Lifting players in the tackle and then carrying them backwards was once never part of the game in my memory i.e. you pushed them back whilst they were on their feet, as soon as their feet leave the ground they should be called held. Stops the wrestli
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"Played Strong, done fine" is what the great Jack Gibson might have said.
Before the game, Reed admitted "We want to prove everyone wrong", and last night they did. I'm ultra proud.
It was against the reigning premiers. Hungry, young lions, with a f
Read more…Good strategy and good presser.
Like the use of offloads against the Panther gang tackles
Made sure the media noted we got a really bad call without criticising the ref.
It was a tough assignment with injuries and players backing up with a short turn a
Read more…Outstanding performance. Filled with grit, patience, and whole-hearted effort. And how nice to break the Panthers' home run! Their fans certainly hate us more now if that were even possible bahahaaha!
3. Paulo
2. Gutherson
1. Matterson
Read more…With the under-seige Eels, copping it from everywhere and about to face the undefeated reigning premiers tomorrow night, there was nothing altogether surprising in these media do's including a collective backing of our man-of-the-week, and a readines
Read more…1. Cowboy's played well and deserved to win.
2. We cannot continue with JA in the 17 or for that matter the 21
3. BA has essentially split this team up with his approach to playing JA. Did anyone notice the Moses interview after the game "he was ropabl
Read more…I can't see any other way forward.
Offer Cronk lots of cash
Tell him a brief tour at the Eels will be a good challenge and experience for when he takes over the Chooks
Tell him there will be nothing in the contract to stop him taking our players and jun
Read more…3. F off BA
2. F off JA - nothing personal JA - your a good kid and who knows one day you may be 1st grade quality. But you are not now and this is supposed be a professional football side.
1. DB back to halves and JA out of the side completely or Wi
Read more…Last year our attack was stifled with JA
in the Penrith trial we scored 5 tries in 30 min with MM and DB then JA replaces DB and we score 1try in 50 minutes
We have never been scoreless in the first half all year and now with numerous repeat sets in ho
Read more…The Eels’ backline crisis has a silver lining — the development of speedy winger Matthew Komolafe being fast-tracked.
Komolafe, who was selected in the NSW Under 16s side alongside Will Penisini, has come up through the Eels system. He started the yea
Read more…If Opacic is out next week then what is your prefered center option:
1. DB: BA's prefered option but we lose a lot moving the in form 5:8th off the comp out of position into a spot he can fill but is not great at. We destabalise a performing spine and
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If you purely looked at the stats of Parramatta's round six clash against the Tigers, they won it everywhere but the scoreboard.
They ran for nearly 300 more metres, had more possession and better field position. Those stats generally indicate who th
Read more…When Parramatta ran out onto Cumberland Oval on 12th April 1947, one of the men in the crowd of 5,266 supporters was Jack Argent.
One half of the two Jacks that had built Parramatta achieved his goal of seeing a local side in the New South Wales Rugb
Read more…Mahoney knocked backwards and should have been a sin bin
Mahoney was facing his own dead ball line and knocked it back. It was not a knock on.
Titan's player should have been sent off
Read more…Rock Stars. That is who we were last week. In slaying the Dragons we were scintillating, especially Moses and Kenny Brown who continued their great form in the win over the Storm the week before.
We jump to third place on the ladder, the highest si
Read more…Everyone has an opinion but I was reflecting this morning on Moses game and I think it was just about the perfect game.
Now before anyone gets carried away comparisons cannot be made because of the years of performance, not to mention the consistency
Read more…Beating Melbourne in Melbourne is not something Parramatta do regularly. Beating Melbourne isn't something that has happened very often either. And most assumed normal service would resume this weekend after the Eels managed two wins over their south
Read more…I am concerned that BA appears to think our future halves are 6. JA ; 7. Moses and we will not retain Dylan.
Based on what I have seen our best halve pairing for the next several years is the current: 6 Moses; 7 Dylan
Up to now I thought Moses was t
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