The Recruitment Discussion

Recruitment and retention is always fraught with different levels of risk and reward. Players are handed big money deals and don't perform, while the guys on lesser wages play above their pay grades.

For the last few years, the Eels have had the good

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Is this who you are talking about Trent?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlVcT89TVvg

He has big shoes to fill in 2023 (Marata and Ice) but maybe he can do it

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Parramatta Eels 2021 NRL season review

Rugby League History reviews Parramatta's 2021 season.  How would you rate our season?, and how do you rate our chances going in to 2022 and beyond?.

https://youtu.be/WcG5L_JORDk

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Keegan Hipgrave Retires

Announced today!

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Parramatta Eels forward Keegan Hipgrave has today announced his immediate retirement from rugby league.

 Keegan and the Club sought extensive medical advice following a concussion late in the 2021 season. Based off this advice, Ke

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Eels announce two new additions to coaching staff

The Parramatta Eels are pleased to announce that Michael Ennis and Paul McGregor will be joining the coaching staff as consultants for Season 2022.

Michael and Paul had long and successful careers as players, Paul spent seven years as head coach of S

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Nathan Brown played through broken foot

Parramatta Eels lock forward Nathan Brown played much of the 2021 season with multiple lower leg injuries.

It's been revealed that Brown has recently undergone syndesmosis repair surgery and an ankle clean out on one leg and will undergo surgery on a

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Penrith Phillistinism.

Good to see the NRL taking action oner the outrageous behaviour of the Penrith morons who smashed the NRL trophy in their drunkin or drug state. Good fines were given to all concerned. The club itself was fined which was a necessary first which one h

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‘Sack them all’: Explosive letter rips into Eels

Eels legend Ray Price among members to endorse vote of no confidence in Parramatta board

The Parramatta board has been served a vote of no confidence in a letter endorsed by two club legends which accuses it of ‘failing its supporters, members and pla

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Brown and Brown

Long time reader, first time poster. Eels tragic since watching my first footy game with Dad back in the 70's and deciding to support the other team to Dad's dogs. Thank god it was the Eels and I havent looked back since.

I've been thinking about the

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A war of attrition

This an extract / quote from a post made by Fathead.

You see the nature of the game doesn't allow for the continued policing of either the on side or lying in the ruck. 
If you did, you would basically have a game of NFL where every play is policed an

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Ken Thornett Medal Live Blog

The Ken Thornett Medal is once again upon us with Parramatta's season coming to an end.

The reigning medal holder is Clint Gutherson and no player has gone back to back since Jarryd Hayne in 2009 and 2010.

There have been a number of standout perform

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2022 Eels Depth Chart

With the club announcing four players departing and there will no doubt be some recruitments and upgrades to come over the off-season, here's what the club's depth chart looks like at the moment.

Fullback: Clint Gutherson, Hayze Perham, Sean Russell

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Suggestion to the Board, go for BankWest to take sponsorship of the club, with Comm Bank now taking naming rights on the ground.

Smart thinking now would be Bank West taking on the Parra sponsorship.

Bank West being out of Comm Bank makes so much sense when the team playing there is out of the same "stable".

With due respect to ALAND we need a sponsor with the type of status tha

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The Curtain Falls

And with one horrendous call of his whistle while the circus music and streamers went off in The Bunker, Ashley Klein killed off Parramatta's season. Throw in a bunch of terrible non-calls because, once again, the officials are incompetent and they d

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Why was Junior Pengai allowed to play and what happened to refereeing discretion and the bunker's role in the whole process. PC is killing us!

How about Junior Pangai even playing in the game at this stage of the season. I'm still don't understand what justified his going  to any club after the June 30 deadline. i.e. he wasn't a Sonny Bill coming from another code or the like. (just quietly

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1EE OFF SEASON OFFICIALLY STARTS NOW!

Blogs are open for any topic, not just RL, welcome to the official 1EE off season.

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Areas We Need to Improve to Win

Starting to get a bit nervous, I've let myself believe we have a chance on Saturday. It's a big ask, 2nd v 6th and they are a very talented squad. They'll be pumped to try and make up for the loss against Souths.

I'm keen to know what others think are

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Tigers sponsor rips apart club

This is an absolutely brilliant podcast. A Tigers sponsor explains the incompetence in the club when it comes to recruitment and retention. Would have loved to hear something from an Eels sponsor during the dark years.

To paraphrase: Justin Pascoe th

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Parramatta turn to mental skills coach for finals edge

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Delayed Penalty

Since the crackdown on head high contact earlier in the season, we've seen the refs struggle to keep up with all the players getting reported. We often see, after a break in play, someone getting reported for an incident that happened earlier in the

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