Eels Blogs

Eels need to banish Jekyll and Hyde if they want to win premiership

Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. What better way to describe Parramatta's split personality on Friday night?

One half spent imploding with passes going to ground, balls spilt, tackles missed, ground given up easily and an ineffective kicking game. Another hal

Why I called for BA and Gutherson to be sacked

I think BA and Gutherson are very similar, and rightly or wrongly I blame them for our game management. I am not a BA or Guth hater. When Guth first played for us I was just about the only one supporting him and calling for him to be fullback and unt

Respecting the Opposition, its not just the players.

The coach in his presser pointed out we did not respect our opponents in the first half.

Brissyeel wrote a blog on some supporters going off half cocked!

I thought about this and the theme coming through the negative nellies that if we perform like tha

Some positives to think about

I thought Opacic was impressive to the expectation of being a very solid centre and also shows some class in positioning himself. his effort to get back off the Croft kick was outstanding, a match saving move.

Pappall was everything thats been said, I

Eels vs Broncos 3, 2, 1

Great comeback but honestly not much has changed from last year. Clunky attack, frail on the edges, and an over-reliance on the power game. But you can't fault our resolve and we do look fit.

3. Papali'i

2. Gutherson

1. Mahoney

Important: Leagues Club Voting Closes Soon

Mail and online voting will be closing soon for the Parramatta Leagues Club AGM which includes the election of two directors.

Mail in votes and online voting must be completed by 5pm AEDST 10 March 2021. 

For those who either can't vote online or by

1EE Tipping Comp

It's on again. The 1EE Legends tipping comp.

For any returning members, if you still have an ESPN footy tipping account, you should still be in the comp.

For any new members that want to join, here are the details:

ESPN Footy Tips - available via app or

How the Eels survived the COVID season

It’s Thursday the 12th March 2020. The sun is setting over the western grandstand of Bankwest Stadium as the Parramatta Eels prepare to open the season and face their traditional rivals the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs.

Sitting in the crowd in the K

How to build a balanced roster

The article below is more specifically about the impending expansion team in 2023, but it offers some valid views for existing clubs.

https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/03/05/targets-pitfalls-and-cap-splitting-how-to-build-nrl-roster-from-scratch/

Nrl fantasy League

Not sure if anyone has already setup a league (please share details in comments), but just in case i have setup this one:

https://fantasy.nrl.com/fantasy/league/join?code=Y442PV75

Three Why's Eels

1. Why do we give our winger ball and they have 4 to beat and get smashed over the sideline. Both Fergo and Sivo are good finishers and score if given half a chance, they are just not given that chance. Why are we not creating more room for them. Bel

Sam Hughes? where is he? what's going on?

Along with Hollis, Hughes was touted by many as the next big thing up front, but i note hes dropped off the teams lists and i sense some hush hush about him.

Maybe he's just injured but i cant find anybody to confirm that, anybody know whats going on

Eels best Team Based on Trial

1. Gutho - no comment needed

2. Fergo - had some good runs in the trial. Starved in attack as usual

3. Blake - defence is still poor and poor in attack

4. Opacic - pretty solid in attack and defense

5. Sivo - pretty good

6. Brown - both halves decided to

help/advice

This is not really an eels blog as such but I am reaching out to some where posting in the past week regarding Chromecast and signing up for Kayo, I would like to cover needed bases in getting it right.

I purchased a Google Chrome set today, got home

Broncos Smith offer

Just read an article saying the Broncos have approached a millionaire businessman to help secure Smith. How is this allowed? I thought it is against the rules for a club to approach an external person/company with the specific aim of increasing the f

Adam Reynolds at Halfback?

Seeing the article in the DT today, it's Interesting that the Bunnies have given him such a poor contract extension...
While I'll admit he's not outstanding, you can't deny he has been a pretty important and reliable feature in their success in the la

Injury update

Oldfield (MCL) and Cartwright (Jaw) are sidelined until round 4-6

Charlton Schaafhausen back

Keep an eye out for Schaafhausen - he is one of the few Canterbury cup players that is ready for NRL IMO.

He is way down on the pecking order, but from what I saw in 2019 he would be comfortable in first grade. Similar sort of winger as Sivo but cheap

Eels blow out cobwebs in Dragons trial

The Parramatta Eels put in an impressive performance on Thursday afternoon, defeating the St George Illawarra Dragons 28-6 in their first trial hit out of the year.

The Eels started the game with NRL-experienced players Joey Lussick, Isaiah Papali'i,

Eels Trial Game thoughts?

It was pretty obvious which players had played in the NRL or not. Will Smith, Papali'i and Lussick were the best players in the first half. Arthur looked very good in all aspects of the game for such a young half. He goes so deep in the line which is