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We May have the Almighty on our Side Afterall !!!

I have watched Roosters beat the shit out of Souths and bring themselves undone, like wise Sharks had Cows covered and blew that, the difference of how their supporters must feel with leading one minute before fulltime against the cows and sitting on

The Promised Land

The monkey was big, it was bad and it had taken up residence for nearly four years, but the Eels not only shook it off on Friday night, they pummelled it into oblivion as they ran away with a 40-4 week two finals triumph over the Canberra Raiders.

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Eels vs Raiders 3, 2, 1. Special Finals Edition

Rise up guys we're off to the Prelim! Outstanding team performance; we shut the Raiders out early and did not let up. Big guns stood up tonight, the most in sync I think this year. Congrats to the players and the coaching staff, well done!

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IF Moses is out and I do not think he will be?

What no one really wants to talk about is who would replace him.....we all know who it would be.....but it shouldn't.

My expectations are he will play, my fear is that JA will be on the bench as a standby!

I can't imagine what justification BA would us

SAD TO SEE

All the things said 50% completion rate in the second half and poor ball control.we could not win it, change that equation and send the guys to the beach to catch high balls and we are competitive against them in a GF, if we get there.

We went with th

Finals Week 1 v Panthers: No Regrets

And so it begins. "Squeaky Bum Time", as the legendary coach Sir Alex Ferguson called it.

The Eels late-season renaissance has many fans dreaming of the seemingly impossible. But the Panthers are the best team in the competition and armed with the r

Taylan May Suspended But Not Really

The NRL has cheapened its self further with a disgraceful decision to suspend May for two games, in 2023!!!

This means he is free to play in the finals this year!

The NRL has lost its marbles. The reasoning given is they now believe that a finals game

Taylah May suspended for 2 games

But allowed to postpone suspension to after finals - free to play

Taylan May

Surely this guy gets suspended.  I'm shocked the NRL saw the video and though it was OK to let him play all year before giving him a suspension.  It was straight out assault, and he should be missing game time.

OLD BASTARDS ON THIS SITE AND SOME THAT AREN'T, I WATCHED THIS BLOKE TODAY AND HE REMINDS ME OF KEN THORNETT

Lachie Miller’s highlights reel | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

This is Lachlan Miller who is Cronull's fullback and represented Australia in the 7's at the Tokyo Olympics.

He has a lighter complexion than the Mayor but his build is simil

NSW Cup or Reserve Grade Blues.....We have to do better as a development club!

This was inspired by reading about our second grade performance in the elimination semi final yesterday. It was mentioned that the captain coach idea was a failed experiment.

I don't think the player coach was an experiment as much as a convenience wi

SIVO SIVO SIVO

I owe an apology blog to Maika Sivo.

I honestly thought he was gone last season before his ACL injury.

My view was that he got "weights happy" through Covid and and lost his pace and cordination.

His comeback was so so after the ACL but I still thought

A very interesting blog re team playing styles. The best Rugby League article I've read in years

Two difficult decisions for BA

1. Whether to rest players next week. 2. Whether to play JA in the finals

1. As Mutts has pointed out 4th is a good run this year (win or lose the first finals match) and home games are important. Regardless I think we need to rest players. We cannot

9 years and no superstars

I was trying to think back over the past 9 years to what players BA has recruited and I could not think of one genuine super star player that BA has managed to luer to the eels. Your top teams have the ability to pull players like the munsters, cronk

Moving along or Moving aside

Talk is again about our next coach, some talk was about  Slater, as a player  he always hated Parra (mainly because of Hayne).....that said they are only talking wish lists and fantasy calls.....Mick Potter had some time at Parra and I am not sure he

S&W and future of JA-BA

I have been wanting to do a Strength and Weakness blog on JA and see what everyone thought about whether he would be a fisrt grade quality half one day or even a top first grade half. However, unfortunately for JA its not just about JA, JA cannot be

Brad Arthur's stroke of genius

I've been thinking about the whole JA on the bench thing and the discussions on this site about it and it struck me!

Brad Arthgur is a genius.

Now hear me out.

What position dont we have decent back up in. Well it could be argued various positions, but

R21 v Manly: At the Crossroads

"My Mama Always Said Life Was Like A Box Of Chocolates. You Never Know What You're Gonna Get", so said Tom Hanks' character in Forest Gump.

Forest's Mama could have been describing the Eels, week to week, half to half. And we have a pretty big box o