We can only hope.
Team named v Storms. Unchanged, Junior starting for now.
1–13
Joash Papalii
Brian Kelly
Jordan Samrani
Sean Russell
Josh Addo-Carr
Ronald Volkman
Mitchell Moses
Luca Moretti
Tallyn Da Silva
Junior Paulo
Kelma Tuilagi
Jack Williams
Jack de Belin
Bench
Dylan Walker
Saxon Pryke
Toni Mataele
Charlie Guymer
Extended
Apa Twidle
Teancum Brown
Harrison Edwards
Araz Nanva
Jonah Pezet
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I’m an Eels member living in Townsville, so being there last night made that one feel extra good. I absolutely love when we beat the Cows.
I honestly had a feeling all week we had one of those random big performances in us. Not a perfect game, not an 80-minute clinic… but one where we’d scrap, stay in it, and find enough big moments to get the job done.
That’s exactly what happened.
There were times the Cowboys had us stretched everywhere. Watching Chester and Purdue turn us inside out at times wasn’t exactly fun from the stands, and there were definitely moments where it looked like momentum had completely swung.
But we just kept hanging around.
Jordan Samrani was enormous. That late try where he stepped through and backed himself gave us life, and then that run down the sideline to put Joash over a couple of minutes later… unreal. Both of them were massive when it mattered most.
Then you get to golden point and Mitchell Moses does what elite players do.
Far from perfect, but effort, grit and belief were there all night. We didn’t always get it right, but we did more than enough.
Watching that finish live in a Townsville crowd as an Eels supporter… that’s one I’ll remember for a long time.
Proud member. Up the Eels.
P.S I lost my voice and drank enough XXXX Gold my Garmin went flat from counting the stairs I climbed during the night.
I've been scouring through everything to see if I could find information about this week's captains run - usually there's plenty of emails etc for Townsville members at the very least but this year there seems to be little.
The captains run is at the Sports Reserve on Thursday and that's all I could find. It appears the Sydney based fans that have paid for the travel package get exclusive access but the loyal long suffering North Queenslanders (feels like it's been 84 years since the last regular season game up here) seem to be missing out.
Have I glossed over important information that has been sent out or posted? I think the logical next step is to contact the club with a strongly worded facsimile 😁.