Finally, the off-season is technically officially over. Cricket season passed, tennis season passed, Christmas, New years all gone, now to the game they play in heaven. My word was it shivers down my spine watching the game yesterday, making me reali
Hope you all had a splendid and enjoyable summer. Almost ready to go for another seaosn. Call this a "Warm Up" for me as you will. Back to do the Team Lists all again in 2024.
Most important thing to say after the game is it is a trial and also majority of our depth tonight were playing their first ever game against men, so of course they would be nervous and bit overmatched. They will grow and get better. I was there at J
Talagi - had an alright game, a decent one considering it was his first ever game playing fullback. You have to give him time before just giving up on the plan to move him to fullback. Had a couple of good moments. If Gutho goes down immediately, he
Roll up, roll up the Leagues Club elections are on again. It wasn't that long ago that these were a hotly contested, insanely political, circuses taking place every two years in the car park outside the Leagues Club. The media absolutely loved the ch
It's been troubling me for a while, how much negativity is generated towards players, coaching staff and admin within these forums and it got me asking - how well do we stack up as a Parramatta Supporter? What are the KPI's we should be judged by?
So it seems at this stage, Kelma Tuilagi and Morgan Harper are the only two signings so far for 2024. Meaning we have 27 spots locked up for 2024. Now Luca Moretti has not be signed for 2024, bet he will be therefore it will be 28. So usually clubs l
So now the NRL season is officially over, now comes the speculatoin point of the season, quite frankly the worst part of the year. The month of October is the worst as November is when training starts and can start to get an idea of the team structur
Back in August I dissected many of the issues surrounding Parramatta's style of play that led to their lacklustre 2023 season. Now I'm here to offer some solutions and, at least, some reasoning as to why that occurred.
The eels will play Panthers in week 1 of the finals at 11am on Saturday. The game will be streamed on NSWRL TV so I encourage everyone to watch to have an insight to our future stars. Even though we just scraped through to the finals, at full strengt
Parramatta's win over Penrith in their final match of the season was both heartwarming and frustrating. Had the side performed like that for the last 3 weeks they would be finals bound.
Instead they are in the dreaded "mathematical" chances window,
In Moneyball, Oakland A's GM Billy Beane introduces the concept of using statistics to identify players who can "get on base" so they can make up for the loss of Giambi.
He gets push back from his scouts who like to use the "eye test". In a confront
Ladies and Gentlemen, like all of you, I'm still too emotionally raw to dissect and analyse this season, our annus horribilis, or player performances. Yet I had to look for some positives in a small handful of players, for putting in more consistentl
"He bought the McMansion before he had a secure contract. Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.
Financial pressure mounts day by day as he remains unemployed.
Not on the Eels. Not on the Storm.
On him."
"I think by Round 1 I believe? Not 100% sure on the 97.5% question.
As for your idea of having players come to us instead of chasing. Not happening, we are not Roosters or Melbourne or Penrith where you ring their agent and they want to go…"
"LB, perceived fair value and expectations are important nuances.
If a player feels undervalued, grievance is inevitable. If he’s overpaid, pressure intensifies. And if he’s unhappy, money won’t fix it.
I don’t buy the idea elite players take huge…"
"Adam, see hereunder, the bottom line is that what you are referring to is essentially the end of the season.
This makes sense as many variables will ocur, a mature management process would be structured to represent all sorts of contingencies and…"
