The Parramatta Eels have released today that they have signed or resigned 4 players. They have retained Patrick Spence, Max Tupou and Meni Luke, all of whom have been playing in the club's pathways competitions.
In further news released by Zero Tackle today, Winger Arthur Miller - Stephen has returned to the Eels after suffering back-to-back injuries, which saw him only play three matches in the past 24 months.
I have mentioned this before that when the Eels lose out on an elite player, within a couple of days they release the signing or resigning of fringe players. Once again the playbook was used to perfection, we have lost an Australian Representative Winger in Lomax, Missed out Koloamatangi and then within days we get these siginings released.
Anyone have any idea if these are good signings, bad signings or who gives a rats Ar#%.
'I'm being very childish right now, and I know it, but I'm simply underwhelmed with recruitment success at the moment.
Arthur Miller-Stephen at Eels Preseason.
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You got to hope for the best that some of these youngsters come good.AMS seemingly had a future a few years back and made his debut in FG you'd like to think he's used up all his bad luck injury juju and he pushes again for FG.
This is where we are at on the recruitment front it's all in with the youngsters and cross our fingers.They seemingly can't get a big deal sealed even when they are offering 7 figures players are choosing other clubs there's not much we can do there unless we add something else behind the scenes that isn't working for us now.
This club is dead set hopeless with its Recuitment. They think they're the roosters or Melbourne at times. Sometimes we have to over pay or go that extra year
I had to laugh when I seen this as well.
Yeah sure, we might have missed out on another big signing, but don't worry... we signed these 4 kids nobody has ever heard of.
That will stem the flow for sure... 🤡
Just non top 30 contracts. You have to field a reserve grade team.
Yep I said this before also
It is almost like they try to quell discontent with news that they think is positive. Nothing positive about extending, re-signing or upgrading talent - it should just happen with zero fanfare unless it's like Iongi or someone similar.
"It [resignings] should just happen with zero fanfare unless it's like Iongi...". That's a self goal when you don't know it. They are not on the Club's site or news section like Iongi. The fanfare is off Zerotackle. We are making it Big. Not the Club. Then blaming the club for it.
Exactly HOE. The club isn't trying to quell anything. These are part timers to add depth to the NSW Cup team. Every club has them, and these haven't been officially announced anywhere.
Interesting that we are so concerned now with the word released or offically announced. Zero Tackle have to get the information from somewhere, from someone , someone out there wanted that story to be out, with all the other NRL stories possible this is the one that hits zero Tackle. Come on guys let's just take a small amount of time to think about it.
I get it we love the club, we want to change this site to a more positive one, some influential members here are getting access to power brokers within the club. I m really hoping that being invited onto committees, getting to directly ask questions of Eels Power Brokers, that we are not starting to gloss over the small things fans dislike. And I'm not only refering to this silly little blog. I'm feeling it is creeping into more blogs of late. Good thing, bad thing I don't know yet. Jury is out in my mind.
The more positive interactions with the club and club powerbrokers by members of 1EE is a good thing, access to Management and committees is to be commended. But it's still a worthy cause, and one that built 1EE and that is the fans pulse, the unadulterated pulse of the Eels supporters at the virtual pub. What angers them and what makes them happy. Afterall with out the fans the game falls apart.
Fans concerns should not be glossed over, and it is a simple fact that is occurring with regularity, when we have missed out on a public newsworthy player, within a short space of time we get a story or stories or a public club release about upgrades / resigning other lesser players or signing a youth player. I stand by my opinion that it derives from a Playbook scenerio used by the powerbrokers within the club. I think it treats us as minions others may think that's okay with no dramas, others can dismiss it as silly. All are probably true at the same time.
Fans are always going to be minions BE access to the powerbrokers means very little because they'll control the narrative and the subject wording of the response asked.
Which is fair enough I suspect we'll never get to the bottom of the burning questions you want to ask a lot of it will be to sensitive and I very much doubt they want that spread out in the social media universe.
In my experience with it as an example I was lucky enough to have a sit down and a chat with Blair Mills about a month ago is about as close as I'll get to the source.That was only by blind luck because of a friend who coaches in the same team he's at now.
Yes Coryn well said. Makes me reflect a bit as well. Perhaps the Burning questions are red hot for a reason. I just can't shake the thought that getting our club into a premiership winning position may not occur in my lifetime.
The want for the club to succeed, leaving no stone unturned, to continuously strive to be better is a huge desire of mine as I age, and i see that 1EErs as a collective can come up with areas the club is letting themselves, the players and the fans down. I refuse to backdown by being concerned about missing out on targets that they have identified and your " we may never get to the bottom of your questions" really gives food for thought.
Perhaps it's time for me to take a step back, I think. The desire for our club to be competitive with the best in the comp is becoming more urgent as the years pass. I'm sure there are more important things to concentrate on.
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