Eels Blogs

Game Day Blog R14: A Royal Rumble — Can the Eels Crash the King's Party? (Update, Eels Lose 30-12)

“We want to really test ourselves against these guys,” Jason Ryles told the media on the eve of battle.

And what a test it’ll be — a blockbuster clash in front of an expected 70,000 crowd, as the high-flying Bulldogs take on the second-last Eels. Th

Centre of Excellence open for community welcome day

On Saturday 21 June the Eels will be hosting 3 matches at Kellyville, inviting the community to get a day's full of footy at the brand new Centre of Excellence.

Kicking off at 1pm will be the Jersey Flegg against the Knights, followed by the Harvey N

Just putting this one out there

Footy fans don't want to see less games being played in a standard , non semi final , season. The players do want to play less games in this same season format.

With the new teams joining the comp shortly there is the potential  to play more games in

Ongoing improvements and execution. How about this bloke? on the Edge

We are seeing a lot of focus on this area and we are all defensively saying.....we can see the improvement and are heading in the right direction.

Fair enough its true!.....My/ Our good mate "Bluey" is saying this every week and I assure him don't wor

Defence the name of the game

It's the most cliche saying in rugby league: "Defence wins premierships". Yet an effective defensive system has not been at Parramatta since the days of Brian Smith.

Despite having a dominant forward pack for a considerable period of time, Brad Arthu

The Ice-Cold Assassin Shows: Heart Isn’t Enough

“He just killed us," Moses shrugged. Killer sidesteps, jimmies, double pumps and sideline conversions. 40/20 daggers. Nathan Cleary, the ice-cold assassin. He didn’t just lead — he sliced through like a surgeon with ice in his veins. 

Panthers coac

Poppa's Corner: When is a win not a win?.....i.e. There is no such thing, or is there?

The answer is simple....when you don't get the two points, you get fcuk all running second or is there a consolation. I think we have the next best result.

We looked at the individuals for excuses  and if reading a summary of those opinions and you di

Hard to watch

That oa tough game to watch. Other than the first 20 mins you could be forgiven for thinking the whole parra side were backing up from origin. Zero go forward on most sets and rarely looked like scoring. The only thing that stopped the score blowing

Game Day Blog R13 v Panthers: Redemption (All Origin stars backing up; Late Switch Moretti starting, Tuilagi to bench)

Both are bottom-three, but there is nothing low-key about this iconic Western Showdown between old foes. The Eels seek to continue their upward trajectory to win 3-straight for the first time in two years. The Panthers, after a disastrous Bathurst t

Eels Brown Replacement

Sandon Smith or Jack Cole

I think Sandon wont come to us as he be thinking he our 2rd choice but as they said on NRL360 Hes a good player and he will leave now if a NRL spot came up and its just down road so not far from home 

And getting one back off panthers 

Poppa's Corner; A Retirement package for MON

One of our wags on here suggested a way of getting rid of MON is retiring him.... a tongue in cheek suggestion may I say! I'm sure he can be sacked if required?

A retirement package or sacking  may not be necessary. We will still need  to find a repla

Buster Hindmarsh signs with Panthers

Wow , our junior pathways is obviously going gangbusters 😂.  It's not as if his young blokes shit, he goes good. 

Good enough for the Penrith system but not good enough for ours ? Unlikely .  Wonder if Hindy was worried he'd cop what JA and MA copped

Game Day Blog R12 v Manly: Junz's 250th (Update Papali’i to debut)

The Eels host the Sea Eagles tonight at CommBank in what’s shaping up to be a wet, potentially scrappy and grinding affair — fitting for Junior Paulo’s 250th milestone. Both sides are coming off impressive wins, but consistency in this competition

Parramatta Eels officially open the world’s largest rugby league Centre of Excellence

The Parramatta Eels today officially opened the $70m Parramatta Eels Centre of Excellence (COE) and Kellyville Memorial Park Community Centre, the largest rugby league training precinct in the world, marking a transformative milestone for the Club an

Poppa's Corner: Remember Dylan Brown, he used to play for us

 Watching last night, I don't believe Dylan is anywhere the level he was attaining.

Whether it is the ACL tear (definitely lost pace) but his body language showed to me in pre and post game interviews he doesn't want to go anywhere. I think he sees P

Game Day Blog R11 v Knights: MOMAX arrives

The "MOMAX is finally here" image was produced by the Eels' club.

The Knights host the Eels tonight at McDonald Jones Stadium in a milestone 300th game for Dane Gagai.  Both sides sit in the bottom four and are desperate to snap losing habits in a