Now for the dynasty...

Regardless of whether Parramatta wins this year's grand final or not, the club is on the verge of a new dynasty that could even surpass the glory days of the eighties.Jarryd Hayne's four-year re-signing will be the centrepiece of this dynasty. There are a handful of marquee players in the game who can score you points regardless of the ebb and flow of the game. These are the players who win you the tight games, big pressure games and ultimately premierships. And there is no better player in the game right now, then Jarryd Hayne, who at just 21, quite remarkably has his best footballing days still ahead of him.Hayne is the type of player who other players want to play with. He is the type of player who makes other players look good and helps them to go on to play representative football. Players know when they sign with Parramatta now, they will be coming to a successful club that is going to be there at finals time and where you stand the greatest chance of taking your own game to a new level, and putting yourself into representative calculations.The next piece of the puzzle, and arguably just as important to our future, is coach Daniel Anderson. He may not have won Dally M coach of the year, but the impact and the turnaround he has had on this group of Eels players is second to none, and if the Eels do go all the way, his achievement will be remembered as one of the greatest coaching performances of all time.While there was obviously some issues with some players earlier in the year, the team now obviously has an incredible amount of respect for Anderson and know that if they listen to him, he will get the best football out of them. Again, he is a coach that players will want to come and play for. He appears to leave no stone unturned in preparing and developing his players and he has a proven track record of taking teams all the way.The issue now for the Eels will be to keep juggling their rosters, keeping the right players as ultimately our team goes on to do bigger and better things. When the Dogs won their grand final in 2004, Willie Mason declared that the side wanted to stay together and create a new Bulldogs dynasty, within a couple of years that team had been ripped apart and the wooden spoon had found a new home at Belmore.Paul Osborne, who has exceeded all expectations to date, will have a challenging 12 months next year. He has the likes of Daniel Mortimer, Kris Keating, Feleti Mateo, Krisnan Inu, Fuifui Moimoi, Luke Burt, Eric Grothe and many others off contract. The key to really locking down a dynasty will be to get the halves right. Daniel Anderson will have a bit of room to experiment next year and the likes of Mortimer, Keating, Robson and Humble should all get the opportunity to prove they're up to the job.However, the fact that we have the likes of Nathan Hindmarsh, Justin Poore, Shane Shackleton, Ben Smith and Tim Mannah signed for at least the next few years means we have the basis of a strong pack that can be worked around.Parramatta is now in a position to dominate the next decade.

"Oh man this went backwards real fast.
Looking at it with 20/20 hindsight there was one thing he was correct on. Daniel Anderson as head coach. He was sacked the following season and then lost most of the players he highlighted."

Replies

Jack May 19, 2021 at 12:23am

Wow look back now and all we did was go down down hill winning 3 spoons since making that grand final and took us what 8 years to make the finals again after 09, not to mention hayne is now in jail .. god I hope we can keep moving forward in the direction we are going now
SuperEel 22 May 19, 2021 at 8:48pm

Out of that 2009 team:

Hayne: Jail

Burt: Retired 2012

Reddy: Retired

Inu: England

Grothe: Retired

Mortimer: Retired (Roosters premiership winner)

Robson: Retired (Journeyman)

Cayless: Retired 2010

Keating: Retired

Moimoi: England

Hindmarsh: Retired 2012

Smith: Retired 2014

Lowrie: Retired

Mateo: Retired

Mannah: Retired 2019

Galuvao: Retired

Kingston: Retired

Sweet Jesus, looking at the side how did we think it was going to take off? The current Eels team would literally wipe the floor with them.
- Gerad Elias > SuperEel 22 May 19, 2021 at 9:20pm
  
  Galuvao: Won a premiership with our arch rivals in 2011
  
  Lowrie: won a premiership with the cheating scum in 2012.
  
  Mortimer: done nothing but was lucky to be apart of a superstar premiership winning roosters in 2013.
  
  Three years in a row one of our 09 ex players won a comp.
  
  Seeing Hindmarsh and Burt retire with a spoon in 2012 was just disgusting and pure evil. They deserved so much better than that.
- Wizard “Alcatraz “Sleeve > SuperEel 22 May 16, 2025 at 12:53pm
  
  Disagree, other then the advantages the current team have from a technologies and fitness point of view , as far as the 09 team in that era goes vs the 25 team in its era , that team is far superior. Imagine the 2009 Hayne and Moi Moi up against the current bunch of rejects defense . Whilst most of us chuckled at the time at Philips dynasty call , that team was tearing teams to shreds and very exciting to watch once Hayne woke up and put in the 1/3rd of a season the games ever seen. Moi Moi isn't given enough credit either for that streak.
  
  Right now , what have we got ? We've got a halfback that's very good 80% of the time and a 5/8 that's virtually a corpse in attack 80% of the time. Lomax potentially will have a great rest of the season.
  
  my moneys on that team from 09 every day of the week if alls fair and equal.
  
  Dynasty ? No , had the ability to build something great ? Yes. Below average roster on paper ? You betcha . Worst than what we have today ? Not even close.
Offside May 16, 2025 at 1:03am

Wow this Aged well
- Richard Jackson > Offside May 16, 2025 at 12:38pm
  
  What a great year '09 was....as this blog remains. Soon as we beat Saints in the first semi, and sent them up to Brisbane to their elimination we knew we would make the GF. The Gold Coast and the Doggies wre easily thrust aside and we thought we'd win it all this year, after the run we had.
  
  But we came up against a side that was over the cap by $2 million!!!
Coryn Hughes September 15, 2026 at 12:49pm

The biggest difference between the 09 and the era we were in now back then Parra we're unstructured it was move the ball push up on ball runners and continually support the ball carrier.

Now it's play to a position on the field and block structured attack.Daniel Andersen understoood that they couldn't beat teams like the Dragons & Storm at that game so they played another one.

Everyone is doing the same damn thing annd it's the teams who do it better than anyone else win the day.

Athletes and defensive resilience win the day now unfortunately Parra let there best athletes walk and seemingly don't think recruiting them is important either.Defense is also tied into the athlete line also we don't have them so we'll always be behind the ball.
SuperEel 22 September 15, 2026 at 2:26pm

Oh man this went backwards real fast.

Looking at it with 20/20 hindsight there was one thing he was correct on. Daniel Anderson as head coach. He was sacked the following season and then lost most of the players he highlighted.
Jiver September 15, 2026 at 2:44pm

The Dynasty can't begin until Hock arrives.
Frankie Fong September 15, 2026 at 2:47pm

To be fair a lot of fans thought we were on the verge of long period of success, then Spags and the boys stuck their nose in .

of 10

This reply was deleted.

Eels Blogs

Now for the dynasty...

Replies

More stuff to read

Eels blogs

Josh Addo-Carr checks himself into a rehabilitation clinic

Addocarr sacked ?

Ado Carr caught on coke again.

Bunker

Note: this page contains paid content.

Social Blogs

Finals attendance figures

Liam Martin and Jacob Preston

World Cup Blog

Remember Rodney Hogg

Note: this page contains paid content.