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  sixtiesboy August 10, 2015 at 8:46am

  Thanks Miatch.
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  Glenn Lifetime Eel August 10, 2015 at 8:49am

  Good read as always 60s. You being around the club obviously gives yourself a better perspective of whats happening than myself who lives on the Gold Coast. However I have supported Parra for at least 55 years and have been shattered more often than not over the years. Also being away from the club probably gives fans similar to myself a different perspective than yourself. What has been most disappointing this year is not Watmough but BAs lack of faith in our juniors. Surely Matterson and Goodall could have been given a go, we all know what Kelly and Hoppa bring, but don't know what these 2 with so much potential, give. We have already lost Matterson but if we lose Goodall I will be most disappointed. Please keep up your excellent work.
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    sixtiesboy > Glenn Lifetime Eel August 10, 2015 at 9:22am

    Thanks for the feedback Glenn. Blokes like Forty, Ham and Parrathruandthru who get to most Wenty games can probably give you a better insight into Matterson and Goodall. I've only been able to get to Wenty about 3 times this year, including yesterday. Apart from that I've only seen these blokes train or watched them on TV or web highlights. Matterson, when asked about his departure yesterday, gave nothing away. I'm a big fan of Goodall and will be disappointed if he leaves.
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    sixtiesboy August 10, 2015 at 9:23am

    Thanks Doc. As I said in the blog, I do understand how they feel. I'm just of a differing opinion now.
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  ┌∩┐Parody┌∩┐ August 10, 2015 at 9:04am

  The truth to the curse of the Parra fan requires an open mind, it envoles demi gods, gambling and a prodical son. A young man named Peter with the most perpect golden locks made a bet with the football god Steedan, for which he lost. I don't much more but Peter did not pay his debt, He and his followers were cursed by Steedan, 'your success will fade with the loss of your golden locks' and so on time went and as peter's locks slowly disapeared so did all the success his followers once enjoyed.
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    sixtiesboy > ┌∩┐Parody┌∩┐ August 10, 2015 at 9:25am

    This comment is deserving of your digital majesty. I can just picture your work on his changing locks of the years. Come on Parody. You know you need to do it.
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  1ee August 10, 2015 at 9:09am

  Great blog, I don't think your tickling the unicorn in most of us here, I think what you've said will be a fact next year.
  
  We will be a different team, we have injected a huge amount of leadership, skill and stability into our team. Blokes that know how to follow a game plan, who know how stay calm in high pressure situations and how to perform under them.
  
  If you are unsure in the direction that the team is taking for next year and scratching your head as to the retention and recruitment that has been done for 2016; i think you get the picture pretty quickly.
  
  As I've said before i can not wait for the pre season and training reports from you sixties!!!!
  
  To hear how the team gels together, forms their attacks and band together in defensive drills. How they Form combinations and how Faith grows in one another's ability on the field as they become brothers ready to go to war for one another.
  
  The anticipation of finally getting to the Auckland 9's and then knowing the season is just a couple of weeks away and then watching a fully fit, heathy and driven 2016 eels outfit take the field ready for battle !!!
  
  I think this team and the direction they take in 2016 will strengthen and band together each and every eels supporter. We will have another record membership year for 2016. I think around about 28k. This team will resurrect a lot of old eels supporters.
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    sixtiesboy > 1ee August 10, 2015 at 9:34am

    Thanks mate. Weve all been burnt over the years. It's understandable that doubts exist when we look at ladder position and results. In this instance, as I stated, my personal stance is that next year we will have a positive season. But just like the team, this self belief and positivity is not an overnight fix for fans. We will go on our own cultural change. Most will demand to see results come sooner rather than later, and rightly so. I say, the sooner is upon us in 2016.
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    1ee > 1ee August 10, 2015 at 10:03am

    I hear you mate, it will take time but with consistent positive performances on field will see culture change happen mid next year. I've got a lot of faith. Our playing group will thrive under the on field leadership that we have recruited. The confidence will be right up. And BA have having that on the field will let him coach the way he wants to coach them.
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  DK Eel August 10, 2015 at 10:13am

  yet again mate, another well thought out blog that, knowing the typing skills, must have had hours with the typing (and the hours of thought and consideration that goes with the typing speed!!).
  
  All joking aside with ribbing my brother here, it's something that I have been able to feel too, the slow change in culture.
  
  While I grew up in the 70's, with my earliest memories of Parramatta, being linked to my early school years, being ones of us in grand finals and semi finals, with the more formative years being that of following a team that success was a way of life, my brother's early experiences of Parramatta echo what some of us remember of the early 90's, with the at times embarrassing bottom of the ladder performances.
  
  I was a season ticket holder during the "Cumberland Oval" years, with our family traveled out to Belmore while the Stadium was being built and then was a season ticket (member) for many years after that.
  
  When costs for being a season ticket holder blew out and the pain of watching a first grade squad that seemed more concerned with picking up a pay packet than picking up pride in the jumper became too much, I relinquished my ticket in the Thornett Stand.
  
  However over the last few years, I started to return to watch the matches live, and, while I don't always have the ready funds to be a regular seated member (sometimes the life of a person in the film and tv industry ISN'T as cash filled and glamorous as people may THINK it is!), I am a "non ticketed member" and get to games when the chance arises (huge thanks to those who have me along on a spare ticket when they can by the way, I REALLY appreciate it!!). The one thing that a person can observe, especially when you look at it with the wisdom of hindsight - the feeling is slowly changing around the place.  
  
  SLOWLY !
  
  And it's not an easy thing to change when you've been used to watching a team find the most creative ways to turn a winning situation into a losing one (yup, I've been guilty of the "here we go" , "oh no, we're done" sort of lines or even screaming out "for F#@K'S SAKE, THAT'S PATHETIC!" .... guilty as charged!), but to make the cultural changes around the club, WE have to make the changes, just as much as the players and staff are.....
  
  Yup, me too!
  
  I mean, if we don't TRY to make real changes, then even after ten wins on the trot, if we go down in game eleven, will that "old culture" just come stomping back if we don't try to change too?  
  
  Will we find ourselves saying "yeah well, it had to end some time soon, guess the real Parra just finally returned" or will we find ourselves saying "everyone can have an off day or two, but we'll bounce back" ??
  
  Times are a changing. The culture within the club is changing too.  It's a long journey, but I too can see that some of the fruits are slowly starting to show first blush.
  
  It's early days still, but I'd like to hope too, that a lot of us can feel that something special is on the verge of happening with and within the club