously poor service and camp up with some errors, but hard to blame him. [*]Roberts seems to drop his head pretty easily when the team is struggling, i.e. we go behind early and then Radrada makes a break and he either decides to not chase, or assumes someone else will be. We certainly weren't playing for each other at certain times. [/LIST] The only positive I can see from this game is hopefully it shows the players that we aren't so hot and still need to knuckle down and not believe the hype (the Eels lost after beating us last time). We've won a couple of games on the trot against out of form teams and still have a lot of work to do. This might be the embarrassment we need................and they really should be embarrassed. [/QUOTE]

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