Eels Blogs

Where is our talent coming from

This is a slightly different tack to the same old questions, but at the same time, I think it identifies with Parra's need to be more visionary with our development squads and recruitment.

Last night I was at the annual presentation of a senior distr

I think it is athleticism that we generally lack

In saying that I am sure that we all would be happy to be half the athletes that we consider our most modest players to be..

This game was always going to be the hardest for us to win because we do not like playing against the Easts/South styles that

HODGO is a half assed plodder who needs to go.

Lazy, half assed, uninterested, plodding, one handed defence, walking around hands on hips off the ball, not much talking, passed his used by date, no urgency, zero intensity.

Just some of the things that come to mind watching him since he's been here

Brendan Hands Situation

Can someone explain to me how we are allowed to play Hands? We seem to have gotten the ok from the league to play a non top 30 player but on what grounds? I thought it had to be fairly special circumstances but we have plenty of fit top 30 players, i

Suaalii to depart Roosters when current contract expires

https://www.nrl.com/news/2023/03/25/suaalii-to-depart-roosters-when-contract-expires/

Eels vs Panthers 3, 2, 1

It was always going to take a real tough oppenent to snap us out of our malaise. We looked totally different than any of our other games this year. Hope the boys have learned their lesson.

3. Gutherson

2. Campbell-Gillard

1. Moses

Leadership from Gurr, Politis and the NRL ...... the priority is now on and off field officialdom

 I think Bernie Gurr did a great job and always felt that he maybe he had designs on the NRL CEO's job, not sure of the politics there post Villandys and Abdo.

He would have made a great one IMO. I know Fong didn't have much time for him and he would

SG Ball Rd7 Highlights

https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2023/03/20/une-sg-ball-cup-highlights--round-seven/

Eels are at the 8:35 min mark

Ethan Sanders is 6

Matt Arthur is 9

Do not know how much can tell from highlights but both Ethan and Matt look promising. Ethan looks in contr

Footy IQ and Footy Smarts

This concept of IQ and footy smarts has become popular in recent times and I'm starting to wonder if we recruit from the other end. i.e. like picking a monkey, because you know you can train him....in Parra's case it seems that in terms of defense, t

Simple Question.....if we are scoring 5 to 6 Tries per game...... how come our halves are playing so bad?

Now the question is rhetorical I know.....but quiet simply the coach should be answering it.

Putting Makatoa, Greig, Murchie and they make no running metres....why cant we just put on tacklers? Who etc

Finally how many tries to we give up through our w

NRL News and the Mole Claiming Waqa Blake in danger of being squeezed out!

Grand final centre Waqa Blake is in danger of being squeezed out of Parramatta by salary cap pressure.

Blake is coming off contract at season's end and rival clubs are circling, realising the Eels will find it hard to retain the tall outside back.

With

Picking Teams, Physcology and what does our Board of Management actually do ?

I read with some interest about BA being a cog and really the puppateer was O'Neill. I am going to explain why O'Neill cannot be the Puppateer!

Anyone with some knowledge of physcology and and a view on this  I will create a platform for you.

Tuesday i

Everyone Loves a Plan and it is time to ask the question.........How's it going?

I would like to be a fly on the wall looking at our corporate plan.

Planning is and should be a 5 year living document and as such, things such as our development club plan should be alive and it is seriously “not well”. Our minor grades are losing ev

Blake and Simonssen are both useless

We will not win a game while they are in th side. Bring back Cini and even try JA in the centres.

R2 v Sharks: This Is The Way

 Alchemy. The ancient art of transformation of metals into something greater than the sum of their parts. It's also about the hero’s transformative journey through all the Herculean-like tests. It explains much of Star Wars, The Mandalorian, its ligh

1EE Legends tipping comp

It's back again tipsters, the 1EE tipping comp.

Can anyone beat Parra Fan On The Hill?

Can Chief shake off the Tigers curse and not finish 9th again?

Can BEM make it past round 3 before giving up?

You can join here:

https://www.footytips.com.au/comps/1ee_

Elections draw near

Nope, it's not about the impending state election in late March.

The Parramatta Leagues Club board elections are once again upon us.

Ever since the constitution was ratified and triennial elections were implemented the board has operated smoothly wit

How good is Hopgood?

Honestly people, how is all the talk today not about Hopgood. Everyone wants to focus on negatives from our trial yet i think Hopgood is 10 times more attention worthy. His stats yesterday were awesome while punching out 80 minutes. This guy is somet

Guess who's back!

Im hearing whispers that this man is back and re-signed or about to do so, anybody hearing anything?

Settle the fek dow Carls, go change your panties!

Our Juniors and an early comparison to the unquestioned top of the line rivals. I will be interested to read the responses given that I suspect not many know much about our juniors

I have cut and and pasted the relevant sections from The Cumberland Throws report on these trials as I believe we have a lot of nisnomers about our juniors and there current levels. Tarsha Gale is the womens u/19's, Harrold Matts u/17's and SG Ball u