Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nEels playmaker Mitch Moses said starts have been particularly troublesome for Parramatta this year. And although there were glimpses of promising attack, he too was disappointed in the Eels\u2019 defence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were focused on what works well for us. We pulled them apart a little bit but we still had 48 points put on us and that\u2019s the part we\u2019ve got to change,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t been starting well. Every single game this year we haven\u2019t been starting well and we\u2019ve been chasing our tail. We need to be better there, if we can start well and put ourselves in the game early, we\u2019re probably not chasing our tail like we have been.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defence could be the least of the Eels\u2019 woes heading into their Easter Monday clash against the in-form Wests Tigers. The side is sweating on scans for star fullback Isaiah Iongi, who suffered suspected syndesmosis after an apparent hip drop from Mitch Kenny that caused a controversial sin bin.<\/p>\n
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The Eels also lost interchange forward Matt Doorey with a suspected ACL against Penrith, just a week after J\u2019maine Hopgood was sidelined for the season with the same injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s not much to say about it, a suspected ACL [for Matt] and Issy\u2019s (Isaiah) suspected syndesmosis. Someone else gets an opportunity at their misfortune,\u201d said Ryles.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll tell you after we get a scan on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about the Eels depth with the injuries, Ryles was non-committal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re about to find out. It\u2019s an opportunity for someone else to come in and put the jersey on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have to wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Ryles has made no secret of his disappointment in \u2018individual lapses\u2019 in the Eels defence following the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,651,6173,259658,259603,280083,280081,280082,25536,4508,4556,4746,22322,280086,63825,4605,4464,22326,1203,761,762,158,677,280080,9112,4598,668,701,4503,280079,189452,85,280087,280085,4515,280084,46862],"class_list":["post-569901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brisbane","tag-club-legend","tag-completion-rates","tag-controversial-sin-bin","tag-defensive-result","tag-defensive-structures","tag-game-point","tag-heaps-praise","tag-jack-williams","tag-jason-ryles","tag-mark-st-john","tag-matt-doorey","tag-mike-penrith","tag-missed-tackles","tag-mitch-kenny","tag-mitch-moses","tag-mitchell-moses","tag-nathan-cleary","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-origin-player","tag-parramatta-eels","tag-penrith-panthers","tag-press-conference","tag-queensland","tag-sean-russell","tag-set-tackle-restarts","tag-single-game","tag-sports","tag-suspected-syndesmosis","tag-tremendous-start","tag-wests-tigers","tag-woes-heading","tag-young-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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