Final six round - draw announced - Eels Blogs

The NRL have today confirmed the final 6 rounds of the 2016 NRL Telstra Premiership, including the Dyldam Parramatta Eels’ final home game at Pirtek Stadium.

The final six rounds will see the Blue and Gold feature in three blockbuster home clashes, against the Wests Tigers, Sea Eagles and the Dragons, including Junior League Appreciation Round against the Wests Tigers, and our Women in League celebrations against the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles at Pirtek Stadium on Friday 5 August.

Blue and Gold Members and fans can also bid farewell to our home for the past 30 years, Parramatta’s Pirtek Stadium, before its redevelopment in 2017. The Pirtek Stadium farewell is locked in for Monday, August 29, when the Eels take on the St. George Illawarra Dragons in Round 25.

The Blue and Gold will also travel interstate and overseas on the run home, with clashes against the Brisbane Broncos at Suncorp Stadium, Canberra Raiders at GIO Stadium and against the NZ Warriors at Mt Smart Stadium in Round 26.

2016 NRL TELSTRA PREMIERSHIP FINAL SIX ROUNDS:

Round 21: Parramatta Eels v Wests Tigers at ANZ Stadium on Saturday, July 30. Kick off at 5:30pm. Live on FOX

Round 22: Parramatta Eels v Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles at Pirtek Stadium on Friday, August 5. Kick off at 7:50pm. Live on NINE

Round 23: Brisbane Broncos v Parramatta Eels at Suncorp Stadium on Friday, August 12. Kick off at 7:50pm. Live on NINE

Round 24: Canberra Raiders v Parramatta Eels at GIO Stadium on Sunday, August 21. Kick off at 2pm. Live on FOX

Round 25: Parramatta Eels v St. George Illawarra Dragons at Pirtek Stadium on Monday, August 29. Kick off at 7pm. Live on FOX

Round 26: NZ Warriors v Parramatta Eels at Mt Smart Stadium on Sunday, September 4. Kick off at 6pm. Live on NINE

TICKETS FOR THE EELS’ RUN HOME:

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday, June 30, for the Eels’ final 3 home games of the 2016 season.

Members have access to a special pre-sale window, from Tuesday, June 28 - to access your pre-sale tickets, simply enter your Eels Member number (without the EEL- prefix) from 10am on Tuesday, June 28.

Click through for all Eels home games at Pirtek Stadium

Click through from June 28 for the Eels’ Round 21 home game at ANZ Stadium

Last game at Pirtek will be against the Dragons, but on a Monday night.

Interestingly the Bulldogs get no Sunday game, so our Mormon brother doesn't have to sit out any more games. Nothing to see here Teflon Todd.

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jm054 June 24, 2016 at 3:25pm

Why are they having the Dragons game on a Monday night? It's the last game at Pirtek Stadium and I would be thinking it would be on a Friday, Sunday or at least a Saturday night. What also gets me is that the Sunday game is between the Knights and the Rabbitohs. What a bludger of a game that will be.
- Slipper > jm054 June 24, 2016 at 3:26pm
  
  Yeah not happy about that
- wiggy 71 > jm054 June 24, 2016 at 5:26pm
  
  Even 2pm kickoff would have been better than a Monday night.
- Prof. Daz > jm054 June 25, 2016 at 10:42am
  
  Maybe the NRL think fans will turn out in droves to see who out of Knights and Bunnies wins the wooden spoon?
The French Fullback #1 June 24, 2016 at 3:26pm

What a joke having the last game at Pirtek on a Monday. Fair enough we're out of the finals by then in all likelihood, Dragons maybe still in the mix, but it always rates and draws well. Fancy us getting a Chnl 9 game away in NZ in the last round but not getting a Friday or Sunday for the Pirtek game in Rd 25 against a Sydney rival? That makes no sense to me at all. Add in the Roosters getting 2 Sunday games at 4pm IN A ROW vs Cowboys/Dragons at Allianz on 9! The logic...
adnan June 24, 2016 at 3:32pm

they want to strip us of 12 pts yet they are happy to give us 3 out of 6 freetime games
- wiggy 71 > adnan June 24, 2016 at 5:35pm
  
  Broncos have all Thursday or Friday night games in the last 6 rounds.
Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown June 24, 2016 at 3:39pm

Im not sure why anybody needs to farewell our shit hole of a stadium that we've never had any real success out of barring its first year 86.

We should be throwing a party and burning it down, forget teary eyed fair wells, good riddance to the stadium, it should be a very happy night for all eels fans.
- Yobz > Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown June 24, 2016 at 4:53pm
  
  Bring your marshmallows
- Longfin Eel > Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown June 24, 2016 at 5:36pm
  
  It's actually better than any other suburban ground. But I'm sure the next incarnation will be better and hopefully bring much more success.