Eels Blogs

Defence the name of the game

It's the most cliche saying in rugby league: "Defence wins premierships". Yet an effective defensive system has not been at Parramatta since the days of Brian Smith.

Despite having a dominant forward pack for a considerable period of time, Brad Arthu

The Ice-Cold Assassin Shows: Heart Isn’t Enough

“He just killed us," Moses shrugged. Killer sidesteps, jimmies, double pumps and sideline conversions. 40/20 daggers. Nathan Cleary, the ice-cold assassin. He didn’t just lead — he sliced through like a surgeon with ice in his veins. 

Panthers coac

Poppa's Corner: When is a win not a win?.....i.e. There is no such thing, or is there?

The answer is simple....when you don't get the two points, you get fcuk all running second or is there a consolation. I think we have the next best result.

We looked at the individuals for excuses  and if reading a summary of those opinions and you di

Hard to watch

That oa tough game to watch. Other than the first 20 mins you could be forgiven for thinking the whole parra side were backing up from origin. Zero go forward on most sets and rarely looked like scoring. The only thing that stopped the score blowing

Game Day Blog R13 v Panthers: Redemption (All Origin stars backing up; Late Switch Moretti starting, Tuilagi to bench)

Both are bottom-three, but there is nothing low-key about this iconic Western Showdown between old foes. The Eels seek to continue their upward trajectory to win 3-straight for the first time in two years. The Panthers, after a disastrous Bathurst t

Eels Brown Replacement

Sandon Smith or Jack Cole

I think Sandon wont come to us as he be thinking he our 2rd choice but as they said on NRL360 Hes a good player and he will leave now if a NRL spot came up and its just down road so not far from home 

And getting one back off panthers 

Poppa's Corner; A Retirement package for MON

One of our wags on here suggested a way of getting rid of MON is retiring him.... a tongue in cheek suggestion may I say! I'm sure he can be sacked if required?

A retirement package or sacking  may not be necessary. We will still need  to find a repla

Buster Hindmarsh signs with Panthers

Wow , our junior pathways is obviously going gangbusters 😂.  It's not as if his young blokes shit, he goes good. 

Good enough for the Penrith system but not good enough for ours ? Unlikely .  Wonder if Hindy was worried he'd cop what JA and MA copped

Game Day Blog R12 v Manly: Junz's 250th (Update Papali’i to debut)

The Eels host the Sea Eagles tonight at CommBank in what’s shaping up to be a wet, potentially scrappy and grinding affair — fitting for Junior Paulo’s 250th milestone. Both sides are coming off impressive wins, but consistency in this competition

Parramatta Eels officially open the world’s largest rugby league Centre of Excellence

The Parramatta Eels today officially opened the $70m Parramatta Eels Centre of Excellence (COE) and Kellyville Memorial Park Community Centre, the largest rugby league training precinct in the world, marking a transformative milestone for the Club an

Poppa's Corner: Remember Dylan Brown, he used to play for us

 Watching last night, I don't believe Dylan is anywhere the level he was attaining.

Whether it is the ACL tear (definitely lost pace) but his body language showed to me in pre and post game interviews he doesn't want to go anywhere. I think he sees P

Game Day Blog R11 v Knights: MOMAX arrives

The "MOMAX is finally here" image was produced by the Eels' club.

The Knights host the Eels tonight at McDonald Jones Stadium in a milestone 300th game for Dane Gagai.  Both sides sit in the bottom four and are desperate to snap losing habits in a

Poppa's Corner: Games are there to win; Opportunities Lost; We haven't learnt that yet, nor has the coach!

We coud be at least be 2 or 3 wins further up if we had some more astute work from the coach. Although many on here rave about Ryles - and personally I like him and the things he is trying to do - he is making as many rookie errors as any of the play

Close but not closer enough

2 bomb trys 1 all he had to do catch the ball and fall over

2 trys taking  off us

50/50 calls went against us

R10 Game Day Blog: Can we keep the Fins at Bay?

The Eels host the dangerous Redcliffe Dolphins tonight at Commbank. They've only faced each other twice in high-scoring encounters producing 128 points. The Dolphins are 14th and will be desperate to make a statement despite an atrocious record in S

R10 TEAM LISTS V DOLPHINS

Thursday 8 May, 7.50pm AEST
Parramatta Eels vs Dolphins, CommBank Stadium
Referees: Wyatt Raymond, Kasey Badger (touch judge), Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski (touch judge), Chris Butler (bunker)
Spotsbet: Eels $1.78, Dolphins $2.08

Eels: 1. Isaiah Iongi 2.

Poppa's Corner: Finally, some optimism; the Unicorn is back after much shorter time on the side line than expected!

Bluey made a post about whether we are over the top in judging our current performance's based on where we are on the competition table.

Mmmmm. I think you are too pessimistic Bluey, and that's after my own tirade following the Canberra performance i

Poppas Corner; JAC is proving to be a real Jewell

After last night I could "wax lyrical" about Mitch Moses.....I honestly did not think a single player could make so much difference to that side.

BUT I would like to talk about JAC, he may not be as fast as he once was, but he is quicker than anything