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Parramatta Draw - Shutdown May Not Impact Us Too Badly

Looking at the draw, the only upcomming home game that is at real risk is the St. George game at Bankwest Stadium on 5th April (in circa 3 weeks).

After that we have a home game against the broncos in Darwin on the 24th, then we play away games up unt

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Round 1 charges: Pangai facing 4-6 weeks out

This guy is turning out to be a gutless low life grub, worse than third man in Thugday

How the commentators reckon he is hard when he waits for his team mates to hold an opponent still so he can hit them with a cheap shot designed to take them out of

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NRL season up in the air due to Coronavirus

Australia's Chief Medical Officer has called on the Federal Government to ban gatherings of more than 500 people putting the immediate future of the NRL into danger.

It's assumed the NRL will either suspend the competition or move to playing games be

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Round 1 Review: At least we won

After a seemingly never-ending off season, rugby league returned to Bankwest Stadium for the first time in 2020. 

It was a pre-season that saw the Eels labelled top four certainties and premiership contenders much to the nervousness of the fan base.

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Eels vs Bulldogs 3, 2, 1

Very stop-start and a ridiculous amount of penalties. Don't be too concerned by our clunky attack. It will get better; the Dogs played exactly how I thought they would - very physical and gritty. They would have frustrated a lot of teams tonight. Our

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Game Day Parking At The Parra Leagues Club

 Read belwo;

Members attending the club right now in real time are being hit with a $20.00 parking fee, unless you arrive and park longer than 3 hours before the gates open which is 6.30pm

There a lot of very unhappy supporters. People at home might no

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NRL issues health and hygiene guidelines

NRL players will be told to limit interaction with fans at matches while community visits may also be cancelled as part of measures brought in to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, which has led the NBA to call off its season.

Starting with Thur

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John Fonua and Ethan Parry gone?

Anyone know why these two are not listed in CC?

Both should be and Ethan Parry is not injured and has reportedly been looking elsewhere, which is reasonable considering he is now no longer next in line for wing or centre.

https://www.northerndailyleade

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Orf seezun officially closed

We are just two days away from the start of the season and today is team list Tuesday. 

From today, regular in-season moderation begins. As always, the focus remains on rugby league specific blogs and discussions. Political and social blogs generally

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Parramatta Eels 2020 Season Preview

The Parramatta Eels head into the 2020 season as top four favourites having finished fifth in 2019 and progressing to the second week of the finals.

Strong recruitment in the off-season has seen them bolster their forward pack while the continued dev

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Don’t let the dogs out

Dogs suprised us last two games we played. Lots of chatter about our prospects for the season and we are expected to win this. If we are looking ahead and taking this game forgranted any way we will get ambushed.

We need to revenge last year at Bankwe

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WHY?

Can anyone associated with the site explain to me why I have not been able to blog or to reply to a blog for some time now? If I have been expelled why have I not been informed?Please explain

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2020 Big Improvers and other predictions

1. Parra: Joey will make the big difference jump into top 4 (get him here twice a week at least)

2. Penrith: Having a quality hooker - jump into top 8

3. Dragons: Addition of Flanagan to coaching ranks - jump into top 8

On the other side Manly will be a

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Parramatta to sell out NRL season opener against Canterbury

In what would be a historic celebration to kick-start the 2020 NRL season, Parramatta’s Bankwest Stadium is tracking for a sell-out which would double as the largest round one home crowd in the Eels’ 73-year history.

And it could ensure at least three

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New rule changes and Parra

The main rule we could take advantage of is no tackling attacking players mid air. We have tall wingers and second rowers that could feast on this rule. Not sure if Waqa can jump. It could also bring Taka back in contention as first back up for centr

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Captain's challenge given go-ahead for round 1

The captain's challenge has been given the green light by the ARL Commission for round one of the season after trial runs in the All Stars and Charity Shield.

NRL CEO Todd Greenberg has announced the new rule will be brought in after the Commission an

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Salmon should be 14

As I previously argued https://www.1eyedeel.com/forum/topics/do-we-have-a-premiership-bench the 14 needs to be a replacement for Mahoney. We need to improve our middle defence and that includes reducing Mahoney's workload, which will hopefully also a

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John Fonua

Looked good in the trial match - strong runner, knows his way to the try line, nice passes. Thought his defence looked good if I am remembering correctly. Does anyone know anything about him? Think he is 20 this year.

 

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Interesting article on Australian Stadiums implying smaller is better..

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-11/stadiums-too-big-for-some-australian-sports/11951632

 

 

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Parramatta Nines Performance Review

Another Nines tournament, another couple of finals appearances. The Eels are quickly becoming a Nines powerhouse, with the club making the finals in every edition of the competition so far, winning the final in 2016.

Parramatta came into the tourname

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