Eels Blogs

Eels lower the boom, gear up for Panthers

All season we've heard Brad Arthur talk about front loading effort and playing tough, and aside from the first two minutes, it's exactly what they did on Sunday afternoon.

The elimination final against Newcastle was a display of finals footy from Par

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Junior and Marata apparently cleared

UPDATE

Hearing some good news for Parramatta fans. Junior Paulo and Marata Niukore will be free to play against Penrith. Will be hit with fines, no games missed.

— Michael Chammas (@MichaelChammas) September 13, 2021

Update: Marata and Junior off

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Poem For Carlo

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,

And with old woes new wail my dear time`s wast:

Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,

For precious friends hid in deaths date

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Last Night Of The Proms

Can anyone explain to me how to reply to a blog and how to reply to an answer to a blog that I have sent?  I can now send a blog but I can`t respond to an answer to that blog. What do I click on for example?

Carlow, I can't reply to you as yet---as ab

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I Am Here Again.

I am sure you will all be pleased---well I am pleased and that's all that counts for me.! I think I was banned for some months but the powers that be say otherwise. Why oh why is it working this morning?

I had to put a corny title to this blog to make

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Breaking down Parramatta's finals side

There's plenty to discuss as Parramatta head into week one of the finals with a very different looking side to the one that was expected.

Let's take a look at the changes Brad Arthur has made to the side.

1. Clint Gutherson - No surprises here.

2. Ha

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Finals Week 1 Team List

1. Clint Gutherson

2. Haze Dunster

3. Will Penisini

4. Waqa Blake

5. Blake Ferguson

6. Dylan Brown

7. Mitchell Moses

8. RCG

9. Ray Stone

10. Junior Paulo

11. Shaun Lane

12. Marata Niukore

13. Nathan Brown

14. Will Smith

15. Bryce Cartwright

16. Isaia

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The New Season Begins

The curtain has come down on the regular season as eight teams begin their off-season and look to head home.

The remaining eight now gear up for the final month of the season as we see them get whittled down to the final two on grand final day.

As ma

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The Flaw in our Defence and how important are big hits?

I was reading and posting on the Ray Stone appreciation blog today and it made me think about why I went off Stone from a couple of years back, when I got excited by his whole presentation and demeanour and a reminder of another Ray.

I think I am back

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good read on West Tigers in SMH

A crisis of identity: The real tales from Tiger town

 

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Eels Membership Record

The Eels have broken their membership record. See story here:

https://www.parraeels.com.au/news/2021/09/02/parramatta-eels-membership-breaks-all-time-record/

This is great news for the club, in spite of some of the bumbling efforts from the membership

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Quality of refereeing

This is not so much the actual incident of Latrell Mitchell but an official of easts, yes their rugby league manager. I didn't take any notice at first but the old saying of "karma" comes home applies to this bloke because when it comes to being the

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The Fog Lifts

The past six weeks has felt like wading through thick fog for Parramatta fans. It was the fog we saw on the horizon and we watched as it descended into the valley and settled all around us.

It was denser than it suggested and it felt like it would ne

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Will Penisini

Great game yesterday. Our right edge was really dominant yesterday against, arguably, the best left edge in the competition in Ado-Car and Olam. All credit to ferguson for his efforts as well. If, and I say if, without getting ahead of myself, we wan

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Well done to BA and the lads, big critic of BA, but credit where credits due tonight.

Well done to BA for getting the lads up, i still think he's a massive dope but credit where credits dur tonight, its a big form turn around.

I give BA plenty of shite when we play shit, just giving the man credit when we play well.

Gives us a glimmer o

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Great news!

I have recently had an indepth discussion with Brad about how to change our current situation.

Brad has carefully considered our game plan & has come up with a brilliant new plan.

From now on we will be exhausting the opposition by charging at their fo

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Storm link with Gerard Sutton

What are everyones thoughts on this story:

https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/mole-melbourne-storm-gerard-bernard-sutton-roosters-referees-shaun-johnson-sharks-wests-tigers-doco/29e0d718-6b11-4c99-ac5c-09295db804c9

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Papali'i to the bench?

Isaiah Papali'i has been the buy of the season regardless of how Parramatta's year ends. He went from fringe first grader at the Warriors to starting player at Parramatta.

But for me, herein lies the problem. Papali'i was brought to the club to be th

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DANIEL ANDERSON AS APOSSIBLE COACH

DANIEL ANDERSON GOT THE EELS TO THE 2009 GRAND FINAL. He has connections to the eels going back many years. He won premierships with UK Super league teams. Currently he is recruitment manager for the Roosters and we all know Uncle Nick does not suffe

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The WAR is not over because we lost a few battles, its time for some strategic withdrawals and taking some medicine.

Gee there is a lot of rhetoric and motherhood statements in the current blog's with the inevitable "fixers" who have no idea how a sports team operates.

Gould did a job at Penrith which was not recognised and only assumed on the basis he caused the re

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