Parramatta Eels join NRLW

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.

You need to be a member of 1Eyed Eel to add comments!

Join 1Eyed Eel

Votes: 0
Email me when people reply –

Replies

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • This reply was deleted.
    • What about if you were more specific: "real women don't play rugby league"? Slugg, would that help? Let me know how you go.

    • This reply was deleted.
      • 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?"

        • There is a joke in there HOE about sinks and wasking up...

        • 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.

      • This reply was deleted.
        • Slugg, Try "gentle-ladies" as in the female equivalent of "gentle-men".

  • Great news, even if I've never watched a game of NRLW. What's happening with the women's cheerleaders, though? #allwomenmatter

    • me too!

  • Maybe this is why we are chasing Woods. 

This reply was deleted.

More stuff to read

Hell On Eels replied to Hell On Eels's discussion We Don’t Lose Games in Moments. We Lose Them in Minutes.
"Thanks Mutts, I did. But it was only after looking at the patterns and zones in Foxs' match graphs over the last few weeks.  Then, I heard Reni Matua mention "death zones" to Braith Anasta in their podcast, and it all crystalized. I believe the term…"
4 minutes ago
Muttman replied to Hell On Eels's discussion We Don’t Lose Games in Moments. We Lose Them in Minutes.
"Mate did you come up with this analysis yourself re zones? It's incredibly insightful. "
40 minutes ago
Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin🐐 - Mark O'neill' Sack ! replied to Hell On Eels's discussion We Don’t Lose Games in Moments. We Lose Them in Minutes.
"My take is that our forwards have been beaten convincingly in every match both in defence and attack, especially in the first 30 minutes when.teams have their starting packs on.
The dragons had the majority feild position, but lacked the finesse in…"
46 minutes ago
Hell On Eels posted a discussion
It's all about cohesion, chaos and death zones.
Our defence sits dead last at round five. Our middle concedes the most tries of any team. 40 percent of our tries are leaked there. 
Why? Ah, yes. Our rituals say Mark O’Neill is the reason. No, the…
1 hour ago
More…