Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Club in crisis - ha!
Brian Smith took a shot at those reporters who had attempted to portray Parramatta as a club in crisis, pointing out that of the five Eels games that took place on the weekend - it won four and snatched a come from behind draw in the remaining game.
"The Parramatta Club played 5 games of football today from Harold Matthews through tot he NRL - we had 4 wins and a come from behind draw - not bad for a Club in Crisis," Smith said at the after match press conference.
While Smith said the game showed that the team was able to keep picking themselves up from "external factors" he did admit there were problems that needed addressing.
Asked if Parramatta had problems with its goal line defence, Smith agreed and said: "We will address it".
"Those sorts of thingscan't be fixed in a few days there are generally a whole heap of things that have to be attended to there. We will continue to work at it."
He also admitted that the number of penalities the players were giving away was the putting the side under enormous pressure.
"It was not just the number of penalties but some of the penalties that came put us under so much pressure - most of them were self inflicted so we have got a truckload of work to do in that area," Smith said.
Outside of Aaron Cannings broken arm there were no injuries from the match, he said.
"The Parramatta Club played 5 games of football today from Harold Matthews through tot he NRL - we had 4 wins and a come from behind draw - not bad for a Club in Crisis," Smith said at the after match press conference.
While Smith said the game showed that the team was able to keep picking themselves up from "external factors" he did admit there were problems that needed addressing.
Asked if Parramatta had problems with its goal line defence, Smith agreed and said: "We will address it".
"Those sorts of thingscan't be fixed in a few days there are generally a whole heap of things that have to be attended to there. We will continue to work at it."
He also admitted that the number of penalities the players were giving away was the putting the side under enormous pressure.
"It was not just the number of penalties but some of the penalties that came put us under so much pressure - most of them were self inflicted so we have got a truckload of work to do in that area," Smith said.
Outside of Aaron Cannings broken arm there were no injuries from the match, he said.
