The strength of this community

I always like to keep you guys up to date with the numbers related to this community, but even I have been stunned by the traffic over the past month. In a month where we've had no football, the site has broken new records for both visits and page views.

In the last month the site was visited by more than 18,000 people. That's pretty much a full Parramatta Stadium. And last week we had the most visits to the site and the most page views (167,000) ever in the site's history.

We also broke past 1,500 members this week. Woohoo!

However, I have to say that the most amazing aspect over the past week has been the response to The Swarm bay. It looks pretty likely that we'll get 100 or so 1Eyed Eel members sitting and cheering together every home game and that's only going to make this amazing community even stronger and more enjoyable. Tony's efforts in making this happen have been simply amazing. If your tossing up whether to become part of this, absolutely do so. I've never enjoyed watching football as much as I did in Season 2010 and next year is going to be even more enjoyable and special.

P.S. My son broke his leg earlier in the week, so I spend most of the past week in Westmead Chidren's Hospital - which means there are a bunch of PMs and so forth I haven't responded to. Apologies and I will get around to it. It also means I can't take any credit for last week's amazing traffic stats :-) Big thanks to our wonderful mods who largely keep this site ticking over and out of trouble!

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Tinkerbell October 4, 2010 at 11:14pm

Congratulations Phil and to everyone who contributes to this site. It is such a pleasure to be a part of and it is so wonderful to see the community continue to grow!

I am so proud to be part of this site.

And Phil, just to reiterate - hope things are ok at home and your little one is getting around ok after his little accident! :-)
hebe October 4, 2010 at 11:14pm

Great to hear on the new records!!

P.S hope your son gets outta there asap :)
Ants October 4, 2010 at 11:23pm

Awesome work! Congrats to all involved including the 1,500 plus!

Hope your son gets well soon 1eyed!
1Eyed Eel October 4, 2010 at 11:35pm

He's doing good. He's whizzing around in his wheelchair and enjoying all the attention. :-)
Zip Zip Man October 4, 2010 at 11:51pm

Great site guys well done
GOGOGROTHE October 5, 2010 at 3:59am

Thanks 1Eyed!! It's a big tribute to you and the mods that you guys can command that much traffic. At a time when our club needs us, this is an awesome way to knit the fanbase together!!

Onwards and upwards Parra faithful!! Bring on 2011!!

Now it's in Kearney we trust!

.... and 1Eyed best wishes to your son mate. It's the off season so he'll be sweet as.... :) Perhaps you can get him into a hyperbaric chamber? And a Daniel Mortimer blood transfusion? BEst wishes champ!
Ricky October 5, 2010 at 7:56am

Wonderful news to hear on the records!
Hopefully it continues.

Sorry to hear about your son breaking his leg too.
Hopefully it all heals quickly.
ŦōmMýþØΨ-Parra Till I Die! October 5, 2010 at 8:33am

well done on achieving the new records everone!

One eyed , i hope your young bloke gets better soon.
anthony October 5, 2010 at 9:42am

best wishes to you your son hope he heals quickly