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Apperantly we are cursed from parramatta and that we will loose tomorow. Read this article its very interesting:
PARRAMATTA are the most dangerous team in the competition - the week after you play them. And if the curse of the Eels continues at Brookvale Oval on Friday night, Manly will beat their old coach Des Hasler's Canterbury side.
Compelling statistics that were brought to our attention via an email from avid Herald reader, Artie Shanks, show that when teams have played Parramatta this season, they have usually gone on to lose their next game.
Only four teams have won the week after playing the Eels, while 12 have lost.
While the overall winning percentage of teams the week after they play is Eels is already low, at just 25.0, it drops to 15. 38 per cent - two wins and 11 losses - for those teams that beat Parramatta. The overall winning percentage the week after for teams that lost to the Eels rises dramatically to 66.6 per cent - two wins and one loss.
The obvious inference is that teams who beat struggling Parramatta - and some have scored very big wins over the bottom-placed Eels - are at risk of feeling better about themselves than they should and getting soft in the lead-up to their next game.
Even a team that is travelling as well as second-placed Canterbury isn't immune. The Bulldogs thrashed Parramatta 46-12 in round nine, but were then beaten 25-14 by Gold Coast the following week.
Coincidentally, the two teams that will play in the blockbuster at Brookvale Oval are the last two teams to have played the Eels. Manly beat them 40-24 in round nine, then lost 32-6 to Newcastle last weekend. Canterbury again whipped the Eels, 32-12, last weekend - and now we wait to see what happens on Friday.
It's an intriguing scenario, and a challenge that coaches are used to facing. But realising the threat doesn't automatically mean you are going to stop it. Former South Sydney and Parramatta first-grade coach and Herald columnist Jason Taylor, who is currently in charge of the Sydney Roosters under-20s side, described the statistics as ''a big factor''.
''Part of what you work on is what can happen in relation to last week's game,'' Taylor said last night. ''A soft win, or a big loss, and coaches work hard to try to get their team to where it needs to be mentally - to be in the right frame of mind to play their best football.
''And it's not always about whether you won or lost the game. Sometimes, you can lose the game, but if you finished the back end of it strongly you can take that into next week's game. And if you won, but you finished it off poorly, you can take the poor form in.
''The Manly-Parra game is a good example. Manly flogged Parra, but they did it all in the first half and didn't play well in the second half. Then, they took that second-half form into the game against Newcastle the following week.
''The opposition is looking at you on video as well, and when the Newcastle players saw Manly's first half against Parramatta they probably would have thought, 'If we're not on our game we'll get beat by 40'. So they were ready to play.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...o-manly-win-20120717-228k9.html#ixzz2138ncoTt
PARRAMATTA are the most dangerous team in the competition - the week after you play them. And if the curse of the Eels continues at Brookvale Oval on Friday night, Manly will beat their old coach Des Hasler's Canterbury side.
Compelling statistics that were brought to our attention via an email from avid Herald reader, Artie Shanks, show that when teams have played Parramatta this season, they have usually gone on to lose their next game.
Only four teams have won the week after playing the Eels, while 12 have lost.
While the overall winning percentage of teams the week after they play is Eels is already low, at just 25.0, it drops to 15. 38 per cent - two wins and 11 losses - for those teams that beat Parramatta. The overall winning percentage the week after for teams that lost to the Eels rises dramatically to 66.6 per cent - two wins and one loss.
The obvious inference is that teams who beat struggling Parramatta - and some have scored very big wins over the bottom-placed Eels - are at risk of feeling better about themselves than they should and getting soft in the lead-up to their next game.
Even a team that is travelling as well as second-placed Canterbury isn't immune. The Bulldogs thrashed Parramatta 46-12 in round nine, but were then beaten 25-14 by Gold Coast the following week.
Coincidentally, the two teams that will play in the blockbuster at Brookvale Oval are the last two teams to have played the Eels. Manly beat them 40-24 in round nine, then lost 32-6 to Newcastle last weekend. Canterbury again whipped the Eels, 32-12, last weekend - and now we wait to see what happens on Friday.
It's an intriguing scenario, and a challenge that coaches are used to facing. But realising the threat doesn't automatically mean you are going to stop it. Former South Sydney and Parramatta first-grade coach and Herald columnist Jason Taylor, who is currently in charge of the Sydney Roosters under-20s side, described the statistics as ''a big factor''.
''Part of what you work on is what can happen in relation to last week's game,'' Taylor said last night. ''A soft win, or a big loss, and coaches work hard to try to get their team to where it needs to be mentally - to be in the right frame of mind to play their best football.
''And it's not always about whether you won or lost the game. Sometimes, you can lose the game, but if you finished the back end of it strongly you can take that into next week's game. And if you won, but you finished it off poorly, you can take the poor form in.
''The Manly-Parra game is a good example. Manly flogged Parra, but they did it all in the first half and didn't play well in the second half. Then, they took that second-half form into the game against Newcastle the following week.
''The opposition is looking at you on video as well, and when the Newcastle players saw Manly's first half against Parramatta they probably would have thought, 'If we're not on our game we'll get beat by 40'. So they were ready to play.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...o-manly-win-20120717-228k9.html#ixzz2138ncoTt
