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Parramatta Eels join NRLW

Posted by SuperEel 22 on June 11, 2021 at 12:43pm

It has been announced that the Parramatta Eels have been given a licence to enter a team in the NRLW this season.

Pre-season training will begin on 12 July with the club utilising both the NSW Centre of Excellence and Kellyville.

The squad and coaching staff will be announced in the next few weeks.

The Eels are the first and only club from western Sydney to enter the NRLW.

They join the Newcastle Knights as 2021 entrants.

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Coach Jim June 11, 2021 at 1:07pm

Awesome news. Lets hope every NRL team has an NRLW team soon with the games as a curtainraiser to the NRL games. It would be great to see the Eels fans at Bankwest cheering on the womens team every home game.
MeelK June 11, 2021 at 1:13pm

Great news for the club and the NRLW.

I assume Brad Arthurs sister will be coach. Then we will have a pair of bush bum coaches.
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- Hell On Eels June 11, 2021 at 1:35pm
  
  What about if you were more specific: "real women don't play rugby league"? Slugg, would that help? Let me know how you go.
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  - Hell On Eels June 11, 2021 at 1:39pm
    
    LOL. That will go down well. A former work colleague who unlike me was an avid punter (bit like Poppa and married to a woman) used to ask everyone who was in earshot: "Why do women have smaller feet?"
    - MeelK > Hell On Eels June 11, 2021 at 2:07pm
      
      There is a joke in there HOE about sinks and wasking up...
    - Poppa > Hell On Eels June 11, 2021 at 7:07pm
      
      I resent that Hoey, i have always been married to a woman, I have noticed though that when the dishes and the dirty clothes builds up, the sex is the same, you just realise your wife has gone shopping for a week.
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    - Hell On Eels June 11, 2021 at 1:46pm
      
      Slugg, Try "gentle-ladies" as in the female equivalent of "gentle-men".
Hell On Eels June 11, 2021 at 1:30pm

Great news, even if I've never watched a game of NRLW. What's happening with the women's cheerleaders, though? #allwomenmatter
- Poppa > Hell On Eels June 11, 2021 at 7:09pm
  
  me too!
Parra Dice June 11, 2021 at 2:07pm

Maybe this is why we are chasing Woods.

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