Parramatta 2022 NRL Season Review

How would you rate our 2022 NRL season?, was it a pass for this year or a failure?. We certainly did a lot better than most people predicted.  After the Souths game where we lost 26-0 pretty much everyone wrote us off.  I did my own review of the yea

2023 squad list; who stays, goes and comes in. (long blog)

As we speak, we currently have 25 players signed for our top 30 for season 2023.

I will put next to names * for off contract in 2023, ** for re-signed recently, *** could be gone any day now

Jakob Arthur**

Waqa Blake*

Dylan Brown*

Nathan Brown***

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Player re-signing & signing news

Shaun Lane re-signs with the Eels till the end of 2026

Sean Russell re-signs with the Eels till the end of 2024

Jakob Arthur re-signs with the Eels till the end of 2024

Jack Murchie signs with the Eels on a 2yr deal

Parramatta Eels Announce Key Player S

Thoughts on the Grand Final, the season and what the Eels need going forward.

To start of, like everyone else I am shattered that the Eels didn't win and went out the way they did, but if I look back at the season and how inconsistent they were over 2022, the result was to be expected. I am still super proud of them for making

The Arthurs' 75 Years of Eels Devotion

There would be very few of the 5266 fans who watched Parramatta’s first game of rugby league at Cumberl

My city, my people, my heart

Scouse musician Jamie Webster has a song called This Place. It's about his love affair with his home city of Liverpool, UK. In it he sings about the people, the places and what makes it feel like home to him.

Parramatta is this home to me. It's where

GRAND FINAL: Eels vs Panthers 2022

The 2014 novel The Deer Effect, by Susan Wingate, features a unique narrative device. The story is told from the perspective of the newly departed wife, Hannah, as her spirit observes her husband (Rod) deal with both grief and a quest for revenge. Ha

Ignore history, just blow them away - Brian Smith

Ignore history, just blow them away: Brian Smith on the tactics Eels must adopt to upset Panthers

Few men know more about coaching Parramatta than Brian Smith. He has coached the Eels more times than anyone else in their history, with 243 games betwee

PRELIMINARY FINAL V COWBOYS REVIEW: 'WE DID IT'

The parallels are uncanny.

Two salvage teams, two ‘fly in & fly out’ missions, two simmering jungles in the heart of enemy territory, two objectives with near impossible odds of survival….One identical outcome.

I know some will probably enjoy this

GRAND FINAL TEAM LIST V PANTHERS

1. Clint Gutherson (c)

2. Maika Sivo

3. Will Penisini

4. Bailey Simmonson

5. Waqa Blake

6. Dylan Brown

7. Mitchell Moses

8. Reagan Campbell-Gillard

9. Reed Mahoney

10. Junior Paulo

11. Shaun Lane

12. Isaiah Papail'i

13. Ryan Matterson

Interchange:

14. Nathan Brow

The Line In The Sand: Now Or Never

 Wow. Unforgettable. The moment we knew we were into the grand final after a 13-year wait. I'm still in shock.

And in one week, we face off against the Panthers, the competition's best team over the last few years.

Things often seem clearer in hinds

Eels vs Cowboys 3, 2, 1. Hit & Run Preliminary Finals Edition

I can't believe it! We're into the Grand Final! Unbelievable defence. By the stats the Cowboys were the better team but we hung in took our chances. Lost for words! Absolute true grit! Massive congrats to the players and the coaching staff.

3. Lane

2.

Preliminary Final v Cowboys: Going For It, Or Going Away

 "It's no joke, pal. People die in fairy tales all the time", Max Baer the reigning 1935 heavyweight boxing champion told us in Cinderella Man. 

And tomorrow night someone's fairytale will come to a painful end. Just like it did for Max Baer when he

FINALS WEEK 2 V RAIDERS REVIEW: ‘THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BREAK US’

‘Someone has an agenda, and they are not going to break us, they will not break this group - we’ve worked too hard’

These were the proud & passionate words of a clearly insulted Brad Arthur in the aftermath of the Eels emphatic 40-4 demolition of the

Preliminary Final Team List v Cowboys

1. Clint Gutherson (c)

2. Maika Sivo

3. Will Penisini

4. Tom Opacic

5. Waqa Blake

6. Dylan Brown

7. Mitchell Moses

8. Reagan Campbell-Gillard

9. Reed Mahoney

10. Junior Paulo

11. Shaun Lane

12. Isaiah Papail'i

13. Ryan Matterson

Interchange:

14. Bryce Cartwright

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The Promised Land

The monkey was big, it was bad and it had taken up residence for nearly four years, but the Eels not only shook it off on Friday night, they pummelled it into oblivion as they ran away with a 40-4 week two finals triumph over the Canberra Raiders.

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Most impressive and disappointing: Finals week 2 v Canberra: 5th time lucky

I said from the start of the year, prelim minimum is what is needed from BA and this squad. Well, we got to a prelim. For us it was from some fans "GF or bust" but to me it was let's get to a prelim first, and we got there so to me it is a successful

Eels vs Raiders 3, 2, 1. Special Finals Edition

Rise up guys we're off to the Prelim! Outstanding team performance; we shut the Raiders out early and did not let up. Big guns stood up tonight, the most in sync I think this year. Congrats to the players and the coaching staff, well done!

3. Moses

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Finals Week 2 v Raiders: which head on the stick?

Lord of the Flies is the 1954 novel by William Golding, about a group of boys marooned on a Pacific Island during wartime. The boys battle the conflicting impulses within themselves: to be civilized and orderly, or savage and disorderly. The boys ele

SEMI FINAL TEAM LIST V RAIDERS

1. Clint Gutherson (c)

2. Maika Sivo

3. Will Penisini

4. Tom Opacic

5. Waqa Blake

6. Dylan Brown

7. Mitchell Moses

8. Reagan Campbell-Gillard

9. Reed Mahoney

10. Junior Paulo

11. Shaun Lane

12. Isaiah Papail'i

13. Ryan Matterson

Interchange:

14. Makahesi Makatoa

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