Eastern Suburbs figured in their first Shute Shield playoff series for a number of winters and many observers felt that the Beasts season was a raging success. They started the year on fire, grabbing four wins and the Penrith bye in the first six weeks and ended the season in sixth place with a rare win over Randwick under their belts for the first time in five years. But head coach Pauli Taumoepeau believed that there was so much more to be harvested from the 2018 season. Still 11 wins from 18 starts in the regular season wasn’t too shabby at all and the making of a very good defensive side is there as long as they keep working at it. Here’s what the Taumoepeau had to say about 2018: With hindsight, how do you look back on the season?  It was okay. I think a lot of people will look at our season and see it as a success. But we thought we could’ve gone deeper into the playoffs. So to that point our 2018 season was a bit of a disappointment. But the year had many