2022 Grand Final

[Bansai Pipeline]

Real shame the NRL is having only one team in the GF. I reckon we would have beaten Penrith at full strength but we let our emotions kill our chance. Terrible GF a complete whitewash and no contest. I predicted a 30 point win so it was expected. Eels are not even 1st grade material.

100%

[bondi paul]

A complete dud of a GF. Shame on the NrL and it’s media partners. It’s not about the game it’s about the $ generated thru media romanticism for the suckers.How in the hell was Klein appointed as ref after his diabolical performance in the Easts vs vermin game.

[King Salvo]

nah, our scoreline was when tries were worth 3 points. weather records wouldn't record 40 degrees f as hotter than 38 degrees c.

nrl need to sort out their draw so it's fairer for all teams. cowboys and cronulla had soft draws and finished higher on the table than they should have which mucked up the semis draw to the effect that the two best teams weren't going to be in the gf. it wasn't the only factor, or even the major factor, but it was a factor.

Which were the 2 best teams though - Penrith had the hardest draw as they played 14 games against other top 8 sides

[Eggspert]

A complete dud of a GF. Shame on the NrL and it’s media partners. It’s not about the game it’s about the $ generated thru media romanticism for the suckers.How in the hell was Klein appointed as ref after his diabolical performance in the Easts vs vermin game.

Agree, terrible ref & embarrassing he got the gig. Almost as funny as the pre game entertainment.

[King Salvo]

What a lopsided boring GF. Unless you’re a Riff fan of course.

It wasn't really as the other 15 teams and coaches should have noted Penrith's performance not only tonight but the past 3 years - They have the same game plan week in week out but the reason they are successful is their ability to do it over 80 minutes week in week out.

It's like they press repeat - after points they do the same thing again - get through their sets/ kick chase on the last and then their defence goes to work - they strangle the other teams out of the match.

Relentless is one word to describe it.

Unless other teams can match this then there will be more premierships for Penrith.

[bondi.boy]

Eels thrashed us...I remember it, all that magical inside passing at angles, Sitili taking off out of the line towards the centres leaving a giant hole for Brown or Lane to run thru to score, and Teddy being out of position.
Eels won the games and made the grand final...certainly first grade standard.
Eels were winning games while we were losing to the Knights, Dogs, Souths, Dragons, Storm etc.
Eels fans must be devastated after tonight's game.

At present we are below the standard displayed by the Panthers tonite.
How do we reach the standard required to win grand finals?
Simple...copy what the Panthers have done.
Play like the Panthers did tonite.
Any Panthers players get sin binned in the GF? No. So we should start there.
Did the Panthers make many handling errors? No. The next thing we should look at.

Our problems are:

1. Walker is not Cleary
2. Keary is not Luai
3. Our left centre is not Crichton.
4. Our right winger is not To'o.
5. Our energy level over 80 minutes is far less than the Panthers. We play well for the first 15 minutes, then the mistakes start happening.

The video of tonite's game shows all, the style of players we must have/recruit...and how we must play.

[King Salvo]

The Eastern Suburbs Sydney City Mighty Mighty Roosters were the only team capable of beating Penrith & making it an interesting game.

Parra beating Canberra & Cowboys on a weaker side of the draw gave them & their fans false hope.

Not a chance the Roosters would beat Penrith as the Roosters were not able to play 80 minutes all season - I disregard the Tigers game as well the Tigers packed it in.

Penroth are relentless and play 80 minute games week in week out with no slacking off or drop in intensity - Simple game plan but very effective and one has to say they are the fittest side in the NRL by someway.

You don't know what will happen in the future but there is no reason I can see why Penrith won't be able to add to these 2 back to back premierships.

Other teams need to raise their game and not think that Penrith will drop their game level.

[Eggspert]

Not a chance the Roosters would beat Penrith as the Roosters were not able to play 80 minutes all season - I disregard the Tigers game as well the Tigers packed it in.

Penroth are relentless and play 80 minute games week in week out with no slacking off or drop in intensity - Simple game plan but very effective and one has to say they are the fittest side in the NRL by someway.

You don't know what will happen in the future but there is no reason I can see why Penrith won't be able to add to these 2 back to back premierships.

Other teams need to raise their game and not think that Penrith will drop their game level.

I don't believe they are fitter, every NRL team is extremely fit, they are all professionals.

They execute to their coaching better & have better quality players in certain positions. They are blessed with no injuries & don't make silly mistakes or give away infringements better than anybody else.

Their Dynasty won't last that much longer IMO.

[Tommy Smith]

yeah but we blew our chance by losing our cool against Souths.

thats on us

People seem to have bizarrely forgotten that by the 30th minute mark we had lost Teddy, Toops and Crichton during the game whilst also missing Manu.

Hutch and Butch were our centres with Naqaiama And Momo our wingers.

Injuries shredded us again when it matters most. How do people already forget this?

[King Salvo]

Why are we now all of a sudden hearing terms like "defensive decision" coming from the bunker when ruling on an obstruction has been black and white for the last 3 years.

Get through the line or stop before the line, very simple.

Been hearing defensive decisions and inside outside shoulder ever sine they allowed this decoy runner rubbish into the game.

It baffles me how a decoy runner can run interference/block a defender and or run into a defender on purpose and it's allowable

When a player runs in front of an opposing player chasing a kick they are penalised for being an escort but the decoy runner is basically doing the same thing but that's okay because it's a defensive decision and oh outside shoulder.

Get rid of the decoy runner

[stringaz]

People seem to have bizarrely forgotten that by the 30th minute mark we had lost Teddy, Toops and Crichton during the game whilst also missing Manu.

Hutch and Butch were our centres with Naqaiama And Momo our wingers.

Injuries shredded us again when it matters most. How do people already forget this?

The same people that think our back to back is inferior because Penrith are doing theirs "right now"

Hahaha

[stringaz]

Been hearing defensive decisions and inside outside shoulder ever sine they allowed this decoy runner rubbish into the game.

It baffles me how a decoy runner can run interference/block a defender and or run into a defender on purpose and it's allowable

When a player runs in front of an opposing player chasing a kick they are penalised for being an escort but the decoy runner is basically doing the same thing but that's okay because it's a defensive decision and oh outside shoulder.

Get rid of the decoy runner

That's vlandys ball all over, change the rules instead of enforcing the rules.

[roostermcgregor]

This Penrith side deserves all the accolades it gets.
I thought that the Parra forward pack could trouble the Penrith side, but the GF proved exactly the opposite.
Parra did not make a clean break until after the 70th minute, with the score at 28-0.
Not only is the Riff defence watertight, it is absolutely punishing.
That's the take I got out of the game, at the ground
More often than not, the riff's tackles hurt the Parra players.
So by halftime, there was no way the Eels could get back into the game, against that type of defence.
Anyone who thinks the Parra side is not up to scratch is talking bullsh*t - RCG, Paulo, Papalii, Matterson and Lane are rep , or near rep players.
And they got trounced by a physical, powerful , young side, who have contested the last 3 GF's.
A young Riff side , that will get better with experience, and has still got more time to hit its physical peak.
That's a scary thought for a Roosters supporter like me.
The Riff are going to be the benchmark , or close to the benchmark, for 2023.
If they lose a couple of players, guys on their bench, like Sorensen and Leniu , should be able to slot into the starting team

[King Salvo]

I don't believe they are fitter, every NRL team is extremely fit, they are all professionals.

They execute to their coaching better & have better quality players in certain positions. They are blessed with no injuries & don't make silly mistakes or give away infringements better than anybody else.

Their Dynasty won't last that much longer IMO.

You can see they are fitter as what other team plays such relentless footy for 80 minutes week in week out - only Penrith

They suffer less injuries as a result of their fitness one has to say as you couldn't play the way they do and continue playing that way if you don't have the fitness to do so.

In my opinion the Roosters apart from Tedesco are not fit enough to play 80 minute games week in week out.

They play well for periods in games and then have lapses and drop their intensity as fatigue sets in

They were underdone due to a disruptive pre-season so were very much playing catch up fitness level wise - bit hard to catch up though when the season is in progress as you can only push the players so far during the week in lead up to games as their performance would suffer if they are over trained.

Pre-season is where you build your fitness levels for the upcoming season.

As Gould was saying all the Penrith grades train and play the same way even the junior rep teams so when they advance through the grades they know exactly what is expected of them as a player -training and player wise.

I don't see Penroth dropping off any time soon - they dominated the league winning 4 of 5 of the male comps

[King Salvo]

That's vlandys ball all over, change the rules instead of enforcing the rules.

Nothing to do with Vlandy as the decoy runner came in long before him - It came in as a result of coaches moaning that they couldn't score as the defence was too good - they allowed the third defender in earlier because coaches whinged that the play the ball was too quick