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
Despite everyone else outside a handful of the most optimistic, having given up on them. Despite being ripped to shreds and minced into left-over roadkill against the Broncos 54-10 last week to record the biggest
I believe, like most, our season is done. Unfortunately though unlike some of the more optimistic fans I don't believe we are going to do much better next year.
It’s time for Brad to move on. I hope he stays at the club but it seems clear to me that w
I have always thought that Junior Paulo is a starting prop. He's a big body, fit and skillful. He's also one of our highest paid players, an Origin player and international.
There is no doubt he is crucial to Parramatta's chances this year and going
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
"For me it's a no brainer, Williams and sua as starting edge forwards, if you want to play kautoga off the bench and use Williams as a middle for the latter stages of the game fair enough but Williams starts on an edge for me and I would not be…"
"Agreed Chiefy - if we land Ando it would be good to see what his role includes and land another to move on MON.
We need astute minds at the helm. And new thoughts around the table. We need to be at the table when these schoolboys are playing / along…"
"I don't know why but i have this feeling this time next year we are all seeing Koina as our starting 13 in 2028 and demanding he extends. With Hopgood off-contract and a younger and cheaper option, probably one of the best middles for his age,…"
