Parramatta’s Injury Crisis Exposes an NRL Salary Cap Grey Area
The 2026 season is quickly turning into a case study in how bad luck, foul play, and rigid rules can collid, and no club is feeling it more than us,the Parramatta Eels.
It is a little known fact that Franz Kafka’s The Trial (1925) had a baby with Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1953), producing what literary historians know as The Parramatta Eels. In Kafka’s novel, Joseph K is an entirely unremarkable bank emp
Isaiah Iongi will miss a minimum of 8 weeks with his injury, puts him in line for a return against Newcastle in Round 13 off a bye in Round 12. Joash gets 7 games at the helm.
Unfortunate for Doorey who will be missing the season and start of next sea
In tomorrow's Battle Of the West, Vincent Lombardi almost foreshadowed the Panthers sixty years ago when he said, “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
This heading is probably something we don't like admitting to. Yes it implies criticism but I don't want to start looking for blame or scapegoats, just accept it and move on.
The main issue in my mind is the "Pezet" experiment. It hasn't worked and t
Curled up in the foetal position, the noise is getting louder from some of our punters. Drop Pezet. Move him on. He’s been labelled “a mistake” by some, along with the usual tomatoes thrown at R&R, the team, and the front office. But not Talyn Da Sil
UPDATE: Jack Williams starts at prop. DylanWalkers starts at lock. Hopgood goes to the bench. Jason Ryles confirmed JackDeBelin, who has been cut this week against his former club, needed to work on some areas of his game in attack and defence bu
With the 2026 season now underway I thought I would provide an overview of how the site is tracking both in numbers and in overall feedback we've been receiving.
Analytics
2025 built on the 2024 season and 1 Eyed Eel continues to grow. Numbers-wise w
After the first minute of the game I immediately knew that no matter how good we try to play that we would not win the game. The corruption was pretty clear. But wow we played awful.
Denan Kemp, the former Broncos NRL player and SEN commentator was equally scathing of the Eels as the officiating in the Eels’ Round 1 loss to the Melbourne Storm in his podcast.
“The jersey deserved better than that second half," he admitted.
"Desperate players on the outer, or those that have been naughty and sacked, or aged players looking for their golden handshake. Perhaps if we got 3 lots of salary cap relief we could throw the whole lot at one marquee player. But there is none…"
"It's a mystery NOS, whom would they target even if they get salary cap relief. I can't see a contract for a marquee player being signed. Like you say what of the mysterious warchest we are supposed to be hoarding. perhaps it's time to keep a…"
