As we turn for home in season 2023 it’s time we acknowledge a theme which seems to be running through our club currently. That theme is one of regular poor decisions. What is motivating those decisions is the million dollar question. Is it poor advic
Masterful, is how i explain what i witnessed on Friday night. It was majestic, well planned, beautiful, poetic and phenomenal. Just pure class and great performances on the screen. That is Oppenheimer i am talking about, not the piece of s*** i witne
In his 1933 US Presidential Inauguration, in the middle of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “the only thing we have to fear is … fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retrea
While all the talk following Sunday's dramatic one point victory over the Titans has focused on Reagan Campbell-Gillard and Maika Sivo being handed hefty suspensions, Parramatta is also without half of its starting spine and is still missing powerful
In recognition of two members who are sadly no longer with us and with thanks to Parramatta Eels major sponsor ALAND, we are instituting the Drop Bear and Mushroom Award.
The award is a member vote, nominating their favourite member of 1 Eyed Eel.
Charles Dickens once wrote that “the most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” This line is from the semi-autobiographical David Copperf
What a fortnight can do. Going from scoring 42 points in one half, most in club history. To having 46 put on us the following week. In hindsight that can come from Gutho not being at the back fixing gaps and holes. Sean Russell playing only his secon
Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (2012) argues that the most influential events are often the least anticipated, which Taleb calls ‘black swan’ events. Taleb says our world changes according to a mix of unintelligibility, lu
He has gone from being a back-rower more so used as a game breaker, but not a worker. His flaws in his game were defence and decision making. He was a five-eighth in the body of a back-rower. Went from being considered on the bench for NSW, 18th man
5 in a row, first time we have done that since round 6-10 2021. What a wonderful sight to accumilate 14 points in 7 weeks, pushing us into the 8 with some comfort, we are at a point where we could afford a loss and stay in the 8. But top 4 is still a
A 10 out of 10 effort in the first half, set this game up for the win. Allowing the dolphins to get way too many points in the second half needs to be addressed for the future.
EELS 48 - DOLPHINS 20
3. Mitch Moses - dominated the game with try assis
"You having seen an alien riding a dragon isn't something you can prove any more than you can prove you saw a dog at the park, HOE. These are experiential claims, and therefore in the realm of the supernatural.
Perhaps if you wore a GoPro everywhere,…"
"The Europe qualifying is insane mate; v hard to make it through. The Turks are good and our goalie saved us i feel - the possesion was insane against and we scored two goals from some sharp passing and scoring.
I feel the Spanish / Frence / Krauts…"
